Occasionally I delude myself that I can write. Then I read Driftglass' stuff and... well, anyway, today he posts about the Bushite Regime's tendency to see the world in only two tenses:

First, there is the alky’s Best Friend: the eternally Bright Future about which they talk endlessly. The Bright Future is a wonderful, scrum-dee-lee-icious realm full of Iraqi Corners that are juuuust about to be turned, booming prosperity, magically evaporating deficits and rising Republican popularity.

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Then there is and the Dim and Distant Past,... that scary place full Dubya’s draft dodgery, drunkenness, lies, broken promises, blood-soaked treason, treachery, betrayal of the nation’s trust, breathtaking ineptitude, fatal arrogance, casual thuggery,

And that’s just in the last two weeks!

Go read it. Its well worth the effort.