Dowd is not the first Bush ally to part with the administration. Former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill contributed to a book that likened the president at Cabinet meetings to a "blind man in a roomful of deaf people."
John J. Dilulio Jr., who led the White House office of faith-based initiatives, left with a shot at "Mayberry Machiavellis."
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who once led U.S. forces in Iraq, accused the administration of going to war with a "catastrophically flawed" plan.

But Dowd was a part of Bush's political inner circle, enjoying a degree of power and intimacy that made his criticism all the more unexpected -- and hurtful to those still close to the president, many of whom are Dowd's friends.

popped for your pulling headline: cry me a river!

a cry worth a pop. interesting clip yet brilliant title .. )

Brilliant marketing on his part; now that it's obvious that whoever wins in '08 will probably be of non-Bush-ist ideology (whatever that is) or bungling, he must prepare himself accordingly for a switchback. He is afterall, a political strategist!

Isn't is Geekette?