Reply #47: PUBLIC business in Bush's PRIVATE residence

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At first I thought, "who care's what they call his house..." I even passed up this thread a dozen times, but it kept nagging at me.

It has always enraged me that he vacations st his ranch so much of the time, but I just chalked it up to Bush's incompetence.

This article raises huge questions for me about the lack of accountability that can occur by Bush conducting PUBLIC business in his PRIVATE residence. What would we think if the Supreme Court conducted hearings in a justice's house?

I never considered the ways that conducting PUBLIC business in Bush's PRIVATE residence could be used to shield the administration, not just from unwanted contact with the legislature and the public, but from investigation.

Take the month spent in Crawford before September 11. Which meetings at the ranch were public business and open to some level of scrutiny, and which were private, Bush's personal business, exempt from scrutiny? Sorry if this isn't very coherent, but the whole public/private thing is freaking me out...