Much like his buddy Putin, Bush has handpicked his chosen successor, as evidenced by his choice of federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general. You see, Mr. Mukasey is an old buddy of Herr Giuliani, to the extent that Rudolph was sworn in as mayor by Mukasey in Mukasey’s own apartment. In a letter sent after the inauguration, Mr. Mukasey wrote: “Please also know that my admiration and love (and Susan’s,) for (both of) you and your family is without limit.”
I think you will understand why we used the parentheses.
This is not the first time Dubya has sought to intertwine his legacy with “Rubya’s”: remember the bungled appointment of Bernard Kerik as Director of Homeland Security? This is a clear effort by the man dubbed “the cockiest guy I’ve ever met” by former Mexican president Vicente Fox to further blur the lines between 9/11 and the War in Iraq. Our fear is that, despite his dismal approval writings, he has succeeded in terms of the collective subconscious continuing to conflate the two, and that Republican leaders still stand a good chance of winning with his policies, if not his name.
