The Conundrum

Stenny blogged about this article in the LATimes; the jist is that despite our lovely president's complete and total failures in things like budgeting, going to war, and responding to a disaster, he's still in office and will be in office until 2008 (shrieks).

Some people find this very comforting. Some of these people think we should round up handfuls of Katrina refugees and "have them shot." (I work with very compassionate human beings.)

I've determined that there's no bridge. It's a chasm. The size of Montana. With hungry crocodiles at the bottom. Who read Proust.

I, for example, absolutely cannot grasp, as hard as I try, how anyone can watch/listen to Bill O'Reilly and find him in any way convincing. I think he is a hippocritic tool who would fit right in with the crocodiles. But on the same token, the people who watch him can't grasp how anyone could even stomach CNN and its apparently liberal bias.

And I don't know why this is. Ideology? Stubborness? The "stick to your guns" mentality? The human inability to ever admit your might have been misled or wrong? I just cannot comprehend how, after scanning headlines, taking stock of this country, and absorbing policies and tactics including nuclear preemption, less trade with China, FCC blocks, continued environmental degredation, ever-decreasing support abroad for the U.S., and of course, the war, the deficit, and the response, that anyone might find it in their heart to stick with this administration any longer.

But they do. Why, I ask. Why?