1:18 PM

Suffer a soul-crushing defeat recently? Be of Good Cheer!:

Well if that’s your attitude, the only thing I have for you is that the Bush Administration will not be able to get out the door before its irremediable clusterfucks . . . fuck clusters. Or whatever. Iraq is not fixable. When it goes definitively kablooey, its architects will not be safely tucked away in their ranches and sinecures, able to tut-tut that if only we had stayed the course ….

The downside? Oh, little things, like returning to office the government that

• *asserted that the executive can unilaterally and unreviewably strip any citizen of citizenship and declare any non-citizen an “enemy combatant” without rights;
• *argued in its work papers that the President is not bound by either domestic or international laws of war because - he’s the President! and it’s a war!