They're Here

I was watching the "Colbert Report" last night, the last one from Iraq, and right in the middle of the opening monologue, Colbert introduced a video message and on came that face, that smirk, the creaky Texas twang-- George W Bush, reappearing from his well-deserved exile to Texas. Just seeing him for a second made me want to throw up in my mouth.

Between him and the strange constant appearances of Dick Cheney, the whole thing feels like the end of "Poltergeist," the bit where after the munchkin declares the house cleansed and just as everybody starts relaxing, the evil spirits start up again. Picture W as the clown, the Republican Party as the skeletons in the pool, Cheney that huge vortex in the closet that sucks everything into it, and us as Carol Anne.