The Rise of the Rove Reich

Mike Whitney, The Smirking Chimp

Politics is the art of destroying one’s enemies and rewarding one’s friends. By this standard, the Bush regime is the most capable administration in American history. Bush and his fellows have shown time and again that they have sharp elbows and can be cold-blooded political street-fighters. The "Swift-boating" of John Kerry, Dan Rather and Joseph Wilson are just a few of the more familiar examples. Each was singled out as a potential rival by high-ranking members of the administration and summarily drawn-and-quartered by the assassins in the far-right media. The unexpected sacking of 8 US Attorneys is another example of the administration’s astonishing proficiency at destroying its enemies, although the attorneys in question were not the "real targets" per se...

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