The Bush revenge brigade hits the SCLM

While we found a better permalink to this article on the Guardian, a UK paper, it showed up on our Excite feed. In Newsview: Cross Bush, Face Payback:

But Bush and his chief political adviser, Karl Rove, are essentially following the same game plan that the late Lee Atwater - an early political mentor of Rove's - used to get the first President Bush elected in 1988: define and undercut an opponent early with a fusillade of negative attacks.

"This team is tough. You cross them and they go after you and raise questions about you and your credibility rather than what you have to say," said Thomas Mann, a scholar with the Brookings Institution.

It's a really excellent article from a long time AP writer, who not only sums up their tactics, but provides a nice, fairly complete list of those brave souls who have come out against Dear Leader's miserable failures. All, naturally, have gotten the slime treatment.

These guys really don't have any shame. It's nice to see Powell backing up Clarke (as covered in other diaries). Let us hope that this marks the beginning of the end for ShrubCo. Just tell the truth and they think it's hell...
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(/) Roland X
aka Captain ABBA