Editor & Publisher:
At his televised press conference today, President Bush said her personally does not believing in questioning the patriotism of those you disagree with, but did not rebuke a Republican leader in the House who this week seemed to do just that.
He started to say that no one should do this, then caught himself and simply declared that he doesn't do it.
Earlier this week, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the GOP majority leader, said of Democrats, “I wonder if they’re more interested in protecting the terrorists than protecting the American people.”
Asked at the press conference if he agree with Boehner, or if he thinks "he owes someody an apology," Bush replied, "I wouldn't have exactly put it that way, but I do believe there's a difference of attitude" between his administration and the Democrats.
He doesn't do it personally, he has flunkies who do it for him, so that's OK.
E&P gives us a bonus quote from President Nihilglot that I thought was funny:
There's no doubt in my mind we needed to make sure the Patriot Act was renewed to tear down walls that exist so that intelligence people could share information with criminal people.
Should we really be sharing information with criminal people?
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