Overwhelming Force

350 Tax Increases?
President Bush applies the Powell Doctrine to running for re-election

This article from the ever-insightful Michael Kinsley takes President Bush to task for his claim that John Kerry has tried to raise taxes 350 times. Of course he's done nothing like that, but as Kinsley points out, that's not the point: Bush wants to end this with one death blow, and he thinks this will be it. But truth, as Bush is learning lately, has a sneaky way of finding its way out of even the tightest trap, and it's going to be tough to keep a lid on the fact that this assertion, like so many others Bush has made since taking office, is at best a distortion and at worst a bald-faced lie.