Hey, it's not like he lied about a war this time. He just lied about getting his girlfriend a new job and a pay raise. That's "just" an ethics violation. Kid's stuff for the Bush crowd. Bush isn't going to let the rest of the world tell him what to do. No way. The Bush team is sticking with their guy, Wolfowitz:
At the White House, spokesman Tony Snow said he did not think Wolfowitz has done anything to warrant his resignation.Of course, the Bush administration has a very high standard for "egregious."
Snow said that President Bush continues to support Wolfowitz, who had served as the No. 2 official at the Pentagon and played a lead role in mapping out the U.S.-led war in Iraq before taking over the bank nearly two years ago.
"What we've said is, yeah, he made mistakes," Snow said. "That pretty much is obvious. On the other hand, it's not a firing offense."
The White House believes that the campaign against Wolfowitz is rooted not as much in what he did, but in his role as a key architect of the Iraq war. This proxy fight has made the president more determined to stand behind Wolfowitz, unless the facts made it absolutely clear that his behavior was egregious, a senior administration official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and thus spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
NOTE FROM JOHN: I guess the Bush White House has no problem with out-of-wedlock sex partners helping each other get cushy jobs at the public expense. Funny position for an abstinence-only defense-of-marriage morals crowd to be advocating.
