I hate to write anything about Ann of Green Goebbels, since that just extends her unwarranted period of fame, but this is ironic enough to pass on.

In case you missed it, several people have been convicted in connection with Republican efforts to Jam the Democrats get-out-the-vote phones in New Hampshire in the 2002 mid-term election.  Among the convicted is James Tobin, who was working at the time as a regional political director for the RNC-affiliated National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.  Shortly after being indicted for the offense, the RNC began making large payments for his legal defense.

Now come reports that Tobin was in heavy contact with a specific telephone number within the White House in the weeks leading up to the 2002 election, on election day (Nov. 5, 2002), and just after the election.  This included "two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day."

I'm sure you've already seen the recent news stories about Libby claiming that Bush authorized Cheney to authorize Libby to leak parts of the National Intelligence Estimate in 2003.  And I know you're aware that "somebody" leaked the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.

But did you know that Israel is reportedly extremely unhappy with the US for having leaked the text of the "al-Zawahiri letter" last October?

Bloomberg is reporting that Jacques Chirac has scrapped the new labor law that offered reduced job protection to young workers, pitched as a way to reduce youth unemployment.

Not only do our undermanned homeland security folks somehow still find time to confiscate packages of prescription medicine ordered from abroad by American citizens desperate to find drugs they can afford, but they apparently have time to harass a teacher's aide trying to direct traffic at his school.

Yep, here we go, sports fans, the very thing we feared so bad, seems like The Town Drunk is doing acid now...

So! The latest polls are out, and gee, willikers, Batman! Looks like the entire Rethug deal is on the skids with the folks at long last!...

You can tell a lot about any organization just by paying close attention to its actual priorities, rather than the priorities it announces to the public at press conferences.  Oddly, although we can't stop illegal immigration, or check shipping containers entering the country through the ports, we can assign who-knows how much manpower and effort to keeping out prescription drugs imported from Canada.

So, do you see anything wrong with having the US's immigration agency described as "trying to handle too many cases with too few employees," at the same time that our customs and border patrol agency is snooping through, and confiscating, packages of prescription drugs mailed from foreign countries to patients in the U.S.?

As most WTW people have long suspected, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Ohio cheated in doing its recount after the 2004 presidential election.

Editor & Publisher reports the results of a new Gallup poll conducted March 13-16:

1. 55% say Bush personally is doing a poor job of protecting the environment; 33% say a good job.

2. 62% say the government is doing too little to protect the environment, 33% say it's doing about the right amount, and 4% say the government is doing too much.

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