Poppy Rides in to Save Junior's Ass

Newsweek gloms onto the sentiment expressed in MoDo's devestating "Daddy Moment" op-ed with a ball-licking Poppy propagrandizing look at the failed Bush #41 Presidency and how he's gonna ride in and save Junior's failed pResidency. With Dim-Son at a 31% all-time low in the latest post election Newsweek poll (he's now as unpopular as Cheney at 31%), rather than promote Poppy as Dim-Son's saviour (ergo the country's) as the wizzard behind the curtain, they might as well have Cheney resign, then have Junior name Poppy as VEEP before resigning himself, thereby putting Poppy in to finish up Dim-Son's failed #43 pResidency... Do they really think the public, and Republican electorate, are going buy into this BS and be comforted by the "magic" of Poppy Bush waving his magic wand and pulling on metaphysical levers?

Can Bush Sr. and His Team Save Son’s Presidency?
....Ask thy father, and he will show thee: advice that, at long last, George W. Bush seems to be taking. Last week the president lost both houses of Congress and 16 more Americans died in Iraq, bringing the U.S. death toll to 2,844, with little discernible progress in sight. The war there has now lasted 44 months, the amount of time that elapsed between Pearl Harbor and VJ Day....

 

In a conference room filled with commemorative shotguns in his Houston offices last Wednesday, the father settled in to watch his son's post-election press conference on TV. Lunching on pizza, Bush Senior listened as George W. Bush said the loss of Congress was a "thumping," promised to "work with" a commission on Iraq chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, and announced that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was resigning. Within two hours the president was in the Oval Office with Rumsfeld and his replacement: Robert M. Gates, Bush Senior's CIA director and the president of Texas A&M University, the home of Bush 41's presidential library.

In Houston the phones started ringing, and Bush 41 staffers were pulled away from their pizza. Reporters were calling and e-mailing: would 41 talk about 43's shake-up? The answer was no, though two perfunctory statements were issued (one for the College Station Eagle and one, as the former president put it, "for everybody else"). Still, the reality spoke for itself. Dad's team was back—a remarkable course correction in the political life of the son and, quite possibly, in the life of the nation.

The American people, as politicians like to say, spoke last week—and spoke in no uncertain terms. The 2006 vote does not suggest an eagerness for a sharp left turn. It seems, rather, to be a plea for a shift from the hard right of the neoconservatives to the center represented by the old man in Houston. The re-emergence of Iraq Study Group voices such as Baker, Gates and Alan Simpson—all longtime friends of Bush Senior—is not unlike the entrance of Fortinbras at the conclusion of "Hamlet." These are 41's men, and the removal of Rumsfeld—an ancient rival of Bush Senior's from the Ford days—is a move toward the broad middle. The apparent triumph of pragmatism over ideology on Iraq was welcome news, at least to the public. In the new NEWSWEEK Poll, 67 percent favor Bush Senior's internationalist approach to foreign policy over his son's more unilateral course...

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