A daddy blog.

10 February 2006

In a profile of Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, you find a lot of things you’d expect in a profile of the Bush administration--1) he started out in marketing position, and from there moved to policy 2) he talks like podium-Bush talks 3) Bush’s hiring interview with him lasted all of a few sentences; and 4) he’s an Evangelical who argues that no one from the New York Times is familiar with Sermon the Mount.


But more universally, he's got the Peggy Noonan blues:
Gerson said that he finds backing for his altruistic concerns throughout the Administration—he named Josh Bolten and Karl Rove as allies. Privately, though, he has told friends that he occasionally feels that Bush is his only ally.

If it were true, that would be enough, right?


Ya wonder if there aren’t hundreds of speechwriters who feel his pain: think of Safire and Noonan and Buchanan (for some reason, I can't think of any Dems) and all their reminiscience about the big and noble ideas the boss *really* believed in. If only the hands of the most powerful man in the world weren't tied by others.