Bush and the NIE

So now that we've become the country that can no longer be embarrassed, the country that can no longer even pretend to muster up any outrage over the Bush administration's latest lying shenanigans, the country that has lost a PR contest with Iran, now it's come to this. With the latest Bush/NIE fiasco, it's come to this. Our level of expectations, our standards for how a president should act or lead have been driven so low that we, as Americans, have to sit in our chairs today and actually hope that the president is as dumb as we think he is. We have to actually hope that he was completely ignorant of the facts, we have to hope that yes, he IS as incurious as we thought - in the back room wrestling with a ball of yarn instead of reading, you know, intelligence. We actually have to hope he's Billy Carter. This is what we've become. Oh, joy!