I Would HATE To Be A Republican About Now...

Oh Lord a' mighty. Wouldn't you hate to have to make sense out of this administration's errors over the past couple of months?

A high-ranking American military spokesman declares that in fact, there are 12-15,000 insurgents in Iraq, and that number is not diminishing. How many times have we heard that the insurgents were weakening? Turns out they weren't.

Bush's nominee to head the Homeland Security department wasn't properly vetted by the FBI before they announced his appointment. 'Scuse me? Who are they going to nominate to head the Department of Buffonery? Maybe even I could run that kind of gauntlet... Ellis Henican lays it out pretty nicely in his column. And after all is said and done a Homeland Security chief knocked out because he wasn't properly investigated by the FBI. If I were writing a book and had this plot twist, the editor would say "No one will believe this!!"

Then there's that little matter of Iraqis deciding that Ayad Alawi (the US's hand-picked Iraqi to head the new government) was only worthy of a distant third place finish when the Iraqis were doing the deciding themselves. Though I give credit where it's due: the Iraqi Election Lite was a better attempt at Democracy than I thought it would be. It might even have exceeded the USA's last two presidential races in terms of reflecting the electorate's will. Who can say?

And then there's the matter of the male prostitute fake journalist who's been let into the White House Press Corps. Scott McClellan says he went through all the proper avenues for approval and he was representing a legitimate news outlet. Funny thing is, now C-Span has footage of him asking a question of the president two months before there even was a Talon News Service. Whoops!
That means that 1. Scott McClellan was lying, and that 2. Jeff Gannon got in the White House with someone's help. If you can't spell it, let me give you a hand: s-c-a-n-d-a-l.

So no...I'd never want to be a Republican, but in particular, not now!