corrente

On the flat-out lie by Bush about the "Mission Accomplished" banner, CNN had this to say:

Assigning responsibility elsewhere, especially to the military, is not a typical move for the Bush administration...

I wanted to think this was some kind of dry joke, but 3 years of servile Bush apologetics from outlets like CNN prevent me. Examples of shifting responsibility? Let's see: there's
The lie that the Clintonites trashed the White House
The failure to prevent 9/11
The failure of its economic policies
The explosion of the budget deficit
The failure to catch Bin Laden
Its role in the California energy crisis
The failure to get multinational support for attacking Iraq
The failure to secure virtually every major Iraqi institution after the fall of the regime
The "16 words" that came out of Junior's own mouth during SOTU
The intelligence failure about Saddam's WMDs
The ongoing anarchy in Iraq
Leaking Valerie Plame's name to the press

I'm sure our knowledgable visitors can supply many, many more. In fact, I can see it becoming a popular parlor game: "Shirk: The game where the biggest loser is the winner." Not a bad nickname for Junior either...