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Today's Forecast: Snow

Sometimes I have to wonder if members of the Bush Administration are high all the time. I mean, are they completely stoned when they stand in front of the camera and say things that can be refuted with a simple Google search? How else do they do it?

Today, for example, White House Press Secretary Tony SnowJob put on a display of supreme denial.

QUESTION: Tony, does the President have any reaction to the reports in yesterday's newspapers about the intelligence estimate, suggesting that the war in Iraq had, in fact, spawned new terror cells and made...

WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY TONY SNOW: I think it's important — one thing that the reports do not say is that war in Iraq has made terrorism worse.

What the National Intelligence Estimate says:
"...the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks...The report "says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse."

Pass the dutchie, Snowman!

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