Racist Bush administration accuses others of racism.

It's not like you need even more insulting hypocrisy coming out of the Bush administration, but here's a truly delightful example. Over here, Brendan Nyhan points out Chimpy's sleazy habit of accusing others of racism when it comes to, for example, Social Security and democracy in Iraq.

Specifically in the case of Iraq, as Nyhan points out:

[Bush] frequently does the same thing when talking about the war in Iraq, attributing opposition to the war to "some" people who don't believe Iraqis are capable of democracy, which again attaches the vague stigma of racism to all of his opponents.

Keep in mind that these folks who argue that Iraq really is ready for democracy -- really, it is -- are the same folks whose former Iraq Grand Viceroy Poohbah Supreme Wizard, Paul Bremer, couldn't even hightail his cowardly ass out of there without issuing a whirlwind of laws and edicts:

As of June 14 [2004], Bremer had issued 97 legal orders, which are defined by the U.S. occupation authority as "binding instructions or directives to the Iraqi people" that will remain in force even after the transfer of political authority. An annex to the country's interim constitution requires the approval of a majority of Allawi's ministers, as well as the interim president and two vice presidents, to overturn any of Bremer's edicts. A senior U.S. official in Iraq noted recently that it would "not be easy to reverse" the orders.

It appears unlikely that all of the orders will be followed. Many of them reflect an idealistic but perhaps futile attempt to impose Western legal, economic and social concepts on a tradition-bound nation that is reveling in anything-goes freedom after 35 years of dictatorial rule.

The orders include rules that cap tax rates at 15 percent, prohibit piracy of intellectual property, ban children younger than 15 from working, and a new traffic code that stipulates the use of a car horn in "emergency conditions only" and requires a driver to "hold the steering wheel with both hands."

So, apparently, the Iraqi people are ready for democracy but still have to be told how to drive. How quaint.