Froomkin; All eyes are on the president. And apparently, he's good and mad

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

Rearranging the Chairs

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, October 24, 2005; 1:15 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

White House staffers are a nervous lot these days.

Snip:

Not only are they waiting uneasily to see if special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's investigation claims any of their hides this week. But there are signs that whatever personnel moves might be necessitated by the indictment of top officials could be the beginning of a bigger upheaval among the president's advisers.

More:

"The specter of losing Rove, his only truly irreplaceable assistant, lies at the heart of Bush's distress. But a string of political reversals, including growing opposition to the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and Harriet Miers' bungled Supreme Court nomination, have also exacted a personal toll.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And let's not forget the abuse of alcohol and drugs

which Bush appears to be doing. Can't help but think those things aren't helping him to become a happy camper.

[rusty charly]

2. i believe the title of this article

refers to "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic"

but maybe i'm reading too much into it


http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=220569

[endarkenment]

3. No that sounds right.

The allusion is very clear and is probably all that he could get away with given the editorial stance of the paper.

[DemoTex]

4. Froomkin beeotch-slaps Kay Bailey for her answers to Timid Timmy.

"MR. RUSSERT: But the fact is perjury or obstruction of justice is a very serious crime and Republicans certainly thought so when charges were placed against Bill Clinton before the United States Senate. Senator Hutchison.


"SEN. HUTCHISON: Well, there were charges against Bill Clinton besides perjury and obstruction of justice. And I'm not saying that those are not crimes. . . . I think that it is important, of course, that we have a perjury and an obstruction of justice crime, but I also think we are seeing grand juries and U.S. attorneys and district attorneys that go for technicalities, sort of a gotcha mentality in this country."

For the record, there were two articles of impeachment against Clinton: One for perjury, one for obstruction of justice. No other charges. Hutchison, like most Senate Republicans voted "guilty" on both of them. And in a statement, she explained her vote this way: "If only the President had followed the simple, high moral principle handed to us by our Nation's first leader as a child and had said early in this episode 'I cannot tell a lie,' we would not be here today."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

Thank you Dan Froomkin. Screw you Timmy and Kay. RULE OF LAW you congenital assholes!

[Spinzonner]

5. Silly, you, you simply don't understand that

that only applies to Presidents - and Democratic ones at that - not to Presidential advisors, Reublican Vice-presidents, ....

[yellowcanine]

6. PURGE, A BLOODY PURGE is coming. Heh.

[No Exit]

7. He has no right to be mad! This "Bush is angry" crap is repuke spin.

He has no right to be mad: HE is and was the boss of it all.