PLAN FOR MORE BULLSHIT

Going from "Mission Accomplished" on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to "Plan for Victory" at the U.S. Naval Academy, two and a half years later, signifies progress in the surreal world of the Bullshitter-in-Chief when, in fact, it means the exact opposite: We're going backwards. The slogans say it themselves.

If more naval trappings for the latest empty nonsense by a talking-points prez on rewind, left, weren't enough to make you throw up, how does this vomit-making news strike you?

Meantime, a New York Times editorial notes that the so-called plan for victory is basically a rehash of "the same tired argument that everything's going just fine." Even USA Today, the vox populi of the American press, went negative on the speech and the plan, describing the Bullshitter as a congenital "cheerleader" who "missed his moment." Too deferential by half, it was nevertheless a welcome contrast to the Washington Post's mealy-mouth editorial. The Los Angeles Times also failed to applaud, unlike the true-blue academy's rah-rah chorus. Needless to say, The Wall Street Journal laid on a rave.

To illustrate how we feel about all of this, have a look at the juxtaposed photo collages, right. It's old and inexact, we admit. It's also missing the Bullshitter's stalwart-in-crime, Cheney Boy, as one of the triumvirate. But what it says about the nation's collective nightmare is as apt now as it was in the Bullshitter's first term -- probably more so.

-- Tireless Staff of Thousands

Postscript: And this is how that vomit-making news strikes our nauseated poet:

D. C. DATELINE

A democratic populace
Must always be informed
To keep its vital institutions
From being sacked and stormed.

-- Leon Freilich