Another episode of America's very own Dope Opera, "The Edge of Blight"

We begin today's episode as the president announces the resignation of a CIA chief he appointed not that long ago.  As he speaks, the president looks sideways, at the departing chief.  What is that in his eyes before he quickly lowers and turns his gaze?  Disgust?  Envy? Sorrow?

Fade to Black

When AARP supported the patchy and strange Medicare prescription drug plan ("Part D"), several critics said it was because AARP was in the insurance business.  AARP denied it.

Now we get new info that the AARP-affiliated health plan, UnitedHealth Group, is the biggest enroller of seniors under the new plan.  So you decide.  AARP: commercial shill or protector of its aging membership?

My wife got this in an e-mail, with no indication of who the author is. Just thought I'd share it.

The White House and their media buddies at the right end of the dial keep pushing these two concepts in their fight to stop their loss of support:

Iraq was necessary to show our enemies that we ware strong and willing to fight them.

The outing of Valerie Plame was minor, since she wasn't a covert agent, and even if she was, her outing did us no harm.

Both of these now appear to be demonstrably false.

Poor Resident Bush. Seems he was the victim of a pretty humiliating set of vicous stuff courtesy of Comedy Central's own Stephen Colbert, and it seems, why, golly, he got mad about it!...

Proving that you don't stop being a shill just because your time on the job is getting very short, Scott McClellan parried several questions on leaks in today's press briefing at the White House.

As a public service to WTW readers, here are DHS "Preparedness Tips" numbers 12 & 13, my comments in brackets:

Iraq?  Doing swell, thanks for asking.

The economy? Burning up, thanks for asking.

How can people believe that?  It's the disinfo campaign, and thanks for asking.

Some stammering, stuttering performances are worth a calling to mind again after they fade from memory.  Witness this excerpt from the March 14, 2004 Face the Nation appearance by the one and only Donald Rumsfeld.

Pat Buchanan can say some of the dumbest things in the world, followed in short order by something very articulate and insightful.  I used to think that which Pat you got depended on whether he was thinking with his brain or his bible.  But this food Pat-bad Pat example doesn't seem to have anything to do with the bible.

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