The Administration's relentless smoke and mirror approach to governing the country may well, at long last, be their undoing.

From the days of cutting down trees to 'save our forests' and relaxing emission regulations to foster 'clear skies' they have built a convoluted house of cards that can not stand. The sheer weight of reality trumps all their short-sighted PR, prevarication and political sleight of hand.

Katrina shed the first well publicized light on the Administration's inability to make reality fit their publicity campaigns. "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" may be seen one day as the beginning of the end of the charade.

Yet, nowhere is the failure of their PR campaign to mask reality more gruesomely evident than in Iraq. The shifting justifications for our invasion, occupation and escalation have not kept up with the litany of death and deprivation. Nor can they.

There was the mushroom cloud justification. (Debunked.) There was the mobile biological lab justification. (Debunked.) There was the Saddam/al Qaeda connection. (Debunked.)

There was the "is the world better off without Saddam" justification. (To echo a recent Rove statement - nice try.) There was, and is, the spreading democracy in the Middle East justification. (Grasping at straws...)

Once 'Support Our Troops' became the bottom line response to the death toll among those very same troops - well - most of America got it.

Something's really, really wrong here.

As the 9th Circuit Court Judge said in another matter, "I feel like it's Alice in Wonderland".

Now, as the lists of exits from this Administration grows ever longer, and Mr. Bush looks to some elusive legacy, one thing becomes clear.

Reality happens.

All the spin in the world won't change that.