The Parade of Ass-Kissers

The "elite" that manage to keep the empire on a steady course of failing inertia got together, as always, to kiss each others ass, and pretend they are not mutually driving the nation to ruin.

And who was the "star" of the forum yesterday, but the world's greatest liar:

Against the backdrop of a renewed level of carnage in Iraq over the weekend, Karl Rove remained unapologetic Sunday morning in Aspen about the war in Iraq.

Rove — whose titles include assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President Bush — spoke at the Greenwald Pavilion at the Aspen Ideas Festival at the Aspen Institute.

"Look, I make no apologies," Rove said in response to a question from the audience about whether he felt personally responsible for the war.

"It was the right thing to do. The world is better off with him gone," he said, referring to Saddam Hussein. "We all thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world did. He didn't."

So many lies in one short section. And speaking of bravery, Colin Powell, who just this weekend said he desperately tried to keep Bush from the clusterfuck that Rove threw out the lies for, actually stood up to ask Rove a question...and completely went into the tank again.

Disgusting.