Bush Asserts Increased Confidence in Gonzales - washingtonpost.com

I seems that lying in the Bush administration is pervasive and pathological. How are we supposed to believe Bush when he professes confidence in Gonzalez? He professed confidence in Rumsfeld, said that he would keep his job, right up to the day he let him go. Gonzalez himself is in trouble because of lying, or being extraordinarily forgetful, just as Scooter Libby was before him. There is a culture of lying, of stretching the limits of "plausible deniability", in Washington, but the Bush administration has taken it to new heights. When steeped in the current political environment, it's hard not to see everyone as liars. I think Floyd Landis is lying, not because I have looked into the cycling scandal very closely, but just because it seems like everyone is lying these days. I can't help thinking that young people awakening to the political world for the first time will look at recent headlines and figure that lying is just the way things get done in Washington, and they will either follow suit or distance themselves from the process as much as possible. As we start looking for a new president, the quality I'm looking for most is credibility. Just give me someone I can believe.