They gave up on us, just like we gave up on them:
Colin Powell, who was offered the SecState position for Clinton's second term and has been in Washington since before the Reagan administration, handed in his resignation after being made the guy to take Bush's heat for the stupid shit he's done - even though Powell saved us from certain destruction after that spy plane went down in China in 2001. His replacement can't possibly be a better choice. Yet AGAIN, Clinton was right and Bush is wrong. Get used to it.
Better yet: The chiefs of the CIA's Directorate of Operations and Director of Central Intelligence - the two heads of the agency's Clandestine Service - resigned on the same day in protest of Goss's (see bs) management of the agency.
Then again - maybe we're stupid enough to deserve it.