Monday, December 20, 2004
Why Doesn’t the White House Fire Rumsfeld?
It’s simple. The White House won’t fire Rummy because they’d have to admit they were wrong.
The recent mass exodus of Cabinet Secretaries and other BushMen has been accomplished by forcing them to resign. And many were only too happy to flee the Bush II fascist regime.
But Rumsfeld won’t resign. Why should he? The Prez said he was doing a superb job. And White House chief of staff, Andy Card was quoted in the New York Times this morning as having said on ABC’s “This Week” news show, “Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a spectacular job and the president has great confidence in him.”
We know that the White House Lexicon defines “superb”, “spectacular” and “great confidence” as , respectively, “worse than bad”, “god-awful to the 9th power” and “the man can’t find his balls with a magnifying glass and a map”.
But the White House has its ways.
One of them is to praise a man to the skies and let the opposition raise a stink. Then the White House leaks to the press dark areas of malfeasance the person in question has been able to keep secret. The outcry for a public hanging (which never really occurs but is produced by the WH virtual reality department) makes it imperative that the person leave office while the WH never has to cop to its bad judgment in making the appointment in the first place.
In Rummy’s case , the WH is going to have to discredit his performance both in the past and the present because he’s got info on everyone and their grandmother that would be embarrassing should it get out. But not to worry. Old DirtyTricks Karl is in charge. No prob.
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The WH and the Bush cabal don't appear much concerned with either the reality of their actions or how their actions are perceived. They take their cue from the head sock puppet: they don't have to explain.
Whether they get Rummy gone because it suits their purpose, or hang on to him a while longer yet for the same reason--it will have nothing to do with how it plays to the press, the country or the world. They have been responding with a shrug to every outraged reaction to every appalling enterprise they've ever lurched into.
Rumsfeld has the goods on the rest of the players, but no doubt they have the goods on him as well. There's a mutual balls-in-a-death-grip scenario going on here, I agree, but I can't see the WH being too worried about what happens when they let go.
They'll just shrug at the clownfish in the media and tell them that they might be interested in looking back, but "we are moving forward."
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