It's Normal and Pathological

Can't anyone in the Bush Administration ever tell the truth? Even something remotely resembling the truth would be a step in the right direction. Politicizing the Forest Service, for chrissakes? The Forest Service?

The forest in the original photo is freshly logged and isn't even in the area claimed. It's in Montana, nowhere near the Sierra Nevada.

So the question is: Are these people pathologically dishonest, or simply stunningly incompetent? Here at centrepedal, we report, you decide.