There are days when I dream of a White House presser where a reporter snaps a Queen of Hearts at the President, just to see if they can trigger something.

If this guy were created by our enemies to destroy us he couldn't be doing a better job.

Consider. Back in 2000 the U.S. represented 29% of world economic production. Now it's closer to the 1990 number of about 20%. Computing, science and engineering are all declining in popularity among young people. Jobs are being outsourced like mad and older programmers can't find work because "they demand too much money." Support for basic research is down across the board.

Meanwhile, a useless war has wrecked the greatest Army in the world, punched a hole in our budget even Bill Clinton couldn't climb out of, and anyone who points this out "hates America." Basic science is being replaced by nonsense in Kansas, gas is $2/gallon, the dollar is becoming worthless, every nation in the world seems to hate our guts, and Americans are turning into Mr. & Mrs. Creosote before our eyes.

Oh, and Americans hate one another so much that those last two fact-filled paragraphs will have some branding me an enemy of the state. My normal skeptical stance also has me branded an enemy by an army of increasingly-Wahabbiast MegaChurch Baptists that want to make the liberal impulse unconstitutional by packing the courts.

Am I missing something?

Well, yes I am. Newton's Second Law of Politics.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.