While perusing the Daily Beast this morning, I happened upon this: I Survived the Bush Presidency. And the part that really caught my eye is below the fold...
Lincoln Chafee had this to say about Cheney:
I was there for the first six of them and he was the one who stood up in the Republican caucus and said forget about that campaign promise about regulating carbon dioxide and a big cheer went up from the Republican caucus. [Bush] said we were going to regulate carbon dioxide, but Cheney made sure it wouldn't happen, and on and on it went. The real muscle and brains of the last eight years has been the VP Richard Cheney and I think the president has just been a hapless cheerleader. That was his reputation back in school—a rah-rah guy, a cheerleader, and he was good at it. Ducking the shoe—that's his strength.
How nice it would have been, Mr. Chafee, had you let us know about this before now. Not that some of us didn't suspect it, mind you. We did. We said so. Loudly. Cheney was the Wizard, but your country, Mr. Chafee, was the one going down that yellow brick road, a road that led to death for millions, financial destruction, abolition of civil liberties, environmental catastrophes - these hits just keep on coming.
From David Kuo (you remember him - the "Faith-Based Initiatives" guy), we get this:
As with most train wrecks, there's this part of the brain that says, "This can't be happening, there has to be this other explanation." But then the rational part of the mind says there is no explanation. The truth is that the people of the administration are guided by no particular agenda other than the continued expansion of their own power for the sake of owning power. There's no fundamental reason for governing. They're not trying to accomplish something. I guess that’s what happens when you're not fundamentally grounded. It's Gertrude Stein: "There was no there there."
My heavens, what do you know, they weren't CHRISTIAN. I am shocked. SHOCKED.
Roger Stone, who led the "Brooks Brothers riot" (remember those entertaining photos of John Bolton?) is now, well, disturbed:
There have been many times I've regretted it. When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, "Maybe there wouldn't have been a war if I hadn't gone to Miami-Dade. Maybe there hadn't have been, in my view, an unjustified war if Bush hadn't become president." It's very disturbing to me.
You're disturbed, huh? Having trouble sleeping nights? Roger, you should be a lot more than disturbed. Because I think you're going to hell, Roger. And if I were you, I'd be a LOT more disturbed about THAT.