Working Hard in the GOP
October 1st, 2006The more I read of the new Woodward book, State of Denial, the more apparent it becomes to me that Donald Rumsfeld will finally lose his job.
Either the day after the Midterm Elections, or in January. That’s how George Walker works. He won’t want to give anything up to the Defeatocrats before the Elections, but I reckon Rumsfeld’s done for.
Good news for Democrats coming from Montana, Tennessee and Ohio, where the GOP is narrowly trailing in Senatorial races they were expected to run away with, and I expect that the Republican Party has cost itself at least five seats in the House and two in the Senate with the recent revelations about Mark Foley’s pedophilia (the full IM transcripts can be found here, but beware) and the further, more disturbing revelation that Republican leadership knew of these incidents in 2005 yet did nothing about the knowledge that there was a child-molester in their ranks.
It’s so disgusting, in my opinion, that Donald Rumsfeld is a bully to others in the Administration, George Bush continues to be incurious to the point of oblivion (first revealed by Paul O’Neill: repeatedly reinforced by your own eyes and everyone else to ever meet him), and that Condi Rice is so pathetic as to whine to the President that Rumsfeld wouldn’t return her phone calls. I almost don’t want to read the book just because it’s going to be the final nail in this Administration’s integrity’s coffin. How sad is it that today’s Republican Party works hard at covering up the Pedophile From Florida and at ignoring phone calls from the person who coordinates national security and American Diplomacy instead of working together to pass laws for the public and, you know, keep America safe and free.