Franken-Lies-And-the-Lying-Liars-Who-Tell

It's because I think he is his mother's son. I think he's mean. I think we're all too ready
to blame Karl Rove, or Dick Cheney, or Ari Fleischer, or Gale Norton, or Donald Rumsfeld,
or John Ashcroft when this administration does something despicable. When South Carolinians
get push polls saying John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child, you know Karl
Rove had something to do with it. But it's really Bush. When our energy policy is set by cronies
from the oil, coal, and automobile industries, you can shake your fist at Dick Cheney.
But it's Bush. When Ari Fleischer feeds rumors that the Clinton people vandalized the White
House, doing $200,000 worth of damage, but months later a GAO report says that ain't true,
you can say that Ari Fleischer is a chimp. And he is. But it's Bush. When this administration
reinterprets the Clean Water Act to allow polluters to dump into creeks and streams, you can
blame Gale Norton or Christie Todd Whitman all you like. But it's Bush. When Donald
Rumsfeld refuses to apologize for our military accidentally killing a wedding party of fifty in
Afghanistan, you can bet that swaggering callousness emanates from the Oval Office. When
an American citizen can be put in prison indefinitely without charges being filed and without
access to a lawyer or a judge, you may think "John Ashcroft is out of control." And you'd
probably be right. But the rest of the time, don't kid yourself. It's Barbara Bush's son.
And I'm through with him.