Condi may just be sitting in a corner while Cheney, Abrams, and Co. make policy, but it’s more than just Condi. By keeping her at arms length, they are also keeping the State Department career folks out of the loop as well.

That’s what worries me.

Good point, Peterr. This is why Condi Rice is so god damn incompentent. It was the same way at NSA – She had no idea the responsibility and authority that came with her post. She needs to stare Deadguy in the deadeye and say ‘This is in my realm of power’. If she did her job instead of letting others do it for her, maybe we wouldn’t have been burned on 9/11.

Or maybe we should have just had an official who knew what the fuck they were supposed to do.

Seemed like this would happen in fact, if not in appearance, when John Negroponte came on board recently at State.

But that’s about all she does well.

Mandrake @ 88

Hey, Waccamaw. Surgery is tomorrow. I can’t believe all this “breast stuff” is happening to me now, too.

Yikes! I can’t joke about the *thing* with Cheney. I totally understand and respect Christy’s admonition but YOW it hurts to keep it all inside!

I will utter my clever witticisms into a paper bag. (After checking to make sure it’s not wired.)

{{{{{{{{{{ mandrake }}}}}}}}}}}

Best, best, breast of luck with the surgery. So, you ever think about dragon boat racing?

Sounds like fun but I’m a loooong ways from Canada!

Don’t mean to gush, but I think this is really, really significant, especially considering how the establishment press has been forced to acknowledge what you have done and are doing. You have given serious progressive journalistic blogging the credibility it has been denied for so long.

I hope in the future I will develop a teensy smidgen of your fearlessness.

Jane Hamsher @ 138

Mandrake @
88

Hey, Waccamaw. Surgery is tomorrow. I can’t believe all this “breast stuff” is happening to me now, too.

Yikes! I can’t joke about the *thing* with Cheney. I totally understand and respect Christy’s admonition but YOW it hurts to keep it all inside!

I will utter my clever witticisms into a paper bag. (After checking to make sure it’s not wired.)

Best of luck, Mandrake. Hope it all goes well for you, you will be in our prayers.

Oh, and thank you so much Jane! I just read your comment. I have so enjoyed your posts and seeing you on PoliticsTV! Seeing you, Christy and Marcy makes me so proud to be a woman! You guys have made journalistic history and have left all those pudgy, white male TV pundits and establishment journalists in the dust with your excellent reporting!

Don’t mean to gush, but I think this is really, really significant, especially considering how the establishment press has been forced to acknowledge what you have done and are doing. You have given serious progressive journalistic blogging the credibility it has been denied for so long.

I hope in the future I will develop a teensy smidgen of your fearlessness.

A. J. Greif @ 127

Is this the thanks Condi gets for having an affair with the chimp?

Are we allowed to make jokes about this?

We are talkin’ here about a WMD (Woman of Mass Destruction) and the pretend Preznit.
dmg@122

i like josh marshall’s meme about cheney — that he’s the crazy uncle of american politics. the real way to dilute his power and impact is, like all the best comics know, to mock him relentlessly. hard to be taken seriously when you’re everybody’s punchline.

Being the object of most people’s derision doesn’t seem to even slow these guys down. How long has most of the World consider Dubya just a synonym for incompetence and retardation, yet he still is at the helm trying to destroy the USA, the Constitution and the World. And then there’s the President-in-Fact, hiding overseas or in his bunker using his joy-stick to guide planes around during NORAD drills.

{{{{one more for you, Mandrake}}}}

And of course, Waccamaw, ‘ppreciate your friendship so much! Hope we can connect again in Asheville soon. I have not received your e-mail, though.

Only thing that really hurts is not being able to joke about the, um, you know *Cheney thing*!

; )