Somehow, "I told you so" just doesn't cut it...

So the president's current approval rating is down to 36% by one poll... and I think those numbers come from before it was made known that Bush allowed the leaking of Plame's name. People are finally beginning to get the fact that our activity is affecting the climate of the planet on which we live. People are starting to catch on to the fact that those who benefit from the present administration are the administration's 'nucular' families. Middle America is getting freaked out about what's going on in the Middle East and wants to turn tail and run away, which would totally fuck everything up. I could easily go on about the handbasket we're in.

Honestly, as the rest of the country has been catching up to what many of us have seen coming, there just doesn't seem to be any legitimate reaction. I mean, there's "No Shit!" but it's not really all that constructive. As Bush's approval sank lower and lower, and as each week brought a "new low," I felt a lot of anger. I felt that my resentment at the media for calling people who thought like me arrogant and dismissive of Middle America had finally been vindicated, though it pisses me off knowing that I'll never see that admission on the Nightly News. And now that we have all this mess to clean up, (with the very real possibility that we CAN'T clean it up), it's both frustrating and frightening. I think our Founding Fathers had a noble idea, namely that people have to be given the freedom to guide their own lives, and I believe that we have to follow that ideal. But, Damn! How fucking stupid can we be? And on a global scale, no less?

To top it all off, I can't find my favorite t-shirt or my favorite sweater! I was going to wear them both to a gallery opening Thursday evening and changed my mind last minute. Now I don't know where they are, goddammuthafuckinrrarrgh!