Bush’s new domestic policy adviser (What domestic policy? Empty the treasury?) is aptly named.
Zin’s getting good reviews so far — except one slight smudge.
Thanks to sharp reporting by Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun, Zinsmeister’s appointment was marred by the discovery that he had doctored quotes in a newspaper profile about him that was posted on the AEI Web site. In an August 2004 article in the Syracuse New Times, Zinsmeister had said, “People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings.” On the AEI site, he changed his quote to read, “I learned in Washington that there is an ‘overclass’ in this country stocked with cheating, shifty human beings that’s just as morally repugnant as our underclass.”
It really is tough being squeaky clean enough to be a politician these days.
Rick McCharles 