We now have a new standard for truthiness in this country:

n response to the Democrats' complaints, Republicans and the administration's top intelligence officials said the real problem was leaks about N.S.A. eavesdropping and other classified matters.

Oh, wait, it's mostly the same people recycled for a do-over because they fucked up that whole Orwellian gubmint-secrecy thing the first time around.

If Monica had never met Linda, there would have been an extra 70 million bucks to waste in Mess O'Potamia or for tax cuts. Damn the republican fucktards have to be kicking themselves over that waste of cash now.

Remind you of anyone?

But when asked why Mr. Bush had not called on the public to sacrifice to reduce oil consumption, Samuel W. Bodman, the energy secretary, said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday that "many Americans believe they're already sacrificing by paying the prices they're paying for gasoline and heating oil and natural gas."

I guess that the less-is-more, war-is-peace crew residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and up on Capitol Hill have decided that well, if you can't lie well, then just lie. Here's Medicare and other entitlement reform:

The House yesterday narrowly approved a contentious budget-cutting package that would save nearly $40 billion over five years by imposing substantial changes on programs including Medicaid, welfare, child support and student lending.

With its presidential signature all but assured, the bill represents the first effort in nearly a decade to try to slow the growth of entitlement programs, one that will be felt by millions of Americans. Women on welfare are likely to face longer hours of work, education or community service to qualify for their checks. Recipients of Medicaid can expect to face higher co-payments and deductibles, especially on expensive prescription drugs and emergency room visits for non-emergency care. More affluent seniors will find it far more difficult to qualify for Medicaid-covered nursing care.

College students could face higher interest rates when their banks get squeezed by the federal government. ... State-led efforts to force deadbeat parents to pay their child support may also have to be curtailed.

Yesterday's 216 to 214 vote, largely along party lines, gave a much-needed boost to President Bush, who is trying to reassert his control over domestic policy despite a series of legislative setbacks and near-record-low approval ratings.

The impact of the bill on the deficit is likely to be negligible, slicing less than one-half of 1 percent from the estimated $14.3 trillion in federal spending over the next five years.
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"I do not know how anyone can say with a straight face that when we voted to cut spending in December to help achieve deficit reductions, we can now turn around a short while later to provide tax cuts that exceed or cancel out the reduction in spending," Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) said yesterday, as the Senate took up a procedural motion that would allow tax-cut negotiations to begin. "We cannot afford these tax cuts."

When the bills for all this come due, it's going to be interesting to see how many people you meet will actually admit to having voted for these idiots. Because shame is transferrable, and no one wants to admit they could have been this stupid, residents of the The Corner excepted.

Back again for another run at the jungle gym, Preznit 39 Percenter revs up another paen to the offended minorties, the utterly clueless and the people paying his bills. So here again are his "Outside Words, and his "Inside Words"...

Tonight we are comforted by the hope of a glad reunion with the husband who was taken from her so long ago, and we are grateful for the good life of Coretta Scott King.

In a system of two parties, two chambers, and two elected branches, there will always be differences and debate. But even tough debates can be conducted in a civil tone, and our differences cannot be allowed to harden into anger.

On September 11th, 2001 ...

No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it.

We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it.

We remain on the offensive in Afghanistan

In less than three years, that nation has gone from dictatorship, to liberation, to sovereignty, to a constitution

The road of victory is the road that will take our troops home.

With so much in the balance, those of us in public office have a duty to speak with candor.

Our men and women in uniform are making sacrifices – and showing a sense of duty stronger than all fear.

In recent years, you and I have taken unprecedented action to fight AIDS and malaria, expand the education of girls, and reward developing nations that are moving forward with economic and political reform.

So tonight, I ask you to join me in creating a commission to examine the full impact of Baby Boom retirements on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

We will strengthen Health Savings Accounts – by making sure individuals and small business employees can buy insurance with the same advantages that people working for big businesses now get.

We must also change how we power our automobiles.

So we strive to be a compassionate, decent, hopeful society.

Human life is a gift from our Creator – and that gift should never be discarded, devalued, or put up for sale.

A hopeful society expects elected officials to uphold the public trust.

Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America.

Mars, Bitches!

is a call I just got from the DNC looking for money.

I don't think so.

Wankers.

Remember that? For all the years of the North American Bunnypants Terror Alert System, it's the one phrase that the republicans most fear hearing, because it points to the beginning of their glaring incompetance at figuring out what's going on around them. Besides the ruinous tax cuts, totally fucked up medicare "reform", the endless war in Mess O'Potamia, the lacksadaisical and uncaring response to Katrina, what have the 1600 Crew done for you lately?

Hmmmm, polluted the air, caved to every lobbyist in the K-street project who wanted legislation passed, fired scientists, larded virtually every position from Customs and Immigration to FEMA with cronies. Yeah, they're pretty amazing alright.

So, last week when Hamas won the election in Palestine, the 1600 Crew and Condi the Utterly Incompetant had to go off on how they were not going to support Hamas, and how they never saw the Hamas victory coming. Sez KindaLyin Rice, right as she removes the splinters of Preznit Magnolia Prosthesis from her mouth:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the United States would not provide financial assistance to a Palestinian government run by Hamas, the radical Islamic group that won last week's parliamentary elections.

"The United States is not prepared to fund an organization that advocates the destruction of Israel, that advocates violence,"

So, what's the downside of not paying the inevitable Piper of Palestine?

Western donors funneled about $900 million into the Palestinian Authority in 2005 _ including $400 million from the United States _ to pay salaries and finance desperately needed infrastructure projects. Failure to pay the 137,000 people on the Palestinian Authority payroll could lead to massive layoffs and ignite violence in an area bristling with guns.

bin Laden Determined to Attack the US. I guess even when it's written in plain English it's too hard for those idiots to figure out. They're still out looking for rose petals and candy on the streets of Baghdad.

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