While the Dow Jones goes down, then up, then disappears to somewhere in Japan, only to be found again going down, then being rescued by pumping gazillions of dollars from our Treasury Department in order to keep it floating, while we wonder where they got the money since all our taxes go directly to the Federal Reserve, locating in Beijing…

Where it goes to building big battleships and war stuff…

While twin sisters who own a nifty small parts supply store in North Carolina get a paycheck from the Pentagon of $999,797 dollars for tow little 19-cent washers and then decide to charge $455,009 dollars for three machine screws, only to be discovered after one sister disappears no doubt carrying the other 20 millions they got for the Allen wrench, in her brand new Escalade…

You could say "It's business as usual."

But when Dick Cheney is all over YouTube with a newly released tape in which he enumerates one by one all of the reasons why an administration should NOT go into Iraq, and how it would be a basically brainless idea, and saying it with his usual loquacious elucidations that most Democrats can only dream of…

Thereby leaving hoards of conservative, decent, hard-working people having horrible visions of the bloated Ted Kennedy dancing naked around his swimming pool with a bottle of Louie the Eight in his hand…(Not to mention what the poor soldiers might think of this)

I'd say it's an EXCELLENT time for a White House wedding. Let them all eat cake, when the plebeians watch their cars drown on the weather channel.

Nothing like a Texas vacation to give you some great ideas.