Achilles Heel

I hope the definitive unraveling has begun. The otherwise seemingly impervious Bush White House (BWH) is showing signs of losing the iron clad discipline that made the BWH first term so notorious. Condi's State Department is going down the toilet. Scowcroft is getting the boot. Apparently he rebuked Bush about Iraq and the latter (not surprisingly) didn't receive it very well. Bush is continuing his dissent squashing with Condi (his "unsticker") running State and through Cheney's command is purifying that department. "On The Couch" is relevant here: Bush is rejecting his Father's political loyal guard and forming his own neocon A team. Baker is now apparently fuming. That clinches the situation: old and new Rebulicans are beginning to separate; the fracturing has begun. Hopefully, the Bush half will fall into the veritable Sea of Political Has-beens.

Egan

Some Christian

Bush claims he is a Christian. Given his (lack of) response to the Indian Ocean disaster it strikes me as being consistent with my theory that he is a Christian only in campaigns. His religiosity is only for show. Only after being shamed into a response to the crisis does he give one. And the amount of financial aid is a joke compared to what we dole out for the self-made disaster in Iraq. Further, we tragically lost 3000 people on our 9-11 which pales in comparison to the numbers in Southeast Asia may surpass 100,000. It is now being called the largest relief effort in the world's history. Yet this idiot can't leave vacation to be a real leader (but Shroeder DID). Bill Clinton seemed to be able to play the statesman when our fool-in-chief could not and cannot. Bush is a vapid political opportunist. I guess that what Americans wanted. Embarrassing.

Egan