Ah, sweet irony. Today brought news that “thousands of Segway Human Transporters are being recalled because of a software glitch that can unexpectedly make its wheels reverse, causing users to fall off.� That’s the Vice President tooling around on one in the photo above, circa June of 2002. Doesn’t he look happy? Back then, the world was his oyster. The Patriot Act had passed. The buildup to the war in Iraq had begun. Saddam Hussein would soon be forwarding his mail to a hole in the ground. Halliburton was about to make a sh*tload of money. Everything was grand.

Segué to the present and things are decidedly less grand for Cheney, Bush, & Company. While these fools cannot be recalled (although impeachment remains an option), they are besieged by criticism both foreign and domestic because of policy glitches too numerous to mention that have made them—among other things—unexpectedly reverse their rationale(s) for going to war in Iraq, causing their political fortunes to fall.

Segway will be upgrading the software in its transporters. Hopefully, come November, the American people will upgrade, as well.