Why the president may be in total retreat after a week of bad news

[NVMojo]

oday: October 30, 2005 at 8:48:30 PST

Where I Stand -- Brian Greenspun: Why the president may be in total retreat after a week of bad news
Brian Greenspun is editor of the Las Vegas Sun. His column appears on Sunday and on occasion during the week.

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This was a very bad week for the White House.

I don't care how you score this one, you can't have a Supreme Court nominee being chased from the high court by the president's own political party before she ever gets a hearing, to be followed by a criminal indictment of a presidential assistant and Vice President Dick Cheney's right-hand man for obstruction of justice and lying to a grand jury, and not come to the conclusion that you have lived through a real-life nightmare.

I don't know what everyone else was doing Friday morning -- I suspect they were working -- but the press conference given by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was an outstanding example of what the criminal justice system in this country is supposed to be about.

Rather than the "leaking-like-a-sieve" investigation by the now infamous Ken Starr during the dark days of the Clinton administration, the absolutely no-leak conduct of the investigation into who played God with this country's national security conducted by Fitzgerald is the kind of story that needs to be told and retold in every classroom in America.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2005/oct/30/519585120.html

[Gman]

1. Total Retreat = Crawl inside a bottle of Jack Daniels

and tell the world to go fuck itself (again).

[elfin]

2. Nah - he will be out and about however lamely

and the press will eat it up.

[hwmnbn]

3. Fitz has more fans after his press conference....

"...the absolutely no-leak conduct of the investigation into who played God with this country's national security conducted by Fitzgerald is the kind of story that needs to be told and retold in every classroom in America."

That is a great article.

[NVMojo]

5. i thought so too!

[eleny]

4. nominated