"The most crooked...lying bunch I've ever seen."

And they say Kerry is too vague, nuanced, indirect. Sounds pretty direct and succinct to me.

And absolutely correct, as Fred Kaplan's piece illustrates. And as for the miserable flip flopper, TAPPED and Brad DeLong are equally clear and succinct.

[Hmmm, seems the right wingnut machine has been working overtime in their peevishness, putting Michael Moore on top in the "Miserable Failure" sweepstakes.]

And DeLong also takes another look at how the press continues to let Bush get away with his nonsensical lies...er...statements.

So what is the upside to the article as it stands? Why pretend that the administration has created a new assistant secretaryship with associated staff to deal with these issues when everyone who reads Al Kamen has known different for six months? Why pretend that that administration's now-disavowed employment forecast was a third lower than it actually was?

"You've got to understand, Brad," said one journalism insider this morning, "The story is already strongly anti-Bush. The story is already astonishingly strongly anti-Bush for this millennium's Post. The story says that the Bush administration has been on the defensive over economic issues like the jobs forecast, and that the administration has panicked and is thinking about pulling Raimondo's nomination. If the story also said that Raimondo's job isn't even a new job just a renamed old job that the Bushies are trying to get everyone to think is a new job. If the story also said that the 2.6 million number they ran away from was already a big step away from their original real 3.8 million job growth forecast. Then the story wouldn't be 'Bush administration on the defensive on economic issues. It would be 'Bush administration ridiculously mendacious, ludicrously confused, and utterly incompetent on economic issues.'" Exactly. That is the real story, after all.