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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

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Against it before... you know

Glenn Greenwald:
So, in June, 2002, the Administration refused to support elimination of the very barrier ("probable cause") which Gen. Hayden claimed yesterday necessitated the circumvention of FISA. In doing so, the Administration identified two independent reasons for opposing this amendment. One reason was that the Justice Department was not aware of any problems which the Administration was having in getting the warrants it needed under FISA...

The Bush White House better get their talking points down soon, or the whole country is going to start to see them as untrustworthy, and not just the close to 60% that already do.

The first poll is one that I missed completely. It suggests that a plurality of the country has pretty much given up on the Bush presidency as a whole.