Need to know basis

... and Americans don't need to know. That's the Bushist rationale. There's nothing they won't cover up.

I'm sure they'll appeal the decision to classify White House visitor logs as public records. The records won't be available before Jan. 2009, I would bet.

Yet when Bill Clinton was President, the Republicans argued that everything the Secret Service did should be public, the better to find stains related to Monica Lewinsky. Sure, the public really, really needed to know about the oral sex. But policy? No way.

Obsessive self-abuse

The Washington Post will be damned if you or I or anyone else can let go of their obsession with where Bill Clinton's penis wandered off to. It's unbelievable the depths to which this once proud institution has stooped. Who would have thought, ten years after, they'd still be wallowing in this tawdry story without a speck of ruefulness at their role.

There's even a wingnut in the comments who wants the press to follow Bill around now. And Republican apologists everywhere say it's about the lying, not about the sex. What a bunch of dishonest peeping toms.