One of the best stories in the Bible is where Jesus is being interviewed by Pilate, and Pilate asks the question, “What is truth?” As we grow older, we find that there are many truths, including, but not limited to, “legal truths”, “theological truths”, and “political truths”.  This Administration has created it’s own “political truths”, and will continue to do so as long as it is in power.

Comment #41528 by bg1 on 12/09 at 1:24 pm

You could be on to something.  But I think the Republican coalition is as simple as it sounds.  The economic giants wanted the money provided to them by Republican business first, business last, business always agenda, and the social rightwing nutcases wanted abortion and gay marriage totally outlawed with the Christian religion established in the U.S.  Both sides really don’t care about the other, but they worked in unison to get Bush and his cronies elected.  At the same time, they didn’t count on the neocon crazies destroying American foreign policy so much to the point that the spill-over effect has hurt domestic policy here at home.  As a matter of fact, the neocon crazies have taken over the government in total and the business and social wings of the Republican party are simply along for the ride, where ever it leads…...................

Hadley is with the Decider’s team as far as its mission to rewrite history.  He tells Russert that we expected to have 150,000 to 200,000 Iraq Army forces to help with security “and those forces melted away at the close of the war.” 

What Hadley failed to mention is that the American Viceroy over Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, dissolved the Iraqi Army immediately following the fall of Baghdad.  Those forces did not “melt away;” they were fired by the USA.  Just another big mistake they aren’t willing to acknowledge, so they change the facts.

The way Tony Snow handles the White House Press Corps is just another indication of how deceitful, arrogant, and willing this administration is to see a failed policy to the end, and in the process endanger more American and Iraqi lives, and further drag America’s reputation in the world community to new lows reflective of George W. Bush’s own Nixon-esque popularity (with apologies to Dick Nixon). This administration has long had the attitude that if they can parse words or come up with an alternative spin on a story no matter how glaring the inconsistency or hipocrisy then they just run with it. It is so idiotic considering the treasure trove of videos out there that refute the spin. Former Press Secretary Scott McClellan clearly wasn’t up to the task, since he doesn’t have the arrogance and the requisite smirk Tony Snow has when he has to mouth off the White House spin on yet another indication of its incompetency.

Not “Hardball” host Tim Russert… “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert.

Error, error…. errroooorrrrr…..

WHAT DOES IT SAY THAT GW BUSH GO TO PRESIDENT TWICE?

What does it say about our country, political system, culture, the way the country is run, the actual distribution and execution of power?

I used to think our country was tightly run by financial interests on Wall Street who could afford to hire the best minds to work out and execute comprehensive, well thought-out, well coordinated and cleanly executed policies both nationally and internationally. Surely they would never install a moron like GWBush as president. 
But now I see it is far more complex.  There seem to be a number of centers of power that do not communicate or coordinate very well or at all, and that a shrewd political operator like Rove can play each of these groups off of each other to his or his client’s advantage. One thing is that I doubt Bush would have gotten in if the media had not been so centralized into the hands of few venal characters who as things have turned out seem to be rather ignorant of anything other than making money in the media business.  A bit more competition in the media business would have allowed information about GWBush to get through before the 2000 elections.

As more evidence of incompetence, corruption, and out-and-out charlatanism comes to light, this whole business will become damning evidence as far as the future’s concerned, I think this administration will probably end up finishing out their term, because the democrats have said they’re not going for impeachment, but were they more old-school democrats of the meat-eating variety, it might be a different story…the end result’s the same, though, question is do they dare put the question to the public as to whether or not to bring the troops home? I think one thing about power and authority is, people are loath to give it up once they have it, kind of like if you’ve ever worked for a bad manager. Everybody knows the guy’s a jackass, but nothing ever comes of it, bonehead decisions get made, others get blamed, and the circus goes on. That is, that’s what happens in businesses that are
composed of yes-men who are afraid of getting canned if they speak up etc. But, such is the nature of top-down authority, which is why it’s so DAMN important that Congress stand up and do their job, these days. The more of that we see, the more we know we’re more or less on the right track with all of this.