Cross posted on Texas Kos and Daily Kos

From the Desk of David T. Harris

***Disclaimer - I ONLY agree with him on this one issue and I still think he slithers when he moves. With that being said, read on..

I can't believe it, but I actually agree with Rick Santorum..."key provisions in the NIH Reform Bill missing... that are critical....Center of Excellence for Environmental Causes..." Joe Barton is holding the Combating Autism Act of 2006 hostage in Congress because he wants to pass the NIH Reform Bill in the Senate without language pertaining to investigating environmental causes.

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[Some of these pictures may get frogmarched pretty quickly, so I'm just putting smaller versions on Image Shack...  I'm also putting links to the larger ones to my website... Sorry for the  low quality and the discontinuity of clicking back and forth if it happens...]

This isn't the first time.

The Bush Administration and supportive Republicans have been lying about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction since time began. Amazingly, numerous bloggers were able to find and highlight these lies many months before a single U.S. troop hit the ground in Iraq.

But truth seems not to matter in politics -- only perceptions matter. And Rove, Santorum, Hoekstra, and the rest of the Republican jihadists are always quick to exploit that fact.

Their latest lie enlists the ongoing deception and betrayal of the American people birthed by this administration years ago.

As Fox News reports, "Top administration officials said today that chemical and biological weapons have indeed been found in Iraq and they now worry what this could suggest about other hidden weapons there and the possible dangers to US troops." US intelligence officials "believe the weapons were made prior to the Gulf War in 1991 and officials say they have seriously degraded over time. But the declassified report says they are still lethal and Secretary Rumsfeld said that is a concern for all those in Iraq."

The fact is that these relics of pre-'Desert Storm' history were lost to the sands of time and for Republicans to pretend these are somehow related to or justification for Bush's lie-pressed war is total and complete hokum. Even so, they can keep a straight face -- clearly desperate people in desperate times scraping for the justification of unjustifiable acts.

We all have heard how Rick Santorum is in trouble in PA trailing his democratic challenger badly in his re-election bid.  We also should know that Rick Santorum was the most bullish senator in favor of the Bush effort to privatize SS.  Well, what do you think is one of the leading issues on the many, many campaign adds now running in PA to bolster Santorum's reelection bid?  Can you believe it his favoring guaranteed ss benefits for those over 55!!  It is true!  I have seen about 10 adds in the last 2 days where Santorum is heralding his support for ss at least in this age group.

 In case you missed it (I certainly did, and have to hat-tip David Sirota for the story), Rick Santorum is trying to distance himself from the Iraq war the way a vampire would distance herself from garlic: