Bush and his admin are masters of the Rope-A-Dope game (and, conversely, the dems are really, really bad at it). I would suspect that the WH knew the dums would stack the panel and just conveniently looked the other way.
Vic Deakins bump...
169 posted on 04/16/2004 12:18:09 PM PDT by Poohbah
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