Dan are you familiar with how decision are made in large companies? (Simplified version) The board makes it recommendation and the CEO rubber stamps it. It works the same way in the White house and it always has. Sorry but your superman GW is not smart enough to do it alone. Hell he had to pay someone off to get into Yale and has had to have people bail him out his whole business life!
So the original remark
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The cabinet IS the president! Dubya is the face not the brains.
was a statement of fact not an attempt to rile unlike that last part about Dubya being dumb! 
