Bush's Coffin Flip-Flop

This cartoon puts into pretty glaring relief the Bush administration's hypocrisy regarding the remains of the dead from the war in Iraq and from 9/11.

These ads have really blown up in Bush's face, haven't they? I came across this tidbit at Atrios:

Another less-publicized aspect of the ad flap: the use of paid actors including two playing firefighters with fire hats and uniforms in what looks like a fire station. "Where the hell did they get those guys?" cracked Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which has endorsed John Kerry, when he first saw the ads. (A union spokesman said the shots prompted jokes that the fire hats looked like the plastic hats "from a birthday party.") "There's many reasons not to use real firemen," retorted one Bush media adviser. "Mainly, its cheaper and quicker."

I figured the record budget deficit we're now enjoying was proof enough that Republicans don't know how to handle money, but this stroke of money-saving brilliance by a president sitting on a war chest of $100 million-plus sent me right over the edge...
- posted by Brian @ 9:23 AM