In Bush's D.C., lying is standard operating procedure

In his column yesterday, Frank Rich captured the current reality about lying in your nation's Capitol:

[T]here's been so much lying surrounding this war from the start that everyone is inured to it by now. In Washington, lying no longer registers as an offense against the rule of law.

The Bush team sees no consequences to lying. The media dutifully report the lies as truth, or at the very least, report the lies unchallenged, even if they know that they're not true, or at the very least know some other facts that contradict them (facts the media will never mention when reporting the lies).