Despite my constant exhortation to readers, it’s very likely, to the point of a lock, that voters will not choose to bring on the revolution by electing John McCain and precipitating the simultaneous onsets of facism and the worst depression since the best one. Almost as certain is that among president Obama’s first orders of business will be the pardoning of one George Walker Bush for any crimes he may have committed while in office. In fact it’s so certain that the editors here at BTC News are referring to the act in the past tense. Obama and his running dog mate have both voiced a disinclination to investigate Bush administration misdeeds; since criminal charges almost invariably lead to investigations, it’s best to nip the problem in the bud and eliminate the crimes.

We are coming to learn that many of the president’s and his cohort’s crimes are not entirely unattractive to even those presidential aspirants who might be expected — not by us, mind you, but by people who haven’t quite grasped how utterly cynical and generally spineless Democrats have become — to be inclined toward outrage. To put it another way, presidential crimes are unbearably, irresistibly seductive of presidents-in-waiting. What president would not prefer to think outside the box, especially one unattractively wallpapered with the Constitution and clunkily named The Rule of Law?

Dahling, please. There are wires to be tapped, genitalia to be wired, dictions to be tortured, a nation to be securitized.

Speaking of securitized, you may have noticed that Lehman Brothers have followed Fannie and Freddie into the crapper, with insurance giant AIG soon to follow by virtue of having insured against the composting of the crap Fannie, Freddie and the Bros were selling to each other and to you.

If you noticed that, you have probably also noticed that this stuff just seems to go on and on; it’s like a nightmare, isn’t it? And president Obama is about to get 1) stuck with it and 2) blamed for not stopping it from getting worse.

Therein lies the sole reason he might not pardon Bush: “What this town needs is a good circus.” But as Bush goeth, so goes a good chunk of the Democratic leadership in Congress, so they’ll be pushing for pardons all ’round. “Me too, Mr. President!”

One simply cannot be too cynical. I’m serious about this. Assume the very worst. You’ll probably come up short anyway, but you’ll be closer to the mark than your happier but hopelessly delusional friends.

Today’s episode typed to the music of P.J. Harvey, an acquired taste.

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