Bush at his Best

It was difficult to watch Bush squirm his way through yesterday's press conference. In light of last night's tumultuous turnover you couldn't help but hear the deafening crowd screaming out their mandate. The uproar though provided the press corp with the mental fortitude and confidence they needed to press the nervous president to answer their petulant questions. When? they demanded, when did Bush first decide to give Rummy the heave ho. They wanted to know, they wanted to understand what was going on the president's head. Everything was happening so fast. But the president told them it was this way, and then he told them it was that way and he kept contradicting himself so much that the reporters became dizzy from the speed and just sat back down and took notes. And it was frightening as well to watch Bush's nose grow longer and longer the longer he remained at the podium. Whether or not Bush gave Rummy the thumbs down before or after the election will probably never be known before Woodward writes the last book in his Bush trilogy, but as far as the public was concerned it was enough that the SOD was leaving.

But the reporters were still not up to the task of pinning Bush down. When Bush made sure to point out to the press that the dems were now the ones to head up all the committees and push through legislation, it should have become instantly evident that Bush had finally come up with his exit plan for getting out of Iraq.

By holding off on announcing that Rummy was gone he deliberatly allowed his republican candidates to hang themselves. By holding off on announcing that Rummy was gone he hung all his cronies out to dry. It became obvious in that moment that he had wanted all along for the dems to win both houses. This way it would be the dems who would take over the reins, it would be the dems who would take over control of America's direction. It would be the dems who would now take all the flake. Let the dems screw up and then worm their way out of it. Let the dems come up with a strategy plan and hope they fall flat on their face when they try to execute it. Bush will let the dems take the lead and when they fail to accomplish the impossible, hip hip hooray!! Bush will be able to say with his arrogant smirk spread all over his pompous face, hey, don't look at me! It wasn't me at the helm of this big old ship. It was the dems, off with their heads! I'll just sit back and let history write itself the way I call it. Generations from now will not be able to remember what happened to my plan. I had no exit plan. But that fact will get swept up in all the dirt that's going to be cleaned up by this election. It will be the dems exit plan that gets graded. It will be the dem's exit plan that will have to take all the heat. I'm damn smart. Possibly too smart for my own country's good.