[CNN on Bush's first inauguration day. Demonstrating once again the gulf between White House secret aims and public perception, including media perception, of the new administration:]

 

CROWLEY: Let me ask you a couple of quick questions about some things that are out there: California electricity. They have had, you know, half-a-million people in the sort of rolling blackouts. Is there something that the federal government ought to be looking at in the short term in terms of helping California? Is that purely a state problem? What is your current take on that?

BUSH: Well, to the ...   more »