It would appear the threat of prosecution has unleashed his endless mendacious blathering

Vice President Dick Cheney decided to speak out after learning that President Barack Obama might open prosecutions of former Bush Administration officials, his daughter disclosed Thursday.

Elizabeth Cheney told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that her father decided to speak out after he learned there was a possibility of legal action.

--Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse


Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths - McClatchy

--the BB

While we've been waiting for Obama's gloves to come off....

From his campaign comes this:

In case anyone was still wondering whether John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest campaign in history, today Karl Rove -- the man who held the previous record -- said McCain's ads have gone too far.

Gotta love it.

Oh, and here's the video of Rove:



Which reminds me - why isn't Karl Rove in prison?

h/t to David Mizner at Daily Kos
--the BB

Wexler tries to get Condi to admit what is known

I love hearing Condi Rice's integrity questioned. She gets so pissy. How she thinks anyone associated with George Bush has a shred of credibility is just amazing.

I have never believed a word she says.



"To claim ... there are things we hid is just not right."

Excuse me, there are reasons you are known as Condaliar! There is documentation that there are things they hid and the stack of it was sitting right there next to Wexler.

And, contrasted with Cheney and Rumsfeld, she's the "good cop" in our foreign policies. What a sad thing that is. Let's remember, she ignored the warnings leading up to 9/11. The whole lot of them are a waste of oxygen.
--the BB

An unmitigated, reality-sodomizing liar

Dick Cheney spoke at CPAC Thursday, uttering some of the most blatant falsehoods / fantasies imaginable. Hunter captures the phenomenon:

Cheney doesn't believe in merely denying reality, he believes in pinning it down, attaching electrodes to it, then just clubbing it to death for fun.
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It's interesting, because once again one would think it would be a key component of rational public discourse for people to, indeed, call him out on his happy, camouflage-colored delusions. But it's somehow off-limits, in the press, to point out when a public official is an unmitigated, reality-sodomizing liar.

Read it all here.

UPDATE (about two minutes after original post):
While we are on the subject of egregious falsehoods, check BarbinMD's brief bit on George Bush in tornado land. What mental pathologies allow him to utter such things?
--the BB

Dissembler in chief-updated

Some enterprising freeway blogger

Photo via Dependable Renegade

Or perhaps it's "disassembler in chief," given how Bush has dismantled so much that had been built up over the decades to foster the common good and preserve our democracy.

Juan Cole addresses once more the bushwa that King George IV routinely shovels. He prefaces his response to the SOTU speech thus:

As usual, most of what he said in the State of the Union address was transparent lies. He praised private groups for doing charity work in Louisiana because he hasn't followed through on his own promises after Katrina. He did that phony thing of reporting the average tax "increase" if his "tax cuts" were allowed to expire. If I'm in the room with someone who made a billion dollars last year and Bush doesn't cut my taxes at all but he cuts those of the billionaire such that he saves 5% of his income, then the two of us in the room have an average tax cut of $25 million apiece. But in the real world, I get bupkus and the billionaire gets $50 million. That shell game sums up the Republican "tax cut" scam they keep running on the American middle class, which always falls for it.

Read it all here.

Center for American Progress has an article by Daniel J. Weiss looking at Bush's words on energy issues vs. reality. They also compare Bush on troop withdrawals and the sadder reality.

There are many other sites contrasting W's words with his actual record or with reality outside Bush's bubble. I especially recommend a visit to Think Progress. Just scroll down for refutation after refutation.

Let us be grateful we will not have to hear him stand before Congress and the nation and peddle bullshit again. Alas, he has many months left in which to inflict damage and disaster on the nation and the world. It will take decades to undo the damage he has already done. We should not deceive ourselves about the immensity of that task. Yet we must take it up if we love our nation and if we would seek the life of the world.

UPDATE:

Bush's false assessment of Afghanistan gets reassessed at National Security Network.
Washington, D.C.-A fact check from the National Security Network on President Bush's State of the Union comments regarding Afghanistan show the country is still in a state of disrepair. Bush claimed that:

A nation that was once a safe haven for al Qaida is now a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school, new roads and hospitals are being built, and people are looking to the future with new hope.

On each point, Bush is absolutely wrong.

Click the link for details.
h/t to Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars

See updates on post above for other analyses of Bush's "inaccuracies."

--the BB