Measurables

Let's make sure we don't hear anything that doesn't conform to the party line, eh? ...Baghdadis are down to one or two hours of electricity a day, but that the Bush administration will no longer be measuring or reporting on that sort of local data. It will give Congress only the general statistic for the entire country. But obviously whether the capital has electricity would help you know whether the current policies are working. Oh, obviously. Except that "The Decider" has already decided that it doesn't help, so we will no longer bother to measure or report on it. People are starting to notice this foolishness.