Eschaton

So, the short snarky version of Linda Greenhouse's take on the brief filed by Ted "Marat" Olson is that the administration isn't trying to overturn Bakke, they're just trying to redefine any policy which includes race as a factor as a quota. So, race-based affirmative action is fine, unless it's a quota, but all race-based affirmative action is by its nature a quota, so race-based affirmative action is not fine. Condi echoes this gibberish here.


Calpundit has more.


And, in comments Cheryl adds:

This morning the WP and NYT reported this:

Rice Helped Shape Bush Decision on Admissions


By Mike Allen and Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 17, 2003; Page A01

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice took a rare central role in a domestic debate within the White House and helped persuade President Bush to publicly condemn race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Michigan, administration officials said yesterday.

The officials said Rice, in a series of lengthy one-on-one meetings with Bush, drew on her experience as provost at Stanford University to help convince him that favoring minorities was not an effective way of improving diversity on college campuses.

AND now we get this story By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer

They said Rice was stung by a Washington Post story that said she helped convince Bush that favoring minorities was not an effective way of improving diversity on college campuses.

Rice discussed the article with Bush, who urged her to go public with her differences, officials said.

Her statement quickly led to speculation that there were sharp differences between Rice and Bush. The adviser made a series of calls to reporters in an effort to dispute such talk.

President BUSH LIED about Condoleezza Rice's role in this matter...in a series of lengthy one-on-one meetings with Bush, right.