What Reshuffle

The Republicans are glowing about yesterday’s announced White House changes, claiming this is what they have been urging the White House to do in order to shore up the sinking ship. But this just looks like more of the same. Their pattern is to use talking points to hide poor decisions (Iraq is really going well) or to make policy seem to be something other than what it really is (Clean Skies legislation will improve the environment.) As of noon today, George W. Bush is still President, Dick Cheney is still Vice President, Don Rumsfeld is still Secretary of Defense, Condoleezza Rice is still Secretary of State, and Karl Rove is still in the White House playing a key role. The new Chief of Staff moved all the way across the street from the Executive Office Building to the West Wing. Pardon the French allusion but the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or if you prefer – here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.