Not Your Sweetie

__The Myth of Bush Competence

It has almost become an article of faith that this administration is somehow more
"professional", or "grown up" than the last one. But the facts show differently. Jeffrey J.
Mariotte writes, "In its annual year-end issue, TIME Magazine labeled the Bush/Cheney team
'Partnership of the Year.' The article gives a glowing review of the value Dick Cheney brings to
the White House, painting virtually every move the administration makes as carefully
choreographed for maximum effect. The truth, though, seems to be that the Bush
administration is stumbling from one crisis to another, and that the only thing that it has
successfully accomplished is manipulation of the media to give it this aura of accomplishment."