By Brigitte L. Nacos
Obviously shocked into action by the media hype surrounding
predictions of a Democratic victory in the midterm elections, members of the
cabinet have joined President Bush and Vice-President Cheney in mounting an all
out end run against a possible but far from certain Democratic take-over of
congress. According to the Washington Post’s Peter Baker, at a tent festival on
the North Lawn of the White House, administration biggies were interviewed by
dozens of radio hosts. Besides Carl Rove, others “on hand included, Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Attorney General
Alberto R. Gonzales, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman, Agriculture
Secretary Mike Johanns, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt,
national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, presidential counselor Dan
Bartlett, White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, and
budget director Rob Portman. With all the big guns fighting the campaign war
against Democrats, one wonders who is minding the store and who is directing
the war against terrorism--not only during the interview blitz on the North Lawn and the wave of presidential news conferences in the pre-election months with the latest of these events earlier today.
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