Suddenly a “Great Opportunity”
The public seems to think President Bush has taken the Republican shellacking in the mid-term elections well. He has not. Watching the press-briefings after meetings with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, it was evident that Bush was shaken. Furtive, unconfident, conciliatory.
The public seems to think President Bush has taken the Republican shellacking in the mid-term elections well. He has not. Watching the press-briefings after meetings with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, it was evident that Bush was shaken. Furtive, unconfident, conciliatory.
He never saw it coming. Staff saw it and Karl Rove saw it, but evidently no one dared tell the president. He kept pandering to his ‘base’ through the final moments, surrounding himself with adoration and agreement rather than the facts that were all too apparent to anyone outside the bubble. This administration has existed and governed almost exclusively by talking to themselves.
Which is, of course, the difficulty with bubbles. By their very nature,…