Essential Reading from HuffPo

Everything's our fault, the fault of anyone who's not a wingnut....

And my Goddess, Jane Smiley, posts:

Last week (an eventful week, to be sure), two sentences became juxtaposed in my consciousness. From Newsweek, concerning Bob Woodward's "State of Denial", we have, "The president is folksy and jocular, but incurious to the point of cluelessness." And from the Associated Press, concerning the new detainees bill, "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime."

So, as the world becomes more and more dangerous, as we come to know with more and more clarity and certainty that the president has never either known what he was doing with regard to Al Queda or the war in Iraq nor cared to find out, we are told that, nevertheless, that trained judges with education and experience, who know the law and the Constitution, and who, indeed, may be widely traveled, cosmopolitan, and sophisticated in their thinking, are to watch their step because Bush is in charge, and what he says goes.

Oodles more at the link, of course.