Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: March 21, 2004 – March 27, 2004 Archives:
[ . . . ] the pattern suggests two possible theories.
The first is that President Bush has the odd misfortune of repeatedly hiring Democratic party stooges for key counter-terrorism assignments who stab him in the back as soon as they leave his employ.
The second is that anyone the president hires in a key counter-terrorism role who is not either a hidebound ideologue or a Bush loyalist gets so disgusted with the mismanagement and/or dishonesty that they eventually quit and then devote themselves to driving the president from office.
Which sounds more likely?
You’d think someone with the leadership and management background one expects of the highest officeholder in the land would be immune to either possibility . . . .