You have to love this administration's ability to blatantly lieabout the economy, its “irrefutable proof” of Iraqi weapons…whatever, without any concern about being caught. And for the most part, they don't get called on it.

Um, not that any other president has ever, ever lied….

Sure, “Clinton Lied” yields about 5,980 hits on Google. “Bush lied”, by comparison, yields a paltry 1,310.

But Bubba lied subtly by comparison. Dubya's folks don't lie under questioning–they just make stuff up on the fly to prove points, sort of like Reagan's “smoking trees”. Need justification for tax cuts? Can't find an economist's report that backs you up? Invent it! No problem.

There's no outcry. The media mostly just rolls their eyes and prints the lies; maybe they present counterpoints to the statements, maybe they don't, but they almost never come out and say that the president “lied” because that would be…editorializing.