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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...

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...