First is the "purity test" some in the RNC want candidates to swear to before they are backed by the national party for election. It's a test that not one single Republican candidate or president of the last 30+ years could ever pass. But never mind any of that. Historical facts are for the weak. In the Republican Fantasy World you just have to be able to swear your allegiance to small government, fiscal responsibility, moral values conservatism even if you don't really mean it. To them, it's all about saying the right things.
Next we have Bush's former spokeswoman ignorantly declaring on Fox News that terrorist attacks didn't happen on Bush's term. That's just not true. Not true in the least bit.
We easily see, just from those two items alone, that Republicans want to be able to pretend that they are conservative and keep us safe. The reality is the worst fiscal management of this country took place under Republican rule and the worst terrorist attack in history took place under Republican rule. Not only are they fiscally irresponsible, they are weak on national security. But they lie continuously about their conservative credentials and their governance. It's what they do. And the media largely allows them to do it; hence no correction from Fox about Perino's lie.
Today, with a third post, we have yet more historically applied dementia from the GOP. In an interview with the web-based Politico, former VP Dick Cheney exempted the Bush administration from any responsibility for the current condition of Afghanistan.
Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility for the disintegration of Afghanistan because of the attention and resources that were diverted to Iraq. "I basically don't," he replied without elaborating.Now, only a very sick person could think the Bush administration bears no responsibility for Afghanistan and the current president's reaction to it. Only someone in a comma the last 8 years could ever believe such a thing. The Bush administration turned over to a new president a country at war on two fronts; a country on the brink of financial collapse; a country as poorly mismanaged as any in human history and they believe not one ounce of responsibility falls on them for it. Just to be sure, just soes we all understand, never has an elected president ever inherited two ongoing wars tripled by an economic collapse in the history of America. That's just how bad things really are and were.
Just like with Perino's falsification of history, and the RNC's "unity test," Cheney too wants people to believe that it was only after Bush left office did things turn bad in Afghanistan. Never mind the fact the Bush administration dithered for 8 years in that country and turned our attention and resources toward a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. None of that ever happened in their world. It was only a few months ago did any thing of substance really happen to create the crisis we have today. Of course Cheney and the Bushies know none of that is true. They just want enough people to believe their lies in hopes to muddy the water up just enough to make people believe everything is someone elses fault firmly relinquishing them from any responsibility for the worst presidency in modern American history. It takes a very sick people to be able to pull this off and Republicans have no qualms about seeing it through.
*Update:
Andrew Sullivan makes a good point here. The Politico interview with Cheney is a perfect example of the media acting as Bush-enablers. No follow up question, no journalistic notion to question a word Cheney says. Mike Allen at the Politico merely acts as the mouthpiece for Dick Cheney and his lies. Bush-enablers yes they are.
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