Not much to piss and moan about anymore.

Well, it has been a quiet week. With the Democrats now set to take over the Senate and the House, Rumsfeld seeking other employment, a female speaker of the house, a liberal has less reason to fret.

Now the Taliban will lay down their weapons, North Korea will chain the gates of it's nuclear program shut, and Iran will hold sweeping political reforms.

I wish.

Actually, as he is facing uneployment, I think that Rumsfeld should look into politics in Iran. He has that instinct to leap for the jugular that works well with an incensed public. I bet that if he learned to speak Farsi, he would have a shot at being elected President of Iran. As president of Iran, Rumsfeld could make a good argument for the nuclear program, fend off the UN, Israel, and get to strut around in a bad suit. He could market himelf as a liberal reformer, a friend of the world, a voice of reason in a time of insanity. A Persian diet would do good for his complexion, not to mention his figure. He would look like a 45 year old Robert Culp inside of two years. He would get to yell at press conferences. Yell, hell. He would get to shout and scream. You know that we wanted to scream at press conferences at the White House. You could see it in that vein in his temple. He was dying for public scream therapy.

Announcer:

"Live now, we take you to the White House where Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld is giving the latest on the on-going offensive in Falluja":

Rumsfeld: "Thank you ladies and gentleman of the press, today I would like to announce Whaaaaaaaaaaa, Whaaaaaaaaaa, Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! Eeeeeeeeeeee! Ahhhhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhh........ ahem. Much better. We have taken over the insurgent stronghold, and our troops suffered no casualties."

By replacing the english words in the above paragraph with the phrase: "Death to Israel" and leaving the screaming, you have a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the president of Iran.

Meanwhile, back in the USA, birds chirp, the white hot arrogance of presidential "blitzkrieg" rhetoric cools, not because ideals of changed, but because it has ceased to play well with the public. It was all a show folks, and you saw the strings. Fox news will probably swing left now, in order to secure their ratings, and keep the advertising revenue flowing. The flag is still the flag, these colors don't run, never will no matter who is in Washington. Don't get me wrong, we are still wrapped in the flag, as good Americans should be, we just don't have it stuffed deep into our ears any more. Thank you citizens of the USA for listening to the truth, and voting.