"We Don't Need Any Stinkin' Accountability"

El Presidente says there will be no accountability, not while he's running the joint: "President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath. 'We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections,' Bush said in an interview" (you can see the full extent of his hubris here).

May we borrow that impeccable logic, Mr. President? Let's see: Bill Clinton in his victory over Bob Dole in 1996 ... that was his "accountability moment," right? People knew he screwed around and reelected him anyway. But these Republicans lay the law down differently for everyone else. Like good Pharisees.

But the same interview produced this small gem for the Rev. James Dobson and the other mullahs: "For the first time, Bush said he will not press senators to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the top priority for many social conservative groups." There'll be no accountability there, either. Social conservatives got pandered to through the campaign, with the illusion that El Presidente was going to press for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Oops. Sorry. These things happen when you sell your religion out to a political machine.