I love how great the president's staff is at deflecting attention away from themselves whenever their shit seeps through and comes to light (see: O'Neill's damning book about Bush's pre-9/11 plan to go to war with Iraq, and the subsequent and ongoing bluster about spending a trillion bucks to build a moon base and visit Mars). The next time (and there will be a next time) some former Bush white house staffer comes forward with juicy tales of unethical practices, I expect to see "BUSH WANTS FIVE TRILLION TO BREED UNICORNS" or "BUSH ASKS CONGRESS TO FUND PERSONAL HOVERCRAFT TECHNOLOGY" or " 'WITH 15 TRILLION, WE CAN BUILD A LADDER TO HEAVEN,' ASSERTS BUSH." And then the media and the public will get all excited to talk about the dreamy new project, ignoring the complicated and uncomfortable and just plain icky bad, bad stuff that's been going on behind the scenes, because it's just such a downer, you know?