Reality, what a concept!

Remember when they bragged about creating reality? They have stopped bragging, but they are working even harder to create a reality that doesn't include a bite-in-the-ass reward for all their transgressions.
Geov Parrish at Booman:

That rare burst of on-the-record candor from our “senior advisor,” uttered just before the last national election, is present in every increasingly desperate tactic Republicans and the Bush administration are employing in the weeks and days leading up to Tuesday’s election. From fear-mongering, appallingly dishonest and sleazy campaign ads, and baiting of gays and immigrants, to the latest headlines, each of these tactics represents a Rovian attempt to create, in a staggeringly hostile political climate, the reality of a plurality of votes in a majority of congressional jurisdictions being counted for Republican candidates on November 7.

Bush’s Republicans are trying, in other words, to create the only reality that has ever truly mattered to these people: their ability to seize and maintain power. In 2002 and 2004, they succeeded. But with every gambit and at every turn this electoral season, they are failing.

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