Good Liars v. Bad Liars

I think Jon Stewart hit it on the head last night when he noted that the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld crew can't even be bothered to come up with good lies. No fun creative mish-mashing of the truth for them. No, it's just straight out lies. It's "We don't torture" or "But when Democrats say that I [Cheney] deliberately misled the Congress and the people, that's irresponsible." Where's the creativity? Where's the amusing I know you are but what am I arguments that we saw in "that depends on what your definition of "is" is?" Or everyone's favorite, "I am not a crook." ?

But it's not all bad news, Cheney has said that "But we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history. We're going to continue throwing their own words back at them." Which is exciting news because although our Veep doesn't seem to realize it, those words ever so easily turn on him. Why "throwing" his words back at him is almost too easy of an exercise. Does Cheney realize that he is often videotaped when he speaks?

There's tape Dick. You said it. We saw it. Try rewriting history as you will, let's go to the videotape -

On serving his country:
"I had other priorities in the 60's than military service"

On the Iraq war plan:
"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance of our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."

American soldiers in Iraq:
"The streets in Basra and Baghdad are sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans."

On Saddam Hussein:
"Saddam Hussein's offensive military capability, his capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually eliminated." (Cheney speaking as Secy of Defense in 1991 after gulf war 1.)