I spent part of today reading through thesmokinggun.com’s transcript of Bill O’Reilly’s office hijinks and general creepiness. Then, I watched clips of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show taking on the the clowns from Crossfire. For a minute, I felt like there was hope that reason and rational discord could pull us out of a now completely indefensible war and remove GWB from office.

But, then I read through Ron Suskind’s piece in the NY Times about GW’s faith. (Sorry if the link doesn’t work, you have to register at the Times’ site.)

Fucking hell, if he is able to mobilize the holy rollers to vote, Armageddon is likely closer than we all think. It’s depressing to think certainty without reason or cause is a good quality in a president. I don’t know which part is scarier, the one where Bush gets Sweden and Switzerland confuses or this little gem:

In response to a question, he talked about diversity, saying that ”hands down,” he has the most diverse senior staff in terms of both gender and race. He recalled a meeting with Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of Germany. ”You know, I’m sitting there with Schroder one day with Colin and Condi. And I’m thinking: What’s Schroder thinking?! He’s sitting here with two blacks and one’s a woman.”