You know the story by now. A man who dressed and acted like a Secret Service agent threw out three Coloradans from last week's Bush-Beauprez Social Security meeting because they had emerged from a car with a "No Blood For Oil" bumpersticker. And always loathe to do what most of us do every day--admit an error and apologize--the Bush White House, Congressman Beauprez and the Republican Party stand firm on denying culpability. The "bouncer" was an unnamed, overzealous volunteer. Ooops, no. He's a Republican Party staffer who still will be unnamed. They were ejected because they "might try to disrupt the event." (because we can read your minds?) It's not Beauprez's fault: "No one has ever been asked to leave for dissent from a Beauprez event," claim his spokesperson. The Colorado Republican Party and the Republican National Committee firmly deny they had anything to do it. Because in BushWorld no bigwig is ever responsible for his actions. Consequences? What consequences? Air Force brass can ignore sexual harrassment and assault, hanging women cadets out to dry. Military officers can evade punishment in systematic torture of war prisoners, but let's court-martial PFCs and other grunts. Security agencies can refuse to share intelligence. Hell, so can intra-agency divisions . Honchos can be "dead wrong" on intelligence that starts an unfounded war that kills 100,000+ civilians. State Department officials can eliminate the US's share of UN Population Fund funding ($34 million) the result of which is an estimated "2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced abortions, 4700 maternal deaths and 77000 infant and child deaths." Wait a minute...aren't these the same people who campaigned on the virture of "personal responsibility" people. Oh, I get it...that's just for the little people, like people "on welfare" and women whose birth control method fails. Well, believe it or not, most of us out here in the heartland actually take this personal responsibility seriously. At my house, kids are: 1) Not punished for THINKING ABOUT "bad choices" they don't make 2) Are reprimanded for transgressions they actually accomplish Memo to White House Chief of Staff Andy Card: Unless your event henchman has secret psychic powers unavailable to the rest of us, it was just wrong to throw the three Denver residents out. THEY HADN'T DONE ANYTHING "DISRUPTIVE!" Repeat after me: Don't punish the innocent...don't punish the innocent...dont punish the innocent. As for the responsibility shirkers in your circle, I'd be happy to host a boot camp for your staffers. My kids, John and Sarah, can demonstrate how to own mistakes, accept consequences and apologize and make restitituion. And since we don't seem to have this problem around here, Charlie and I can coach you, Karl Rove and President Bush on how to set behavior expectations and enforce the rules.