"What day is it when Laura Bush makes an appearance on the Sunday shows?"

'The people of Afghanistan — especially women — are rejoicing,' said Bush. In fact, some were gathering up the remnants of their friends and family.

By Laura Flanders

What day is it when Laura Bush makes an appearance on the Sunday schmooze shows? It’s a very, very bad day for the president and his administration. It’s an old routine by now. When the going gets rough, the White House calls in the Bushwomen and so it was again this past Sunday.

It’s hard these days to look at George W’s poll numbers without getting vertigo, but on Fox News, Laura Bush dismissed the polls and polling generally. At the very same time, the administration’s supporters were elsewhere on the shows, extravagantly flaunting the ABC/Washington Post poll from earlier last week which conveniently suggested some Americans are fine with the seizure of their cell phone records. Fox can be expected to pander, but so it turns out can every network.

On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the First Lady did what she’s always called upon to do: she attempted to lull the nation into the false illusion that anyone in the Bush family cares about non-millionaire Americans. The host had a stellar opportunity to skewer Bush family values when the First Lady said that rebuilding Gulf Coast schools was a top personal priority: “It’s certainly among the most important work that I’m doing right now, the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, because schools have to be rebuilt or families can’t come back.”

If Stephanopolos had cohones he’d have pointed out that the last time any member of the Bush family promoted school rebuilding post Katrina, it was in order to channel some charity back to the family. When Barbara Bush made a contribution to the Presidents’ Katrina Hurricane Relief Fund she got a tax deduction but the money went with the instruction that it only be spent on school software programs bought from Neil Bush’s company. The Bushes have yet to find a crisis they or their friends can’t make a buck off.

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=05170601532

Looky that evil eye! eeeoooowwiieee

that back in the 90s Republicans were bashing Hillary for making TV appearances and "being political" instead of staying home with Chelsea.
Oh, that's right - Big Dog didnt have Mr. Rove to call the shots.

You are correct.

Many will remember -- since it dominated campaign news for days -- how Hillary used a feminist appeal to fend off attacks on her husband: "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was pursue my profession?"
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2583

Perhaps Laura has baked and brewed her quota of cookies and teas for the day, and thus can be "political."

I'm glad people like Flanders are calling her out. She deserves as much shit as anyone else in this misadministration.