Reality Bites

And those bites hurt even more when you spend more than four years claiming to be above reality:

Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say.

Yeah, that's a link to the NY Daily News article already referenced by the big blogs--just passing it along for additional consumption. And since I'm passing along links, here's another bitter pill for the dauphin to swallow--a thorough smackdown by one Brent Scowcroft--the old man's national security advisor. Scowcroft also metes out big time criticism of big time Dick, Condi, Wolfie, and Hadley--a vertiable passel of stooges (note: link is not to the New Yorker article, which isn't online, but a liberal--no pun intended--lifting of the piece courtesy of the Washington Note). Rice, in particular, was so miffed she called to deliver a scolding to the man who lifted her up by her dominatrix boot-straps...such lack of gratitude, Condi...

Yep, barely a year after the 51 percent man-date, the walls are beginning to creep inward. It'll be interesting to see what the reaction is from the White House. If I remember right, the last time something this serious came down the pipe, Al Haig issued a directive to the effect that any direct order from Nixon had to pass through him first (Haig, that is--and note this was a good eight years before "I am in control here..."). But this time, Bush's version of Big Al--Turd Blossom--won't be around to filter Shrubusto.

I wonder if we're about to find out just how divorced from reality the pResident really is...