After a week spent manhandling the Chinese President and kicking Scott McClellan to the curb, The Decider finally got around to downsizing his brain. Karl Rove is giving up his policy role to focus on politics, a distinction without a difference in this White House.
With even Fox News reporting Bush's poll numbers (33 percent) threatening to fall below the Nixon line (28 percent), the best thing Bush could do for his beloved Republican majority is decide to resign. Or failing that, since he fails at almost everything he tries to do, Bush could simply fire Rove the way the CIA fired Mary McCarthy. After all if Ms. McCarthy was fired for a 'pattern' of inappropriate contact with reporters, then surely Rove deserves the boot. Everything he does is inappropriate.
Instead we've learned that the Bolten recovery plan to bump up Bush's numbers includes extending the tax cut for capital gains and stock dividends and more tours of the country to "brag" about the strength of the economy. This makes a certain amount of sense, since the only Americans who will be able to afford a tank of gas to go see the president will be those who are rich enough to be affected by the tax cut on stocks.
Oh, and one more thing. The Bushies want to regain their security credibility by threatening Iran with war.
The White House can shuffle all it wants, but we've seen this dance before.
From the author's Nation blog, Editor's Cut.
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