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Sydney Blumenthal has busted the operations of the white house. It�s a bust whose features include little of President Bush and more of Dick Cheney et. cabal. Blumenthal describes Bush�s role in the cabal as passive, which directly contradicts the campaign image of Bush, given us by Karl Rove. Since America voted for a seemingly tough president, it follows that they want one, but Bush�s recent trip to China lets them down and further proves Blumenthal correct. America must vociferously back Chinese dissidents and reporters who have been jailed for raising their voice. State-side, even the administration agrees with this. But upon arriving in Beijing, Bush choose conviviality over censure. He pacified President Hu Jintao with a joke upon his reception, and clowned for the cameras all weekend. His inability to keep a firm jaw in-person (when it counts) not only marks him for all history as a real weakling, but it highlights our diplomatic vulnerability under what Blumenthal has correctly identified as a Cheney-lead cabal.
