Bush losing faith in Cheney, top aides: Time

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/October/theworld_October788.xml§ion=theworld

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush’s confidence in his top team of advisors, including all-important vice president Dick Cheney, has fallen sharply in the wake of the CIA leak scandal, Time magazine reported on Sunday.

In the wake of Friday’s indictment of Cheney’s top advisor for lying to a grand jury over the case, Bush’s faith in his own top aides Karl Rove and Andrew Card, as well as Cheney, has dropped, Time reported.

“He’s lost some of his confidence in the three people he listens to the most,” Time quoted an unnamed White House adviser as saying.

“The problem is that the President doesn’t want to make changes,” the source said.

This administration BACKS DOWN or ADMITS MISTAKES ONLY WHEN FORCED TO.

when forced and no other options available.

guess W will need to go on vacation again to get him out of the way of the big boys.

:eyes:

Every single one of these crooks needs to be tried, indicted and jailed for life!

Lock up these crooks! ALL OF THEM!!!!

NO ONE IS EXEMPT!!!

U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW!

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!!!!!!



:dem: :kick: :kick: :kick:

Including Bush himself. This story was probably put out there to show Bush wasn't involved. So flip it and you got the truth more than likely. I personally don't buy this whole act that Bush is ignorant and dumb. I think he's very much involved in the planning and in on the meetings when it concerns him.

The whole damn load of these crooks MUST GO NOW! They are all criminals; not one is exempt!

:kick:

I don't remember Card's name coming up in the indictment anywhere...so why is Bush losing faith in Andy Card?

Meanwhile, this is all going along right on schedule...Libby indicted, Rove still under investigation, Cheney not Bush's favorite VP anymore...


:popcorn:

I am getting fat.

:shrug: Very strange. And yes I think by the time this case is over a lot of us will have more weight on us by eating all this popcorn. ;)

Which have not made George the life of the party lately.

those were pieces of the puzzle I did not have.

Thanks for enlightening me! :hi:

A Time to Regroup
Bloodied by scandal, setbacks and casualties, Bush is looking for fresh troops and a new battle plan
Bush senior adviser Karl Rove, who while not indicted has still emerged as a player in the scandal; and chief of staff Andrew Card, who gets some of the blame for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina and even more for the botched Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. "All relationships with the President, except for his relationship with Laura, have been damaged recently," the White House adviser says. The closest aide who is undamaged is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice--who is off minding the rest of the world--and, of course, Bush himself.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124305,00.html

:rofl: Freudian slip, anyone?

Two possibe meanings:

1) Bush is undamaged.

2) Condoleez Rice is "minding Bush" while off minding the rest of the world on the President's behalf.

How insulting -- for good or ill -- either way.

He is our leader.

Eating chocolate with my popcorn, I'm afraid...

SHIT.

But I'm SO delighted to see this take center stage!!! GAWD - it's unavoidable! Taking on a life of its own...

for decades now, and I have made my peace with it by learning an important lesson:

when you have done all you can do, sit back and enjoy the show.

:popcorn:

He is in a job that usually burns a guy out in two to three years. He wants to GO. He just does not have the balls to say so...IMO.

There is a third administration official I don't think we have figured out who it is yet. Of course it could be Hadley. Just thinking out loud.

If Bush is just figuring out now how the "people he listens to most" operate it should be a red flag that he is not really in control.

:rofl:

This entire administration is just going to implode on itself! People within the inner circle will be attacking each other...kind of like the Miers nomination, the Democrats didn't have to do anything, just sit back and watch the right fight amongst themselves!

As if he actually believed all that shit.

.... the Titanic would have helped.

I sense Cheney is about to have "health reasons" and he will split to his
multi million dollar home on the Chesapeake and run things from there.

with profits from halliburton.

grrr

If he had the brains, he'd lose faith in Cheney.
He hasn't got the brains to know when he's truly and absolutely fucked IMHO.

