Benton, Arkansas wakes up and smells the coffee

This editorial mentions neither Kool-Aid nor Planet Delusional, but the implication is clear:

The point of all this is not a study of Bush's record; that could go on for days. What is amazing is the way Bush supporters can't seem to deal with reality.

The ones I have talked to have blamed everyone but Bush for the poor response: the New Orleans mayor, the Louisiana governor, the Louisiana senator, the deserting New Orleans Police Department, and, of course, the media (always a favorite target of Bush excusers).

I was a Bill Clinton supporter. When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, it was an embarrassment to all of us. There was no justification for his behavior or his lies. There's no way around that.

His actions in that scandal will haunt him the rest of his life. It will also mar what was otherwise a fairly effective presidency, as current events and historians are already bearing out.

But despite a George W. Bush presidency filled with lies and inexcusable fiascos, his supporters usually answer with one thing: "At least he didn't use the White House to get a (insert favorite name here for Clinton's favorite sexual act)."

They will not acknowledge that this administration has been a mess. They won't truly consider the seriousness of what this administration has wrought and the lengths it has traveled to accomplish its predetermined agenda.

It continues up to the moment, with Halliburton and other Bush supporters' companies being given no-bid contracts for Gulf Coast cleanup just as they were in Iraq.

It goes on and on, but you won't hear that from the 39 percent (AP-Ipsos) who still say George W. is doing a good job as president. They'll simply continue telling us that the president is not having sex in the White House.

I wish someone could tell me why getting a blowjob in the Oval Office, as tacky and tawdry and inconsiderate and just plain DUMB it was, is somehow worse than smearing all of your opponents, stealing two elections by disenfranchising minority voters, going to war on a lie, vacationing through a natural disaster, and driving the economy to near-bankruptcy.