Over the last eight years, under the tutelage of the pig-faced Karl Rove, the Republicans have dreamed up a brand new – and very effective – scheme for dealing with the media coverage they fear so much.

It’s called lying.

Take a look, for instance, at this clip from a recent Sarah Palin interview on CBS.  Palin is clearly lying about her experience with Russian affairs, and her tongue-in-cheek look of defiance, once upon a time decades ago, would have earned her a well-deserved tongue-lashing – if not an outright slap to her smirking face – if the interrogating attorney had been anybody but a Lilliputian Katie Couric.  Her husband, say.

This woman is nothing short of pathetic.  She is a liar, and a lousy one at that.  Nobody with an ounce of integrity or an iota of credibility would even dream of claiming that a brief stint as governor of Alaska qualifies as VP-level foreign policy expertise.  The notion is laughable on its face, yet Palin publicly defends her moronic stance with eyes as vacant as her Mongoloid child’s.  Palin single-handedly makes the case for mandatory DNA testing before conception.  She is one scary bitch.

It’s also eminently clear that John McCain and the Republicans have given up trying to make sense.  Complex world affairs and good governance are simply beyond their comprehension, and totally beyond their demonstrated capacity to execute with any skill or diplomacy.  So they’ve completely thrown in the towel, and they’ve resorted to outright lying; lies so obvious and laughable, newly employed media scribes probably examine their paychecks weekly to ensure they haven’t mistakenly landed jobs with the National Lampoon.

If you’re not going to let us play our games, then nobody gets to play.

What’s even worse, Palin, Rove, and the Republicans think they’re being clever about it.  It’s the same embarrassing response one gets from people who are proven wrong, and don’t have the courage or good sense to admit it.  Instead of displaying humility and searching more deeply for solutions, they give up and become bombastic and cynical, all the while maintaining poker expressions as if enjoying some huge private joke at the winner’s expense.

The American people deserve better.  Since the Republicans have proven to everybody – beyond even a shadow of a doubt, that they cannot govern, even with majority control of Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive offices, they should cease and desist with their whining and excuses, and leave the challenges of 21st century leadership in the hands of people willing and able to deal with it.

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