Bubble Boy Finds Outside World Toxic

Today President Bush made a disturbing statement: He believes he may not live in a bubble.

What's disturbing about is it means that the missteps, miscalculations, misinformation, misappropriation of resources, mistakes, misdeeds and just plain misses of the last five years were intentional. Even more disturbing, it means that scientific evidence, sound counsel, objections of friends, economic good sense and just plain logic have no effect on our President. Most disturbing, he's fought a senseless war costing somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 Iraqi lives based on what? If our Shrub isn't living in a bubble, he's either the greatest criminal or the greatest moron to sit in the Oval Office.

If he doesn't, as he maintains, live in a bubble, perhaps God really is talking to him, or maybe it's just Cheney on the intercom.

Further evidence of the "bubble", he maintained that race was not a factor in the response to Hurricane Katrina. Duh. The factor was socioeconomic status. The poor didn't get out, regardless of their skin color. The response was botched, even the Shrub admits that. And as he said, the storm hit all up and down the Gulf coast, including Trent Lot's infamous porch. He also claims initial troop levels in Iraq were adequate, a Republicanism as follows: The initial troop levels, those required for "shock and awe" were more than adequate. Days later, faced with a country to occupy and not enough troops to do so, the tables were turned. Again, we get a statement that while true, lies by omission, a Republicanism.

Hats off to Senator Robert Byrd for calling Frist out on his preemptive nuclear strike rhetoric. Filibuster Alito, guys. He's the last thing we need on our supreme court. Filibuster Frist, too, and his nuclear option until he's jailed for securities fraud or voted out of the Senate Majority Leader position. Hats off, too, to the ten Senators including our own Ken Salazar for blocking the rush to renew the unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act. "For those who want to reargue it and re-litigate it and reconsider it, it's not going to get any better," said Arlin Specter, faint praise for the bill that establishes an American secret police. It seems that whenever common sense is exercised in the Senate, Salazar isn't far from the action.