Yet another conservative disgusted with the Administration

[shecky]

This time, it's Vic Gold:

"For all the Rove-built facade of his being a 'strong' chief executive, George W. Bush has been, by comparison to even hapless Jimmy Carter, the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times," Gold writes. "Think Dan Quayle in cowboy boots."
Gold is even more withering in his observations of Cheney. "A vice president in control is bad enough. Worse yet is a vice president out of control."

He's just another Bush hater, so it doesn't count.

 

[Beerina]

George Will said volumes when he described the Iraq war as "inexpertly handled".

 

[davefoc]

There have been a lot of articles somewhat similar to this one. I thought it might be interesting if they were linked to in this thread.

This one is about Bush's chief campaign strategist in 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/washington/01adviser.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

He criticized the president as failing to call the nation to a shared sense of sacrifice at a time of war, failing to reach across the political divide to build consensus and ignoring the will of the people on Iraq. He said he believed the president had not moved aggressively enough to hold anyone accountable for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and that Mr. Bush still approached governing with a “my way or the highway” mentality reinforced by a shrinking circle of trusted aides.

 

[Mephisto]

He's just another Bush hater, so it doesn't count.

I can remember a time when both Gold and Dowd would have been called disgruntled employees, or flip-floppers.

 

[davefoc]

This one is about Richard Perle's (one of the chief advocates for the war in Bushco) change of heart:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612

According to Perle, who left the Defense Policy Board in 2004, this unfolding catastrophe has a central cause: devastating dysfunction within the administration of President George W. Bush. Perle says, "The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible.… I don't think he realized the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty."

 

[davefoc]

This is Chuck Hagel's op-ed in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401104.html

We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam. Honorable intentions are not policies and plans. Iraq belongs to the 25 million Iraqis who live there. They will decide their fate and form of government.

America finds itself in a dangerous and isolated position in the world. We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. Unfortunately, that perception is gaining credibility in the Muslim world and for many years will complicate America's global credibility, purpose and leadership. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed as the world seeks a new geopolitical, trade and economic center that will accommodate the interests of billions of people over the next 25 years. The world will continue to require realistic, clear-headed American leadership -- not an American divine mission.

 

[davefoc]

Here's one quoting Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/29/85559.shtml

WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions.

 

[davefoc]

Here's one about Paul O'Neill the treasury secretary fired early in the first Bush administration for disagreement with the administration on tax cuts:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/09/oneill.bush/

(CNN) -- President Bush "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people" during Cabinet meetings, his former Treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, told CBS News' "60 Minutes" in what the network said was his first interview about his work for the administration.


One-on-one meetings were no different, O'Neill told the network.
Describing his first such meeting with Bush, O'Neill said, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage [him] on. ... I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening. ... It was mostly a monologue."