The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Republican Irony Impairment Alert

    I just love how the Republicans--Cheney, of course, but plenty of others as well--are right now just full of all kinds of helpful advice to the Democrats on how to keep the country safe following the recent thwarted terrorist attack.

    This, from the crowd which royally screwed up in the runup to 9/11, despite being told flat out by the departing Democratic Administration that they'd need to spend more of their time dealing with al qaeda terrorist threats than any other national security issue, and proceeding to completely ignore that advice, and despite the explicit intel warnings over the summer of 2001 the White House dismissed as CYA stuff coming from the bureaucrats.

    But they are the self-acknowledged experts on how to keep us all safe. 

    Rich.  The situation simply begs for creative ridicule.