Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

"Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality," Garrison Keillor wrote in the summer of 2002, right about the time it became obvious that America had slid into an alternate universe. "How else could we explain Condoleezza Rice's insistence, that, despite warnings from French intelligence, G-8 Summit organizers and Tom Clancy novels, nobody could have predicted that terrorists would fly airplanes into skyscrapers?," I wrote that August, without realizing the extent of the Twilight Zone absurdities and oddities yet to come.

"There have been many things swept under the carpet. And I think it's a shame in a government that you trust - I think it's a shame, the things that they chose to tell you and the things they choose not to tell you," Sept. 11 widow Julia Sweeney said on Donahue a couple years back. Since then, a catalogue of this administration's inconsistencies and whoppers has been unearthed, offering a glimpse at the deep dark truthful mirror at the bottom of the rabbit hole. For those of who believe that Bush and his cabinet have brought "honor and integrity" to the White House, turn back now. For everyone else, however, here is an incomplete, but damning, reminder of what has transpired. This continues with quite a long list of damning excerpts from the news media.