A Fully Operational Death Star

Meet Your New Homeland Security Chief/Partisan Republican Political Appointee (Bush Picks Ex-Aide to Ashcroft for Homeland Security Post):

In turning to Judge [Michael] Chertoff, Mr. Bush tapped a man who has already been confirmed by the Senate three times. Most recently, he was approved by a vote of 88 to 1 on June 9, 2003, for his seat on the Third Circuit. The lone dissenter was Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Mr. Chertoff had been the Senate Republicans' chief counsel during the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton's and his wife's business affairs. […]

Mr. Chertoff, who was head of the Justice Department's criminal division, was a proponent of military tribunals to try prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba after the American-led campaign in Afghanistan.

Mr. Chertoff insisted, in the face of criticism, that the administration's tactics were constitutional as well as prudent.

This is tremendous. It's like a television sitcom with an idiot savant for a casting director; expect four more years of unimpeachably entertaining ideologues and villains. As someone who thoroughly despises Bush, I couldn't ask for anything more. I'm going to bathe in hatred, nurse disdain & malice, and give free reign to every malignancy of the imagination. Just as religious zealots use the concept of Satan to orient themselves philosophically in an otherwise indifferent universe, so shall I use Bush and his cohorts (the quintessence of "Evil Stupidity").