Who could have guessed? :rofl:

He hasn't lost confidence in them. The last line says it all. He still doesn't want to make changes. The truth is, he is incapable of understanding what is going on, and doesn't care. It is the not caring that is criminal. He is as culpable as the rest of the scumbags, but for a different reason. This article is covering for chimp, as does most articles in the corporate media.

You can fire everyone in your administration but it still boils down to you and your incompetence and your lack of ethics.

to a Faith-Based administration... :rofl:

because the more mature, moral Cheney would be in charge...what a bunch of idiots!

He is leaving!

I don't see how it's even remotely possible that a man so stupid, who doesn't even know the meanings of simple words, confuses elementary concepts, people, places and things, and can't figure out the most basic ideas, could be in charge of anything. A fryer at Mickey D's would be too complex for him to work.

“The problem is that the President doesn’t want to make changes,” the source said.

And the REASON he doesn't want to make changes?

Because he has NO freaking clue how to do this job. Hell, even WITH them advising him he's an incompetent boob. Imagine him without them. Just a barely toilet-trained ass not even qualified to be city dogcatcher. That's true now, but the others keep as many people from seeing that.

Heard he watched the first 20 minutes of Fitz's press conference all by himself with no help from Andy Card.

That's the problem with having a coward and an AWOL for president.

Bush was never a real leader, but a follower. Afraid to trust his own judgment. Probably because the important times in his life that he did try doing things his way, he blew it. Karl created the image we see as G W Bush, he produced and directed him. Bush is just an actor that is of such poor quality, he can't even remember his lines.

I don't trust Buckaroo Bush and I don't trust the Bushwah allegedly originating from the White House. I feel that we American citizen-voters have been lied to so long and so often by this crew that their say-so (And I used the phrase say-so on purpose, instead of saying their word) can't be taken at face value.

With friends like he's got who needs enemies. But they can all swagger. :nopity:

him is Rotten except, of course, him. he NEVER does anything wrong..he just hides under the bed or sits in the corner and DROOLS.

Help us

Visualize IMPEACHMENT!!!!!!!!!

And then go DO something about it.

As DUer Class Warrior would say - NGU - Never Give Up!

Especially when the assholes are on the ropes.

except himself

one with a tail,red eyes and horns. Whose your real daddy,Georgie?

three top aids come to the conclusion that bush couldn't carry his own water? Or hunt for his bananas?

2 years what was going down. I guess that comment is for the uneducated kool-aid drinkers that don't watch the news.

This wimp isn't allowed to "have confidence." He's nothing without his handlers. He is and always has been a coward and a fraud.

He doesn't even know what planet he is on.

They are just trying to keep him afloat.

Sad.

just starting to lose confidence in his team of advisors? What a complete and utter failure we have as President.

Sounds like thuglican spin to me.

After all praise Libby as a great American is a joke.

I like Chris Rocks description the most....

Bush is like a GANGSTER!!!
(In reference to Katrina he said, my god, he(*)instead of ditching
us he could have blown us all up)

That was my comic representation of Cheney getting wind of Bush's thoughts of letting Cheney take the fall.

. . . tugs on leash emphatically. . . .Developing.

Who on earth believes this shit? They just want everyone to think he had no knowledge of the leak, but he is in it up to his eyeballs.

whether he's indicted or not. Shrub really should clean house. By doing this, I think it would make Shrub seem like he's taking this matter seriously.
I don't this is going to happen though.

Disinformation designed to make Bush look like the victim of his staffers.

Complete bogusness.

... what I was thinking. Bush** feels the heat, he needs to distance himself from these evil-doers.

How can a puppet lose faith in its puppeteer?

What a crock of shit.

:rofl:

know that it takes a long time for the (blatantly obvious) truth to play out in the media, and for political and legal wheels to turn.

A lot of it depends on when Rove is indicted. In terms of stability it's better to get the Libby indictment out of the way, let Cheney take the fallout and be replaced by a competent VP. Then when Rove is indicted later on and confidence in * plummets there will be some-one to take over the POTUS when *'s inevitable fall comes (and prevent a power vacuum/constitutional crisis).