Former Fed Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role

“My friend,” he writes of [former Treasury secretary Paul H.] O’Neill, “soon found himself to be the odd man out; much to my disappointment, economic policymaking in the Bush administration remained firmly in the hands of the White House staff.”

He was clearly referring to the political team led by Karl Rove at the White House.

Still think Shrub is anything other than a well-heeled front man? They don't call Rove "Bush's Brain" for nuthin' ya know.

As more puppeteers and scriptwriters leave the administration, look for Bush to implode. For his whole life he's been able to call on others to save his bacon - from Daddy getting him into the reserves in Texas to Daddy's rich friends bailing him out of his failed business ventures to Daddy's rich friends paying his way into the Texas governorship and the White House.

But the good ship Bush is sinking again. With the man at the end of his power and influence, there's no good reason for anyone to start bailing.