Man, Cheney's "Go Fuck Yourself" insult has crazy staying power. You can use it for just about anything. Which is probably the same way George Bush feels about the U.S. Constitution. He can use it for anything.

His latest hyperreality involves remixing the Constitution to free Cheney's right-hand stroker Scooter Libby from 30 months in prison, a weak bid by any stretch of the imagination. Bush found it "excessive," and why not? He'd find any friend of Cheney's going to jail for any amount of time excessive.

I suppose my only thing to add to this most recent blatant disregard for anything this country has ever stood for is to ask, "What are we going to do about it?" Sure, we've been blogging and mobilizing over the Plame case for years now. She landed a book deal. So did her husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson. Patrick Fitzgerald is probably up next. Cheney shot a guy in the face. Libby looked like a pussy walking into court on crutches. People starting talking about Judith Miller as if anyone cared what she wrote. It was great fodder for media, mainstream and otherwise. But now we have nothing to show for it.

So again, what are we going to do about it? When a guy with a name like Dick Lugar -- priceless! -- decides that endless war in Iraq is lame, it's great press but more worthless than a Democratic congress talking subpoenas for Bush, Cheney and Rove, who have shown time and again that law means nothing in the end. After all, they own the Supreme Court, which just kneecapped Brown vs. The Board of Education. Another name that carries more irony than my nervous system can handle. Think about it. Brown the protagonist. The villain? None other than the Board of Education. A political entity.

It is a given that, as the Talking Heads sang, it is the "same as it ever was." Politicians have been on the grift longer than the grift has been on the politicians. Time and again, they have thrown aside the rule of law to pretty much do anything they ever wanted. And for all of you "Founding Fathers" Kool-Aid drinkers, slow your roll. Let us remember that these esteemed patriots wrote the Constitution for whiteboys like them. Not Brown. Not Black. Not even their wives. Just the Board, thanks.

So yeah, what are we going to do about it? Mad about Iraq, Plame, the U.S. Attorney scandals, Guantanamo, Exxon and Enron, Abu Ghraib, disaster capitalism and the votejacking that defined the 2000 and 2004 elections? What are your solutions? I have none, except to tell you that it is the same as it ever was.

So please, my friends, let us get back into our SUVs and watch our Paris Hilton coverage and take our Prozac like good little Americans. The grift goes on, like George Harrison sang about something else entirely in Sgt. Pepper's, "within you and without you." Sure, it couldn't happen without your approval, but then neither could the war in Iraq, global warming or, come to think of it, the Democratic takeover of Congress.

By the way, how's that going?