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by the way, I got a kick out of your post earlier this morning:
Bushbot: anyone who can't come up with six new reasons to hate President Bush by noon each day.
Real Conservative: those who can.
True Conservative: the eight people who can AND who bought pat buchanan's last book.
ROFL
This is exactly why the Bush administration deserves far more credit on this issue than anyone seems to realize. The notion that a chief executive would allow his administration to follow the letter of the law in a case like this -- regardless of how strong the bipartisan opposition (based almost entirely on ignorance, I might add) is -- is actually quite refreshing to me.