Oh, it seems the American President is pushing aside all of those pesky people that might in the least bit disagree with him-- and consolidating his own power-- by stacking his top posts with yes-men and Rice-paper tigers. Given the President's tendency to bristle at even the slightest indication that he might ever, even once in his tenure, have made a mistake or violated international law, I'm sure the Drudge Report is passing on to the W's top advisors Thomas Walkom's column from The Star which deliberates on the possibility of charging the Prez with war crimes. I think we in Canada can now rest assured that it will be another four years before an American president bothers to travel north of the border; after all, he didn't deem it worthwhile to visit his nation's largest trading partner in his first term, so why would he start now? 
Oh, that's right: he's supposed to be coming at the end of this month. I wonder if the President will introduce his new Secretary of Education (pictured above) to Flat Mark. Finally, a new opportunity for multilateralism! ADDENDUM: Check out some of the disturbingly vitriolic commentary on Walkom's article at Fark. Oh my, it's abundantly clear that some people surely cannot sustain even a hypothetical discussion without getting their danders righteously up and talking about invading Canada, as if Canada had already decided that prosecuting Bush was a national course of action. Sheesh! No, there's no intolerance streak in America right now; not in the least....
DUM-DIDDY-DENDUM: It seems Scooby-Dubby-Doo has decided to pursue a revolutionary course for his second term, as Nicholas Kristof examines in his column today for the NYTimes. (Free subscription required.) Kristof says what many of us have been thinking, though I'd probably add a slight bit to it: the moderates have now been defeated, with even the normally more-sober John McCain beginning to sound like a raving-Bushy and Colin Powell being issued the "thanks, now get the fuck out" missive. The moderates had a chance to make a difference, and they didn't. Now prepare for the Hard Swing right, as if the past four years had been a mild bend in the road. The moderates, it seems, have fallen; now prepare for the reign of terror. Can we call Dubby Robespierre? And I wonder what Crane Brinton would have to say about this, were he still alive to witness this.... "Welcome to the Accession of the Extremists?" And perhaps: "I was wrong: the radicals don't always have to come from the Left."
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