'Gates' advent is another example of Bush I bailing out W'

Speaking yesterday on his show Hardball, Chris Matthews came up with a beauty of a spin on the naming of Robert Gates, an old crony of Bush I, to head the Pentagon. Speaking of Bush II, he said:

Here's a guy who tried to make it on his own, as a young kid out of college, after going to Harvard business school and Yale College. And he was trying to make it as a wildcatter, and he didn't make it. A lot of dusters, no money. Then he was taken in by the establishment in Texas. They gave him a baseball team and then they let him sell it and make 17 million dollars, or whatever.

Here [in Iraq] again he was out there as a wildcatter, politically, as President of the United States, trying to do it his way. {But] the Iraq war, it is a duster. There is no oil coming out of that war. Along comes the establishment, Bob Gates from Texas A&M, the old man's buddy. Jim Baker comes along, the old man's partner, to bail out the kid because he went out there on his own as a wildcatter and it ain't working. Tell me if I'm wrong.

Good one, huh? (A "duster," of course, is a dry hole in the ground where you expected to strike oil but never did.)

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