This story reads too ominously familiar to what Bush and Cheney were accused of doing in their first term with the energy lobby in crafting the Bush administration energy policy. Both are evidence of how disheartening it is to consider that our democracy is operational in anything but appearance, and lends credence for Evan Bayh's decision to "run away" from that morass as fast as he can. I'm afraid that this administration has already failed its mandate, the day of reckoning will soon be upon them and it won't be pretty for them or all Americans afterwards.
Bob Schieffer had a closing commentary that touched on this last Sunday on Face the Nation.
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