Yyyeaahhhh..Inaugrification

Mhmm. Yeah, I can't seem to get to excited about the inaugural. Hip Liz's poem says it best. Maybe it's because I'm just too damned busy at the job. Or maybe Daring Dayton is just sucking my energy with his nearly perpetual motion. I speculate on these things because any one could be the cause, but I suspect its more that these things affect my willingness to get really angry and frustrated. After the election, which was a stone downer for me, I was drained. Despite a majority of disapproval for what our narrow-eyed fratboy in chief has wrought with the economy and the war, people still voted for him (allegedly) enough to get him back in there. I just can't take the time to dwell on the disconnect there. What are the American people thinking? They mostly don't approve of what Bush has done with maybe the two most important issues we face. Do they think he'll have learned something and change his ways? If that were the case, his cabinet would have changed dramatically, as would his running mate have changed. Cheney is something straight out of democracy's darkest nightmares. Here's a quote from an interesting interview with this arrogant VP, who I think cares less than nothing about what happens to the average American, in which he refers to the War Powers Act of 1973:

"That made a change in the institutional arrangements that I don't think is healthy," the vice president said. "I don't think you should restrict the president's authority to deploy military forces because of the Vietnam experience."

Oh yeah, Man. Just toss out those checks and balances. That would fit nicely with everything else about this presidency. Even though Bush obtained a vote from Congress approving the use of force, you'll note that Cheney thinks that kind of careful approach to military action and all it's horrible consequences is unhealthy.

Perhaps it's just beaten me down. I have a bunker mentality now. Just hunker down, and try to not be noticed and raise my son and love my wife, and try to be healthy and somewhat principled and hope the next four years passes quickly, and that someone in Congress turns out to be a little more moderate...and hope against hope that as a republic we aren't, as Hunter Thompson described a motorcycle accident, cartwheeling across the land with our head in our hands, ending up with our national bones broken and our scalp laid open.

So, I didn't watch the speech except what little I got on the news. I saw Bush give his usual stilted, school assembly type delivery. There was more nonsense about the march of freedom, unity, blah blah blah. Coming from him and his speechwriters, it means absolutely nothing.