Ah, nice to see our good “uniter, not a divider” President, faced with sinking poll numbers, is rallying the base by calling the opposing party a bunch of liars. Brings to mind an oldie but goodie from the TDT archives:

And while we’re at it, we note that the recent discovery that Shiite militias in Iraq are running (formerly) secret torture prisons is just the sort of good news the President has been looking for out of Iraq. Now Bush can make a clear case to the American public that we need to overthrow Iraq’s corrupt, human rights-abusing government, using military force, so that Iraq can become a beacon of democracy to the rest of the Middle East. (Again, much like Turkey).

On the plus side, we already have troops there, and they’ve been getting on-the-job training for a while, so additional costs would be relatively small. Perhaps he can give the rich another tax cut to pay for it.