Well, you can clear your minds about Paul O'Neill. Bruce Bartlett, doing the kind of in-depth detective work that most of only dream about, has interviewed Cesar Conda, Dick Cheney's policy advisor, and it turns out Paul O'Neill is in the wrong. Oh, and apparently the former head of the Council of Economic Advisors also disagrees wth Paul O'Neill. So two administration insiders confirm that Paul O'Neil is a liar.
"Although the books cites a transcript of this meeting provided by Mr. O'Neill, participants in the meeting tell me that no such statements were ever made. Former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman R. Glenn Hubbard states flatly, "The president NEVER made any of the distributional comments referred to in the interview." Cesar Conda, Vice President Dick Cheney's domestic policy adviser, also told me that the president never said anything about giving money to rich people. Referring to his own notes of the meeting, Conda said that the discussion was about extending depreciation rules that were due to expire, not about reducing income tax rates."
So that has to be a load off of all of our minds. Unless, for some reason, these two men might have fudged the truth.
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