Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Lying Minds

Daniel Gross: Bush's Bushwa. "President Bush opened his final radio address of the year this way: 'In 2002, our economy was still recovering from the attacks of September the 11th, 2001, and it was pulling out of a recession that began before I took office.' Bush concluded 2002 with the same dishonesty that defined his economic policy throughout the year — a mendacity that ranged from denying the tax cut had anything to do with the re-emergence of the deficit to arguing that the terrorism insurance bill would create 300,000 construction jobs."