Dick

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the secret sits in the middle and knows."

That's what Robert Frost, who, in his later years, taught at my college while I was there, penned. I had to write an essay about it.

As Cheney flings another of his Peyronioid arrows at Obama for, in his sick view, not doing anything right about terrorists, news like this makes me think of that poem, and shake my head sadly.

Having gotten nothing right for the eight years of his presidency, having been easily lapped by the Obama administration in anti-terrorist successes, Dick still gets more air than Shaun White. And people believe him, think Obama doesn't get it, think the Dick did. What a pathetic people we are; how gullible, how easily misled; how hungrily we lap up the gruel spread before us by Foxdick, as long as it confirms our prejudices and doesn't require thought.

It's also worth noting that despite the Dickish invective, the administration kept mum on this success, in order that the intelligence gathered therefrom could be used. This is in contrast to the Cheney administrations trotting out every action ASAP, sometimes to the detriment of possible operations.

The president we need, to fix the universal destruction left behind by President Cheney: we have him, and we're being lied to at every turn by cynical people who want to stop him, and whose discredited ideas got us there in the first place. And somehow, it's working. We have a collective memory the length of the last disinformation show on Fox. Read the comments on this blog: it couldn't be clearer.

You'd think being right would be enough. But, since the wrong is killing us, it's not. I can't stand it.

Abandon Hope

If anyone thinks Congressional Republicans (this time it's the senators) are going to become credible any time soon, think again. This ad has to be the most pathetic excuse for a policy position, the most loony attempt to scare people ever foisted on the public. It's ridiculous on its face; the more so because someone evidently thinks it isn't. And is willing to associate with it. Was there any remaining doubt that these guys are irrelevant, even to thoughtful conservatives? Kiss it goodbye; and with it, any hope for reasoned and reasonable debate on.... well, on any topic at all. Whatsoever. Nada. These guys are levers, inclined planes, wedges. Simple tools.

Need it be pointed out that in every state there are prisons, holding really bad guys? There's one a few miles from here. What, exactly, does it matter if it's Charles Manson or Ramsey Yousef? A serial child-killer, or KSM? We're not talking about them shacking up in the cute rambler, 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, needs work, nice starter home next door.

Scary friggin' music, though.

I'd laugh, but it's too depressing. These are the guys someone sent to Washington, to do our work. To be useful. Time to throw in the towel. We're screwed.
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Wish I'd Said This

An excellent thought at The Washington Monthly. Some things are so obvious that you'd think they don't need saying. Except, as long as there are people like Coulter and Hannity out there, they do.