Bush sacrifices key policymaker in reshuffle
The captain is moving the deckchairs around on the deck of the HMS Titanic as it approaches the November mid terms; in the hope of staving off, what many of us see, as unavoidable defeat.
First Scott McClellan relieved himself from the Press Office, the weight of the magnitude of lies told over Plamegate and the fact that he would one day be asked to explain why he said that Rove and Libby were not involved, eventually proved simply too heavy and cumbersome for his, not inconsiderable, body weight. Having said that he looked forward to one day being able to answer the questions of the Press Corps on these matters, it turns out he'd rather just bugger off and allow the next chump to attempt the gargantuan task that will be required to dig the Repugs out of their present hole.
And now we hear that Bush's brain, Karl Rove, is also to give up his present position overseeing policy to concentrate on steering the party towards those same mid terms.
Mr Bush has tended to stick with loyal employees under fire, but this shake-up comes at a time when his popularity has hit record lows and still seems to be falling. The polls also suggest that if November's congressional elections were held today the Democrats would win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate.
"They realised they could not continue with the same path and same policies," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster and strategist. "It got worse and worse and just when they said it can't get any worse, it got worse again ... if they lose control of Congress nothing will happen in the last two years of this administration."
Oh, I sooo beg to differ.
One of the reasons for the massive shakeup and, indeed, for Rove suddenly to concentrate on November above all else, is the realisation that if the Dems take control of the Senate, far from "nothing happening for two years", the Repugs are well aware that Bush has behaved so illegally that impeachment would certainly follow.
And it's fascinating that, at a time when Bush is making genuine, rather than superficial changes to the faces that represent his regime, that the man who's work has done more than any other to damage the reputation of this White House through his inability to achieve any breakthrough in the nightmare that is Iraq, remains firmly in place.
No move for Rumsfeld. "The decider" has ordained that he should stay where he is.
It is that decision alone that marks this as Titanic deck chair moment. For no other policy is as responsible for the public's perception of the Bush regime's success or failure, as the policy regarding Iraq.
Bush has responded, "Steady as we go" in this regard.
It is a fatal error. And one that, come November, he will pay for dearly.
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