Passion and Betrayal
June 9th, 2006The website I linked to yesterday sure called it: Zarqawi was betrayed! How interesting that is, though not quite as nifty as this, in my blog. George H.W. Bush waged a campaign to remove Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary. As Blumenthal puts it,
The elder Bush’s intervention was an extraordinary attempt to rescue simultaneously his son, the family legacy and the country. The current president had previously rejected entreaties from party establishment figures to revamp his administration with new appointments. There was no one left to approach him except his father. This effort to pluck George W. from his troubles is the latest episode in a recurrent drama — from the drunken young man challenging his father to go “mano a mano,” to the father pulling strings to get the son into the Texas Air National Guard and helping salvage his finances from George W.’s mismanagement of Harken Energy. For the father, parental responsibility never ends. But for the son, rebellion continues. When journalist Bob Woodward asked George W. Bush if he had consulted his father before invading Iraq, he replied, “He is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to.”
That higher father is Karl Rove.
Tom DeLay gave his last speech to the House of Representatives today, and struck a feisty tone. He declared that he regretted nothing, would do it all the same except for one thing: he’d fight harder, before saying he served honestly and honorably. Except for all the times he took bribes, you know?
A Liberal blogger took the time to go on the Campaign Bus of Katherine Harris recently, where he was joined by only one other reporter, and here’s his scoop on the events. Harris’ campaign is struggling to stay alive, and the article on it is fascinating, both for its humor and its insight into her campaign.