Mericas need to be very cautious about how they let the media redefine this moment.

I fully appreciate that we prefer 'truth' to spin but we also must acknowledge that there are sometimes that the reality becomes what everyone believes rather than what actually occurred. Scowcroft's attempt to claim credit for the demise of the neocons needs to be seen for what it is.

It isn't a well timed final blow to a few hotheads who lost their way.
It is an attempt by the right to hold onto power even though the people of the US have successfully shown the repug machine to be corrupt, inefficient and self serving.
Poppa Bush and co haven't been driving this fitzgerald agenda. Amerikans pissed at the betrayal of their ideals have driven this.

If Bush is allowed to continue albeit by replacing the new guard assholes with the old guard ones it won't matter in 2006 mid terms whether it was Billmon and the rest of left blogistan; or Scowcroft and Pops' well timed stiletto in the back which actually brought the BushCo machine down. Because 'the reality' will be that it was the Pops crew.


The Lou Dobbs transcript got me madder than a cut snake because revisionism is happening while people have their eyes off the ball patting themselves on the back.

There was the obvious expected stuff that the blogsphere has highlighted:

"Should the president's top political adviser, Karl Rove, or the vice president's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, be indicted, insiders say it is widely assumed they will resign immediately, and trusted aides will move in to fill the void. The president will make a brief statement citing the legal process that is ongoing. And the White House and its friends will make a dramatic pivot to change the subject and move forward.

DAVID GERGEN, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: The administration has to reassure the country that the president can still govern, that he's still running things.

MALVEAUX: The U.S. mission in Iraq being a primary focus on this day, when the American death toll reached 2,000. BUSH: We will not rest or tire until the war on terror is won.

MALVEAUX: Wednesday, Mr. Bush will turn his attention to the economy, in a speech calling for fiscal discipline. Thursday, he'll travel to Florida to comfort victims of Hurricane Wilma. And Friday, on to Southern Virginia, to give a pep talk on the war on terror."


But there is also an attempt to distract Amerikans with a few bits of the usual jingoism:

"DOBBS: ... and production. But it's easy for people to lose sight of it. One time when we saw these prices rise like this, that money was going into the coffers of U.S. oil companies. That's no longer the case.

ROMANS: You're absolutely right. That money that's coming out of the American pockets, as one of the gentlemen in our piece said, that's going in great part to companies that are based overseas now. There's a great foreign -- foreign presence in our refining capacity and in our distribution networks.