President Bush Lied

* australian tv is asking whether PreznitBlinky LIED about going to war. apparently that word isnt necessarily verboten.

* emptywheel:

"Since we've got so many GOP criminals to keep track of, I'd like to propose some ways to categorize them. There are the guys who are in trouble for activities fundamentally connected to the scorched earth GOP approach to politics: Libby, Noe, DeLay, the phone jammers. These are folks we've caught, the press and the public, breaking the law to accumulate unlimited power. Expand your conception of unlimited power to include unlimited money (which in all these cases is tied to party patronage), and you include Abramoff, Cunningham, Lay, Santorum, and Rudy. It is increasingly clear that these crimes are part of a concerted effort by the GOP to fundamentally alter our democracy. And we need to present it as such--Tom DeLay's resignation doesn't change the GOP's fundamental disdain for the rule of law.

Then there are the guys who just seem to be having a bit of personal trouble. Allen, Fristie, Brian Doyle. Now it's possible that the GOP just happens to attract people with no morals. But as I said a few weeks ago, the numbers defy random chance. There are just too many GOPers with little personal troubles to believe this is a question of vetting. So while I might believe Republicans are just depraved, I also propose that they're picked because their depravity helps keep them in line...

It's just that I've begun to think of GOP crimes in two categories. Those crimes fundamentally tied to the GOP's pursuit of power, the fundamentally criminal operation of the GOP machine. And those personal crimes that serve to keep the first kind of crimes--the grand GOP conspiracy--under wraps.
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And one more thought. Someone (it may have been Laura Rozen, it may have been Cannonfire) has suggested that the San Diego Onion reporter who first busted Cunningham received a tip, perhaps from one of the other conservative nutcases who populate San Diego. Does that mean Cunningham's exposure was the result of some other faction trying to accrue power? Or did the Poway mafia go off the ranch in some fashion?"

EW - knockin em dead.