State of the Union: Insane

If you have the stomach to watch our President deliver tomorrow night's SOTU here's an excellent article from this Sunday's Washington Post to frame the issues. Below are the results of a poll conducted Jan. 23-26 by the Post and ABC News asking Americans which issue should receive the highest priority by Bush and the Congress. Margin of error = +/- 3%


Interesting to see lobbying reform at the bottom of the list. It seems the Abramoff affair didn't surprise anyone but only confirmed that Americans already believe that Congress is available to the highest bidder. And yet, still not a priority. The blind trust people have in their government to self-regulate follows the textbook definition of insanity: to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

The issue directly above lobbying reform is a bit harder to rationalize. It's not a problem we as a species have had to deal with before although blind trust in our leaders is certainly not something we can rely on here, either. The debate stiffens, and Blair shows he's not like Dubya on all fronts.

Think about this stuff too much and before too long you might find yourself adopting alter-egos the better to join your insane countrymen.

Somebody, anybody, please...put me back to work before it's too late.