How do they sleep at night?

It's an administration of foxes, in a nation of crows.

I mean, can you believe this, five years on?

Condoleeza Rice, with an election to be won: "These regimes are living on borrowed time, so there need be no sense of panic about them. Rather, the first line of defense should be a clear and classical statement of deterrence -- if they do acquire WMD, their weapons will be unusable because any attempt to use them will bring national obliteration."

Condoleeza Rice, with a war to sell: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

And this, of course, is one of the saner Bush administration flunkies. You've got Dick Cheney viewing massive tax cuts as some sort of "due" for a congressional electoral victory won by national security fearmongering, Donald Rumsfeld authorizing torture at Abu Ghraib, Bush himself saying that laws prohibiting torture don't apply to him...it's frightening. And now, they have a foil who's just as nutty as they are.

Hang on tight, folks.