Sunday, December 12, 2004

 

Kerik, Bush, and Rookie Mistakes

Interesting, that Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani's gofer, officially got tanked because of a "nanny problem" รก la the first few Cabinet nominees of the first Clinton administration. Setting aside the mounting evidence that a "nanny problem" was the least of Bernie's worries, what does it say about BushCo's competence that, four years into the job, they are still making rookie mistakes like this one? Though, as Josh Marshall says, it is somewhat reassuring to know that Alberto Gonzales, the Abu Ghraib torture authorizer and the guy Bush has tapped to be our new Ashcroft-style Constitution Shredder, is not all that thorough when it comes to snooping on people. (By the way: Josh also notes that according to a new NYT article, the Bushistas already knew about the dirty financial dealings, the mob links, the civil lawsuits, the philandering, and the general corruption -- and were cool with all that. But it really was the nanny that brought him low. If that's true, these people are stupider than even I can believe.)

# posted by Phoenix Woman @ 12/12/2004 10:02:00 PM
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Probably not a matter of the them being "stupider" than you thought, but being more morally and ethically corrupt than you could imagine and also they are so oblivous to that they failed to see what making such statements actually implied about their ethics.
# posted by Blogger Douglas : 12/13/2004 10:18:00 AM
 
Yeah. They also probably figured that they'd never get caught. Though I did like what Newsweek had to say, which was essentially to wonder out loud how the Bush people could miss for weeks what it took a handful of Newsweek reporters less than two days to dig up. (To be fair, a lot of this stuff was news to New Yorkers -- they knew that he was corrupt, but very few people knew the staggering scope of his corruption.)
# posted by Blogger Phoenix Woman : 12/13/2004 06:18:00 PM
 
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