Ed Lasky swears to me this is not a parody from The Onion website.I don't know, Ed. This may be the most incredibly dumb use of presidential privilege in history; the White House is refusing to allow the president's social secretary - that's right, social secretary - to testify before Congress in the gate crashers case.Jen Rubin at Commentary has this reaction:They are kidding, right? Nope. Dead serious. Even the usually supportive media and law-professor contingent is gobsmacked by this hooey:"I'd completely fall out of my chair if they invoked Executive privilege with regards to a social secretary arranging a party," said Mark J. Rozell, a public-policy professor at George Mason who recently wrote a book on Executive privilege. "There is no prohibition under separation of powers against White House staff going to Capitol Hill to talk about what they know."You recall how loudly Democrats squawked when Karl Rove and other Bush advisers involved in real matters of...(Read Full Post)