Well, the president didn't mean it literally....

Yesterday, I looked back at the 2006 SOTU promise to cut mideast oil exports by 75%, which was retracted the next day by Bush's Energy Secretary who said, "the president didn't mean it literally."

Well, we've already got the foundations of the same claim from last night's SOTU. Remember the bold, headlining claim that we're going to cut US gas use by 20%? Well, that's not exactly true.....

The fine print: Administration officials said that the goal is 20 percent below projected annual gasoline usage, not off today's levels.

And that's 20% off whose projections?

(There's a furniture store nearby where you get "50% off every day," but amazingly, their prices are no better than anywhere else. You know?)