Your President had a "press conference" yesterday. Feel free to watch it, if you have the stomach, or just read the transcript. The Center for American Progress takes apart the lies. Amazing!

Check out this exchange:

Q Thank you, Mr. President. You recently put Condoleezza Rice, your National Security Advisor, in charge of the management of the administration's Iraq policy. What has effectively changed since she's been in charge? And the second question, can you promise a year from now that you will have reduced the number of troops in Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: The second question is a trick question, so I won't answer it. The first question was Condoleezza Rice. Her job is to coordinate interagency. She's doing a fine job of coordinating interagency. She's doing -- the role of the National Security Advisor is to not only provide good advice to the President, which she does on a regular basis -- I value her judgment and her intelligence -- but her job is also to deal interagency and to help unstick things that may get stuck, is the best way to put it. She's an unsticker. And -- is she listening? Okay, well, she's doing a fine job.

Mission Accomplished! The new explanation, Bush Steps Away From Victory Banner. More from Buzzflash, "Mission Accomplished": Anatomy of a Deadly Lie.

A crack? GOP unity is strained by attacks. I love this quote from Trent Lott.

“Honestly, it’s a little tougher than I thought it was going to be,” Lott said. In a sign of frustration, he offered an unorthodox military solution: “If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You’re dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out.”

Talk about winning the hearts and minds.
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 9:26 AM