WASHINGTON, DC—Freshly unearthed public documents, ranging from newspapers to cabinet-meeting minutes, seem to indicate large gaps in George W. Bush's service as president, a spokesman for the watchdog group Citizens for an
Informed Society announced Monday.

"We originally invoked the Freedom Of Information Act to request
material relating to Bush's spotty record while in office," CIS director
Catherine Rocklin said. "But then we realized that the information was readily
available at the corner newsstand, on the Internet, and from our friends and
neighbors who pay attention to the news."

According to Rocklin, the most damning documents were generated at roughly
one-day intervals during a period beginning in January 2001 and ending this
week. The document's sources include, but are not limited to, the U.S. newspaper
The New York Times, the London-based Economist magazine, and the well-known
international business and finance record, The Wall Street Journal.

"Factual data presented in these publications indicates that Bush took
little or no action on issues as widely varied as the stalled economy,
increasing violence in post-war Iraq, and the lagging public education system,"
Rocklin said. "The newsprint documents also reveal huge disparities between the
ways Bush claimed to have served Medicare patients, and what he actually
did."