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This is a story ready for the "Director of Lessons Learned" file:
This just goes to prove that there must be such a "Director" working for Congress, similar to the position at the White House supposedly occupied by Stuart Baker. Unlike the executive branch spot, which seems functionally vacant, the speed with which senators and representatives are abandoning the Bush team is mind-boggling -- and entirely logical.
I love the use of the passive voice in political rhetoric: Mistakes have been made. Laws have been violated. Rights have been trampled. War have been started for no reason. Signing statements have been added to laws. Prisoners have been tortured. In Thune's case, flip-flopping has occurred. Shit, according to George W. Bush, happens.
Nothing has really changed since 2004 regarding the way Bush governs; or doesn't as the case may be. Only the news coverage and public perception has changed and a couple of thousand New Orleans residents and soldiers had to die for the news coverage to change.
If only Karl Rove hadn't been temporarily sidelined by that pesky investigation everything would still seem just peachy.
...that anytime some jacka$$ running for office says "Mistakes were made..." they are NOT elected (or re-elected) to public office?
That has to be the biggest bull$hit/cop-out line of the late-20th-century/early-21st-century. It shows they can't/won't/don't know how to lead. (Though I know Duh-b-ya has added a bunch of his own making to the lexicon of stupidity and ineptitude.)
