This Is Getting Sweet
Yahoo! News item on Bush supporters who want Rice to testify.
As you probably know, Bush seems determined to move heaven and earth to prevent Rice from doing so–under oath, in public. I won’t insult your intelligence by speculating as to why.
ETA: Salon.comNews has a story about the White House’s attempts to explain why…
“In many ways, having a guy like Clarke do this now is the White House’s worst nightmare,” said Norm Ornstein, political analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Clarke’s charges stole the momentum from the Bush campaign’s effort to put Democratic rival John Kerry on the defensive with ads suggesting he was weak on national security and the economy.”
“Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a Republican named by Bush to lead the commission, said, “I think this administration shot itself in the foot by not letting her testify in public.”
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