Cabinet Takes on Gas Prices
President Bush called the members of his Cabinet to the White House Wednesday. They had a "good" meeting, he reported afterward. "We discussed the challenges facing our economy, amongst other things, and we spent time on the high gasoline prices."
Really?
The secretaries of, say Education, Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services were asked to weigh in on the price of gas? I realize that Cabinet meetings are basically a formality at this stage, but passing this one off as a substantive discussion of how to ease Americans' pain at the pump struck me as kind of funny.
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Government Executive Staff Correspondent Alyssa Rosenberg takes a look at news affecting the management and operations of the massive federal bureaucracy.
The policitcs get uglier as we approach the end of a poor administration. All of the times we gave Mr. Bush the benefit of the doubt, are now coming back to haunt us as rhetorical logic.
How could so mnay of us have been fooled for so long; was it the residual fear dynamic from 9/11 which caused us to elect this man 2 times?
We have a lot to learn form this history.
US Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:05 AM