Of COURSE he will...! Denying and defying IS the strategy...!

once again, context-free journalism rises to an art-form under the expert hands of the wapo...

White House Will Deny New Request In Attorneys Probe
Bush to Defy Congress, Sources Say

The White House has decided to defy Congress's latest demand for information regarding the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, sources familiar with the decision said yesterday. Such an action would escalate the constitutional struggle and propel it closer to a court showdown.

Senate and House committees have directed President Bush to provide by tomorrow a detailed justification of his executive privilege claims and a full accounting of the documents he is withholding. But White House counsel Fred F. Fielding plans to tell lawmakers that he has already provided the legal basis for the claims and will not provide a log of the documents, the sources said.

The standoff suggests that neither side is prepared to budge in the fight over documents and testimony in the widening U.S. attorney investigation. Officials in both camps said no serious negotiations are taking place to resolve the dispute. Fielding plans to follow up his letter by further asserting executive privilege later this week, the sources said, directing former White House aides Harriet E. Miers and Sara M. Taylor not to testify in response to congressional subpoenas.

i wish to hell everybody would stop pretending the white house is doing anything other than what they said they would do... back in october, even before the november elections (as i've pointed out again and again and again), the white house told us what they were going to do (*see below), and they're doing it, just exactly like they told us they would... they also said that we would remain in iraq forever, and we're doing that too... let's stop dicking around with these stupid games, putting out headlines and sub-heads like it's some goddam surprise, breathlessly announcing "White House to Deny," "Bush to Defy..." how about something like this instead...?

Bush sticks to October Plan

or

White House No-Compromise Strategy Rolls On

why pretend that there's anything the white house or president bush would even CONSIDER doing besides denying and defying...? stick it in our faces - which is exactly where it belongs - that this administration's bottom-line strategy for avoiding oversight and accountability IS denying and defying, and that we've had six and one-half friggin' years of it...

* from time magazine, october 2006...

"In fact, when it comes to deploying its Executive power, which is dear to Bush's understanding of the presidency, the President's team has been planning for what one strategist describes as 'a cataclysmic fight to the death' over the balance between Congress and the White House if confronted with congressional subpoenas it deems inappropriate. The strategist says the Bush team is 'going to assert that power, and they're going to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court on every issue, every time, no compromise, no discussion, no negotiation.'"

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