In the light of recent events, can there be any doubt that we have a megalomaniac loose in the Oval Office?

I refer to the following events (in no particular order):
1) The “I can open your mail without a warrant” signing statement
2) The shafting of Gen. George Casey, recently so near and dear to Georgie’s heart, and other concomitant purges
3) The pathological determination to try ever more desperate and ill-advised gambles in the hope of somehow getting things to turn around in Iraq

First with regard to Casey, let us recall the unambiguous words of our inestimable President himself, and from a scant six months ago too:

General Casey will make the decisions as to how many troops we have there. And that’s important for the families to know. It’s really important. General Casey is a wise and smart man who has spent a lot of time in Baghdad recently, obviously. And it’s his judgment that I rely upon. He’ll decide how best to achieve victory and the troop levels necessary to do so.

I spent a lot of time talking to him about troop levels, and I told him this,; I said, you decide, General. I want your judgment, your advice. I don’t want these decisions being made by the political noise, by the political moment. It’s just unfair to our troops and it’s unfair to their families.

So to all the families who took comfort in the fact that the stupidest impulses of the administration’s war-managers might be tempered by the military judgment of Casey, Bush is presumably now saying: “Whoever said life is fair, heh heh heh heh?”

As for pathological gambling, the fact that this is now the approach to the war has become so transparent that administration officials are willing to make statements like this one to reporters:

“…this surge option is more of a political decision than a military one because the American people have run out of patience and President Bush is running out of time to achieve some kind of success in Iraq.”

The President is playing politics not with the war, but with the lives of American men and women. Bluntly put, he is willing to send to the slaughter more of our sons and our daughters, our brothers and our sisters, our mothers and our fathers rather than accept what has long been self-evident to most people outside the Bush administration (with the notable exception of John McCain, who is as far from redemption as George is; which is saying a lot).

I am compelled to state for the record that it is my considered belief that:
a) our President, George W. Bush, regularly has sex with his mother;
b) our President, George W. Bush, is not in fact genetically related to our former President, George H. W. Bush;
c) America is truly doomed if we don’t impeach the motherfucking bastard right away.