Remember when "plausible deniability" was enough to save an officeholder's skin? The Bush team has now moved beyond that. Their current strategy is to say that something couldn't have happened because it would have been
too stupid. Let's call it...
Deniable Implausibility.
Tony Snow today: "You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would, never does, never will," Snow said. "You think Dick Cheney's going to slip up on something like this? No, come on."
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Of course, Condikins might call it "Deniable inconceivability."
"Inconceivable" is her favorite word, after all:
"The State Department has admitted that a review of records has shown that George Tenet, the then CIA Director, did brief Dr Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming al-Qaeda threat.This appeared to undermine the claim by Dr Rice this week that she did not remember any such meeting. She added that it was inconceivable that she would have ignored the threat." (italics mine--and you can't have them!)
Maybe Rove's certainty that Repugs will control Congress after the election is that they will just deny the election results as implausible, inconceivable, or just plain "unacceptable."