What elephant?

Bush and Cheney have apparently agreed that the only way they can deal with the Amnesty International report is to dismiss it as simply absurd. Will they be allowed to get away with such a transparently childish strategy? Their denials are what is absurd. Where have they been? Are they unaware of the pictures, the reams of testimony, the actual facts of the matter? Of course not. Unwilling to admit anything they have little choice but to take this particular tack - it is absurd because this is the best country on earth that does nothing but spread democracy and freedom around the world. Cheney even went so far as to point out how great the U.
S. was during the first and second world wars - as if that has anything whatsoever to do with the current charges against us. This is just pathetic claptrap. How they expect to get away with it I can't even imagine. Can there be anyone, including even the most avid Bush/Cheney supporters, willing to accept this blanket denial? It's like "who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes." Bush says the only people who make claims of torture are "those who hate America." Like, I guess, the FBI? Members of their own military? These denials are no more than the most pathetic attempts to dismiss charges they simply cannot otherwise deal with. This is consistent with their constant refusal to aknowledge responsibility or accountability for anything, but now carried to heights that even utter morons can see through.

What is wrong with our country? How much longer do we have to tolerate what someone today characterized as "a veritable factory of lies." Perhaps that is the problem. They have told so many lies, so many blatant falsehoods, that no one expects the truth anymore. But that doesn't explain the lack of interest in holding them accountable for the lies. Indeed, why does no one ever simply say, you are lying - again. Is everyone so fearful they dare not speak the truth?

Why do you have an elephant in your bedroom? What elephant? This is what it has come to - burlesque. If they haven't gone too far this time we are surely doomed.

"When the One Great Scorer comes to
write against your name --
He marks -- not that you won or lost
-- but how you played the game."

Grantland Rice