The investigations proliferate, the scandals wax and wane, and the current crop of Republicans continue to be...the worst that ever came.

Repub criminal news today. May 12, 2006:

You know this new television game show, Deal or No Deal, where contestants have to decide whether to take a cash offer or keep trying to get a higher amount by opening suitcases with various money amounts? That also sounds like a good name for this little exercise in Catch 22-iness that BushCo. plays with the NSA spying. Would anyone in their right mind accept the administration's endless string of "can't talk about it, but its okay, trust us?"

Here's a composite of the "give and take" between the press and the various Bush mouthpieces on NSA spying. Deal? Or no deal?

As detailed in the Wall Street Journal, Harris Interactive's most recent Bush poll puts his approval rating at 29%.

Alphonso Jackson is the HUD Secretary who told that delightful "anecdote about rescinding a HUD contract because the successful bidder said he didn't like Bush.

Big Alphonse has said other things, of course--you don't get to be a big enough Bush crony without saying a Bush load of absurd things.

Things have definitely heated up on the NSA program.  And who would have thought that USA Today, of all papers, would break the story that the NSA has been collecting phone calls (& presumably e-mails and more) from "tens of millions" of Americans?

But break it, they did, and the snowball's rolling down the hill, now folks.

If you were outraged that the President wants all cabinet and subcabinet level offices to include terrorism and Iraq talking points in all public speeches, try this one on (thanks to Raw Story for the lead):  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson told a Real Estate Executive Council forum audience a story about a  a prospective HUD advertising contractor who was awarded a contract, met with Jackson to thank him for being selected, then was essentially deselected after telling Jackson that "I have a problem with your president...I don't like President Bush."

You'd think that a president would remain eternally grateful to a woman who helped deliver the presidency.  But this is politics, and the woman is Katherine Harris, now known as the Senate Candidate from Hell.

What happens when the Candidate from hell greets the reluctant president, and grabs the president's hand in a death grip?

Karl Rove's alleged "genius" doesn't extend to anything that's legitimate, above board, honest, or any other term meaning something similar to "honest."  Yet KR is once again largely responsible for resurrecting the dead duck known alternatively as "the Bush presidency" and "Republican control of the federal government."  Step 1 in the Rovian attempt: continue to beat the dead horse you rode in on.

The deserting rat-sinking ship association is in the process of being played out yet again in life, this time in the Republican Party.

What to do when you belong to an all-powerful party which is now anathema to a growing number of voters?  No, you don't switch parties, that would be too honest.  You switch your beliefs within the same party.

I've written before about the use of the "Ask the White House" web page to spread admin propaganda.

My complaint then was that the Q&A was obviously contrived to get out the White House message.

New complaint: sometimes it simply ignores what appears to be a real question, and STILL contains contrived questions designed to spread the talking points.

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