I wonder if the 9/11 commissioners brought chainsaws to cut through all the bullshit they'd be up against?

Bush and Cheney have been criticized - and rightly so - for insisting on meeting together with the commission. The notion that they did it "to get their stories straight," I think, is partially correct. They wanted to meet as a team for this reason, but also because they didn't trust Dubya to meet with the commission on his own. Bush has to meet with the commission alongside his nanny for the same reason he has held so few press conferences - he's an idiot. He's going to get confused, say the wrong, thing, and fuck everything up for Team Bush.