Amen, Bill

Bill Mayer has a great essay at Salon.com today about why it's our patriotic duty to ridicule W., as in George, at every opportunity.
Note: I have a premium subscription to Salon.com. I don't know whether you need one to access this article in full or not.
Of course there is much to ridicule, almost too much. But, hey, if it's our patriotic duty....
Bush really is easy prey for jokesters and pundits. Still when the absurd is allowed to replace/displace the sane, it does behoove us to keep putting out that the absurd is NOT and should NEVER be accepted as either sane or normal, even when such absurdity seems to be all one sees.
So in the spirit of that, here's today's "Please say it isn't so" link. (You may need to be registered with the New York Times to access this.) It reminds me all too much of that fill in the blank gag format "You know you ____ when ____."
In this case, it's "You know you (have aggressiveness issues) when (you are more gung-ho than the U.S. military." Yup, Bush wants to authorize aggressive interrogation methods that the Pentagon has already rejected as too extreme.)
Let that sink in.
Bush wants to do things to people that the military, who make their living out of doing nasty things to people, are too sqeamish for. Or have principles and intelligence to know better than to attempt. When the Pentagon is more principled and intelligent than the leader of the free world... The free world is in serious trouble. But you knew that.
Oh. And Bush doesn't want those pesky activist judges to intervene when people are tortured. After all, where's the fun of spreading democracy to darkened parts of the world when pesky details like presumption of innocence, the right to face one's accusers and "checks and balances" (in "scare quotes") get in the way?