What if we've all been played the fools?

I, like many people, have found the current administration to have generally run the country with appalling agendas that were generally fueled by a generic stupidity (as in, reflecting any intelligent discourse or analysis, and instead relying on knee-jerk "I know I'm right - God tells me so" grounds). Only Cheney ever seemed more sinister.

However, given this terrifying analysis of the consequences and motivations behind the Valerie Plame case, I'm beginning to have second thoughts. As terrifying as this administration has already been, if it is really this manipulative and power-hungry, so willing to wield its authority for the basest of causes, well.....dark days indeed.