We Are Britney; Britney Is Us

That Britney's ousting of K-Fed and America's ousting of the Republican party occurred on the same day felt serendipitous, to say the least. But Mark Faletti at Punkassblog thinks the connection runs a little deeper than that:

When I said that Britney Spears was the living embodiment of the American zeitgeist, I was joking. But I didn’t think it was funny because it was true.

Sure, her first big break came in 1993, the same year Clinton took office. Okay, 1998/1999 were her happiest years, much like America’s. Yes, in 2000, she tried to play the girl/woman and virgin/whore as America played with the uniter/divider. Yeah, she released “Crossroads” at the same time Bush began lying about WMDs. And I admit it seemed a little odd that she shackled herself to Federline and dumped her manager of ten years in the second half of 2004, right when the country re-upped Bush in one of the greatest election day mistakes in US history.

America and Britney became eye-averting trainwrecks together, but I wasn’t serious about their connection. Until now.

Two days ago, Britney Spears kicked K-Fed’s ass to the curb. And she did it via a humilating, well-deserved kick to the nuts: by sending him a text message. Similarly, America filed for divorce from the Republican Congress with a humiliating, well-deserved kick to the nuts: by taking custody of not one, but both Houses.

All good points. But they raise one big question: where–or what–is America's leaked sex tape?