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i dont think there is anything terribly surprising in wilkerson's remarks: that the power within the administration is divided as it is i thionk most who are critics of this administration had worked out long ago; that bush himself is not getting anything like a spread of opinions when it comes time to make a complex decision is also pretty obvious. in a way, this last feature is of a piece with what i take to be the therapeutic core of conservative politics in general: much of its appeal is a function of telling the faithful what they want to hear. it is much less about a coherent description of how the world either is or ought to be. which is strange in itself.
what i fiind interesting is that something has happened to the presentation of the administration to the public--it seems to have fractured--i have been thinking a bit about the timing and cuases, but am not sure i have the details straight--it seems to have become a problem maybe around the john bolton nomination (a real prize, bolton--you should check out some of his absurd pronouncements about international law/treaties and then maybe wonder how and why this guy is american ambassador to the un)--katrina seems another obvious marker--then the investigation of the leaking of plame's name to the press, which revealed something of the outline of this same cabal scenario as wilkerson outlines--then the more recent harriet meiers debacle--but i am not sure about the events/ timing. and the fracturing of the administrations public image itself could be more an impression than anything else. perhaps the mainstream press is finally developing something like a spine. not sure. what do you think?
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