Keeping Score

Running through the blogosphere this morning, I realized that the administration dedicated to "personal responsibility" and "changing the tone" is so deeply enmeshed in scandal that saying "they're up to their necks in them" would be charitable. I mean, we're really talking about--no pun intended--a veritable great flood. Sometimes it's...hard work...just keeping up.

Let's see: You've got Enron, the Cheney Energy Task Force, the California Blackouts, the August 6th PDB, 9/11 and My Pet Goat, Osama got away, the whole sorry mess in Iraq, Plamegate, Curveball, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Halliburton, sailboat fuel, the combination coingate/voting machine fiasco in Ohio, manwhores in the White House, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, ramping up the terror alerts for political purposes, the Katrina response, Michael Brown, Harriet "Star Struck by the Dim Bulb" Miers...and that's just what I can remember off-hand. I'm sure there are other instances of gross incompetence, or malfeasence--or even plain old simple cynicism.

Geez. I guess The Onion really was right when they said back in 2001: Our Long Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Over.