"I have no recollection..." Sound familiar, anyone?

[lagilman]

And so: WASHINGTON - White House lawyers have advised President Bush's spokeswoman not to answer specific questions about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, as Congress seeks answers about the matter.

The Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog are conducting a joint inquiry into the spy agency's destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists, to determine whether a full investigation is warranted. With that review ongoing, the White House counsel's office has instructed Bush's press secretary, Dana Perino, not to get into details with reporters.

"I think that that's appropriate, and I'll adhere to it," Perino said Monday. She said her previous statement remains accurate — that Bush has no recollection of hearing about the tapes' existence or their destruction before being briefed about it last Thursday.


Yah-huh. And then there's the way the Democrats are caving (being bought) under pressure to not end the war, in order to pork their own barrels...

Can I has secession? It was a bad idea previously (Civil War, yes, and Calhoun and the Tariffs of Abomination, and so on and so on) but every now and then the idea really does need to be floated. The United States of Rational Behavior has such a lovely ring to it...

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

You can, but I worry that you might not be in my bit of California. And that would be sad.

[lagilman]

We could figure something out. I'm pretty sure Alaska wants out, too -- maybe you guys could work a left-coast deal and we can have our delegates talk to yours about, oh, the North American Rational Behavior Organization (NARBO). I'm pretty sure Canada [with the possible exception of Quebec] wiuld be all over that...

Not that I think rationalism is the saving grace (I'm more of an empiricist myself, if I must choose), but if we had a little more rational thought and a little less of this "faith-based" behavior among certain allegedly-elected officials and allegedly-educated citizens...

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

The United States of "Can't we all just be NICE to each other?"

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

this would be the same Dana Perino who didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was?

Can I has secession

you can if you're Texas. Or rather, you could. I think that loophole finally got changed 15 or 20 years back. But you could give it a go.

[lagilman]

this would be the same Dana Perino who didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was?

The same. I cry.

Those who do not know their (basic, immediate) history are doomed to look like morons. But they're so damned dumb they don't care.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

yes, so dumb that she saw nothing wrong with her lack of knowledge since she made a point of TELLING everyone she didn't know what it was.

Her conversations with W must be scintillating. The blind leading the blind

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I've been agitating for years for Maine to split off and join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia...

The Acadian Confederacy.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

The Acadian Confederacy.


Has a nice ring to it!