Conan doesn't start until 12:30

Okay, so I may have stayed up until 3:30ish last night playing with Magic cards and paper tanks, however, at least I am not tut-tutting over the darndest things that politicians say. For instance, almost all of the President's policies are failures, and yet we are getting our underwear in a knot over some overheated comments political people are making while trying to practice politics.
Wouldn't it be great if instead of getting our panties in a knot over people telling the truth as they see it, we would demand that those people get in a room with each other and butt heads until they can find a reasonable way out of the messes that they have gotten us all in? I for one would love to see Sr. Arbusto send 100,000 more troops to Iraq right now. If he wants to show resolve, why not have the sack to get serious. Of course his strategy to "stand down," when the Iraqis "stand up" is nice. However, the fact that there is currently a civil war in Iraq makes that a pile of horsedoodie.
In fact, I think we should reinstate the draft (or national year of service), send another 100,000 troops to both Afghanistan and South Korea, move all our stealth bombers permanently to Guam, raise taxes, start selling war bonds, give tax breaks for buying fuel efficient cars or solar technology, build wind farms and nuclear plants with government money, require all U.S. and other passports to have biometric data electronically stored, require all containers to have electronic seals, and charge everyone at Guantanamo with a crime and put them on trial. Now that's what a real "war president" would do.
I watched the movie Bush's Brain about Karl Rove tonight. I wanted to see Bush's Brain not because it would somehow challenge my worldview, but because I was curious what all the heat was about. Anyways, the movie is chock full of interviews with dissatisfied Republicans, into whose backs Karl turned his knife very slowly and strategically. Of course, the reason the rest of the Republican party doesn't come out and say the same darn thing is because they don't want to be Roved like these poor souls. The statement that chilled my blood most thoroughly was that Valerie Plame and Karl Rove go to the same Episcopal Church in the D.C. area. Now that's moral values for ya.
Of course, accomplishing policies that actually work requires someone to believe that there is a higher good than getting and retaining power. Oh well, tilting at windmills went out of style a long time ago.