I've been off the grid for a couple of days and I am several news cycles behind, but I'm still ticked at Tony Snow trying to justify the President's non-offer of testimony in the US Attorney for kerfuffle. We are given to understand that the administration is defending a principle of great structural, perhaps even Constitutional, importance here. And besides, says Tony Snow, the administration's non-offer was "generous."
Yo Tony! You can't have it both ways here. If this is a matter of principle, then your offer isn't "generous," it is a betrayal. Principles are things you do not give away. "Generous" is something for the Sun King. Or perhaps that is the framework you had in mind?
[Afterthought: It's probably not too early for an analysis of styles of lying in Presidential press secretaries. Ari Fleischer seemed to do it in the lonely practice of his craft, for the sheer aesthetic pleasure of it all. Scott McClellan realy wasn't very good at it, just possibly because he didn't really like to do it--a fatal disability in a press secretary. Tony Snow does it with a kind of brio that we haven't seen in quite a while. At the thought of what his job entails, he must wake up happy every day.]
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