Get Your Lies Straight

The old adage (is it an adage, or advice) that if you tell too many lies you will have difficulty keeping them straight is being played out in Washington. In the Foley scandal, Speaker Dennis Hastert keeps getting contradicted by his fellow Republicans, namely Boehner (R Oh) and Reynolds (R NY) who claim they alerted Hastert to Foley's proclivities long ago.

In the Abramoff scandal, Karl Rove has fired his chief assistant because it seems that there were some... 800... contacts between the White House and Jack Abramoff, including numerous little perks for Rove and his family. Rove's office had initially proclaimed that Abramoff was not "someone we know anything about."

(By the way, all props to Rove who did the firing on a Friday evening, thus avoiding the news cycle. Malignant though he is, KR plays old school.)