Why is this man laughing?

Check this clip at http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/19.html#a8349 and judge for yourself.

To see the thing in the White House guffaw at his 29% approval rating is to be fearful and baffled, since no normal politician or even normal human being would react that way to such sweeping disapproval. So I had to wonder why.

And with the feverish clarity that comes to the casually dispossessed, the answer came: He's laughing at the 70% of us who can't stand him.

He's laughing because he stole office twice and no one of any import ever said much less did anything about it. He's laughing about the inside job he and his cronies pulled off on 9-11.

He's laughing about the dead American soldiers piled up in Iraq. He's laughing at their mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers.

He's laughing about the torture. He's laughing about the anthrax he had his junta unload on Democratic congressional leaders and disobedient journalists.

He's laughing about the counterfeit job and economic stats his filthy crew of lying functionaries injects into our media day after day. He's laughing about the trillions of dollars stolen from the treasury and given to his friends and their shell corporations.

And he's laughing about the 32 months of hell his regime has left to unleash on this nation and the world.

And best of all, he's laughing at the thought of the scarred, fouled and bloodied shambles of a globe that will be left to the rest of us.