We Could Also Form A House Subcommittee to Appropriate Funds For Head-in-Ass Disease

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life; I'm generally quite happy with the woman I've grown up to be. But as I look back on my high school years with the myopia of a decade of "wisdom", I do regret that I walked around so often with my head lodged firmly up my ass.

I'm also fairly certain that when I hit my mid-30's, I'll look back on my 20's and think the same thing, "Sigh, if only I hadn't been such an oblivious tool." Eh, whatcha gonna do?

And yet, there's hope for the future. Probably not mine; I'm doomed. But it looks like the youngsters of today have been adequately instructed on the proper methods of extracting one's head from one's ass. Dan Schorr will tell you the story much better than I.

And the White House Response? It would seem that Our Fair Leader, El Presidente, is damning himself to a lifetime of myopic headhanging, too:

White House spokesman Dana Perino said Bush let the student know "the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," a statement seemingly contradicted by Bush's signing statement which gave him power to largely ignore a Congressional ban on torture spearheaded by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

I wonder if Bush is really, really regretting his push for educational reform. The good news for Bush is that when it's all said and done, even his educational reform will be a failure, and that can only be a good thing for him. See, the smarter kids get, the more they'll realize that the Bush Administration will leave behind one of the worst legacies in the entirety of American History. James Buchanan/Warren Harding bad.