I love Dana Milbank

Be sure to read Dana Milbank's beautiful column today on potential legal violations by President Bush - flag desecration (for signing a flag, in violation of Federal statutes forbidding the "marking" of a flag) and misappropriation of the official White House website for political purposes (or, worse, a possible violation of anti-bribery statutes, if the White House tries to claim that speeches given at fundraisers are "official" activities and not political ones).

Speaking of Bush and websites, Milbank points out the changing of the headlines on articles at the official White House website about Bush's declaration on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May, and notes that on the "compassion" photo gallery of the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign site, Bush is photographed mainly with minorities, yet in some of the other galleries on the site, he's photographed mainly with whites. Bush may not be totally colourblind, but I'd have to say he's rather tone-deaf.

Milbank also discusses how Bush is trying to get over the minor flap he caused by calling his wife "the lump in bed next to me", though I suppose it's good to know that Laura Bush has found the key to making a marriage stronger.

In an interview for the October Ladies' Home Journal, the two described their marriage as stronger than before their ascent to the White House. "All the things that might've irritated me, like not hanging up his towels, I don't have to worry about anymore," Laura Bush said. "Someone in the White House hangs up the towels."

Milbank has written some of the best articles that call Bush's actions and policies into question, and it's fun to see so many bits of true Presidential crap in one place, but, Dana? Think you can get anything more on the really big stuff, too? We need someone who's willing to look past the image Bush and most of the rest of the media have tried to cultivate, and I think you might just be the right person for the job!

Posted by thorswitch at August 26, 2003 07:05 PM | TrackBack