Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Start Over? 
Those boho scenesters at the Storefront for Art and Architecture are aiming high. The Chronicle of Higher Education may have their back ‘o the envelope Bush Presidential Library contest; the Storefront is re-doing the White House.
Your submissions for replacing the old dear 
with a “Presidential Palace of the future” may be offered starting March 1st. The contest closes April 20th, with winners to be announced in May. Cash money prizes!
How its done in Kosova 
It’s Like Old Times! 
We’ve reached that glorious stage in the White House email scandal where the Bush Administration is denying that which it previously affirmed, leading their opponents to dump the ugly details on the record.
Tiny Terror Henry Waxman hasn’t yet released the text of the 2005 White House document finding 473 whole days worth of emails are gone, along with many suspiciously “light” days. But he’s put out enough to make the Administration look clumsy at best. One of the parties suing the White House over the emails has upped the estimate of the lost to ten million.
Try and follow the ball with White House mouthpiece Tony Fratto:
“Q Tony, on the subject, could you address the missing White House emails and the law suit? It is a subject of reports this morning. Are there in fact the emails missing? What’s the likelihood of their recovery versus the —
MR. FRATTO: I think our review of this, and you saw the court filing on this, and our declaration in response to the judge’s questions — I think to the best of what all the analysis we’ve been able to do, we have absolutely no reason to believe that any emails are missing; there’s no evidence of that. There’s no — we tried to reconstruct some of the work that went into a chart that was entered into court records and could not replicate that or could not authenticate the correctness of the data in that chart. And from everything that we can tell, our analysis of our backup systems, we have no reason to believe that any email at all are missing.
Q So where are they? MR. FRATTO: Where are what? Q Where are part of --MR. FRATTO: Which email? Look, no one will tell you categorically about any system — any system, whether it’s your system at Bloomberg or our system here at the White House, past and present, categorically that data cannot be missing. All of our review of it and all of the our understanding of the way that the backup system works, it’s a backup system that captures existing data, it captures things that are stored and archived. We have no reason to believe that there’s any data missing at all — and we’ve certainly found no evidence of any data missing.
Q So that would mean that if you were asked, you would be in a position to comply with a request to produce those documents?
MR. FRATTO: Yes, which documents? I mean, if someone has a specific request for documents and they would like us to search for particular emails, of course we could search for emails — and we have. And we have been responsive to requests in the past.
Q And they have been produced? They do exist?
MR. FRATTO: We have produced emails upon request, either for our own internal review or sometimes in response to investigations that have taken place on the Hill. I mean, we have been able to go back and find email. The question is, have we been able to find a large mass of missing email? No, we have not located somewhere in the system the absence of something. We have not been able to note the absence of anything in our databases.*
Q You’re saying they’re there, you just haven’t located them yet?
MR. FRATTO: No, I’m saying we have no evidence that shows that anything at all is missing. And you’re saying, well, have you found the missing emails — and we say we have no evidence that anything is missing.
Q So you’re saying that would include emails that were erased from the Republican National Committee system that was used by some White House officials?
MR. FRATTO: I can’t speak to the RNC’s system of archiving and storing email. All I can tell you is that the email on the White House computers, we have no reason to believe that any email or other data are missing.
Olivier.
Q Yes, I want to follow up on that, I’ve taken a real sky view of this particular story, but — so it was wrong to say a few months ago that there were possibly millions of emails missing?
MR. FRATTO: I think those charges came from outside the White House. I think that’s the charge of one of the —
Q One of your colleagues addressed those from the podium and suggested that that was accurate — again, I’m taking —
MR. FRATTO: I’m not sure what was said on that. I can tell you today, though, that we have no evidence and we have no way of showing that any email at all are missing.”
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.â€
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:
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Administration Oversight
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:
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. 
