“… Condoleezza Rice went to President Bush with a complaint: Donald Rumsfeld wouldn’t return her calls…”

An assertion refuted outright by Mario Loyola, recently a career Pentagon man, and whom I’m calling the new, breakout superstar at NRO’s Corner Blog.

From his review of Bob Woodward’s crap book, State of Denial:

“It is unbelievable that a responsible journalist of national standing would represent this as fact. I have attended hundreds of high-level staff meetings in the Pentagon and I can tell you there isn’t one that won’t come to a screeching halt if the national security adviser is on the phone, because it may as well be the president — and it might be a national emergency. It is impossible for me to understand how someone whose entire career has been based on the revelation of government “inside information” could fail to know something so elementary about the way government works. Rice’s recent statement that Woodward’s account is “ridiculous” goes so obviously without saying that I am starting to think the administration is demeaning itself by responding to Woodward’s assertions at all…“

I want to bear Mario’s children after reading that smackdown.

“Condoleezza Rice went to President Bush with a complaint: Donald Rumsfeld wouldn’t return her calls…”

An assertion refuted outright by Mario Loyola, recently a career Pentagon man, and whom I’m calling the breakout new superstar at NRO’s Corner Blog.

From his review of Bob Woodward’s crap book, State of Denial:

“It is unbelievable that a responsible journalist of national standing would represent this as fact. I have attended hundreds of high-level staff meetings in the Pentagon and I can tell you there isn’t one that won’t come to a screeching halt if the national security adviser is on the phone, because it may as well be the president — and it might be a national emergency. It is impossible for me to understand how someone whose entire career has been based on the revelation of government “inside information” could fail to know something so elementary about the way government works. Rice’s recent statement that Woodward’s account is “ridiculous” goes so obviously without saying that I am starting to think the administration is demeaning itself by responding to Woodward’s assertions at all…“

I want to bear Mario’s children.

Presidents of our countYou Lefties can’t stand it that they are the successors to John and John Quincy Adams, both able ry in their own right.

Why stop there? Why not the big Father and Son as an apt comparision? Like it or not, Dubya surrounds himself with Poppy’s old team. Why? Anybody’s guess, but let’s just say it doesn’t bespeak powerful leadership.

Daaaaaaddddddd!!!!!

Or is my animus showing? Does it not bother you that not one of these people was not vetted by Poppy?

honora on November 10, 2006 at 10:50AM

Surprise! It’s your animus! And your bra strap’s showing, too!

I loathe people who call President Bush 41 “Poppy.” That is a soubriquet that only his family uses, but Libbies think they’re so cute,clever and “in the know” when they do (and only surpassed in snarkiness by Molly Ivins calling him “Shrub…” Sh*t.)
President Bush 43 is his own man and his President–he doesn’t need his father to vet people. You would hardly know that the 2 men are father and son, you rarely see them together.
You Lefties can’t stand it that they are the successors to John and John Quincy Adams, both able Presidents of our country in their own right.

Or is my animus showing? Does it not bother you that not one of these people was not vetted by Poppy?

I personally think that the President showed a lot of weakness in “firing” Secretary Rumsfield right after the elections. The Dhims will think that they’ve won one of their fights, and this will only embolden them.

We will miss you, Secretary Rumsfield.

rmgraha, MSgt, USAF (Ret)

“You can tell a bombardier by his bombsight and his gear.
You can tell a bomber pilot by the spreading of his rear.
You can tell a navigator by his maps and compass and such.
And you can tell a fighter pilot,
BUT YOU CAN’T TELL HIM MUCH!”

As the offspring of a fighter pilot who bought the farm one month before I was born, I have studied that breed of man.
That devil-may-care exterior masks a heart of gold, along with genuine humility. Invaluable, they are.

I, too, will miss him. Hope he’s still around for the coming conservative renaissance in ’08.