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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Monday, July 18, 2005

Parsing words

What does Bush say now?
President Bush said Monday that if anyone in his administration committed a crime in connection with the public leak of the identity of a CIA operative, that person will "no longer work in my administration."

Then?
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

Since it seems it may prove difficult to convict Karl Rove of outing Valerie Plame, Bush is no hedging his bets.

Of course if anyone was convicted of a crime in his administration they'd be gone. The public would most certainly demand it.

But outing someone for partisan gain? Well, that's okay with Bush.

I guess "taken care of" meant promote to a senior official.