That Was a Real Good Thing You Done, George.

[TomInTib]

from HuffPo, this is quite good.

At first when I heard that the Republicans were finally standing up to Bush, I was thrilled. That was before Tony, the irritable handyman, a guy who I hired to build me some bookshelves, detailed for me a different way to look at it.

But first let me backtrack for a second. Having come to political consciousness during the Nixon/Johnson/Ford debacle, I have never really gotten over how the things I initially didn't believe about the secret workings of the U.S. government all turned out to be true.

Come on; Enemies lists? Wiretapping the phones of protesters? CIA assassins? Yeah, right.

Once I made that leap, I have never been able to completely discount bizarre theories. And I worked in talk radio for a while so I have heard some very creative ones. Still, when people send me little movies to download about how the Bush administration was behind 9/11, while the sensible part of me files this with the rantings of the troglodytes who think we staged the moon landing, a more paranoid part of me puts the details on hold for reviewing at a later date. A wry little voice asks me why we had all those red and orange alerts right around the time of the election, and not since?

The rest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/merrill-markoe/that-was-a-real-good-thin_b_17043.html?view=print