Bush Never Lies About Lying

Are Republicans so blind that they can't see the hypocrisy that comes out of their own mouths? No, it's part of the regular game plan to tell a lie over and over again in hopes that an inattentive electorate will start to believe it. Today, Bush unequivocally states that the US under "his watch" (he probably thinks that refers to his timepiece) does not torture prisoners. This follows within weeks of his administration violently opposing John McCain's amendment that took the radical position of stating that the US will not torture prisoners. Once it was clear that even the Republicans would vote for this amendment (HOW can you oppose it?!), Cheney goes to work to put in an exemption for the CIA. The debate on this issue has an increasingly isolated Cheney on one side and McCain, 89 other Senators, Rice, most of the Cabinet and human beings on the other side. It is now clear that the debate on torture has become so ludicrous that only Cheney could make it: the US will never torture prisoners but we have to have an exception to any torture restrictions for the CIA, even though they will never use it (wink, wink). How obvious is this?! I've racked my brain to come up with an example of what this is like, and all I come up is OTHER Bush/Cheney attacks on our institutions: we need to eliminate environmental regulations and the Clean Air Act to clean up the environment, we need to take money out of Social Security to solve its cash flow problems, we need to attack countries that have nothing to do with terrorism to fight the war on terror. And they wonder why Bush's approval ratings are at an all-time low domestically and internationally. Amazing.