It's more important to dermine what Cheney and Rove think, because whatever Junior's state they are the ones coming up with the ideas and coaching him when to say yes. His quirks just frame the language in which Cheney and Rove's decisions are announced.
And Rove and Cheney may just be the reason for the flip flops. Cheney is an absolute idealogue. Rove is a different animal. Rove keeps two lists... a list of the actions that are attributable to great Presidents, e.g., "Great Presidents" do a "Strategic Arms Agreement". Ok. We need to do one of those. It doesn't matter that it was the most worthless Strategic Arms Agreement that a US President put his pen to, it checked off the block Strategic Arms Agreement.
Rove's second list, is "Who do we have to pander to get this village idiot from Crawford re-elected?"
Let's have a "Temporary Worker Program" that gets the Hispanic vote ... and we'll say that it's not an amnesty program [even though it is] so we don't piss off the base too badly. They're too stupid to figure out it's really an amnesty program.
We need a Kennedy moment: Let's go to Mars!
We need to win a war: Damn, let's win two wars and have a war that goes on forever. [That was Dad's problem, he won a war and there wasn't another war to carry him through the election.
Then there was AIDS...who cares about them folks in Africa...it's a liberal issue. But we've got this item on the checklist...Great humanitarian! OK, so we'll do AIDS as long as we can get the greatest profits to our selected pharms. So, we'll only be able to 1/3 of the patients if we used that pharm in India. Besides, Gates, et al, are outsourcing to India in large numbers.
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