Bush has never changed his inner circle, just the outer circle.  Dicky, Rummy, Condi, Karl, and Alberto will never leave.  Condi replaced Colin Powell.  Alberto replaced Ashcroft.  McClellan was actually Bush's boy in Texas.  Rove won't change.  He has systematically run this country into the ground. 

It reminds me of what I read recently about Mugabe in Zimbabwe.  In a country where the average life-span is about 40, the sadistic ruler of the country has lived to 82.  He will never go away either.  He'll be 100 and still ordering his opponents murdered.  Well, Rove, Rummy, Dicky, Bush, or Condi.  They are here until we remove them.  There is no justice. 

Maybe one day, SOMEBODY will dig into the horrible things that have done by this Administration.  Maybe when the oil companies start to fall apart and the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress, some of these folks will go to jail for all the bad things they have done in secret.  Maybe not.  Maybe the ulta-conservative Supreme Court will save their ass.  All the liberals on the court are in their 70's, but Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts are all young, and will be around for 20-30 more years at least.  It will funny when that branch of government has been rendered obselete because the judges will have fallen YEARS behind the times.  They'll still be considering evolution when we have the first gay president.

I've read that Bush has been fed up with his staff for a while. This is because they keep asking him to change his mind about things, such as nuking countries, and other wild ideas he entertains. This actually could mean he is bringing in people who are more amenable to his ideas and who won't question him.

As far as Rove is concerned, he will probably be monitoring our phone conversations and e-mails to help the Republicans win the election. Or maybe he is overseeing the efforts to pre-program the voting machines.

I know it is seen as "just gossip," but the man is drinking again.

Can I ask how you heard about this? This is an ongoing topic between a friend and I. We both are familiar with the signs and have studied the subject extensively because we both grew up in families where a parent was an alcoholic. We both know that once you disagree with an alcoholic you are toast. Could that be what's going on with the Bush staff?

members that were alcoholics as well.  Bush is the classis definition of a dry drunk, or someone who never got the treatment they needed for their debillitating disease.  Also, and of course this is just by googling, there are lots of suspicious reports from unidentified staffers in regards to all of his little accidents he has had, like the one where the bike won, and the pretzel won, and his couch and floor won...

Cheney is getting hammered and shooting people in the face after he is driven to a spot where birds let out of cages have to contend with his drunk anger, the Bush twins can't keep it together EVER (btw...did anyone see them when they were in Richmond?), it looks like Laura is addicted to botox, Scotty ate too many doughnuts which is part of the reason he got canned, Rove can't stop hanging out with Satan...it's a mess.

Now I need a beer.  :)

I think this is much more akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Bushism, Conservatims and the Republican majority are going down.

Speaking of the Titanic: Here's something fun on that count.
hattip to waldo.