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I can picture little Georgie slip-sliding around whilst trying to explain his latest poor grade, boozing misbehavior, or other bad behavior to his parents. Perhaps George and Barbara just did the same thing many Americans have done: shake their heads and let him off the hook because in his heart, he's a good Christian boy. All I see is a character disorder ineffectively (for me)running a con.

Is it me, or does it seem bush is having a nervous breakdown? I have a feeling we are going to see an impeachment next year...

It looks to me like he admitted to lying to 3 reporters last week in order to get past a question he didn't want to answer. Turns out to be a classic "HOJB"

"Bush first suggested that he purposely mispoke to the reporters...."

And "purposely mispoke (sic)" differs from a lie how exactly? He lied.

Now, to paraphrase an oft-overused line from a very poorly written and just as poorly drawn comic strip starring a knee-jerk conservative duck, Where, oh where, are the howls of outrage from conservatives? You know, those that were heard when Clinton lied he did not have sexual relations with that woman?

That's funny...well scary coming from the president's mouth, but sort of funny none the less.

It's pretty obvious that the president was not only saying that he lied but that it was the reporters that made him do so. Not content to stop there, it sounds like he was telling the reporters that he'd lie to them too if he didn't like their questions, like during the press conference.

I thought major politcos were coached on the fine art of talking around questions they don't want to answer. It looks like this is another subject that Bush didn't learn very well. Go figure.

...just got a reminder why, and the very next day, too! What excellent timing the President has!

Oh, fellas, give the silly little boy a break. He is, indeed, foolish, incompetent, an asinine military leader, a terrible listener, and an absolutely dreadful president. And of course he fibbed to reporters.

But what else would you have had him do? Would you have had him change his entire personality, character and accustomed habits to avoid a silly, obvious, transparent little lie, when he has been so completely comfortable with infinite numbers of lies during the last six years? This is unreasonable. Allow him to continue in his fibbing little courses with consistency and dignity, free from your quibbling harassment.

Halfway through the next question Mr. Bush suddenly seemed to realize that that mean reporter had tricked him and caught him in check. The next three minutes were among the most gratifying examples of Shakespearian disintegration I've ever witnessed. You could literally watch what was left of this man's skewered reality crumbling as the realization he was foundering out there on his own began to sink in. One expected, no hoped, actually, that he would exit stage right into a wall- clawing at the drapes trying to find the doorway as the cameras rolled and the world breathed a collective sigh of shaudenfreud.

The mild needling he got from the press corps today was merely the first blood. With Rummy off board, and Cheney nowhere to fend them off with his custom over-and-under, the sharks are circling. Finally.

What started with Stephen Colbert's brilliant hatchet job at the press corps dinner has played itself out with brio. I'd like to say it was worth the wait, but unfortunately it wasn't.

He lies so often, I guess I'm amazed that anyone bothers to listen to him to accuse him of lying anymore.

Thanks for the clip - he is full rationalization mode.

It was more than that. This conference was packed with accidental admissions that much of what has come out of his mouth during this campaign was false - such as the reflection that he didn't belive that Democrats are going to introduce a short timeline on evacuating our troops and that he knows they are committed to the war on terror (funny, I'd swear just a couple days ago he was out there in public claiming that Democrats wanted to "cut 'n run" and let the terrorists win).

What we are seeing today is a simply President without spin. It has just been a very long time since we've seen that.

Contrary to our favorite joke, he is not a stupid man. He has been a cocky President for the simple fact that for 6 years now he has had an entire congress that would do whatever his bidding, and he honestly believed that the election of 2004, which was far closer than this one, was some sort of referendum on his character and his policy, and that he could do no wrong.

Today, he became more than just a lame duck, he became the President who had everything handed to him on a platter and squandered it away. Today he became the conquerer of his own ideology. Today, he confronted the reality that his ideas have failed, his people have made a mockery of our government, that his constituents have rejected him and that the world no longer believes he is doing the right thing.

Today, we see a Bush that has been exposed by a public that no longer accepts the thin veneer he's been hiding behind for 6 years. You just can't spin that, and this video captures the President wrestling with that very fact.

"Golly, folks," he tells us. "I *had* to lie to you because you asked me a question I wasn't ready to answer."

I'd like to think someone with the wits of a 5th grader could get outta that one. For example:

Reporter: Mr. President, we're hearing whispers about changes at DOD. Is Sec. Rumsfeld's job secure?

Dubya: Oh, there you go again. Listen, I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.

Reporter: But don't you think you owe it to the American people to be up front with them about something like this?

Dubya: Okay, for the second time: I'm not going to dignify that with a response. Isn't there an election going on next week you guys should be covering?

Reporter: That's my point, sir. If you're making a change at--

Dubya: Okay, enough. I've been at this job six years, so I know how this game goes. I'm not answering any questions about Sec. Rumsfeld. I think he's doing a fine job [*cough* bulls**t! *cough*]. For me to say anything either way becomes a talking point for the other side so close to the election, and I won't have that. Next question.

There, was that so freakin' hard?

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Interesting theory floating around out there: The Dems brokered a deal for Rumsfeld's resignation in exchange for going easy on digging too deeply in other dark corners of this administration's bungling of the war.

Not sure how much I buy that, but you gotta admit that it's rather out of character for Bush to all but give up so swiftly, especially with the Senate still supposedly in the balance.