“Why aren’t these unindicted co-conspirators–President What-Me-Worry, who pratfall’d his way into the history books, and Uncle Darth, the cold-eyed war ‘droid who lined his plutocratic pockets with the rich pickings of Halliburton contracts in the dock or, at the very least, in the stocks, pelted with overripe eggs by jeering schoolkids on a history-class field trip? Now we have Adorably Giggly Dubya, Painter of Light, and Elder Statesman Cheney, tough-talking voice of battle-tested geopolitical wisdom, to torment us all their livelong days, thanks to the credulous stenographers to power who pass as broadcast journalists in this, democracy’s farcical fizzle. Mencken’s ghost blows a smoke ring and knocks the ash from his cigar.”
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