The house (of cards) that Bush built.
In my opinion, the Bush administration has been building a house of cards. The weight of each lie, half-truth, and load of crap has put more pressure on that house of cards and I believe that it is only a matter of time until it comes tumbling down.
Let’s take a look at one week worth of news in the Bush administration:
Scooter Libby seems to have testified that he was authorized by his ’superiors’ to disclose classified information to reporters, which may apparently mean Dick Cheney told him to do it.
Michael Brown is claiming that He told Andy Card about the levee breaks long before Bush claimed to know about them and while I am not inclined to take him at his word, it seems like Republicans charged with investigating the matter felt that executive office shared a significant amount of blame, saying of the President himself “earlier presidential involvement could have speeded the response.” The President of course, was at his ranch during the land-fall, and at a V-J day celebration in San Diego, and later speaking about Medicare in Arizona as New Orleans filled with water, and as FEMA tried without success to get Ice in to New Orleans.
Paul Pillar, the CIA’s national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005 (writing in one of my favorite journal, Foreign Affairs) claims that Bush “used intelligence not to inform decision-making, but to justify a decision already made.” In short, a guy who would be in the know is in essence confirming the main component of the Downing Street Memo”, that “the intelligence and facts [about the Iraqi WMD program] were being fixed around the policy.”
To top it all off, Lobbyist/convicted-felon Jack Abramoff challenges Bush’s claims that he doesn’t know him, saying, among other things, that he was invited to go to Bush’s ranch in Crawford.
Well, I would say that I feel bad for the conservatives who are blindly standing behind Bush in spite of his apparent absence of credibility, but I don’t, so I won’t.
After all, it seems that lies and deceit have a way of catching up with you, regardless of who you are. 