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I meant to hit this story yesterday. It also exemplifies the problems I’ve posted about in the past when it comes to MSNBC.

Markos and Joe Scarborough got into a little Twitter back and forth a couple of months ago:

JoeNBC: The Sestak story is as unbelievable a cover story as Nixon throwing little Checkers under the bus. A farce on it's face. Luckily for the White House, the media has been negligent on this story since Day 1. The press will let this laughable story slide.

markos: Like story of a certain dead intern. RT @JoeNBC: Luckily for the White House, the media has been negligent on this story since Day 1.

Markos: But if you want to talk about bullshit "scandals", @JoeNBC, there's this one about Joe Sestak and the White House you might've heard of.

JoeNBC: @markos Unbelievable. You have a long history of spreading lies suggesting I am a murderer. This is the 3rd or 4th time by my count.

Markos: @JoeNBC, I've never suggested you're a murderer. I've noted media hypocrisy in going after Gary Condit. But he was Dem. You aren't.

JoeNBC: Anyone in media who interviews @markos, know that you're extending your credibility to someone who regularly suggests that I'm a murderer.

Markos: A bit touchy, @JoeNBC? Links for where I accuse you of being a murderer please.

Joe Scarborough, a person of such thin skin that he will block anyone that disagrees with him on Twitter, didn’t like that. Like a child being picked on in school, Joe ran and told the teacher principal, or in this case, the president of MSNBC. That resulted in this email being sent to Markos:

Markos,

Let the spin begin!

Bob points out that on FOX, John McCain countered by touting his endorsement of Alexander Haig. Yeah - the same Haig that was Nixon's chief of staff during his final days before resigning.

Funny how Bush always says that the historian's will judge him in the future and they will judge him as being a great leader and visionary. What makes it so funny is the fact that during his first year in office (two months after 9/11) he issued an executive order protecting Presidential records:

Overturning the Bush Executive Order. Under the Presidential Records Act, presidential records are supposed to be released to historians and the public 12 years after the end of a presidential administration. In November 2001, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233 which overturned an executive order issued by President Reagan and gave current and former presidents and vice presidents broad authority to withhold presidential records or delay their release indefinitely. The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 would nullify the Bush executive order and establish procedures to ensure the timely release of presidential records.

Transparency in government -eh? Looks like the Democrats are trying to get rid of that protection Bush has put in. Yesterday the amendments passed 333-93 in the House. During the debate yesterday Henry Waxman gave a great reason why this bill is so important:

What is interesting about this is that one other President tried to stop these records from being released. That President was Nixon. Pretty interesting coincidence there.

 Now the question remains if Bush will sign this into law or issue a signing statement saying that he doesn't have to follow it. We learn from our past - a concept Bush doesn't understand.

The evidence of Abramoff and Bush together is
being scrubbed.

Bush is sounding alot more like

Nixon now.

David Gregory won't back down even when he is questioning the President
himself.

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Former NSA Director Hayden
apparently lied
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Bush has accepted full responsibility for the governments failed response in
the days immediately following Katrina's land fall. "To the extent the federal
government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said in a
joint press conference with Iraq's President this after noon.

Bush did reaffirm his desire to find out "what went right and what went
wrong".

This is actually kind of a shocking position for the President to take. His
typical arrogance seems to be going by the way side as he faces the lowest
approval rating in his career, hovering just above Nixon's approval at the time
he resigned.

This should make for a more interesting speech tonight as he takes this
responsibility in front of the nation. Myself, I am not to optimistic that it is
a much needed turn around into the way Bush is running the country. I think this
is more of a public relations "necessity" being initiated by his declining
approval rating and growing questions over the disaster.

The President this week said he would fire anyone in his
administration that broke the law. Prior to that he said he would fire anyone
involved in the leaking of classified information. He also said he has
instructed everyone in his staff to fully cooperate with investigators.

Bloomberg News reported yesterday that the investigation may now be focusing
not only on the leak but also perjury and obstruction of justice. Both Karl Rove
and Scooter Libby have given testimony that doesn’t coincide with the testimony
of reporters. The

Washington Post and

LA Times both have stories further going into this that will hit the news
stands Saturday morning.

Now since it appears that White House staff may not be
cooperating with investigators will that mean the President will discipline
them? I think we all know the answer to this already. “We are in the middle of
an ongoing investigation and will not prejudge.” This is sure to give Scott
McLellan another round of journalistic punches this week.

In 2000 we heard about a Republican from Texas who was
going to restore honor and dignity to the White House. Further more, this
candidate was also going to restore accountability to our government. He was
partly right. He did return something to the White House. He returned scandal
and controversy that now rivals the Nixon era.