If Bush is such a great president why does he do everything behind closed doors?

Question

Like meeting the 9/11 commissioners behind closed doors and refusing to be sworn in?Why did it take public outrage for him to declassify the PDR stating"Bin Laden determined to strike inside US"?Also like sending his liar.....er I mean lawyer......to get Ashcrofts signature while he was heavily sedated?On the survellience act that Ashcroft refused to sign before he went into the hospital?

Answer 1

The Cover Up of George Dubya Bush.

George's entire life on planet earth has been one big lie and cover up. Let me present to you some facts from the book Worse than Watergate by John Dean, he of the other super secret President fame.

George W. Bush's last act as Governor of Texas and one of his first acts as president-elect, George W. Bush demonstrated his utter disregard for the law when it comes to secrecy. In December 2000, as the cliff-hanging Florida presidential recount was sorting itself out and heading for the U.S. Supreme Court, Dubya was in Austin, Texas, away from the spotlight. As soon as he got word of the U.S. Supreme Court's favorable ruling, he arraigned for his gubernatorial records to be gathered, placed on sixty large pallets, shrink-wrapped in heavy plastic, and, with no announcement, quietly shipped off to his father's presidential library at Texas A&M University. Actually, this effort to bury his records had started in 1997, when DUBYA sought and obtained a change in Texas law to permit a governor to select a site for his papers, within Texas, other than the Texas State Library. But such an alternative site was permissible only after "consultation" with the state's library and archives commission. This consultation was mandatory, obviously required to make sure any alternative arraignments satisfied the state's stringent open-access law regarding the records. DUBYA, however, removed his papers with no consultation whatsoever; rather, he dispatched an aide to inform the head of the Library and Archive Commission that he was sending his records to his father's library, like it or not.

Well, she didn't like it. With one of the nation's strongest public information laws (much to DUBYA's) chagrin), Peggy Rudd, the director and librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, took exception to his unilateral action. Under Texas law, gubernatorial papers are immediately indexed by archivist and then made publicly available. All requests fir these records must be answered within 10 days under the Texas statute. Bush senior's presidential library is run by the U.S. government's National Archives and Records Administration, however, which quickly advised those seeking access to DUBYA's gubernatorial records that his papers were no longer subject to Texas laws and that the federal archivists were to busy with father's papers to process his son's. DUBYA had effectively federalized his papers, hiding them in legal limbo in his father's library, where no one could have access to them. His handpicked successor, the newly installed Texas governor Rick Perry, agreed with Dubya.

But Ms. Rudd did not cotton to being bullied by the former governor, even if he was president of the country, and refused to accept Dubya's designation of his father's library. It took her over a year, but in May 2002 she prevailed, forcing the Texas attorney general, who would have been hard-pressed to read the Texas law any other way, to rule against Dubya, making his gubernatorial papers subject to Texas Public Information Act. Given the clarity of Texas law, Dubya's claim that Ms. Rudd's office had no role other than the ministerial one of recording the governor's designation of an alternative location was beyond Philadelphia lawyering. It was a flagrant violation of the law.

News accounts reported that Dubya's ploy had not violated the law, but a close reading of the attorney general's formal opinion shows that these reports are incorrect. There are no sanctions for such a violation other than to male the papers available as the law requires. No telling how much scrubbing Dubya's gubernatorial papers received, both before he left office and while in limbo at his father's library.

However, Dubya appears to have the last laugh in this tale; His papers were sent to Austin, Texas, for processing - slowly. And Governor Perry, along with a new attorney general (both DUBYA supporters), had found new exceptions in the state's information law that give him the keys to the filing cabinets with DUBYA's records. In Short secrecy wins, and good luck to anyone seeking DUBYA's gubernatorial records (as a few did before Perry got the keys; such access resulted in DUBYA's embarrassment, like showing that DUBYA and council Alberto Gonzales processed death-row communications on incomplete information and faster than DUBYA could say, "EXECUTE HER". It is really difficult to believe one would go to so much trouble to hide his public records unless he had something he really did not want people to know about.

Answer 2

Nice try. Do you think FDR didn't do things behind closed doors. Or perhaps you would have liked JFK to have explained his classified plans to the American people about the the Cuban Missile Crisis. Were at war. Most stuff is done bhind closed doors. If everyhting was done publicly nothing would get done.

Answer 3

Secret, like pushing the Security and Prosperity Partnership without Congressional oversite?

Answer 4

All presidents do everything behind closed doors. Clinton not only closed the doors but he pulled down the window shades, LOL!!!


Kent in SD

Answer 5

WASHINGTON IS A VERY HUSH HUSH TOWN DC THAT IS NOT THE STATE.WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS STAYS THERE-READ THE ROBBER BARRONS-ABOUT POLITICAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON AND WHO REALLY RUNS THE COUNTRY--THE RICH AND AFFLUENT DO-THE LAUDEN FAMILY AND THE BUSHES GO WAY BACK INTO GEORGE SR AS PRESIDENT AND OIL AND AFGANISTAN-BEN LAUDEN WAS ON OUR SIDE AND WE SUPPORTED THE AFGAN REBLES-BEN LAUDEN WAS A LEADER THEN AND A REBEL FOR THE CAUSE-STUDY THE MIDDLE EAST HISTORY AND YOU WILL SEE YASAR ARIFAT WAS A REBEL FOR THE PALISTINIAN CAUSE --HISTORY IS FUN TO READ AND SEE WHO APPEARS LATER THAT WE BEFRIENDED-AND WHO IS OUR ALLIES-THERE WERE MANY I SERVED WITH OVER THE YEARS IN THE RESERVES AND MANY SCHOOLS I ATTENDED THAT THE SOLDIER BECAME WELL KNOWN AND WAS US SCHOOL TRAINED--

Answer 6

It's much more of nuisance to actually involve the very same common people whom you represent and are sworn to serve.

Furthermore ... the common people might not see eye to eye with the administration that this is a nation of the rich elite, by the rich elite, and for the rich elite.

It could get sticky ... hence the back room deals

Answer 7

If ya think you can do better, then run for President.

There is way too much stuff aired through the media, I personally want Our President to go behind closed doors and take care of business.

I trust President Bush, for one main reason, He truly believes in God and I saw his face right after 911, there was true sorrow and pain. No one can convince me that Mr Bush did not mourn like the rest of the nation!!

Why do people complain sooooo much and never throw out any remedies instead.

I suggest you use your wonderful brain power to come up with solutions instead of complaints~!

Answer 8

Most Presidents do much of their work behind closed doors, out of necessity. Otherwise, nothing would get done.

Answer 9

Correction: He isn't a good president, I'd say more one of the worst in U.S. History. Most people agree. His approval ratings are insanely low. Like the lowest I've ever seen a president have in my entire life.

Answer 10

Better behind closed doors, than behind closed mens' restroom stalls...

Answer 11

He is just like every othe president in our history. He does what he wants when he wants.