We see Bush congratulate himself on the Katrina disaster. Why? Because his whole party's approach to politics is to spin spin spin until fantasy becomes reality.

The Roberts up-nomination to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is but the latest:

He has earned the nation's confidence.

Really? I thought his confirmation hearings haven't even started yet. How did he earn the nation's confidence, when nobody had even heard of him six weeks ago?

We're going to see more of this contempt for the truth, and we're going to see more of this lying in the face of reality. Why? Because that is Rove's "intelligent design" of Republican politics.

Anyone who truly believed in personal responsibility would take responsibility for the continuing horror of the disaster relief, but Bush won't take responsibility for that. Personal responsibility is for the powerless. Personal responsibility is for the poor. Personal responsibility is for anyone but him. The buck never stops in the Oval Office any more. No. To Bush, the whole point of being in power is to be able to avoid responsibility.

To Bush, taking responsibility is for saps.

Update: Be sure you see The Heretik's take on George Caesar: "I came, I saw, I left."

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