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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (278352)	7/20/2002 8:00:24 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In Bush's own words, he admits that he and Cheney are a bunch of crooks.....If a Fella Won't Let Ya Look, He Must Be Hiding Something July 20, 2002 By Doug Pibel Back in March, George W. Bush held a brief press conference with his good friend Vicente Fox, President of Mexico. A reporter asked him to hold forth on Saddam Hussein; he happily took the opportunity to discourse on that evildoer. Among other things, he said, "And this is a man who refuses to allow us to determine whether or not he still has weapons of mass destruction, which leads me to believe he does." That's the sort of down-home, pithy logic that so many seem to find endearing. Put another way, "If a fella won't let ya look, he must be hiding something." Who could argue with that, other than, say, some bleeding-heart criminal defense attorney trying to convince the jury that his client's failure to testify shouldn't be taken as an indication of guilt? As if. Oh. Also, I guess, Dick Cheney. Who, after all, told the General Accounting Office to take a hike when it asked him to produce the records of his energy task force. "How's a guy to have good deliberations," he asked (and I do paraphrase slightly), "if people are going to be looking over his shoulder?" The GAO allowed as how, for starters, it would just like to know who Cheney met with, and not what they said. Cheney responded with the equivalent of, "What part of ‘no' don't you understand?" But that, you see, was a matter of principle. The Office of President has been gravely weakened — who might have done that weakening (for instance, a group of partisan hacks seeking to railroad a president out of office) didn't come up for discussion — and Cheney was just trying to get a little spine back in the office. Apparently, the spines of the presidency and vice-presidency are conjoined, so that Cheney's defense of principle on behalf of his actions as vice would just naturally put some calcium back in the principal office as well.