NYT: Bush Friends, Loyal and Texan, Remain a Force

[Rose Siding]

The sycophants are getting all pissy about how NOBODY can see the emperor's clothes anymore-

Like another Bush devotee, the first President Bush, these Texans are increasingly angry at criticism leveled at him. Karen Hughes, the communications adviser who famously went back to Texas when her teenage son grew homesick but has since returned as an under secretary of state, says she is tired of seeing Mr. Bush treated as a “caricature.”

We're stuck in a bloody and endless war and *that's* what Ms Hughes is tired of seeing?

{Clay Johnson, a prep school buddy of Mr. Bush who is now a deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget} says the most painful accusation is hearing Mr. Bush called a liar.

“I said, ‘How in the world can you be considered a liar by some?’ ” Mr. Johnson said, recounting a conversation with Mr. Bush. “I mean, there are bumper stickers about lying. It’s just incredible.’ And he said, ‘Well, you’ve just got to get used to it. Because that’s what we have here.’ ”
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Scholars say Mr. Bush has been more strategic than most presidents in sprinkling loyalists throughout the administration. Paul C. Light, an expert in public service at New York University, says it has created an “echo chamber” in which the president gets advice he wants to hear.

“It’s like these are George Bush’s political children that he’s raised from infancy,” Mr. Light said. “They’re incredibly loyal, and they’re also likely to tell him what he thinks, and that’s what we’ve seen as the big weakness in this administration.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/washington/21loyalists.html?ei=5090&en=c577b5b6492c931a&ex=1329714000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1172029043-YXQsy+uofj3uKIWSjkQO5A

[muntrv]

1. These folks just love to give shrub a reach around.

[niyad]

2. and we give a rat's ass what these people think WHY?