Said another Bush associate of the rumor, "Yes. This is not good." The rumor spread so fast that some Republicans by late morning were already drawing up reasons why Rice couldn't get the job or run for president in 2008.

"Isn't she pro-choice?" asked a key Senate Republican aide.

The question is, "Is this Iran-Contra, where everything gets swept under the rug, or is this Watergate, and we're about to watch the fall of the administration?"

My guess is, it's much more the latter than the former and, at the same time, much worse. With Nixon, there was not an issue with Gerry Ford being involved in the cover-up, and so sucession was a simple matter. That is not the case here, both Bush and Cheney are heavily involved, so there are larger problems here.

USNews.com: N and W: Cheney resignation rumors fly (10/18/05)

How do I play?

Print a card out, and when the indictments are announced, see if you've got a Bingo!

Ah comedy!

Fitzmas Bingo

The compendium used boldfaced type to call attention to certain comments by Wilson, such as one in the Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa student newspaper, in which Wilson was quoted as calling Cheney "a lying son of a bitch."

Ah, a quote from my old college paper. Gotta love the fact they get away with printing the comments nobody else does because they're a college paper and don't remember to play nice all the time. :)

Bush Critic Became Target of Libby, Former Aides Say - Yahoo! News

In Dante's "Inferno," deceivers are sentenced to have their souls encased in flames, hypocrites are forced to wear a cloak weighted with lead, and those who use their powers of persuasion for insidious ends are doomed to suffer a continual fever so intense that their body sizzles and smokes like a steak tossed on a George Foreman grill. Maybe Satan will give Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby and their accomplices at the New York Times a three-afflictions-for-the-price-of-one deal.

LOL! So Hell (or part of it) is like a George Foreman grill? Give 'em George Foreman grill Arianna!

Arianna Huffington: Memo to Bill Keller: The War in Iraq is NOT a

Marty Bahamonde, a FEMA regional director, told a Senate panel investigating the government's response to the disaster that he gave regular updates to people in contact with then-FEMA Director Michael Brown as early as Aug. 28, one day before Katrina made landfall.

In most cases, he was met with silence. In an Aug. 29 phone call to Brown informing him that the first levee had broke, Bahamaonde said he received a polite thank you from Brown, who said he would check with the White House.

So much for Chertoff and "Brownie" saying they weren't being told what was going on...

FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings

No other American industry, no other branch of commerce would have this kind of special protection from civil law. Not drug makers, hospitals, doctors, farmers, or food processors. Not knife makers, car companies, tobacco companies, brewers, distillers or firecracker makers. Just the gun industry

And this morning, it passed.

CBS News | The Gun Lobby's Dead Aim | August 1, 2005�21:30:16

There is more to this. When it is revealed that you were a NOC, foreign intelligence services begin combing back over your life, examining every relationship you had. Anyone you came into contact with becomes suspect. Sometimes, in some countries, becoming suspect can cost you your life. Revealing the identity of a NOC can be a matter of life and death -- frequently, of people no one has ever heard of or will ever hear of again.

In short, a NOC owes things to his country, and his country owes things to the NOC. We have no idea what Valerie Plame told her family or friends about her work. It may be that she herself broke the rules, revealing that she once worked as a NOC. We can't know that, because we don't know whether she received authorization from the CIA to say things after her own identity was blown by others. She might have been irresponsible, or she might have engaged in damage control. We just don't know.

What we do know is this. In the course of events, reporters contacted two senior officials in the White House -- Rove and Libby. Under the least-damaging scenario we have heard, the reporters already knew that Plame had worked as a NOC. Rove and Libby, at this point, were obligated to say, at the very least, that they could neither confirm nor deny the report. In fact, their duty would have been quite a bit more: Their job was to lie like crazy to mislead the reporters. Rove and Libby had top security clearances and were senior White House officials. It was their sworn duty, undertaken when they accepted their security clearance, to build a "bodyguard of lies" -- in Churchill's phrase -- around the truth concerning U.S. intelligence capabilities.

Why the Plame Affair is far more important than no talent ass clowns like Boortz would have you believe.

[This is something that I've been saying about this since it broke. Outing a CIA agent in the first place is bad. Plame however did no "official" work for CIA, and Rove and/or Libby saying she did was a fundamental breach of National Security. --Mike]

The Importance of the Plame Affair

``I've never heard 43,000 people shut up like that before,'' Walker said.

It's been a while since I've seen a ball absolutely crushed like that, and pretty much never has one been more timely.

Pujols' shot keeps 100-win team alive - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

LadeezMan42: not u frat boy
LadeezMan42: 1 of yr pals
Kickass43: i dont have pals like dat!
LadeezMan42: how u guys won 04 beats the crap outta me

LOLOL!!!11!!!1!

The Blog | Danielle Crittenden: THE SECRET IM CONVERSATIONS: Bush seeks advice from Clinton | The Huffington Post

What followed, according to the notes, was a free-wheeling discussion about many topics, including same-sex marriage. Justice Hecht said he had never discussed that issue with Ms. Miers. Then an unidentified voice asked the two men, "Based on your personal knowledge of her, if she had the opportunity, do you believe she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?"

"Absolutely," said Judge Kinkeade.

"I agree with that," said Justice Hecht. "I concur."

So apparantly Dobson was directed to Hecht and Kinkeasde by Rove, and it was they who told Dobson and company that Miers would vote to overturn Roe.

This is nothing that I didn't expect. With the continuing description of her as an eveangelical Christian, what is talked about here is exactly what I was expecting to see. Those are political grounds to oppose her, but there are others that are just as, if not more, significant. First among them is, how would she describe herself on Constitutional thought? Is she an Originalist? Strict Constructionist? Constitution in Exile? Living Document? There are a number of ways to approach Constitutional questions, and each of those approaches means different things.

No one knows. There is a good possibility she doesn't even have an idea herself, and that presents problems I am not sure we need to deal with. There is much to being on the court that is "on the job" training. Figuring out a baseline idea at the same time may be more than is desired.

What Dobson Knows