Woodward
describes “an administrative coup d’etat” and a “nervous
breakdown” of the executive branch, with senior aides conspiring to
pluck official papers from the president’s desk so he couldn’t
see or sign them.
How long, O GOP?
Can you “stand by your man” forever?
How long will you
ignore basic decency?
How long must we
bear this incumbrancy,
this exultation of
lack of morality?
How long can you
ignore rationality?
Consider and
answer, Grand Old Party,
party of Lincoln
and Teddy,
this president who
you support, if waveringly,
this new Æthelred the Unready.
And though we
trust you to lower taxes,
it is increasingly
clear that other factors
could be more
important.
An electoral
portent?