IT's THIS BIG

I love the sound of hot air exiting a gas bag in the morning. As the pundits have been saying, you can't spend that much time in the shadow of Slick Willie without getting something icky on you. Al, "my personal fortune is approaching a billion" Gore, has been in the news a lot lately. Not as much as if the organ in question had belonged to George Bush, but this story is not going away. It seems that a major cause of global warming, in addition to hot-air, might be friction. Pretty soon this kind of behavior is going to get American politicians in trouble. We're not French, you know. Over there, if some powerful figure takes a mistress, everybody knows her name and the press reports on what designer she is wearing, kind of like the red carpet at the Oscars. We love to see the powerful fall. The term is SCHADENFREUDE. The press explained that the pompous "do as I say" crowd make the best stories. Those Righteous Republicans preaching morality and such...huh.

Now we have the King of the Windbags caught with his recycled pants down. It wasn't enough that he flies everywhere in a Private Jet, or his 20,000 square foot house has the A/C running 'round the clock. No. Our liberals in the press don't care about that. But marital infidelity? Now we're on to something. Fact check his global warming claims? Not important. Where did he spend the night of October 23, and with whom?...now that's breaking news.

Argumentum ad hominem is latin for "if the guy is full of crap, his theories probably are too." I can't wait to see how the press is going to blame all this on "W." You know it is just a matter of time.