Bush The Fingers Of Blame
Even as the First Couple declined to go public and point the finger of blame, the rest of the Bush administration was doing little else. Cabinet secretaries attacked Bush’s manipulative budget chief Richard Darman, nicknaming him “Dick Dahmer, the man who cannibalized the Bush presidency.” Vice President Dan Quayle publicly blasted the campaign staff (translation: chairman Robert Teeter) for never developing a campaign strategy. Jim Pinkerton, a former White House staffer who spent years peppering officials with new ways to address social problems only to be ignored, blasted his colleagues for being intellectually “bankrupt....