The Smirk

Alberto Gonzales was testifying about how the President can do anything he wants because we're in a war and he as Attorney General says the second amendment or first or third means that the president has broad powers. Fine. This is the usual baloney you'd expect, but what's up with the guy's smirk? I don't know how to interpet that. It's like he's embarassed that he has to waste his time with these powerless peons who don't seem to understand that he is their lord.

Gonzales, of course, isn't the only one in the Bush administration with the smirk. Cheney has it, too, and the smirker in chief - G. W. - has it in spades. I'm wondering if all the rest of those administration clowns have adopted the smirk in deference to their boss. Or if they're all cut so much out of the same mold that the smirk is just second nature to them. Maybe when you get so much money and power your face just kind of turns that way, like when you realize how much greater you are than everyone around you who all seem to think that they are equal to you because they also live in America where it says they are.

The smirk says you know better. The smirk says that you know you're laying out a load of crap and you find it funny that your listeners are going to believe you.

Do we believe them? I don't. I don't think they even believe it, but I think they don't have to believe it because even though the Foreign Intelligence Service Act says the president cannot spy on fellow Americans without court orders, no court in the land is going to bother to break wind over it because all these judges know exactly how they got their jobs so ... I break the law, I go to jail. You break the law, you go to jail.

The President? Won't happen. He could be strangling kittens on the White House lawn and all he has to do is say something about nine eleven and we'll nod our heads and agree with kitten strangling, because we can't let the terrorists win can we?

Come to think of it, maybe I do understand all the smirking.