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Yesterday I wrote about the

by John Cole|  March 3, 200212:50 pm| Leave a Comment

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Yesterday I wrote about the shadow government and predcited an idiotic column by Maureen Dowd. Little did I know how accurate my prediction was going to be. Here is a touch:

In a banner headline on Friday, The Washington Post blared: “Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret.” The article said President Bush had assembled a cadre of officials to operate under the radar, out of the sunlight.

This is news?

The president did that on Jan. 20, 2001.

But it turns out that after Sept. 11, wanting to make sure that everything wouldn’t collapse if there was a nuclear attack on Washington, he did it again. He formed a secret government within a secret government. A shadow of a shadow.

I am sure this will titillate the Prada handbag crowd, but it is just more of the same old innueDowdo we have grown to love. Supposedly witty, unsubstantiated half truths written by a half wit. Dowd is like a canker sore- irritating, annoying, and providing a sharp bursts of pain every now and then. In the end however, she, like the sore, is harmless.

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