Bush tells ex-staff member to ignore subpoena.

The Bush administration is urging a former White House political director to ignore a subpoena and not testify before Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors, her lawyer says.

The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to hear from Sara Taylor at its hearing Wednesday and she is willing to talk. Testifying, however, would defy the wishes of the president, “a person whom she admires and for whom she has worked tirelessly for years,” lawyer W. Neil Eggleston said.

You know it is almost fascinating to watch a man who built his political career on bringing criminals to justice, do a complete reversal when the crimes are being committed by him or his people.

While Bush was governor of Texas he allowed 138 executions. He ran for President on the promise of bringing integrity back to the White House. And he was so angry at the terrorists who attacked us on 9-11 that he vowed to "bring them to justice".

But his idea of justice turned out to involve starting an illegal war, and then sending enemy combatants to illegal detention centers, or using "extraordinary rendition" in which we have other countries hold our enemies so that they can torture them while giving us deniability.

Then he uses our fear to push laws through Congress to take away our freedoms, spies on our citizens, and uses his ability to choose Supreme Court Justices to try and repeal every law that he finds to progressive.

And now he is just refusing to allow his ex-staff to serve the sentence that a jury of their peers gave them or answer a subpoena from the Congress of the United States, whose constitution he pledged to uphold.

Every time I see another example of the hypocrisy of George Bush I have to wonder how any of his supporters can still show their face in public much less continue to defend his actions.