Memories Are Made of This

John Edwards isn’t buying it.
“I can promise you this: this president will never use Ronald Reagan as an example for change.”

Annul & A Void

Nobody knows anything, and they resent the implication that they do.

The White House now says it recorded over back up tapes for Bush Administration email . As many as five million messages the Administration once said are missing, but now claim are in limbo, may be lost. They cover interesting days in 2001-2003.

Theresa Payton, chief information officer in the White House’s office of administration “said the White House is unable to say how many, if any, e-mails are missing from its servers. This contradicts admissions from White House officials that e-mails were missing for that time frame,”the Austin American-Statesman reports.

“The White House seems to be changing its story,” said Meredith Fuchs, general counsel at the National Security Archive, which is suing over the papers. “First, the White House acknowledged missing millions of e-mails. Now, the White House says that it has undertaken “an independent effort determine if there may be anomalies” during that time period, Fuchs said.

The White House remains confident that it don’t have to give up nothin.

“There is no basis to say that the White House has destroyed any evidence or engaged in any misconduct,” said spokesman Tony Fratto.

Notice he says only that they have not destroyed “evidence.”

And now this:

Schedule Hearings Investigations Legislation Chronology Subcommittees Minority Office

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Administration Oversight

Chairman Waxman Schedules Hearing to Examine Preservation of White House E-mails

On February 15, the Committee will hold a hearing to investigate White House compliance with the Presidential Records Act. Statements made at the January 17 White House press briefing contradict information provided to the Committee, which revealed that a 2005 White House analysis found no archived mail for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005.

The following officials have been invited to testify:

• • Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President
  • Alan Swendiman, Director, Office of Administration
  • Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States

Documents and Links

• Letter to Fred Fielding (155 KB)
• Letter to Allen Weinstein (101 KB)

Reagan Quest

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. but now Rush Limbaugh is working with material generated by the Edward R. Morrow of AM TV morons, Steve Doocy.

The Dooc unleashed Newt Gingrich to bring his searching intelligence to bear on the death of Santa, or Ronald Reagan.

“DOOCY: Some comments you made over the weekend I heard replayed on Rush Limbaugh yesterday. Is it true, sir, that you think that the Ronald Reagan era is over in America?

GINGRICH: That’s just objectively a fact.“

Prompting outrage from Keeper of the Flame Rush Limbaugh, who explains that Reaganism is Leninism to his many listeners:

“Policies and ideas are two different things. Policies emanate from government. Ideas are what you take to people, and they hear and process the ideas, and then things happen, and the American people make things happen. Capitalism, the American people engaging in commerce, that’s the single greatest agent of change in this country, not what happens in Washington. Well, they can change things, but it’s not great.…The era, the Reagan era, is not over because conservatism is not over. If the Reagan coalition is dead, what replaced it? Somebody tell me that. Nothing has replaced it and that’s why so many people are scratching their heads, why so many people are a little nervous because there isn’t any real leadership out there that causes people, inspires people to get behind it, go rah-rah, and make certain things happen. That’s what’s missing. Reaganism is leadership. Reaganism is conservatism. It’s not a personality cult.”

In short:

Vanguard brings enlightenment to the masses, who incorporate it into their daily practice. And while exemplary revolutionary personalities are necessary to advance, it is not a personality cult.

“Bush was stress-free, akin to being on an exotic vacation, and it was good seeing him unperturbed given that Americans witness his frequent anger and confusion in the tense Washington environment.”

GULF NEWS

Entry Level

The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “You Too Can Design the Bush Library” contest may be starved for entry’s.

The current issue reminds readers of the February 1 deadline, while seeking to reassure “reluctant” actual architects who they speculate don’t want to be associate with potential nut-ball visitors