Monday, August 16, 2004
Bush Flip-Flop #83762
Further cementing his reputation as "Flip-Flopper-In-Chief", President Bush has now reversed course on the topic of granting a potential Intelligence Czar with budgetary authority. I will mention that this is the right thing to do, per the 9/11 Commission, but that was a honey of a flip-flop!
President George W. Bush, in an apparent reversal, has decided that the new national intelligence director recommended by the Sept. 11 Commission should have the budgetary and hire-fire authority that the commission wanted, one of the ten commissioners told United Press International.
"I have very good reason to believe that is what the president intends," John Lehman, the Reagan-era Navy secretary said Sunday, confirming reports from a handful of journalists briefed Friday by a senior White House official. Lehman declined to elaborate on his reasons.
Once again, Bush takes a "stand" on something and the Democrats beat his ass down with the reality of the situation so he has to reverse course.
How can Republicans support someone who can be bopped around by a bunch of slinky-spined liberals???
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