Bush's management style allows for incompetence - but not massage

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Bush's management style allows for incompetence - but not massage
By Matt Stearns
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Apparently, a penchant for massages is the one thing that President Bush cannot abide in an underling.


Arranging a massive pay raise and promotion for a girlfriend? World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz "ought to stay," Bush said. "He ought to be given a fair hearing."


Admittedly muffing management of the Justice Department, then forgetting key details when a miffed Congress demands answers? Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "increased my confidence in his ability to do the job," the president said.


The planning and execution of the Iraq war and its aftermath? Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, former Coalition Provisional Authority administrator L. Paul Bremer and former CIA Director George Tenet kept their jobs long after their foul-ups became apparent. Bush awarded all three the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

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1. McClatchy Newspapers ---I like that it

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2. "Bush just doesn't like to make these hard decisions,"

But Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, who quit the day he admitted to getting massages - and only massages - from an escort service?

"He resigned, and it was the proper thing to do," White House spokesman Tony Snow said Monday.

Thus is revealed the management philosophy of the CEO presidency. Favoritism, ineffectiveness and misleading Congress: OK. Massages: Not OK.

"Bush just doesn't like to make these hard decisions," said Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University. "In order to get fired in the Bush administration, you need to have hatchet in hand, the corpse in front of you, your fingerprints all over the handle and a photograph of the act in progress."

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3. Their must be some thing we do not see and Bush does.

My thoughts are he is a bad leader and just looks at every one by him self. Those types sort of mass if the leader is like them. You can read history and see this stuff turning up over and over. I often wonder if the jack asses all get to gether first and pick a leader like them self or the leader picks the jack asses to follow. Either way they seem to turn up just about every place at one time in the history of anything. The shame is they can cause so many deaths and they do when it is a country.

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4. Wish the author had included the incompetance surrounding Katrina

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5. good point