Ouch!

In the back of my mind, I still think of the NYT as the NYT of my youth (yes, we had newspapers way back then!); noble, liberal, concerned, combative. Lately, it's been pretty much a lapdog to the powers that be (why run a controversial story before the election? isnt that inserting ourselves into politics?) Today, they may have started a comeback.

This editorial is about as pointed an attack on anyone as I've seen in an MSM publication. Wow! Go Times!

We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less.

This has been a central flaw of Mr. Bush's presidency for a long time. But last week produced a flood of evidence that vividly drove home the point.

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Like many other administrations before it, this one sometimes dissembles clumsily to avoid embarrassment. (We now know, for example, that the White House did not tell the truth about when it learned the levees in New Orleans had failed.) Spin-as-usual is one thing. Striking at the civil liberties, due process and balance of powers that are the heart of American democracy is another.

The is a detailed indictment of Bu$hCo... go read it.