let's try not to figure out everything at once

random thought:

Teddy Roosevelt wasn't really a great environmentalist, he only established national parks so there'd always be places where he could kill things. Kind of like how Lincoln wasn't really an abolitionist, he just wrote the Emancipation Proclamation so that the South would have less slaves fighting for them. And how Lyndon Johnson actually hated the poor and supported the Great Society to eliminate poverty so no one would ever ask him for change again.

I made that last one up, but LBJ was five different flavors of asshole, so I wouldn't exactly put it past him. It's interesting how he's probably the biggest dick (and had the biggest dick, if you believe the legends about "Jumbo") to ever sit in the Oval Office, but that made him an incredibly effective executive. He was notorious for "The Johnson Treatment," how he'd compliment and flatter you one second, then apply the pressure by getting right up in your fucking face.

And I mean right up in your face. He knew the power of the office and used it like no President before or since. I mean, Nixon used the office to apply pressure, but using federal agencies to exact personal revenge is kind of a different situation.

Like Jon Stewart's said at least once, I wish our current President was more of an asshole. Maybe it's just my inner short-sighted uberliberal, but goddamn it would feel good to hear that Obama got all up in some dude's shit to try and get a vote. I want him to threaten to personally castrate Joe Lieberman and vow revenge on Ben Nelson and his children and his children's children.

I guess you can't really get away with that anymore.