What did the President know--And when did he know it?

www.nydailynews.com/front/story/357107p-304312c.html

WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.

"He made his displeasure known to Karl," a presidential counselor told The News. "He made his life miserable about this."

Asked if he believed indictments were forthcoming, a key Bush official said he did not know, then added: "I'm very concerned it could go very, very badly."

"Karl is fighting for his life," the official added, "but anything he did was done to help George W. Bush. The President knows that and appreciates that."

Other sources confirmed, however, that Bush was initially furious with Rove in 2003 when his deputy chief of staff conceded he had talked to the press about the Plame leak.

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I prefer to die as a free man struggling to create a human community than as a pawn of empire. -- William Appleton Williams

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Rice: After 9-11 “We Could Decide the Proximate Cause Was Al Qaeda”

This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Condoleezza Rice explains why we invaded Iraq:

The fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the proximate cause was al Qaeda and the people who flew those planes into buildings and, therefore, we would go after al Qaeda…or we could take a bolder approach.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/16/rice-after-9-11/

UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has the video.

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Is Bush falling apart?

Clearly his administration is but to what extent is the President personally losing it? Capitol Hill Blue has been reporting on the President's alleged instability for some time now, citing anonymous sources. Are they right? Here are excerpts from their latest:

Government by Temper Tantrum

October 11, 2005
by Doug Thompson
Capitol Hill Blue


“He’s out of control,” one White House aide says privately. “There’s no other way to put it. His anger spills over in meetings. He berates anyone who brings him bad news but there's not a lot of good news we can bring the President right now. He calls other Republicans 'motherfucking traitors' and it is becoming more and more of a challenge to keep that anger from showing in public.”

Consider this from Andrew Stephan of The Observer in London:

“The 43rd US President has always had a much-publicized knack for mangled syntax, but now George Bush often searches an agonizingly long time, sometimes in vain, for the right words. His mind simply blanks out at crucial times. He is prone, I am told, to foul-mouthed temper tantrums in the White House. His handlers now rarely allow him to speak an unscripted word in public,”

Stephan wrote that analysis on October 17, 2004, two weeks before last years’s election. In the same article he reported:

“A senior Republican, experienced and wise in the ways of Washington, told me last Friday that he does not necessarily accept that Bush is unstable, but what is clear, he added, is that he is now manifestly unfit to be President.”

That was nearly year ago. Since then the situation has only gotten worse.

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I should be ashamed of myself for repeating this unsubstantiated gossip from Ratbang Diary:

Like…did you hear that Condi Rice and Harriet Miers are good friends…really really good friends for years and years? As in, really really really good friends for years and years and years. Well…that’s what I heard.

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One flak. Flax are the official currency of the Branch Floridians and I would recommend a look at their website. I have added a link under the Mysticism section.

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From a note by George W. Bush to Harriet Miers. Is private scatology ok then?

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