What Dowd and Rove were trying to build here failed this time, but no one should be fooled as to how near we came to disaster—a one-party fascist rule, employing all the dazzling powers of modern technology, weaponry and communications to bring the entire globe to its knees—including us. I’m quite sure that what Bush’s boys had planned for us was not in line with Jesus’ teachings, but Machiavelli’s.

The plan is still there. The technology is still there. Bush has already made great strides in undermining Constitutional protections and empowering those who plot against us. Disappointed but undeterred, the neocons will lie in wait for their next opportunity.

Mission work! Haha, that’s rich.

landofthefree @
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Outstanding post.

If he wants to criticize the President, Rove, and the Republicans, he can do that – good for him. But I wouldn’t trust his loyalty to justice and fairness for a moment.

One part of Blumenthal’s article really surprised me. I didn’t realize that the reason they dropped “uniter, not a dividier” and “compassionate conservative” rhetoric was because the poll results didn’t support it. I figured they just used that to gain a little trust and get some votes, but they had no desire to actually operate in a bipartisan, compassionate manner. Bush certainly has been the most divisive President in my lifetime. His “you’re with us or against us” attitude permeates every policy and action of his Presidency.

God, as if that hasn’t been obvious since ‘94

That’s my point – that his rhetoric was just a campaigning tool, and he had no plan of actually being “a uniter”. That’s how I always viewed him. I was surprised that Blumenthal’s article indicated that they changed this strategy because the polling indicated it wasn’t helping him after the election. I figured this act did give him some votes and support among people who hadn’t been paying attention to Bush’s actions for years prior to 2004.

The jig is up, the orchestra is packing up and the trials and tribulations are about to begin. Hubris, schadenfreude, whatever you want to call it, it does come around, doesn’t it? Ahhhhh, the smell of justice in the morning… like napalm to the neocon soul. Blissssssss!

“As Dowd acts out his spiritual crisis, he maintains his silence about what he knows, a strange kind of post-betrayal omert�. It’s more than a little late for the turncoat to continue playing the loyalist, wanting it both ways…”

I think we can only assume he still works for Rove. Once a snake, always a snake (apologies to real snakes which, in the natural world, work to keep the rodent population down).

True. Like Hotel California, there are some jobs one can never leave. (We all have our own candidates: Mossad, NSA, Chinese general staff.) Dowd would be toast if he left – for the same reason J. Edgar couldn’t afford to retire and leave behind his FBI files – unless he turned state’s evidence and went into witness protection. So far, Mr. Dowd shows no signs of leaving home until after sunset.

Perhaps, like Ms. Goodling, he’s still on the payroll, softening up Shrub’s image. That’s what I would assume, until he publishes a legitimate Tell All Tale. Now, that would put him in reasonable fear of retribution from men who know no hesitation.

http://www.politicalcortex.com…..142120/013

where the author, Bill Hare, talks about the
“Project for the New American Century guidelines”

It seems that Dowd and Rove where the facilitators, but not really the minds, behind Bushco.

I keep getting the sinking feeling that I am blindsided by all the minions and never see who is really behind all of this.