So if someone is going to jail, then Bush won't let them work from there?

[Lex]

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John Aravosis over at AmericaBlob untangles the simple genius of Bush's statement today:

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"So when Bush said today that "If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," what he really said was that if someone in his administration is sent to jail he won't let them tele-commute to the West Wing.

Seriously, think about what he said today. It was absolutely meaningless, yet brilliant in its deceptiveness. If someone in my administration is sent to jail I won't keep them on the federal payroll. Well bully for you, big boy. I can see why they call you "commander in chief." No decision, however difficult, stumps you.

Tomorrow Bush might even tell us that if someone on his staff dies, they will no longer work in his administration."

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/open-thread-and-thought.html

[mike_c]

1. nah....

"Tomorrow Bush might even tell us that if someone on his staff dies, they will no longer work in his administration."

They'll just transfer the payroll account to a Haliburton discretionary fund....

[wli]

2. if they're executed for treason, he won't sign their paychecks

Captain Obvious strikes again. How long do we have to wait to impeach this subhumanly incompetent Hitler wannabe?

[cobaindrain]

3. Karl Rove will be working for somebody else....

...and it won't be pretty.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Pardon?

[MajorFlaw]

5. It appears that the shrub is really saying that he isn't gonna fire one

of his friends until they are actually convicted of a crime. Interesting ethical posture.

[kestrel91316]

8. He said it. You got it right. Exactly.

[LoZoccolo]

6. The conservatives have all these think-tanks which do stuff for them.

Like the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Project for a New American Century...Rove could just work for one of those to get paid, and continue to advise were he to be fired.

[TahitiNut]

7. I wish all American workers had that kind of job security!

It seems the only unemployment that concerns Chimpy right now is Rove's.

[Dr.Phool]

9. By this line of reasoning

Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen would be able to keep their jobs at the CIA and FBI, respectively, until they were tried, convicted, and all their appeals exhausted.

[Dragonfli]

10. He doesn't let them work from home either!

The bastard! He don't trust none of those lectronics tied to the internests. It's not fair I tell ya!
Rove did his best leaking... I Mean Work, from home it's about time Shrubby loosened up a little on his peeps.

[ladjf]

11. What a classy guy!