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There was this dizzy little fly buzzing around a bush in the pasture when he happened on a large pile of fresh cow manure. He was feeling hunger pangs, so he flew down to the irresistible delicacy and began to slurp. He ate...and ate...and then...he ate some more!!!
When he was full of it, he washed his face with his tiny front legs, belched a few times, and then attempted to fly away. But, alas...he had pigged out and could not get off the ground. He looked around wondering what to do about this unpleasant situation when he spotted a pitchfork leaning upright against a fence.
He had found a solution!! Suspecting that if he could just become airborne he'd be able to fly again, he painstakingly climbed to the top of the handle. Once there, he took a deep breath, spread his tiny fly wings, and leaped confidently into the air.
He dropped like a rock and splattered all over the ground...
The moral of this sad story?
"Never fly off the handle when you are full of s***."
There was this dizzy little neocon buzzing around a Bush in the pasture when he happened on a large pile of fresh rightwing talking points... 
Neocon hits the deck!
A GOP congressional leader who was wavering on giving President Bush the authority to wage war in late 2002 said Vice President Cheney misled him by saying that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had direct personal ties to al-Qaeda terrorists and was making rapid progress toward a suitcase nuclear weapon, according to a new book by Washington Post investigative reporter Barton Gellman.
Armey had spoken out against the coming war, and his opposition gave cover to Democrats who feared the political costs of appearing to be weak. Armey reversed his position after Cheney told him, he said, that the threat from Iraq was actually " more imminent than we want to portray to the public at large."
Cheney said, according to Armey, that Iraq's "ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear," had been "substantially refined since the first Gulf War," and would soon result in "packages that could be moved even by ground personnel." Cheney linked that threat to Hussein's alleged ties to al-Qaeda, Armey said, explaining that "we now know they have the ability to develop these weapons in a very portable fashion, and they have a delivery system in their relationship with organizations such as al-Qaeda."
"Did Dick Cheney . . . purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the case. . . . Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happening."
link:[www.washingtonpost.com]
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