Rove back on the attack?

Word has it that Rove is back to his old self, strutting around the halls of 1600 but how lame is this response to the growing evidence that Bush lied us into war.

The White House's effort to stop the erosion is centered on defining the president's critics as Democrats who voted for the war based on the same intelligence Mr. Bush saw but have switched positions, often under pressure from their party's left wing.

"I point out that some of the critics today believed themselves in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, said Thursday at a news briefing. "They stated that belief, and they voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein posed a dangerous threat to the American people. For those critics to ignore their own past statements, exposes the hollowness of their current attacks."

Ummm, let's see, the critics are guilty because they were given false evidence and believed their president wouldn't lie to them, or is it that our president is so stupid and lazy, he didn't bother to check out the credibility of the intelligence and just really believed God handed him what he had wanted for years - a chance to take out Saddam?

I think Rove might be slipping. It's such an obivous swiping of the critic's talking point on hypocrisy and past GOP statements on perjury and pre-emptive wars, but it doesn't hold water in this case. It's almost laughable that they think they can fool the public with the same tired and now debunked lies.