GET YOUR BLAME ON!

President Bush and his supporters are telling folks not to start playing "The Blame Game."

Their claims that now is not the time for assessing blame, inspired this apt analogy from my brother:

It's like you went to the hospital with a burst appendix, and when you wake up from surgery, you find out that the doctor has cut your nuts off.

You scream, "What the hell happened here?"

And the surgeon replies, "This isn't the time for fingerpointing -- we've still got to take out that appendix!"

No, it's not the elegant prose to which the readers of this blog have become accustomed, but these are inelegant times.