Flying Pink Unicorns

The TITLE of an article in the NY Times today is, "Bush Admits Economy Faces Challenges."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/business/08bush.html?ref=us

Well gee, a housing market cratering, $100 a barrel oil, jobs not being created at all in December and only slowly in 2007, wages stuck in neutral, health care costs and worries soaring, yeah there are worries. Any idiot understands this, and many people have understood it for months.

After all this time, after more than 7 years of the Bush presidency, it is still news for him to admit something glaringly obvious. Just as after the 2006 elections he FINALLY fired Rummy and admitted Iraq wasn't going all that well. It is ASTOUNDING that this is the state of affairs. A more apt title for this non-news would have been, "Lying President stops lying for just an instant about the state of the economy. Expect more lies soon."

Why anyone at all listens to anything the Bushies have to say, at least without a presumption that what they say is blatantly false, is almost beyond me. I guess most people, even democrats that HATE Bush like myself, find it hard to believe just how awful, how truly venal, these people are. We have consistently underestimated their willingness to lie, cheat, steal, and hurt America to achieve their own goals.