essays & effluvia: Bush to Cheney: Buh-Bye ?

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Bush to Cheney: Buh-Bye ?

This one is way under the radar, and, but for serendipity, I would never had caught it.

On the way hone tonite, Kitty, a fellow sufferer of the LIRR, showed me this little tidbit in (of all places) Liz Smith's gossip column in Long Island Newsday. Smith is a catty old biddy who's usually more interested in what celeb was out with who else's wife, whether this or that famous person has had more or less plastic surgery than Cher, and which of the Fab5 on Queer Eye for Straight Guy is not really gay; That's right -- she actually "in-ed" somebody.

Y'all know, the really important stuff.

But Liz surprises and amuses in today's Newsday, waxing eloquent (for Liz at least) on matters of great import to the body polity:

"IF I WRITE here that Team Bush reportedly commissioned private polls indicating that Dick Cheney is a drag on the GOP ticket and that the Halliburton connection doesn't help either, I suppose many of you will just chalk it up to my "liberal media bias." But no. I'm not the one who said this. It comes from The American Conservative, a magazine put out by Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopoulos. (These guys say they started their mag to "save the right wing of the Republican Party.")

Taki and Pat firmly believe Cheney has to go, writing: "Key House Democrats have already called for the resignations of [Donald] Rumsfeld and [Paul] Wolfowitz and are right to do so. But President Bush needs a more thorough housecleaning if his administration is to right itself."

Why not Condoleezza Rice? Here's their answer? "Rice only makes sense if you believe the administration's foreign policy has been effective, but she is, to say the least, no Henry Kissinger."

And that's what conservatives are saying. Wow!"

-Liz Smith, Newsday, Oct 15, 2003
A Beauty Adds Brawn
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/ny-lizsmith3495481oct15,0,1377623.column

By the by, I've been all over The American Conservative magazine on line -- to verify that the gossip columnist is correct (no luck). I either have to buy Buchanan's rag, or hope they post more material on-line soon.

Idiotically worthless disclosure: I delivered papers for Newsay when I was 12. Now some formerly terribly ineffective hedge fund manager turned political pundit won't carp if I talk about baseball. (Jackass).