[Registered]

Looks like Rush and his media machine pressured the Administration to state that the report THEY created is bunk.

[Dog]

Looks like Rush and his media machine pressured the Administration to state that the report THEY created is bunk.

Reg you kidding???

[rintense]

Disagree. Looks like NBC's playing of Rush calling the President 'George W Al Gore' had more of an affect on Rush than the report did on the President.

[Dog Gone]

There is some tendency for us to believe that when the Administration changes, everyone in all the agencies change, too. It's not true, of course, and we subconciously know that, but it's still a trap.

Most of the people in the EPA are career employees, who are there because they love government involvement in the environment.

The bias and bureaucracy of that agency is always going to be leftist.

At most, this was a failure at the top to stop the issuance of a report that would be so misconstrued by the media. But we shouldn't be surprised at all that the agency attempts to issue leftist positions.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Actually the report was a creation of the continued Democrat beauracracy, not just holdovers but the career civil-service leftists. Bush's fault was not stopping it or changing it sufficiently. Clearly the administration dropped the ball, this will be remembered as one of the uglier moments of the 8 Bush years, the administration's "ketchup is a vegetable" incident.

To me what is important is that the administration recognize and address the holes in control and the mixed messaging. The incident WILL be used against us this year. And I'm not too down on Rush. He was only doing his job, addressing myths and errors. And letting this report out without sufficient editing WAS an error. IMHO Rush did overreact, which didn't help any. But bottom line a problem is being corrected, and hopefully lessons learned.

Of course now the pressure is back on the Chicken Littles to find another excuse to flee the party.