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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're conceptualizing what I'm talking about as a hammer. Think tentacles. I'm talking about administrative strategy moves that start a process rolling no one can stop without dire political circumstances. In organizations of this size, there are a million ways to get around the "CEO."
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For every tentacle of influence a Democrat had in 2003/2004, there were squads of Republican octupi countermanding that influence.
NO heads have rolled in this administration due to pressure from Democrats until after the election in 2006. And there have been innumerable fuckups that Democrats have whined about.
And don't bring up Heck uv a Job Brownie. His screw up was too obvious on every side of the aisle for him to stay around.
ETA: Why the hell is this the Democrats fault anyways? At best it's Joe Wilson's fault, which isn't the same thing. Certainly Democrats were happy to have ANY support that the administration acts inappropriately, but Wilson (and later Plame) were the ones that kept the thing going on for as long as they did.
I should have known better, given the whole "sexual relations with that woman" speech and moreso given our success in hunting down Osama bin Ladin, but I honestly thought that when Bush said he'd fire whoever leaked, he actually meant that he supported an investigation, wherever that may lead. That it led to his boss's chief of staff was something he should have known before announcing an investigation.
This whole thing was just poorly handled by every single person who touched it. But then, given every other aspect of the war, I shouldn't have been surprised.
Fuck it up, cover it up, then deny it's as bad people seem to think.
