It's a great day to be a Democrat! First Foley and then
this. Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, is giving the Repubs fits...and it won't even hit the shelves until Monday.
View video here. Watch Tony Snow spin himself silly.
The book, "State of Denial," by Bob Woodward, depicts the Bush administration as being deeply divided over the war. Some of its juiciest disclosures landed with a bang in the capital Friday, just five weeks before elections in which Democrats were already projected to make significant inroads in the Republican majorities in Congress.
MSNBC calls the book an "October Surprise" in Dems' favor, trumping any anticipated Rove-orchestrated attempt to save Repubs asses. (Is that redundant?)
Woodward, an assistant managing editor at The Washington Post whose exhaustively researched examinations of power are instantaneous best-sellers, paints a bipolar administration. He writes that major players have taken sides in a struggle between an arrogant, out-of-touch Rumsfeld and internal skeptics, notably former Chief of Staff Andrew Card, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and many of Rumsfeld's own military leaders.
Even Laura has apparently urged hubby to fire Rumsfeld because he is a bully.
The book is not being published until midnight Friday, but some news organizations, including The New York Times and the New York Daily News, were able to buy copies ahead of publication and reported numerous details. Extensive excerpts will be published over the weekend by Newsweek and The Post, which hurried its own account of the book onto its Web site Friday after details began emerging Thursday night.
Can't wait to read the whole book.