Bush, Rush, and the typical Conservative hypocrisy

Are you surprised? I'm not, and neither should you be

The story spread by White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett, regarding the supposed radio contact between Air Force One and a British Airways jet during Dubya's "Flight of the Turkey" to Baghdad, is not true according to White House mouthpiece Scott McClellan.

The "Flight of the Turkey" certainly appeared at the time (and continues to appear) to be an attempt to upstage NY Senator Hillary Clinton's trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.

If the "White House Communications Director" - i.e. propaganda minister - and the "White House Spokesman" cannot agree on the story, how easy is it to believe either version of the tale?

Yes, this misAdministration is certainly a paragon of respect and honesty. It doesn't exactly live up to Bush's promise to bring respectability back to the Presidency. No sex scandals yet, but plenty of shady behavior - a lot more than we saw during the Clinton years (except, of course, for the shady behavior of the cottage industry that sprang up in an effort to persecute William J. Clinton). No wonder the Bush administration (small "a") works so hard to conceal the evidence, all the way back to and through the Reagan administration.

The Reagan administration has the dubious distinction of giving us the greatest number of convicted felons within a Presidential Administration since Teapot Dome. The only reason Bush II's inner circle hasn't experienced the same disfavor is that his own party, a motley crew of liars, cheats and incompetents wields control over the other two branches of our government. The same two branches, by the way, that are supposed to provide "checks and balances" against malfeasance within the Executive Branch.

Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Jay and Washington would be rolling in their graves if their bodies hadn't already decayed. They may be doing so anyway.

On another front, Rush Limbaugh is crying foul because he is being legitimately investigated for illegal actions related to his well-known addiction to prescription drugs.

Rush loudly declaimed drug addicts before he was outed and forced to admit his problem. "Lock 'em up" was his answer to the drug problem. How very convenient that he can now claim to be handled differently because of his fame (or infamy)!

I truly doubt that he would have any sympathy at all for some otherwise unknown individual caught in the same situation.

Hypocrisy: the lifeblood of the extremist. Without it, neither Bush nor Rush would have any foothold.