Wolfowitz Still Refuses To Quit - Stubborness, The New Bush Doctrine

I think the word stubborn would best describe the entire Bush legacy. His administration simply will not yield to suggestion, criticism or reality for that matter. Take the latest example, Paul Wolfowitz, beleaguered head of the World Bank. The board of the bank has found him guilty of breaking the rules, of corruption and of doling out favors to his ex-girlfriend. In most cases that would be enough to get a resignation.

People with at least a shred of decency will admit when they are wrong and take the moral high ground and leave the institution before harming it by their mere presence. Not a Bushie! Bushie’s are tenacious. Bushies are stubborn and once they set their mind on something, they will not be dissuaded from their course.

Bush himself displays this same stubbornness in his course in Iraq. Though it is clearly not working and has little chance of success, he insists on "staying the course" simply because if he didn’t he might look vulnerable. Above all, Bushies and Bush for that matter must look good. Performance has nothing to do with their jobs; it’s all about the "look" of success.

Alberto Gonzales, sitting stubbornly before the Senate and House committees steadfastly insisting he knew nothing is another example. A loyal and stubborn Bushie who may be a disastrous failure as an Attorney General, he still "looks good" in the eyes of the White House.

This fetishistic fascination with form over substance is the root problem with the GOP and the White House under Bush. As long as hey can look like they are leaders, that’s all that matters. Well the emperor has no clothes, and the naked incompetence of the Bush folks has started to show through to everyone except those blinded by ideology. Even the press, now merely a shadow of the institution it once was, has seen through the illusions of leadership and has begun exposing the reality of these people.

Now it’s time the American people stood up and demanded that they all just go away. They are bad actors playing roles that are ill suited to their talents. They have committed crimes and shown gross negligence in their duties. Impeachment and prosecution are the only avenues left.