It's been 11 days since I posted anything. I've been too busy working around the house lately to sit down and write, but it's raining today so I get to sit on my ass in front of the computer without feeling guilty.

Over the last few days, as I was getting sunburned while treating my deck, I managed to somewhat follow the Congressional hearings on the US attorney firings. I can't help thinking that the Bush administration was somehow caught off guard by this whole thing. They seem to have grown complacent after spending 6 years with Republicans in control of Congress exercising no executive oversight whatsoever, all the while treating the minority Dems like dogs to kick around. Now that the Dems have control of Congress and subpoena power (and a grudge), every time an administration official gets caught telling a whopper the only responses they can come up with are exceedingly feeble. It's much too early in the Democratic reign for dubya and company to be wearing out old standbys like "Mistakes were made" and "I don't recall." They keep accusing the Dems of playing politics like that's some kind of grievous insult, but honestly, isn't playing politics what politicians are supposed to do?

The preznit is having trouble accepting the new reality. His administration can't get away with investigating and exonerating itself anymore. That alone gives me hope for the future, but they have so fucked up the way our government works that it may never fully recover. Case in point, check out this story from TPM Muckraker regarding another "heckuva job" Bush appointee, this one trashing the Fish and Wildlife Service. You just know this kind of thing has been going on in every department or agency under dubya's control from the very beginning of his administration. It's been like an untreated cancer on our country. It may have grown too large to completely remove.