Sure looks like a bloodless
coup in Washington
Have Americans just witnessed the first bloodless coup in our history?
Has The Establishment and those aging human remnants of The Trilateral Commision simply taken the keys away from Bush 43?
HinesSight has been curious and more curious about this.
It seems to have begun when Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) earmarked $1 million of the Armed Services Supplementary Appropriations Bill to fund the establishment of The Iraq Study Committee. The ISC gave Congressional sanction and political cover to all, but you've got to wonder about the end game.
Congressman Wolf has quietly faded back into the Congressional background. The Republicans have lost their Congressional majority, Rumsfeld resigned, ex-CIA Director Gates is instantly confirmed at Defense, and Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton emerge to save our bacon and provide political cover for 2008.
Suddenly, there are 79 Ways to leave the mess in Iraq, the Lebanese govenment is under siege by Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority by Hamas.
Then there's the effort to remove al-Malaki as the duly elected head of the Iraqi govenment just days after Bush 43 put the "curse of Brownie" on the poor man by publicly telling a world-wide press conference that "...al Malaki is the right guy at the right time for Iraq...!"
 Baker and Hamilton have attached themselves to head the process of politically severing the President's and the Vice Preident's grip on the reins of power, and to remove the two of them from the chain of command in guiding both our military and US Middle East foreign Policy.
In order words, let two unelected officials take over the mess and decide what to do.
If Bush and Cheney don't have the authority to manage Foreign Policy and to direct the Defense Department, they no longer control the government they were elected to serve.
Now, with a Democratic majority in Congress, control of domestic policy is not in the White House. It has moved to Capitol Hill, where funding will be decided for priorities in the Bush will have little or no control over domestic spending for the next two years.
So now, Bush 43 has no control over the domestic budget and little or no control over State and Defense. Sure looks like a bloodless coup to us.
What's next? Just a little advice to Dick Cheney: Watch your back because we keep hearing that Senator McCain could be convinced to step in ... as Vice President.
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