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Old May 9th, 2006, 12:19 PM        Hayden nomination: Brilliant or stupid?
I think it's given that nominating hayden to head the CIA is a deliberate, plitical strategy.

The question is, do you think it's a good strategy that will help W and company in the lead up to the November elections, or do you think it's a strategic error?

They are gambling that the public is okay with warrantless wiretapping, or 'terrorist surveilance' as they prefer to call it, and that talking about it makes the Democrats look weak.

I think they are embarking on a HUGE ass mistake. A number of Repubicans don't want to bck him beause he's part of the Negroponte powr block. Specter thinks this is an opportunity to force discussion of the NSA wiretaps, which he thinks (I'm guessing) are a threat to congress. So W doesn't even have the solid backing of his own people. Any chance of painting dems as weak on terrorism if they attack Hayden is going to stick to Republicans as well.

I think the lock step bunker mentality that served this administration so well for so long has entered a phase so crazy they honestly don't know when they are walking into another karen Hughes moment.
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