How Very Bush-Like

After the hearings on Thursday re: the Downing Street Memo, when Rep. John Conyers led a delegation to the White House to sign petitions calling for Mr. Bush to answer questions raised by this and related documents, the White House security staff stopped the procession from going forth.

At first, they basically told Conyers and company to go away. Then, when Conyers and party stood their ground, bearing in their hands the signatures of over a half million American citizens, including about 100 elected representatives collected in just two weeks with little press attention, the security staff FINALLY sent a representative down to collect the petitions so that the party would go away.

How very like the Bushes. The White House is our house, but Mr. Bush considers it just his home, his power base. He doesn't have to pay attention to half a million Americans (which probably translates into well more than half of the U.S. population). He doesn't have to account for his lies or account to the families of the thousands dead. He sits in there with his taxpayer-paid French chefs and his drug-consuming daughters and smirks at any thought that people had the right to ask him to answer questions.