A firedoglake two-fer

This one's been loitering in the to-do bin for a few days.

ReddHedd at firedoglake picks up one of my favorite talking points about the rot at the heart of the Bush administration:

George Bush wants to be elected so badly, to do whatever it takes to cover his ass, that he is willing to lie about cheese. A completely unimportant detail to everyone (except perhaps a few die-hard Philly cheesesteak purists in Essington).

Why lie? Because he could.

The whole post is good, and not just because it's on one of my preferred topics, the well-tempered Philadelphia cheesesteak.