Andrew Card's "resignation" this week is widely believed to be the sacrificial lamb designed to placate angry Republicans on the Hill who resent the threats, the stone-walling, and the ultimately inept politics of the west wingers. There is no sense that this portends significant change, however, even though that was the ostensive purpose. The choice of an insider like Mr. Joshua "Yosh" Bolten as the replacement is candid testimony to the opposite, in fact, fully in keeping with Bush's (Rove's) general plan. The next three years will be much like the last five, if not more so. But, as the mid-term elections get closer and closer someone is going to remember that it was Joshua Bolten who blandly reported (New York Times, August 26, 2003) that Bush frequently joked in first-term staff meetings about the job being a lot easier if he were dictator.
James Richard Brett
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