What's Easier Than Fixing or Owning Up to Your Mistakes?

The always popular witch hunt, of course! Let's say your in an administration that the majority of Americans believe to be out of touch, wrong, or just incompetent. What do you do to turn things around? Do you focus on what you've done wrong in a war and work to make it right? Do you agree that spying on your own people without warrants is wrong, but you believe you need to keep spying, so you ask Congress to remake the FISA laws? Do you admit that you bungled the biggest natural disaster we've had and redouble your efforts to make it right?

Nah, of course not. What, did you wake up in Disneyland this morning? This is Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld World. Where no matter how many tomatoes the public is pelting at you during the ride, you don't change direction.

So what do you to do divert the public's attention? Well you ask your justice department to track down the people who have been leaking your bad news and hidden secrets to the public.

Are you going to argue that the public has a right to know what their government is doing? Where do you think you are? America?