Bush’s Brain Gives the White House a Bad Headache (Sunday Times of London)

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The president now faces a quandary. He may be able to argue that Rove did not technically break the law, and his loyalty to his allies is legendary.

Yet splitting legal hairs on a deliberate leak that outraged the CIA and compromised one of its agents will leave the president open to criticism that he is no better than Bill Clinton, who spent most of his second term wriggling out of embarrassing legal problems. Bush is also being compared to Ronald Reagan, whose second term came unglued over the Iran-contra scandal.

The betting in Washington is that Rove will survive, provided he is not indicted, partly because Bush still needs his campaign skills and mostly because the president hates to admit to mistakes. Yet even senior Republicans are concerned that the White House has been badly damaged and risks spending the next three years subsiding into lame-duck irrelevance. The man long known as Bush’s brain is in danger of becoming his burden.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1697094_1,00.html

[Erika]

1. The WH is badly damaged

The neocons fed by the extreme Bushies have pretty well destroyed this country. Bush may never hold himself accountable but history will.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Clinton and Reagan are mild

Clinton and Reagan are mild examples. It has often been said that the Bush Whitehouse is most like Nixon's. This may become more true than previously thought.

[Erika]

3. The Bush & Nixon WH share the same arrogance

and secrecy.

[geckosfeet]

4. Bush, Cheney, Rove - 100 times worse than Nixon. Clinton is an

amateur compared to these guys.

Bush has an advantage in that he is an idiot, as well as evil and dishonest. Nixon was just plain evil and dishonest.

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5. Didn't Cheney and Dumbsfeld serve in the Nixon WH?

Isn't it really just the same crowd without Nixxon?

[geckosfeet]

7. Why yes they did,,, they are refining the dirty tricks machine.

But Bush is just a dumbo in smart person land,, a figure head president. Yes its Cheney and Rummy and Rover pulling the strings.

[MaineYooper]

6. "...hates to admit mistakes." ?!?!?!?!?!?!

Has he ever done so? I'm at a loss to come up with one example.