Baffling Bush--it

Read this transcript from Josh Marshall on the press gaggle at the WH over the allegations in Woodward's book concerning Prince Bandar and the "fixing" of oil prices to aid the president politically. I think they're turning Scotty (the spokesman) into a Stepford Eunuch.

Interestingly enough, as I made myself sit through Larry King to watch an hour-long interview with Woodward, Prince Bandar himself called the live broadcast - supposedly unsolicited - and said he had only one time correction to what Woodward had said about him and the Bush WH. And it wasn't about offering to fix the price; it had to do with taking the decision to go to war "to the bank." So why didn't Bandar - who's apparently keeping track of discussions today - refute the story about helping Bush politically? It seems like a much more important point to clear up. No?