So This Is How Freedom Dies

John Bolton and John Yoo had an editorial in the NYT yesterday calling for the restoration of the Senate's Treaty power. The stones on these boys, you know?

As you may guess, they in no way acknowledge the era of the imperial presidency or that the Bush administration recently signed a pretty secret agreement locking the US into protecting Iraq from now until Armageddon or Iran becomes an American ally, which ever comes first.

I was going to advocate that we (by which I mean the Dems) learn to be more like this, creating our own reality as we go, but then I remember Yoda told us that once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice. I don't want that. We need to be the party of truth and light, right? But then, I remebered that Yoda was wrong about Vader. he did come back from the dark path because there was good in him all along. Wouldn't we trade twenty or so years (don't get me started) of being evil, if it meant we could vanquish a larger evil for all time and restore "balance" to the force? But then, what if the GOP, and Dick Cheney specifically, are really the temporary-dark ones and we are the Empire? Jesus, this can get confusing.

All I know is that after this season, I am totally sending my application to the secret rebel academy that the Empire can't find.