Political Sanity: Fact or Fiction?

I was going to write about the Bush Bubble Machine's latest magical mystery tour budget, and I still will.  First, as a curmudgeon-in-training, it's my moral obligation.  And second, we've never had a bigger liar in the white house since Nixon.  Now I'm not saying W is corrupt or evil, but he must have an embroidered sign over his bed with Mark Twain's quote:  "You can never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

But that's not what I want to write about.  In fact, I'm not going to write at all...except that I already am...oh well.  Poldark Maximus' site has an hysterical post on the upcoming presidential elections as well as one filled with deep wisdom and sagacity--since I agree with much of it.  Perhaps it's the continuing loss of memory cells that causes me to say the same thing over and over.  Or perhaps it's the continuing loss of memory cells that causes me to say the same thing over and over.  But I sense a certain annoyance with ideological extremism getting in the way of rational discourse.  Ol' Poldark is heading in the right direction.

The serious stuff: 

a) the country needs an extended period of political and emotional reconciliation, full stop; that b) hardliners to the left OR to the right simply need not apply and waste our time and c) no single party or candidate OWNS the war on terrorism, the protection of civil liberties, the hard answers to retirement and health care or immigration policy and d) if UBL continues to scare the shit out of you, FINE, because it took 30 years to fight the 30 Years War and that was over fine points of religion among Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists who all worshiped the same God, more or less.

And a hint of the hysterical:

1. Is there anything better in life than a BLT? What is it?
2. You see an injured deer on the side of the road in its obvious death-throes. What do you do? A) Drive on down the road B) Call the State Police C) Draw your sidearm and shoot it in the heart D) Call your campaign manager and ask them what action would carry Ohio?
3. Do you pray at your desk, in bed, or in the shower? To whom?

Read it all here:  Poldark Maximus

In Jamesons Veritas