So a woman’s right to choose is now on its way to becoming a thing of the past (anyone know what odds are being offered that Roe versus Wade will be overturned in the next five years?).

I don’t know what you are doing to console yourself, but I’m falling back on the last refuge of the truly helpless – fantasy.

Tonight, when President Bush arrives for the State of the Union address, there’s going to be an unexpected crush of Democrats reaching out to shake his hand. Several of them will be wearing Medici style rings, filled with a powerful hypnotic. The twelfth, and last one, to prick Bush with a ring (even my sources could not tell me to whom this honor falls), will lean over and whisper in Bush’s ear just before he takes the podium.

Bush’s entire address will consist of:
“Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, my fellow Americans,

I can’t bear it any more. I’ve been the worst President anyone could possibly be. You gave me your trust and I lied to you. I let you down. I lied about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction. I lied about a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. I led you into a needless war. I’m responsible for the unnecessary deaths of more than 2,000 Americans and more than 30,000 Iraqis. I promised to restore honor and dignity to the office of the President, and my administration gave you only sleaze instead. I totally botched the response to Katrina. What’s the point of going on with this list? I totally screwed up everything.

I hereby fire Dick Cheney as Vice-President, effective immediately.

I hereby appoint (name withheld for security reasons right now) as Vice-President in his place.

I hereby resign from the office of the President of the United States, effective immediately.”

And he will then gouge out his eyes at the podium, before he is led away.