The Friday Political Grab Bag

[Bob Geiger]

If it's Friday, it's time to take a look at what's been floating around the political world this week and that might have slipped under your radar or just flat-out been too stupid to notice…

Bush: Of course, I lied about Rumsfeld last week!

Saying last week that both Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "…are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them,” George W. Bush brushed aside any notion of getting rid of Rumsfeld and told members of the press that both men would be in his administration until the end of his presidency.

Of course, Rumsfeld was given the boot this week and, when asked about it at his press conference on Wednesday, Bush essentially admitted that he lied so reporters would drop the subject. Said Bush when asked about the contradiction: “The only way to answer that question, and get it on to another question, was to give you that answer.”

You can see the clip at YouTube here.

Well, at least he's honest about not being honest.

* * * * *Hypocrites r' Us: The Republican Superstore -- Is it just me or is it both ridiculous and hypocritical that George Felix Allen, before conceding to Jim Webb in the Virginia Senate race yesterday, seemed so incredibly concerned about every vote cast by Virginians being counted? After all, this is the same guy whose campaign set the slime-standard for voter-suppression attempts in the days before Tuesday's election, including Democratic voters being called and told their registration was illegal and they would be arrested if they showed up at the polls.

Amazing.

* * * * *So are we liberals or conservatives? It's a bizarre thing to have watched Republicans spending the last three months trying to scare voters with how liberal our Congressional candidates are and, now that most of those same candidates torched them on Tuesday, the GOP is saying Democrats won because they appealed to conservative constituents.

Huh? Of course, it could just be that on the majority of issues, more Americans think like Democrats.

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Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake had one of the best leads in her post after the election results were becoming obvious: "The most powerful woman in US history. Two words guaranteed to reduce any wingnut to a puddle of piss -- Speaker Pelosi."

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