Liar in Chief

You know, it's almost impossible to find words to say about the Bush Administration that haven't been said a thousand times before. The recent revelations concerning the President's secret, illegal, multiple authorizations of domestic spying simply boggle the mind. The fact that he claims to "have an obligation to protect the civil liberties of the American people," while simultaneously violating those civil liberties, is a surreal pattern of behavior that has grown so commonplace with our Liar in Chief that I've become numb with disbelief.

Haven't we had enough of this man?!

This is an individual who pathologically states "We do not torture," even though overwhelming evidence that we do stares him in the face, and his Second In Command has openly lobbied to keep doing so. He's a man who continues to claim that he told the truth about evidence of Baghdad's WMD's, imminent threats, terrorist ties, to Congress and the American people, when every day more and more public proof is unearthed which directly refutes those claims.

He's the person who promised to restore dignity, transparency, and honor to the White House (none of which were really missing, I might add), but then has proceeded to rule over an Administration rife with demonstrable financial scandal, political partisanship, criminal behavior, and dictatorial secrecy. Why, just this week, he said clearly that " 'Yes, I do' believe Tom DeLay is innocent" on one day, and then expected us to believe just two days later that of course he meant that as a signal of confidence in the entire judicial system, and not as a comment on a specific case.

Is he kidding? This, from Mr. I Can't Comment On An Ongoing Investigation! He gives new meaning to the old joke about "only lying when his lips are moving."

The members of the Bush White House have already demonstrated that they are guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors" well beyond those of the Clinton and Nixon Administrations. These latest revelations only confirm an absolute disregard for the law by a make-believe cowboy who contends that the ends justify the means, whatever those means may be - and at the same time expects us to swallow that tired old "I'm doin' it fer the pertekshun of thu Amurikan people" line. The Administration's consistent and blatantly disingenuous statements of "fact" in the face of damning evidence to the contrary show either a complete inability to grasp the complexities of language, or an arrogant contempt for the liberties, and intelligence, of all the rest of us.

Or both.

Whatever the reason, be it ignorance, incompetence, malice, or a combination thereof, there is a clear indication that this entire bunch led by George the Younger cannot be trusted to run our nation for three more years. And that's a statement you can count on to be true.