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To: Dale Baker who wrote (35848)3/28/2007 4:07:32 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 541880
 
The truly astonishing thing about the latest scandals besetting the Bush administration is that they stem from actions the administration took after the November elections, when Democratic control of Congress was a fait accompli.

That troubles and fascinates me as well. I've read many of them as attempts to prepare themselves for aggressive congressional oversight. But several, at the same time, appear to be done as if no oversight would occur. And they could act as they've done for the past six years or so.

The latter goes to the incompetence argument.



To: Dale Baker who wrote (35848)3/29/2007 11:04:18 AM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541880
 
...the alternative reality conveyed by the Republican media -- Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk -- has created a Republican activist base that is genuinely not reality-based, and from which the current generation of Republican pols is disproportionately drawn.

The Mighty Wurlitzer has become a boomerang, headed back toward its creators.