New Lies Forward

By Stephen Pizzo
Created Jan 17 2007 - 9:42am

Well it's a new year, and you know what that means; time to update the
administration's list of stated reasons for it's war in Iraq -- why we are
there, why we are/must "win," and why the loss of American lives there is a
"price worth paying."

Whew! Just typing the above sentence exhausted me. I'm so tired from
three-plus years of struggling with this administration's full frontal
assault on our collective intelligence. Tired of trying to untangle their
torqued logic, fractured facts and their Orwellian-ization of our language,
our traditions, our laws, our Constitution.

But I must - we all must. Because that beast, now boxed into a canyon of
it's own making, is more dangerous today than ever before. Though evermore
transparent, their lies have become even bolder. And, even with years of
disproved and discarded lies in their wake, far too many Americans - and
even the media, seem prepared to once again give them the benefit of the
doubt - when doubt itself should by now be the order of the day.

Gandalf Grey wrote:

The Second 100 Hours
By Ruth Marcus

Wednesday, January 17, 2007; Page A19

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011601332....

As the 100 Hours clock ticks, or digitally elapses, to a close, the newly
installed House Democratic majority may start wishing it could slow the
hands of legislative time. In hindsight, this is quickly going to look like
the easy part, and the Democrats are going to find themselves suffering from
a case of delayed Redfordism.

"What do we do now?" Robert Redford, playing newly elected Sen. Bill McKay,
famously asks at the end of the 1972 movie "The Candidate." The first 100
hours agenda gave Democrats the framework to avoid that befuddlement at the
start of the 110th Congress. But when the clock runs out, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) may start to wonder whether Newt Gingrich had a point in
pacing his Contract With America agenda over days, not hours.

? The first 100 hours agenda will quickly collide with Senate and White
House reality.