For those who didn't see the Maureen Dowd article on hearings

[napi21]

here it is. This coupled with the Newsweek front page and Eleanor Clift article should give our boys at the WH cause for Prozac!

Charlie McCarthy Hearings
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: April 1, 2004

Columnist Page: Maureen Dowd
Re: Testimony of President George Bush & Richard Cheny bofore the Committee:

While we continue to hold to the principles underlying the Constitutional separation of powers, that the appropriate and patriotic action for the Commission is to shut down and stop pestering us, the President is prepared, in the interest of comity and popularity, to testify, subject to the conditions set forth below.

The President at all times, even on trips to the men's room, will be accompanied by the Vice President.

The Commission must agree in writing that it will not pose any questions directly to the President. Mr. Bush's statements will be restricted to asides on Dick Cheney's brushoffs, as in "Just like he said," "Roger that" and "Ditto."

Another necessary condition, in keeping with the tenets of executive privilege: Mr. Cheney will require that the Commission observe the rules of his favorite show from the Eisenhower Administration, "What's My Line?" The panelists, in the manner of Dorothy Kilgallen and Bennett Cerf, must try to guess what the President and Vice President didn't know and when they didn't know it through questions that elicit a "yes" or "no."

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[libbygurl]

1. Prozac? Not cyanide?

[napi21]

2. Mp not cyanide. I want to watch them squirm! n/t

[nostamj]

3. illustrated!

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[gristy]

4. You need to cut this down to 3-4 paragraphs and give the link

Copyright rules, you know.

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