Right wing columnist complains about Bush secrecy

[NewJeffCT]

William Safire of the NY Times...

When George W. Bush was running for president, he was inspiring on the subject of privacy. But it was not your privacy or mine he was talking about. He has gone all out to keep his administration's energy-legislation deliberations from public scrutiny.

Cast your mind back to the White House task force, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, that came up with the stalled Bush oil policy. Democrats complained that it met frequently with Enron and other energy executives but blew off environmental lobbyists. Bush and Cheney, sensitive to charges of being too close to the oil industry, clammed up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/17/opinion/17SAFI.html?th

[Loonman]

1. Safire! Say it isn't so!

To bad it's in the lying rag, NYT.

[exgop]

2. sauce for the Bushies?

What is sauce for the Clintons is sauce for the Bushies.

Wow. Where did that sudden burst of intellectual integrity come from? Couldn't be Safliar.

And 'Bushies'? Must be an imposter.

[sistersofmercy]

3. I think help no matter where it comes from is good, especially since

I'd love to the Cheney energy papers open to the public. I think if a hard fight is won to get the papers exposed, the election just might be a cake walk next year.

[Killarney]

4. Glad to see this

This week's US News & World Report also has an article on Bush's secrecy and how he takes it too far. It's great to have this info out there for the swing voters to read. Their rights are being squandered by the President!