Ten Dim Bulbs

Apologies for slowness in posting today--I was feeling a little under the weather (nothing serious), and took a day of rest from work.

I've been reading the usual blogs and websites, which I'm sure everyone else has been doing--on the Iraqi debacle front, the revelation that almost 400 tons of high explosives have gone missing from a known military installation that apparently wasn't guarded when the troops swept towards Baghdad has all the markings of classic Bush policy: first, ignore the problem, second, ignore the problem, than get all hot under the collar when asked about it. While I'm sure that careful preparations were made for "Mission Accomplished," nobody bothered to accomplish the mission--because they never really had a mission. The invasion was pure politics. The fact that people were going to get killed mattered not one bit to them.

However, they've got some real spinmeisters, eh? The Wolves in the woods ad has already proven so effective that The Poor Man has TWO takes on this--here and here. Atrios reported last week that an airing on Crossfire drew derisive laughter.

And today's shocking revelation that Kerry didn't meet with ALL of the UN Security Council members last year (oh my gosh--Mexico, Colombia, AND Bulgaria weren't present) will only generate a response from those already inclined to think the Senator is Satan's spawn.

In this light (no pun intended) I'll close with the following joke sent to me by my sister:

How many members of the Bush Administration does it
take to change a light bulb?

The Answer is TEN:

1. one to deny that the light bulb needs to be
changed,

2. one to attack the patriotism of anyone who says
the light bulb needed to be changed,

3. one to blame Clinton for burning out the light
bulb,

4. one to tell the nations of the world that they
are either for changing the light bulb or for darkness,

5. one to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to
Haliburton for the new light bulb,

6. one to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as
a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner "Lightbulb
Change Accomplished,

7. one administration insider to resign and write a
book documenting detail how Bush was literally in the dark,

8. one to viciously smear #7,

9. one surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies
on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along,

10. and finally one to confuse Americans about the
difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

I'll try to be back later this evening--again, apologies for the late start.