Remember when "plausible deniability" was enough to save an officeholder's skin? The Bush team has now moved beyond that. Their current strategy is to say that something couldn't have happened because it would have been too stupid.  Let's call it...

Deniable Implausibility.

Tony Snow today: "You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would, never does, never will," Snow said. "You think Dick Cheney's going to slip up on something like this? No, come on."

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Keith Olbermann, in tonight's report on David Kuo'sbook, Tempting Faith, quoted Karl Rove as saying "Just get me a f*%#ing faith-based thing. Got it?"

I was instantly reminded of Bush 41 and "the vision thing." While that phrase has certainly entered the lexicon, the story of its origin seems to have gone down the memory hole.

More after the jump....

Tony Snow admitted during the  May 30, 2006 Press Briefing that Bush "artfully worded"  a statement about the resignation of Treasury Secretary John Snow.

Full statement below the fold.

If Joe Lieberman's campaign staff is already planning an independent run, they must be considering other already-established parties. And third parties might be ready to extend their nomination.

Let's play matchmaker for the renegade Democrat.

Hmmm.

The Right-to-Life Party?
--they must love his position on denying hospital beds to rape victims

How about The Republican Party?  

Any others?