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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (503986)	12/5/2003 8:42:05 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

Kenneth, This bribe offer was the topic of the first half hour of the Washington Journal on C-SPAN. The Republican callers came up with a myriad of clever excuses why this was no big deal. Some of the Democrats were actually clued in. Newt Gingrich then got on and did a masterful job of describing what his associate at AEI, Norm Ornstein described as a really seedy operation. Gingrich is so full of hot air it is astonish he doesn't just float away. He utterly spun his wheels on his bombast about how this was just bidness as usual. Utterly disregarding that never in the history of the U.S. has a House vote been allowed to remain open for 180 minutes on a 15 minute vote. Never in the history of the House has a Cabinet Secretary been allowed on in the chamber during deliberations. Gingrich would have been perfectly comfortable in Hitler's Bundesrat or Stalin's Duma.