3rd-grade book report

There's a lot of serious shit going down today, like the indictment of Ahmad Chalabi (the neocons' favorite) for counterfeiting Iraqi dinars, or the Bush Administration's accidental (?) outing of a al-Qaeda double agent, or Alan Keyes' entry into the Illinois Senate race by intoning "the victory is for God!" But there's this one hilarious item that somehow missed the evening newscasts that I think you've got to hear. Here's a transcript of President Bush, in front of a group of minority journalists, dropping the knowledge about sovereignty:

Question: What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century, and how do we resolve conflicts between tribes and the federal and state governments?

Bush: Yeah. Tribal sovereignty means that, sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. (pause for the assembly to laugh right in his face) And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.

Upon receipt of this transcript, Yale has been thrown out of the Ivy League. That sounds like the kid in the back of class that didn't read The Scarlet Letter that, when forced, claims that the letter represents "scarlet-ness". The fun thing about Bush campaigning so heavily is that we're going to get one of these every other day.