I believe it was Condoleeza Rice's job to check the facts, not Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld's Neocon Conglomerate.

Therein lies a large part of the problem.

And McGrath is right. Instead of spinning their wheels deeper and deeper in spinsand, which is what the latest "White House communications strategy" is doing with their "offensive" (beginning today with the "release" of "declassified CIA documents" and continuing tomorrow on the Sunday news programs, and on Monday morning by Republican lackeys in the Senate and House bully pulpits, etc), Bush ought to be deciding who to fire to save his own ass.

But he is too busy fundraising and entertaining the Italian PM "coalition partner" at the ranch this weekend to be bothered.

And BTW, it isn't just his credibility about the Iraq war being called into question now. The fuzzy budget projections are coming home to roost now from the OMB. It is all getting ready to break wide open.