Chances are, Dear Leader thinks it's Super Spy Ware

Classified Top Seekrit Stuff.

Remember, we're talking about the son of the man who was astounded by things like bar code readers in the supermarkets.

For that matter, Cheney probably hasn't told Dear Leader we aren't really going to end our addiction to oil, although Big Time Dick had somebody march out Energy officials the day after the State of the Union to de-brief us all.

There's only so much Dear Leader can handle before nap-time.

Besides, by now he's probably completely forgotten he ever said that.

The level of disconnect in Washington increases almost hourly. The difference between what the people who think they control things think is going on, and what the people in the driver's seat are doing has never been greater. For example, the Pentagon says it really doesn't matter what Congress or international arms control treaties or even the Bomb experts say: they're going to design new H-bombs and they're going to test them.

You see, it's a post-9-11 world.

This brave new world somehow increasingly resembles the pre-1776 world, an ancien régime.