So?

Since the Sunday comics came a day early yesterday, today I'm left to write about a sacred document. No, despite today's being Easter, I mean the Constitution, not the Biblical story of the Pascal sacrifice. In my defense, Pauline Maier did place the Constitution (formerly in effect) among the canon of American scripture.

Obviously my title refers to Dick Cheney's infamous schoolboyish response to Martha Raddatz about Iraq. Consent of the governed? Who cares!

We the people has been replaced by We the Bushists. It's not hyperbole to say that a coup d'etat has supplanted our republic. It's inescapable fact.

Constitutional scorecard here.

Ministry of propaganda

ABC updates its Strait of Hormuz story. The Navy edited its video in a way that clearly suggested the "aggressive transmission" had come from the Iranian boats, even if the sound quality was suspicious. But now a spokesman says that oh sure it could have come from anywhere, sorry you all got the wrong impression. But "we still put it in the total aggregate of what happened Sunday morning," whatever weaselly bullshit that means.

The Pentagon is going to need a lot of retirements when a Democrat wins the Presidency. Anyone who engaged in this sort of political propaganda - gone.