Accounts Receivable

In the climax of Lord of the Rings, when Frodo put on the Ring in the heart of Mount Doom,
The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him ... the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him ... he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung.

From all his policies and webs of fear ... his mind shook free; and through his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed ... At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew ... the Nazgul ...
So why does this remind me of Karl Rove? His own Nazgul have been summoned, and sometimes they wear an unlikely garb. Richard Cohen, yesterday in the Washington Post was explaining how tricking us into a war that has killed $100,000 and cost $300 billion is no big deal. Somewhere I heard Tom Oliphant saying somthing similar. What scumbags! What has Rove on them that they come wheeling and shrieking to the call?
...the Nazgul came, shooting like flaming bolts, as caught in the fiery ruin of hill and sky they crackled, withered, and went out.
Fantasy is so much more satisfying than reality.

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