I think there's a governmental corollary to the Onyedum South Park Axiom ("Every time you think South Park can't get any more disturbing, you see the next episode" ... [rough paraphrase]): Every time you think the Bush administration has made the worst mockery of the institution of government in its ignominious history, it does something worse.
I don't even know where to begin with this one. They're not even trying any more. Almost any comparison I can think of, they've probably done that to. It's like appointing a man convicted of conspiracy, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and destroying evidence in the Iran Contra scandal head of the Office of Information Awareness. It's like letting oil executives write energy policy. It's like cutting down trees to prevent forest fires. It's like assenting to execution and torture while paying lip service to a culture of life. It's like denouncing "judicial activism" while at the same time bitching that a Democratic minority are blocking the nomination of a woman who seems hell-bent on rewriting law to her whim. And, to round it all out, it's like portraying the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominations as a reprehensible, morally corrupt act when you did the same goddamn thing yourself less than 8 years ago.
And yet, about half of the people in this country seem to think moral values are more important to Republicans. And they like Bush.
What luck for rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler
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