Faute de Mieux

I'm listening to W's press conference. I'm ready to tear my hair out. His answer to a question about the threat that North Korea's professed nuclear capability poses to neighboring countries, like Japan, was Missile Defense.

In response to a question about partisan politics in Washington he claimed that "some people don't like me," and that his party was the "party of ideas". Sure, old ideas. Missile defense will protect Japan from North Korea, and Americans care more about Social Security than they do about the war of their diminishing local social services. He went on to discuss the good things he'd done for America like limiting the amount of money for which maimed Americans can sue the companies who maimed them, and allowing creditors to take the homes of Americans who have filed for bankruptcy.

I held my bile through most of that huckster's speil, but what really made me angry was when he claimed to be working for "what's important to the American people" when all he offered was old ideas, tiresome repetitions, and platitudes.