Turning the lights out.

I was watching MEET THE PRESS yesterday with James Carville, Paul Begala and Mary Matlin. Carville and Begala have just published a book called TAKE IT BACK. I was struck by something Begala said:

'I got the most important reviews for the book yesterday: Diane and I went to Houston, our friend Analie Sanchez was getting married. We went to lunch with my dad. ‘OK, Dad, what did you think?’ And it was interesting—he picked up on something that I’d forgotten was in the book, he said, ‘The thing that troubles me most’—and this is a guy who voted for Ronald Reagan and spent his career in the oil business in Texas, he’s no liberal—he said, ‘What bothers me the most was that President Bush hired a lobbyist from the mining industry to be the number two guy in the Interior Department.’ And that he says, in the book, he says, ‘My goal is to turn out the lights on the mine safety agency.’ "

I then opened up the Washington Post and read this story. But, maybe it's just a coincidence.