Patterns of Corruption and Uranium Quicksand

Two items in todays New York Times, an editorial, "Uranium Quicksand" (which I can't seem to get a working link to) and an opinion article by Nicholas Krugman Pattern of Corruption," go on at length about the present administration's mendacity concerning the Uranium/Niger flap. But they don't go far enough.

I don't understand why everyone seems just now to realize that the Bush bunch are liars. They lied about his Harken Oil stock sale (he didn't know as a member of the boards auditing committee that the value of the stock was about to drop?) they lied about how he got rich when he sold the Texas Rangers. They lied to get him elected governor of Texas, they lied about his record as governor (tell us again how he "helped" kids get an education when he opposed the bill that accomplished it.) They lied during the 2000 campaign (what evidence is there of "Compassionate Conservatism" in his track record so far? They lied about the real purpose of the huge tax cuts and the size of the deficit? (Is there any evidence that those who received the bulk of the money have actually "invested it to create new jobs? How much and where, and where are the jobs."

The tragedy is that the Republicans tried for 8 years to invalidate Bill Clinton's election with scarcely anything to go on and finally, because of his puerile shortcomings, got him for trying to weasel out of the consequences, but all the work to find him and Hillary guilty of anything important (Like lying to get us into a preemptive war) fizzled.

The Congress (neither Reps, or Dems, have got the guts to keep after the liars that now rule from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave) won't do anything. It's up to the media to keep the heat on. Please, don't fail us now!!