Mad Children

This weekend, at a time when Condaleeza Rice's expose of the utter non-thinking vapidity of the Bush administration has come to light -- the total lack of an end game in Iraq or any thought of needing one -- the Mad Children of the Republican Party are howling on the playground, trying to drown-out adult conversation.


Diane Arbus captured this image of a Mad Child, a Republican-in-the-making, with grenade in hand. Perhaps he is running for office today. Or, could he be some former Republican president?

At a time when most Americans and a majority who served there want to be shut of Iraq, Bachmann and Romney and Santori are trying to shout out the adults, saying that we should stay in Iraq beyond the first of the year.

The Mad Children seem to think the president should make clear to the Iraqis just who is in charge in Iraq, telling home truths that the Iraqi government is a mere puppet, and that Iraqis can't dictate terms to the conqueror.

And Romney, Bachmann, and Santorini think that approach would keep Iraq from getting still closer to Iran?

Noisy, violent, controlling children wanting to play in the adult world.