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Photo from Think Progress As many on the Rational Online News Network continue to focus on Obama's pick of Rick Warren for the invocation at his inauguration still ( including Obama himself ), the agenda for a second consecutive day will focus on the The Denial Administration continuing their aspersion and shameful dishonesty: The worst Vice President in history comments to the conservative Washington Times released today : Cheney stridently defended the Bush administration’s torture policies, saying, “I feel very good about what we did. I think it was the right thing to do.” He added emphatically that he would “do exactly the same thing again.” Most audaciously, Cheney specifically defended the morality of torture, suggesting that it would have been immoral for the United States to not torture: “In my mind, the foremost obligation we had from a moral or an ethical standpoint was to the oath of office we took when we were sworn in, on January 20 of 2001, to protect and defen...

Photo from innercitypress.com I told you it wasn't going to last long. (To get this line, this click on the link, and read the title of this post as well.). Oh Ms. Denial soon to be Ex-Secretary of State : During a press conference yesterday in New York, a reporter asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “look philosophically” at the state of diplomacy after eight years of the Bush administration and to think of “lessons we can draw out.” Rice then took the opportunity to polish up her boss’s record with the United Nations: RICE: I think that the United States, under President Bush, has actually used the mechanisms and the councils of the United Nations more than they’ve been used maybe ever, whether it is insisting that Security Council resolutions that have been passed be respected, [or] whether it is seeking to deal with human rights and tyranny cases like Zimbabwe or Burma. Just say it for me Ben: Indeed, the Bush White House has been spending a lot of time lately try...

Denial, denial, denial, from this administration. It is what they do. First, here's Bush for the 10th millionth time, not taking any responsibility for Iraq . In his latest exit interview, President Bush continued to shirk any responsibility for the problems in Iraq or for the severe economic recession. When CNN’s Candy Crowley asked whether the problem with pre-war intelligence was “a matter of interpretation” or “a matter of just bum information,” Bush admitted “it was just bad analysis” — done by others, not himself. In fact, he lamented the bad intelligence not because it led to a misguided war but because it made it harder for his administration to promote the war: It gets better. In that same interview, with Crowley not even daring to challenge him, guess who he blames for the whole economic downturn. Deregulation proponents like himself? Big CEO's on Wall Street doing the same shady deals that they usually do, and not doing a damn thing to stop it after being forewarned...

Here's the quick weekend runthrough: Obama's kept it real on Meet The Press today , telling the sad hack that is Tom Brokaw right now that "The economy is going to get worse before it gets better." Condi Rice flip flops and flip flops some more. Okay, she didn't really do so, but her comments are nevertheless still "uggggghhhhhhhhhhh". As the video from Think Progress shows on the Fixed Propaganda Mournday (Fox News Sunday) show this morning, she expresses regrets about Iraq but doesn't regret taking out Saddam. In fact, she calls the removal of the former dictator, "a strategic achievement." Yes, she said that, and still does say that, STILL : Enough of the rift wrath. Here's Obama today, showing love to Eric Shinseki, who will become the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary. Shinseki is the first Asian-American to be in that position. And what makes Shinseki real is this : Shinseki is most famous for publicly contradicting Bus...