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This man has been incredibly successful, even more so, when you honestly consider the caliber of the material with which he was working. (Cheney, Neocons, Iraq, George) So, it is amusing to see just when and where he finally stepped on a self-buried land mine and lost his touch.
A little of his history: He concocted a war on a noun describing a fearful emotion. This pithy little statement has been repeated so often and so long, without almost any critical review or discussion, that the average American cites it in normal conversations. Xerox and Kleenex would be proud of the job Rove did with their administration's motto.
Probably the best Texas Two Step performed by the administration puppets starts with the Iraq -9/11 connection, and later, grows up when they transformed the failed policies of the recent past into a "fighting them over there rather than here". But the real beauty of this failed policy is how they are now attempting to spin Iraq as a "cut and run" battle cry against moderate GOP and all democrats.
By claiming that "redeployment is unpatriotic" (along with some pretty skanky personal attacks on brave and decent people like John Murtha) they ignore the core questions about why we are there in the first place, why did we fail so badly in the face of calm and professional warnings about the obvious and oft predicted morass we now find ourselves in, and manage to preclude even more investigations of the lies that led us to this civil war. The timing was impeccable. Congress (or a few Dem's with spines) was starting to investigate the lead up to the war, newspapers were taking a cold, hard look at $1.4 TRILLION dollars in debt wasted on a country with the population smaller than Illinois, close to 2,600 dead boys and girls - lives wasted due to a series of deliberate lies, close to 100,000 innocent deaths in Iraq and many tens of thousands of broken bodies and fractured minds - our future vets.
And when the Administration planned on cutting even more vet benefits, even conservative pols began to raise a stink.
The solution? spin the war into something positive, until your general admits that the cut and run Dem's' plan was identical to your own general's.
That is why this final step is so misguided, and potentially disastrous. When you attack the press, even the most conservative editors, publishers, and owners of the most neocon rags begin to get this creepy crawlie feeling up their spin and and down their gut. They know that change is part of politics. They, too, realize that this power grab by neocons will have an end, quite probably in November, and that the table will be turned. They now see that any effort to destroy or muzzle the press will in turn muzzle them. And remember, this is their biggest base.
The reaction within newsrooms of a more normal heritage and a more rational sense of reality is even more striking. They are not watching the the attacks on the NYT with the same glee that the Gray Lady earned with Judy MillerGate or JasonGate or Elizabeth Bumiller's stenography classes with White House staff. They are looking at a mirror into the future, and fully recognize this attack for what it is - the third, perhaps fourth major step towards a fascist America. And they will not let it go down that path.
I only hope that it is not too late. I suspect that Rove has truly screwed the pooch with his last foray into a fascist, Bush-run society. Attacking the press has never succeeded - not once in 240 years. And we won't let it happen this time, either.
When karma comes around, I will jump with joy.
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