Any day now, an obit will be appearing in the newspaper. It’ll read:
“Irony, a perfectly useful literary device, died today, having been on life support ever since being dragged behind the barn and beaten savagely by members of the Bush administration. It was really old.�
Irony has suffered a number of debilitating beatings during the past six years, such as the president’s “Clear Air Initiative,� which would have increased air pollution. Or his “Healthy Forests Initiative,� which opened millions of acres of public woodlands to commercial logging.
Or “Mission Accomplished.� That was a good one — a draft-dodging president playing a war hero and declaring “mission accomplished� in Iraq. How’d that work out?
Anyway, after six years, you’d have thought we’d about seen it all.
Forget that.
Let’s talk about signing statements.
