Too clever by half

Bush wants the American people to believe that by letting White House staff converse informally with a few members of Congress, without a record of what was said, and not under oath he will have enabled the legislative branch of the government to do its oversight job 

The Democrats believe telling the American people that by setting a time table for withdrawal from Iraq they are not limiting the military because they are setting goals but not timelines.

"Come on!" - to both. All you achieve is to make the public more disgusted with Washington and more alienated from politics.