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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

How do you tell when the Bushies are lying?

They're lying when the Earth is spinning. Condiliar is off threatening Iran based on the same sorts of lies they said about Iraq, while an administration official now says that the Medicare "prescription drug benefit," actually one of the biggest corporate welfare bills in history, will cost $720 billion over ten years, not the $400 billion that had been advertised when the bill was rammed down the throat of Congress in November 2003. Their excuse? The original estimate included the years of 2004 and 2005, when the "benefit" isn't available yet, and not the years 2014 and 2015. That's sort of like telling someone they can rent an apartment for a whole year for $5000, except the "whole year" is really just April through December.

Given their track record, perhaps THE single most depressing thing is that these bozos are still listened to at all. They have a proven, practically unbroken record of deceit that would make any con man jealous, yet every ridiculous allegation about Iran or Social Security or whatever is still treated seriously by Congress and the press, and the brain-dead 51% too.