Sunday, February 12, 2006

The Trust Gap

If you read nothing else this glorious Sunday, please read this editorial in today's New York Times:
We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less.

This has been a central flaw of Mr. Bush's presidency for a long time. But last week produced a flood of evidence that vividly drove home the point.
Read the whole editorial here.
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