LOL....monica. A blow job.

And gosh he lied about it.

But somehow--
Lying about a nonexistent connection between Iraq and al Qaeda,
Lying about weapons of mass destruction
Lying about the threat of terrorism (and missing the real terrorists)
Lying about "extraordinary rendition" and torture camps
Lying about social security
Lying about medicare drug benefits (boon for pharma, screw the
elderly)
Lying about the environment and global warming
Lying about safer sex thru the CDC
Lying about unilateral and other "free trade" agreements...

and on and on and on and on--each of which lies result in the horrific
suffering and deaths of at least tens of thousands if not millions of
people--

...well gosh.

Not to mention that the Bush administration is ITSELF an utter lie:
they stole the election. Twice.

So much for democracy.  I guess since daddy Bush did the Kuwait thing
for "democracy," it now means "oligarchical caliphate."

        George M. Carter

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/opinion/19krugman.html
What They Did Last Fall

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 19, 2005

By running for the U.S. Senate, Katherine Harris, Florida's former
secretary of state, has stirred up some ugly memories. And that's a
good thing, because those memories remain relevant. There was at least
as much electoral malfeasance in 2004 as there was in 2000, even if it
didn't change the outcome. And the next election may be worse.

In his recent book "Steal This Vote" - a very judicious work, despite
its title - Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British
newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the
2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: "Al Gore won the
2000 presidential election."

Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both
found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr.
Gore. This was true despite a host of efforts by state and local
officials to suppress likely Gore votes, most notably Ms. Harris's
"felon purge," which disenfranchised large numbers of valid voters.

But few Americans have heard these facts. Perhaps journalists have
felt that it would be divisive to cast doubt on the Bush
administration's legitimacy. If so, their tender concern for the
nation's feelings has gone for naught: Cindy Sheehan's supporters are
camped in Crawford, and America is more bitterly divided than ever.

Meanwhile, the whitewash of what happened in Florida in 2000 showed
that election-tampering carries no penalty, and political operatives
have acted accordingly. For example, in 2002 the Republican Party in
New Hampshire hired a company to jam Democratic and union phone banks
on Election Day.

And what about 2004?

Mr. Gumbel throws cold water on those who take the discrepancy between
the exit polls and the final result as evidence of a stolen election.
(I told you it's a judicious book.) He also seems, on first reading,
to play down what happened in Ohio. But the theme of his book is that
America has a long, bipartisan history of dirty elections.

He told me that he wasn't brushing off the serious problems in Ohio,
but that "this is what American democracy typically looks like,
especially in a presidential election in a battleground state that is
controlled substantially by one party."

So what does U.S. democracy look like? There have been two Democratic
reports on Ohio in 2004, one commissioned by Representative John
Conyers Jr., the other by the Democratic National Committee.

The D.N.C. report is very cautious: "The purpose of this
investigation," it declares, "was not to challenge or question the
results of the election in any way." It says there is no evidence that
votes were transferred away from John Kerry - but it does suggest that
many potential Kerry votes were suppressed. Although the Conyers
report is less cautious, it stops far short of claiming that the wrong
candidate got Ohio's electoral votes.

But both reports show that votes were suppressed by long lines at
polling places - lines caused by inadequate numbers of voting machines
- and that these lines occurred disproportionately in areas likely to
vote Democratic. Both reports also point to problems involving voters
who were improperly forced to cast provisional votes, many of which
were discarded.

The Conyers report goes further, highlighting the blatant partisanship
of election officials. In particular, the behavior of Ohio's secretary
of state, Kenneth Blackwell - who supervised the election while
serving as co-chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio - makes Ms.
Harris's actions in 2000 seem mild by comparison.

And then there are the election night stories. Warren County locked
down its administration building and barred public observers from the
vote-counting, citing an F.B.I. warning of a terrorist threat. But the
F.B.I. later denied issuing any such warning. Miami County reported
that voter turnout was an improbable 98.55 percent of registered
voters. And so on.

We aren't going to rerun the last three elections. But what about the
future?

Our current political leaders would suffer greatly if either house of
Congress changed hands in 2006, or if the presidency changed hands in
2008. The lids would come off all the simmering scandals, from the
selling of the Iraq war to profiteering by politically connected
companies. The Republicans will be strongly tempted to make sure that
they win those elections by any means necessary. And everything we've
seen suggests that they will give in to that temptation.