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To: TimF who wrote (394)	6/5/2005 12:48:20 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541370

There is a basic standard for results we can apply in some areas. Have we reduced federal spending? Not by any normal measure. Are we reducing our dependence on foreign oil? The import numbers say no. Is drug use going down? I don't think so but I don't follow those figures regularly. Ditto teen pregnancies, literacy rates and all kinds of things that are measurable. The standard Washington game - and I know it 'cause I did it for a long time - is to smokescreen a lack of progress with recitations of policies and programs still underway. You hear that all the time. Current administration officials bombard questioners with long lists of numbers from current programs and dodge the bottomline results. There is a famous quote from a previous State Department spokesman who had this tacked up on his wall: If you are asked a question, answer it. If you don't have an answer, talk about the facts. If you don't know the facts, talk policy. If we don't have a policy, talk process. There is ALWAYS process. Process can cover up a multitude of sins.