Lies, Damn Lies and the Bush Administration

Speaking of lies and the lying liars who tell them, the incomparable Bob Somerby at Daily Howler has a great post today about Preznit If My Lips Are Moving Then I'm Lying and his recent whopper about Social Security.

"BUSH (1/11/05): 'As a matter of fact, by the time today's workers who are in their mid-20s begin to retire, the system will be bankrupt. So if you're 20 years old, in your mid-20s, and you're beginning to work, I want you to think about a Social Security system that will be flat bust, bankrupt, unless the United States Congress has got the willingness to act now.

"And that's what we're here to talk about, a system that will be bankrupt.'"

As Bob so easily points out, that is a damn lie. Or, as Chimpy himself said during the debates, "That's kind of one of those... exaggerations."

What a shame we don't have a working press in this country to call Dear Leader on his fictions when he posits them.