So the other day, the news wires report that there are e-mails showing that "Tom DeLay's office knew that lobbyist Jack Abramoff had arranged the financing for the GOP leader's controversial European golfing trip in 2000 and was concerned "if someone starts asking questions.""

Tony Snow apparently did not get off to a very good start with the White House press corps, deciding to hold his first "gaggle" in the comfort of his own, far-too-small office, not to mention that he amended the starting time, then started the conference before the new time that he had announced.

A bigger problem, at least for those of us who merely read the gaggle transcripts, is the first indication of how things are likely to go with Snow.

I'm really tired of the apologists, rationalizers, and, apparently brain-impaired voices currently arguing in favor of the NSA domestic spying program(s) (isn't it sick that we don't even know if we're talking about 1 program, 2 programs, 12 programs...).

As if we need even more proof that Bushonomics doesn't work, can't work and wouldn't work even in a fairy tale, and even despite the credit-card-company-friendly new law, guess what...filings are going up....

Courtesy those clever minds over at The Crisis Papers. According to author Dr. Ernest Partridge, a mother of a political hurricane is brewing, eye of said storm right over 1776 Pennsylvania Av...enjoy!

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.

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