A Perfect Storm?

Is it just me, or does El Presidente's regime show unusual stress cracks right about now?

The Man Whose Mustache Doesn't Match His Hair, John Bolton, is going do-o-o-own as Bush's new ambassador to the U.N. Colin Powell is greasing the skids.

Sen. Rick Santorum, according to The Hill, is now urging his fellow Republicans to lay off the "nuclear option," since Republican internal polling seems to suggest that the American people don't any longer think it cool to change the rules in order to force your will. Read it for yourself. If Rick Santorum thinks the Republicans have overreached, believe me, they've overreached.

Back in January, Republican House leaders replaced their chair of the House Ethics committee and two other members, all friendlier little lap-dogs to their majority leader Tom DeLay, and not being satisfied with thus stacking the committee charged with investigating the several billion ethics complaints against Mr. DeLay, they also forced another of their rule changes to say that no ethics complaint could go forward without a majority vote on the committee. Since that committee is evenly divided between Dems and Repubs, and since none of the newly installed Repubs were about to go against their creepy little leader (speaking of thugs), OF COURSE the new rules meant there would never be any investigations. Now they're caught in their own web. With mounting public disapproval of DeLay specifically and of Congress generally, the Republicans on the ethics committee yesterday actually OFFERED to investigate DeLay, if the Democrats would drop their sit-down protest of the new rules. "No way," replied the Dems. "Drop the new rule, and we'll talk." Score one for the Dems.

And today the big news is that the economy (stupid) is the ticking time bomb that Republicans in congress have refused to acknowledge as a problem. The stock market has soured, gas prices are headed for the moon and beyond, some people (maybe) have actually begun to notice that they aren't doing nearly so well as the super-rich say THEY are.

Virginia Foxx has a lot of explaining to do, not that the press will ever ask her any REAL questions. It's up to the rest of us.

She's great at getting a new flag for Mabel School, but what has she done for anyone lately? Or ever?