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The Purge continues
Dec. 2nd, 2004 08:28 amHomeland Security directory Tom Ridge is the latest Bush cabinet member to "resign". I'll leave the jokes about his "accomplishment" in creating the color-coded alert system ("so simple even your average American can understand it") to Jon Stewart.
Now, Powell's resignation was no surprise, as leaked memos earlier this year suggested he was going to. But Ashcroft and Ridge were fellow hard-liners, with Ashcroft being even more of a wacko christian fundamentalist than Bush himself.
Are these changes, as Doonesbury is suggesting, cleaning up the cabinet, to be replaced with even more sycophantic appointees? Or is it something more? Is our Beloved Leader getting rid of his daddy's men in order to hire his own? Will we also be seeing less of the unappointed but influential crowd like Billy Graham, Henry Kissinger, and Kenneth Lay at the White House? Is he, perhaps, after a dozen failed careers and four years a presidency in which he alienated more allies, presided over the first net loss of US jobs since Hoover, and unilaterally pulled out of more treaties than any president in history, carefully following the Plan his father's friends set down for him actually becoming his own man?
Only time, and his new appointments, will tell.
Now, Powell's resignation was no surprise, as leaked memos earlier this year suggested he was going to. But Ashcroft and Ridge were fellow hard-liners, with Ashcroft being even more of a wacko christian fundamentalist than Bush himself.
Are these changes, as Doonesbury is suggesting, cleaning up the cabinet, to be replaced with even more sycophantic appointees? Or is it something more? Is our Beloved Leader getting rid of his daddy's men in order to hire his own? Will we also be seeing less of the unappointed but influential crowd like Billy Graham, Henry Kissinger, and Kenneth Lay at the White House? Is he, perhaps, after a dozen failed careers and four years a presidency in which he alienated more allies, presided over the first net loss of US jobs since Hoover, and unilaterally pulled out of more treaties than any president in history, carefully following the Plan his father's friends set down for him actually becoming his own man?
Only time, and his new appointments, will tell.
