Beginning of the End--Richard Nixon Redux
It’s not always the same things that trip up presidencies, but it’s always the same attitude.
It’s not always the same things that trip up presidencies, but it’s always the same attitude.
The means justify supposed ends, whether that’s Iran Contras, Watergate or lying our way to war. Oh, and there’s one other small detail—justifying means requires a really small circle of sycophants. Like Bones at Princeton, only the initiated can play.
Of course you gotta keep it from coming unstuck and control is the super-glue that holds conspiracy together. One of the most amazing, admirable and truly pleasurable things about America is its shifting fingers across the levers of control. Just when business or politics thinks it has things figured out, the ground begins to move.
So, we watch as the smallest things become not so small within the Bush administration. What can be patched, how smoothly and successfully, depends upon how deep the cracks run (my gut tells me, all the way to the bone). The mid…