Is There a Dewey Decimal System for This?

One of my assumptions when I started this blog was that I would write a lot about politics, so I've been thinking this week about why I haven't. It occurred to me that the problem is that I find myself paralyzed by the sheer volume of grotesquery. Even ignoring the vast sea of congressional malfeasance, where do you start?

What we need is a system. Some kind of organizing principle in order to keep track of everything. But that raises other questions. Do we break it down by subject area, like so:

Foreign Policy: Iraq, Secret CIA prisons around the world, torture, etc.
Economy: Tax cuts for the rich, hand-outs to big oil and big pharma, etc.
Civil Liberties: Secret wire tapping, restricting dissent, etc.

And so on. Or, do we break it down by the nature of the sin:

Lying: Selling the war, paying for Op-Ed pieces, ignoring congression info requests, Abu Gonzales' confirmation hearings, etc.
Avarice: The tax cuts, no-bid contracts, dismantling environmental regulation, the prescription drug plan, the bankruptcy bill, etc.
Incompetence: Katrina, Mission Accomplished, missing billions in Iraq, etc.
Hubris: "Candy & Flowers," secret wire tapping, etc.

We need to get some charts and graphs going, generate some reports, develop a bureacracy just to deal with it all.

Good news of the week: Congress caves on the NSA wiretapping, Patriot Act gets re-upped, and torture can continue unabated in Guantanamo.