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p>Additionally, we have had the absolutely inept way that SecDef Rumsfeld was fired. That was handled in such a way that the Dems could claim that they finally got a scalp they were after, whether that was true or not. So a dedicated public servant that had remained true and steadfast to the administration and its wishes was left drawn and quartered. p>Then there is the way that Bush has allowed Scooter Libby to be the fall guy in the Plame/Wilson mess, when it should have been Armitage. But he is a Colin Powell guy. Can't let him be tarnished. p>Then there is the fact that the heads of the CIA and FBI were NOT fired after 9-11. Instead they go out with White House medals and a band playing. Then there is the President's (or Sec. Powell's) hand picked guy that is sent to run Iraq, he screws up royally, turns the mess back over to the military, and gets out of Dodge. Oh, and he also gets a White House medal amidst Ruffles and Flourishes. p>On and on the list of missteps goes. Shoving illegal amnesty down the throats of Americans when 70 to 80 percent say no. Oh, and while in Mexico meeting with their Presidente, he makes public comments about how hard he is working to advance their interests with the American people and the American government. Praising and bowing and scraping to the most vicious of the Dems while bashing the base that got you elected. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan is the one thing where the Presidential instincts were right, but the implementation of the policy leaves much to be desired, (PC war fighting is always wrong) and the public justification has been less than totally convincing to a huge swath of the American public. p>It would seem that this administration is racing full out to break or tie Jimmy Carter's record for incompetence. They may be lucky and have time run out before taking 1st place. BR>-- Ken Shreve BR>New Hampshire p>Of course, Mr. Hillyer's assessment that "the administration created its own quicksand and stepped right into it" is on-target, though I suggest they also stepped into something smellier. p>What's troubling is how their gross political and managerial ineptness continues to overshadow whatever competent, significant actions Mr. Bush and his administration may have accomplished or are in the process of executing. But as the Wall Street Journal editorialized on March 14, "When it comes to 'politicizing' [the Department of] Justice...the Bush White House is full of amateurs compared to the Clintons." p> The WSJ referred to how, just after co-presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton took office in 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno and Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a former Rose Law Firm partner of Mrs. Clinton and the Clinton's go-between with DOJ, dismissed U.S. attorneys. In that unprecedented action by an administration, all 93 attorneys fell simultaneously to Reno and/or Hubbell's axe. From that mass firing, at least one key investigation -- of the Clintons and their part in the Whitewater scandal -- died. p>But did the Democrats, liberals and their mouthpieces in the mainstream news media rise then in gum-flapping apoplectic condemnation about that White House driving those firings? And, now, have they even had the integrity to acknowledge or refer to what the Clintons did? BR>---

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