Meet the Press

Or will that be the Presstitutes? This Sunday, Double-face will be on Meet the Press. You watch. I just can't. Much too painful.

Brad DeLong has some questions he thinks ought to be asked.

I'm especially fond of this one:

Mr. President, your budget reports estimates for only five years, rather than the standard ten. Outside observers have said that this is because the deficit estimates for the sixth through the tenth years look really really bad--and that you and your staff think that if you don't release the numbers for those years, the press corps is too dumb and lazy to ask about them. Is that correct? Is that the reason?

[Follow up] Mr. President, in your estimation has it worked? Are we really that dumb and lazy?

And this one:

Mr. President, last week you said that HHS Secretary "Tommy" Thompson, Treasury Secretary John Snow, and OMB Director Josh Bolten had kept from you the fact that their staff's estimates of the costs of the Medicare bill you signed last December were much much higher than other estimates--that you only learned about this a couple of weeks ago. When are you planning to fire all three of them?

Plenty more where those came from.

You can add your own questions to the long list of reader comments there as well.

...but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

P.S. I'm sure I don't need to say this, but, unless Russert wants to lose his job (and face who knows what retaliation from the vengeful White House), he will ask whatever questions have been pre-approved to be asked. I don't see how this is going to be anything other than another free campaign platform for Bush.