What gives?

All these big, tough corporate types.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Bolton, Addington–they are all really good at making their own reality and f***ing those who cross them and taking risks with other people’s lives and money and future. But, boy, when their own pasty, wrinkled backsides are on the line, they make jellyfish look like vertebrates.

Which of course leaves me wondering how much further down the invertebrate scale one needs to go to locate Congressional Democrats.

I’ll withhold my judgment on that until Cass Sunstein pronounces that Karl has answered the questions.

I think that IS part of Karl’s intended audience. The flying monkey have to turn it into COnventional Wisdom, so Obama can consign it into the “witch hunt” catagory

The Congressional Record is an official publication, but doesn’t necessarily tabulate things that really happened. Rove’s contrived Q&A’s appearing in that publication carry the same weight then if they were written on the bathroom wall.

Remember back in 2006 when Rep. Sens. Linsday Graham and John Kyl were caught “having a debate” on Gitmo appear in the Congressional Record — a debate that never actually happened because it was a “colloguy?” It never happened because someone wrote it up, pauses and all, to make it seem a debate had occured when it hadnt…?

to the official Congressional Record of Dec. 21, 2005, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) held a long conversation on the Senate floor about an amendment bearing Graham’s name that restricts the legal rights of detainees in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“I agree entirely,” Graham responds to Kyl at one point. “I have just been handed a memorandum on this subject,” Kyl says later. Another Republican senator, Sam Brownback of Kansas, interrupts the two with his own commentary.

But those exchanges never occurred. Instead, the debate — which runs 15 pages and brims with conversational flourishes — was inserted into the Congressional Record minutes before the Senate gave final approval to the legislation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01685.html

Same deal here. Just because the questions/answers appear in a government record doesn’t mean they’re real, or true, or more legitimate than heresay. Just Rove’s usual MO at work here to make something seem real. When it ain’t.