We Boldly Announce Opposition To Bad Things

Hugh Hewitt notes a House resolution (pdf) condemning the New York Times and LA Times for publishing national security secrets in their SWIFT money-transfer stories does not name:

• The New York Times
• The LA Times

The House of Representatives. They're outraged. But they're not animals.

The resolution is mentioned in this story by Charles Babington and Michael Abramowitz, Bush Seeks to Use Media Leaks to His Advantage:

Senior administration officials say the president was outraged by articles in the New York Times and other newspapers about a surveillance program in which the U.S. government has tapped international banking records for information about terrorist financing. But his comments at a Republican fundraiser in a St. Louis suburb yesterday, combined with new moves by GOP congressional leaders, showed how both are working to fan public anger and reap gains from the controversy during a midterm election year in which polls show they are running against stiff headwinds.

Those senior adminstration officials may say Bush was outraged, but you can't be too sure of these things. Oh how I love the "but" in this story. But his comments at a Republican fundraiser in a St. Louis suburb yesterday, combined with new moves by GOP congressional leaders, showed how both are working to fan public anger and reap gains... Because political leaders are not supposed to talk about things they care about at fundraisers. It's Just. Not. Done.