"Where's the President?"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/


Washington Post White House Briefing -- Dan Froomkin

As the national security adviser nicknamed the "Warrior Princess" by her staff marches onto the field of battle this morning to defend the administration -- all alone, in public, under oath -- there is a growing focus on President Bush's willingness only to face the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in private, unrecorded and with Vice President Cheney at his side.

Here's CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider on Tuesday: "The question that's emerging out of all this is simple: Why does the president of the United States have to appear jointly with the vice president of the United States? I mean, can you imagine Clinton and Gore testifying before such a commission or the first George Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle? Why do they have to appear together?

"It's raising some damaging questions about whether or not George Bush knows enough to testify on his own or whether he's dependent on Vice President Cheney."

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Froomkin goes on with MANY more snippets of various pundits' take on this Bush-Cheney hand-holding testimony, then gets into the question of why he is vacationing while things are so bad in Iraq.

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Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse write in the New York Times: "As scenes of violence in Iraq flashed across television screens, Mr. Bush was mostly out of sight, on his ranch in Crawford, Tex., even as some of his conservative supporters began expressing concern that Mr. Bush's Iraq policy could diminish his re-election prospects."

He's on the Ranch

Scott Lindlaw of the Associated Press reports that Bush will be "leading a tour of his ranch for hunting, fishing and land-conservation advocates" today, and might not even watch Rice on TV.

"Aides said Bush had given no indication of planning to watch the testimony Thursday live on television. Rather, Bush intended to receive updates from his top advisers, a senior administration official said. Bush was attending his usual national-security meetings in the morning."

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[seabeyond]

1. even more sad

all the time they have had to give bush the information, i mean if he doesnt have the info that cheney has to go in. they have enough time to prep him, feed him, teach him the names dates and times lines and what to say

the really sad thing, they have concluded that he isnt brain capable of even learning with this time, they would rather humiliate and embarrass themselves with cheney walking in with bushie boy, now huge grin and lmao

[MO_Dem]

2. I heard on tv

that Duh?bya called Condi from his pickup truck to congratulate her on her testimony. So, I guess he's down there playing in his pickup truck--I can just see him sitting there playing with the radio, turning the windshield wipers on and off, on and off, flashing the lights, jerking the steering wheel back and forth, and making noises like an engine--like a little kid would do.

[xchrom]

3. thanks for that image

it's one i'll carry around in my head.
duh prez.