It's All About Me
In an example of power trumps all, Face the Nation comments on this Washington Post article, Bush Balks at Criteria for FEMA Director, Signing Statement Asserts Right to Ignore Parts of New Homeland Security Law:
President Bush reserved the right to ignore key changes in Congress's overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- including a requirement to appoint someone with experience handling disasters as the agency's head -- in setting aside dozens of provisions contained in a major homeland security spending bill this week.
Besides objecting to Congress's list of qualifications for FEMA's director, the White House also claimed the right to edit or withhold reports to Congress by a watchdog agency within the Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for protecting Americans' personal privacy.
Then there's the Donald. Donald "Back Off" Rumsfeld, that is. In Rumsfeld Tells Iraq Critics to 'Back Off', the Post notes his "pugnacious defense of the Bush administration's Iraq strategy:"
With his chorus of critics expanding deeper into Republican ranks, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told detractors yesterday to pull back as U.S. and Iraqi officials grapple with the uncertainties of laying out Iraq's course.
"You ought to just back off, take a look at it, relax, understand that it's complicated, it's difficult," Rumsfeld said, appearing unusually combative as he sparred with reporters at the Pentagon. "Honorable people are working on these things together," he said, adding emphatically that "no daylight" exists between the U.S. and Iraqi sides.
Attytood provides the best summation of Rumsfeld's "mud flap:"
(Video via SilentPatriot at Crooks & Liars)
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