Billmon:
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit blogging.
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October 3, 2006
WB: How I’m Feeling at the Moment
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We just need Fitzpatrick to indict Cheney.
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Posted by: Dick Durata | Oct 3 2006 5:56 utc | 2
Let’s not forget that Denny Hastert is third in the line of succession to the Presidency.
Posted by: Dick Durata | Oct 3 2006 6:12 utc | 3
D.C. is leaking like a collander, national intelligence estimates, military analysis, and the e-mails from a certain congressman and his priest, I mean speaker, all point to an inside out meltdown. I wonder if the deciders’ goin to run for the button? Or if someone has taken it from him in the night.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 3 2006 7:29 utc | 6
And Jackass Number2 is a hit movie, exactly why? Duh.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 3 2006 7:44 utc | 7
b – #8 – amazing link. Wow! I’m speechless.
The news just keeps getting better and more astonishing.
Via a friend, I know quite a bit about the inside workings of this organization.
Posted by: Owl | Oct 3 2006 8:28 utc | 9
Evidently some factions in TPTB have decided that putting the Bush administration “out of business” for its last two years is a priority. That said, I expect that other, pro-administration, factions in TPTB will push back…..hard.
The perfect scenery for a “strategy of tension” to come into play? I don’t think an outbreak of school shootings is going to be enough to cover over the cracks though.
Posted by: dan | Oct 3 2006 10:53 utc | 10
I was tremendously nervous when the Foley story broke; it had the stink of a Karl Rove operation, a la Rathergate (yeah, I know: there’s no proof….). We’re well past that now, and it’s obvious that it’s just a grand fuckup, handled with the delicacy and elan one would expect from Denny Hastert. Has Karl lost his mojo? One can only hope.
And if Denny goes away, then third in line will be none other than Ted “Tubes” Stevens, followed by Condi. Either way, Jon Stewart wins.
Condi as President? Some time ago, as Stanford’s Provost, she tried (and failed) to fire a friend of mine. She failed because she thought the person being fired was a member of the staff (rather than the faculty), and followed the wrong procedures….
Posted by: alabama | Oct 3 2006 15:15 utc | 13
lest we forget, there was a page scandal some 23 years ago. some things never change.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 3 2006 15:37 utc | 14
TPTB = the powers that be
Foley. Will someone in the liberal press puhleeze follow the money?
What about the campaign funds Foley controlled? Who did he distribute them to and when?
Posted by: Hamburger | Oct 3 2006 16:50 utc | 16
Billmon, you’re a genius. Take a few months off. You deserve it.
Posted by: Carl Nyberg | Oct 3 2006 17:00 utc | 17
How can you stop blogging right now? We’ve got the baddest porno now playing.
Posted by: ab initio | Oct 3 2006 20:52 utc | 18