Newsweek: A ‘Reasonable’ Man
Writing by Marq on Wednesday, 21 of March , 2007 at 10:21 am
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Richard Wolffe and Holly Baile of NewsWeek do a great job at looking at the facts behind the AG scandle and the very odd speech given by the "President" Tuesday.
I really want everyone to go and read the whole thing, but I want to point out this paragraph
Reasonable, right? It almost sounded convincing. But wait! Who was it that had provided those confusing and incomplete explanations in the first place? Hadn't it been … the president and the attorney general? And hadn't previous administrations agreed to let key aides testify before Congress under oath? Meaning, the level of cooperation was perhaps slightly less "extraordinary" than the president presumed. But perhaps the most interesting, um, irony in the president's press conference was his approach to Democrats on Capitol Hill. They'd better not launch off on a partisan fishing expedition, Bush warned. They'd better not "waste time" investigating the firings, or "promote confrontation." There were too many important issues to address. But the firings themselves smack of a partisan fishing expedition in the eyes of the president's critics. After all, one of the criteria in weighing who got canned was whether prosecutors were "loyal Bushies," as Gonzales's former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, wrote in one telling e-mail. And arguably, the firings themselves were what was distracting Congress and the country from more vital matters at hand. In other words, Bush seemed to be saying, it's fine for me to play politics. But it's not OK for the Democrats to do it.
It was not the first time a little inconsistency crept into the White House's efforts to control the damage over the Justice Department firings. In fact, things have been a bit wobbly ever since the story broke.
Oh, and they are right, so far everytime Bush opens his mouth more reasons to dig deeper fall out. He spent 15 mins telling the Dems not to push, or he will turn this into a political thing, yet that is the very reason these AG's were fired.
Also, what of the missing documents George, if we are to trust you, and we do not, nothing happened in the White House from November 15th to December 4th, because all of the documents from that time period are missing. The firings took place on Dec 7th, it sure did get quite in the weeks leading up to this, or, and I think I am right, you "Forgot" to put them in the dump, reason?
This is all real simple, if everything was so above the board, why the secrets? Sunlight is the best way to see the truth, and unless you are a liar, you should not fear the sun. I am sure that nothing would make your case more clear, and show the American people that you did nothing wrong by putting it ALL out there, and allowed those involved to be sworn to tell the truth… But you are not allowing that and begs the question, what do you have to hide?
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