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contempt for congress: the bush way

the washington post has published an editorial today noting how tension between the executive and legislative branches of government is inevitable (and i'd say that's the point of a system of checks and balances and rather healthy for democracy), but that the bush administration has tended to treat congress with an arrogance bordering on contempt. and it seems the news has travelled slowly eastward from california, but it's here and it's seen as the latest illustration of said arrogance and contempt. it involves the report that the medicare chief actuary was threatened with firing if he gave lawmakers his analysis of the likely costs of the new prescription drug legislation. there's more indeed...