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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (6166)11/18/2004 2:53:47 PM
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The Appointments Police By: Erick · Section: Republicans

Redstate -

The MSM, more so than any other group, appears up in arms about Bush's latest appointments. The MSM does not like Porter Goss at CIA or Condi Rice at State or Gonzales at Justice or Hadley at NSC. The MSM is sure it will not like having John Snow and Donald Rumsfeld around longer and is equally sure that, if those two left, the new appointments would be bad too.

Bush is surrounding himself with a "neocon echo chamber." He is stiffling dissent. He does not want opposing views. He is insulating himself from advice.

How about this? Bush is ensuring that policy disputes get fought out in meetings and not on the front page of the New York Times or the Washington Post. The MSM has a vested interest in "outsiders" being in charge of State, DOD, Treasury, Justice, and the CIA. Outsiders are more likely to leak. Outsiders have a greater chance of not actually liking Bush and allowing the lefty bureaucrats still hiding in the Executive Branch to continue their war against Bush.

The next time the MSM complains about Bush picking an insider, rest assured it is because the MSM will now have to work harder for access and work harder to generate an anti-Bush storyline using "administration officials" as willing pawns to again try taking down the guy they couldn't beat before.
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