LET THE BLAMES BEGIN

Was he the same guy that recently got caught telling at least two lies in his

Is this the same guy who was in Africa when his lies became public and got so flustered that the response to the charges came from "a senior administration official" in Washington? Surely more and more evidence is piling up that Cheney and Rove are the ones who actually run things.

Their excrement has been hitting the fan so often in the last few weeks that even the media is beginning to smell it. Will the media finally break off its love affair with Bush?

Lawrence O'Donnell of Saturday Final, said straight out that Bush was unable to read and comprehend intelligence reports bringing back to life the "Bush is too stupid to be president" claim seen on many web sites.

Even HardBall's Chris Matthews compared Bush to brainless but loveable Ted Baxter (Mary Tyler Moore Show), who uncomprehendingly read what Lou and Mary wrote for him. Other commentators have proffered the Pinocchio comparisons. As the Bush lies get more frequent can his nose be growing apace?

Whatever. It is great to see some of the reporters pulling back from the almost universal exercise of their ilk, kissing Bush's patootie. We are hearing things like, "Bush isn't a leader, he's a mis-leader."

And well-deserved kudos to the very few like Paul Begala on Crossfire, who has continued to tell us the truth about Bush despite the heckling he gets. His latest: "You can tell when Bush is lying, his lips move."

Still, Bush's lies and synaptic misfires persist. Sitting beside the UN Secretary General, Kofii Annan, at a news conference this week, Bush asserted that he had to invade Iraq because Saddam would not let the UN inspectors in.

Who doesn't remember that the inspectors were already in? Saddam did allow them in, but Bush refused to wait for them to complete their inspections. He would not wait because he was determined to invade Iraq and secure the oil wells.

Republicans are no longer smiling and making jokes about the Democratic candidates as they face the TV news reporters. They are acting pious, crying "foul" and accusing the Democrats of playing politics. Their guy lies at least twice in a State of the Union Speech and they blame the Democrats for noticing.

FAUX News consternation is a riot, not unlike their fevered rebuttals. Bush's nuclear comment was of no consequence, they whine, because Iraq had to be invaded to unseat a horrible dictator who had killed thousands of Iraqi people and he had to be stopped.

So how does that make it right for Bush to kill thousands of Iraqi people when he invaded their country? It doesn't. It just gives more weight to the fact that Bush lied to scare Americans into believing they were about to be facing a nuclear attack.

The WMD nuclear threat was never so great or as eminent as bush tried to make it. This is why the buzz is still loud as reporters continue to uncover things that have been right before their eyes.

Ari Fleischer, recently retired White House press secretary, gave a going-away speech this week. He praised the White House reporters and proclaimed that, in effect, our democracy was kept vital and honest by the fact that they served to see that citizens kept tract of their government.

How those reporters could hear that and still keep a straight face was a wonder. Of course, both they and Ari had more than three years of practice. Will the reporters continue to do their jobs? We can only hope and trust they will dig deeper into this and other matters they have ignored.

Will the media give Bush still another Mulligan for this latest group of lies or are we seeing a breakup of this unholy, unhealthy and unspeakable alliance? Don't count on it. Cheney is revving up his powerful, heavily financed spin machine and bringing back Mary (the cut of a thousand knives) Matalin to drive it.

The finger pointing and ass covering will go into high gear in the White House as the occupants furiously seek to find ways of putting all the blame on former President Clinton.

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