shorterbush: administratin' is all about PR communicatin'

* PreznitBlinky speaks:

"Okay, so here's the way this works. You're the President, you say to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, "Make sure the plan gets implemented." That's called "delegation." He then turns to another guy, who happens to be a Texan named Dr. Mark McClellan. He's the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It's a long word for he's in charge of making sure people know what's available."

shorterbush: administratin' is all about the PR communicatin'

* Salon: "Bush's bogus document dump: The administration seeded its new public archive of Iraq documents with jihadist materials completely unrelated to Saddam."
who'd have thunk it?

* arkin: "The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has been conducting theater campaign analysis for a full scale war with Iran since at least May 2003, responding to Pentagon directions to prepare for potential operations in the "near term.""

* Foreign Policy has a "who will replace Rumsfeld?" post - listed are armitage, lieberman, hadley, gordon england, sean okeefe, warner.

* "You can bet that any attack on Iran would cause the vast majority of Iranians to turn their support to the very clerics BushCo wants ousted. And for the very same reason that Americans gave their support to Bush after 9/11 even though more of us had voted against him than voted for him.
So then the question is why? Why is BushCo acting directly contrary to our national security?" (link)

* howie dean on the bio mobile labs:

"Given that the President has been willing to de-classify information for political purposes, he should de-classify this report so that the American people can know if they were misled. We'll call today for de-classifying the report. I certainly hope the President or his Administration don't de-classify something else to try and discredit this report or this story before we can get to the real facts.

The onus is clearly on the President to clarify the situation surrounding this report. Was this incompetence, meaning that he did not know something that he clearly should have known, or is this instance of dishonesty where information was misused or withheld to support a political agenda."

Disclose, Blinky.