Before the wires move a story on it, you can watch President George W. Bush on CNN or C-SPAN in a rare Rose Garden press conference say "the economy is on the fast track" and fake concern for renewable energy sources - as he refuses to get the troops out of Iraq and saber rattles about the coming war with Iran.

While the local newspapers and TV news stations continue to report that the economy is great and unemployment is at record low numbers, we suspect an investigation of the numbers would reveal that they are as cooked as Enron's and HealthSouth's books.

As for renewable energy sources, Bush's energy plan focuses solely on opening up the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling and some incentives for ethanol and research into hydrogen.

Besides, his base could care less about the environment - they are just interested in keeping the gas cheap for their SUVs so they can drive everywhere they go.