Friday, August 01, 2008
The new accountability standard
And Bush wondered how historians would remember him!
Someday the Bush administration will only be a miserable memory, but I'm sure his version of accountability will linger on, particularly in these tried-and-true phrases:
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Someday the Bush administration will only be a miserable memory, but I'm sure his version of accountability will linger on, particularly in these tried-and-true phrases:
"No one could have anticipated..."and these newer phrases which will prove their utility in the future:
"I'm an idiot, not a crook"
"I don't recall..."
"The previous administration did it too."
"He's suffered enough."These set a standard which politicians can achieve and journalists endorse.
"Let bygones be bygones."
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