Billmon's dreams are getting weird again. But if his vision of Jack Abramoff and a crazed Tom DeLay dishing out pork to corporate bigshots in a sleazy Texas diner strikes you as over-the-top, you just haven't been following the news about Republican governance. He doesn't have them putting so much as one silver dollar into a political contributor's rare coin collection.

Dubya campaigned on the promise that Republican governmenance would look responsible. And it does. He always wears a suit in the Oval Office...