Rummy: Fool's Gold
I'm going to beat this drum again.
Conservatives are incapable of individual initiative. Without marching orders, there is no march. See, e.g., Arkansas Project.
So this whole 'Donald Rumsfeld must go' trope coming from the right? Bullshit.
Ok, whatever. But lets note that the only people criticized Rumsfeld prior to Kristol's piece were Democrats and Dennis Kucinich.
It would have been an easy card for republicans involved in tough races to draw on but nobody did. Because they didn't believe Rummy was doing a bad job before, and they don't now. Unless, of course, they plan on running for president.
As for the White House...without some battle to fight they look complacent, and when they look complacent, people start thinking about things that really suck, like the economy, for example. So you spin a media cycle with Keriks, cabinet shuffling, and Rumsfeld, and you remind your base that the liberal scourge is STILL out there. You may have won an election, but (even with a majority in the house and senate, control of the white house, and likely appointees to the Supreme Court) its still "hard work" and it will be rough and tumble.
Conservatives are incapable of individual initiative. Without marching orders, there is no march. See, e.g., Arkansas Project.
So this whole 'Donald Rumsfeld must go' trope coming from the right? Bullshit.
The morning after President Bush's pair of holiday parties for journalists last week, White House press secretary Scott McClellan was asked at a briefing to react to Weekly Standard editor William Kristol telling "everyone within earshot" that the White House had encouraged him to write an opinion article in The Washington Post that began a wave of conservative criticism of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"I was within earshot -- I didn't hear him say that," McClellan replied coyly. [....]
Kristol said it is not true that there has been "any kind of White House encouragement or back-channel contact." "I maybe said that if he pats me on the back and says, 'Good op-ed, Bill,' that would indicate something," Kristol said.
Ok, whatever. But lets note that the only people criticized Rumsfeld prior to Kristol's piece were Democrats and Dennis Kucinich.
It would have been an easy card for republicans involved in tough races to draw on but nobody did. Because they didn't believe Rummy was doing a bad job before, and they don't now. Unless, of course, they plan on running for president.
As for the White House...without some battle to fight they look complacent, and when they look complacent, people start thinking about things that really suck, like the economy, for example. So you spin a media cycle with Keriks, cabinet shuffling, and Rumsfeld, and you remind your base that the liberal scourge is STILL out there. You may have won an election, but (even with a majority in the house and senate, control of the white house, and likely appointees to the Supreme Court) its still "hard work" and it will be rough and tumble.
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