Bush regime plays political musical chairs with its loyalists....

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Musical Chairs

The Progressive Magazine
May, 2005

George W. Bush is relying more heavily than ever on a tiny group of neoconservatives and loyalists, who are playing a game of musical chairs in Washington.

Paul Wolfowitz goes from the Pentagon to the World Bank.

Bush taps John Bolton to rise from his State Department post up to the United Nations.

Zalmay Khalilzad jumps from Kabul to Baghdad as U.S. ambassador.

When is the horrible music going to stop?

It's the score of the Project for the New American Century.

http://www.progressive.org/may05/com0505.php

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1. We'll have to do something about that puppet pulling his own strings..

Can we 'clip his wings' and strings?

[rodeodance]

2. their answer: "If anyone disapproves, tough."

...It is Cheney who installed Bolton at the State Department and masterminded his nomination as U.N. ambassador. (Cheney has also found a spot for his son-in-law, Philip Perry. On March 30, Bush nominated Perry to be general counsel of Homeland Security. His credentials: He was a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin, a leading contractor at the department. Perry's wife, Elizabeth Cheney, was appointed in February to be Rice's second-highest diplomat for the Middle East, The New York Times reports.)

In retrospect, one of the pivotal moments of the last six years came after George W. Bush had secured the 2000 nomination and Papa Bush tapped Dick Cheney to find Georgie a Vice President who could run the shop on the day to day. As John Nichols notes in Dick: The Man Who Is President, Cheney looked high and low and then gazed in the mirror and declared himself the fairest of them all.

Cheney believes the President has unlimited authority to wage war. He believes that Bush Senior didn't even need Congress's approval to go to war against Iraq back in 1991. "I firmly believe to this day even if the Congress had voted no we had no option but to proceed," Cheney told The Washington Post on January 20 of this year.

To watch the way Bush and Cheney promote the wrong people is to glimpse the arrogance of power. They don't care what the reaction is to their choices. They believe they can appoint whomever they want. And the more galling, the better. If anyone disapproves, tough.....

[rodeodance]

3. "They dare the American people to rise up in revulsion."--it does not

seem to do much good (some does)--but the jaugernaut keeps rolling full steam ahead. Sign!!

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4. Hang in there! This isn't the first time for a jaugernaut or steam roller

to be helped to fail. It might take a joint effort for us to all get it together and go after that soft under-foilage of the Bushie..