Lies, Part II

The double dip edition--first, from Talk Left, here's an interesting insight into the Vice pResident's mental processes...seems as if Dick either has a highly selective memory...or he finds nothing wrong with lying through his teeth.

Short version: sort of like how, last fall, Cheney insisted he'd "never met" John Edwards until the night of their "debate," despite photographic evidence proving the contrary, we have the Dickster insisting he'd "never met" Joe Wilson, the charge d'affaires in Baghdad in 1990-1991...when Cheney was Secretary of Defense. Hmmm.

And, in the interests of balance, we've also got the nominal top of the ticket engaged in a bit of selective memory himself--as Talking Points Memo puts it, the "new" standard for ethics in the Bush White House is "no felons"--or, at least none who haven't yet been convicted. We'll see how that, um, devolves over time...I'll bet I'm not the only one who wouldn't be surprised if the standard drops to "no felons--unless their appeal is pending" in the not so distant future.