Yes, but vanity and pomposity are really all there is to do in Minnesota in the winter.
Except for lutefisk. Then again, vanity and pomposity start to look (and smell) really good when you compare them to lutefisk…
This from someone who lives where they invented scrapple and headcheese. . . .
Uh oh.
An ABC News poll says that 75% of Americans think that Rove should be fired (including, blessedly 71% of the Republicans surveyed), and only 25% think the White House has been cooperating with the investigation (47% of the Republicans surveyed).
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=949950
Looks like the political side of the equation isn’t going too well. I wonder how the legal side will end up?
Take heart, honest Republicans of integrity. It appears that it is okay to poke your heads out of hiding. Perhaps with a little work, you can send the “Party before Country” Republicans and their big swinging tu quoques packing, to wait another three decades before they rise to power again.
Two! Two! tu quoques in one!
Abetted? You think GW actually thought this one up himself?
My favorite quote from the full .pdf version:
“Those paying close attention (who include about as many Republicans as Democrats) are more likely than others to call it very serious…”
My personal and entirely unsubstantiated mystical revelation from sources unamed and unknown is that Rove didn’t think it up either. He just knew how to get r done.
Nope, he is just an overaged frat party boy. Hell, he can’t even keep his stories straight. Other better minds have been at work behind the scenes. That doesn’t let him off the hook though. Not by a long shot.
It means he was headed for jail and turned Rat on someone else to save his own hide.
I think Cooper’s already had enough lunch…
A minor Highjack, if you please.
The guy that Robert Earl received immunity from prosecution to rat out was our old friend Ollie North, late LTC, USMC, and now highly paid political, military and international analyst, media commentator and general blow-hard. Ol’ Ollie, you will remember, walked because of an over aggressive Congressional investigation and all sorts of “fruit of the poison tree” interrogations by various Congressional gas bags looking for their fifteen minutes of fame turned into an impermissible Fifth Amendment violation.
Ludifisk is a late winter entertainment in the Scandinavian ghettos of The North Star State. It celebrates the starving time when the old guys had already eaten the dogs and cats and boiled up their shoes and had nothing left to eat but lye cured cod. Earlier in the season they engage in snowmobiling on supposedly frozen lakes. It is sort of a super chilled process of natural selection. This reduces the gene pool to the extent that there is room for former Texans like our old friend elucidator.
In the next state to the south out winter sport is driving snowmobiles into barb-wire fences. That is not so certainly fatal as an unplanned dip in a freezing lake and it makes us tough – all the scar tissue, don’t you know.
Since it was a bad idea and poorly planned from a strategic standpoint, yes. I wouldn’t like to think that we have more than one such screwups in high office.
Stop that. You’re scaring me.
Y’know, this is the attitude that helped him win two presidential elections. Bush is intellectually lazy, in that once he gets an idea in his head, he is always convinced he is right (or that God ordered him to do it), and he will not pause to consider other views or look for other input, but Bush is quite shrewd and is very bright tactically. He may be blind to the fact that his path will take us over a cliff, but he will be very good at surveying the roads and plotting the path that will take us to the cliff’s edge in the fastest vehicle available.
Gee, thanks for cheering us up.
If it helps him win a third, I guarantee you that attitude will disappear overnight.
Third? Third?
To your tents, O Israel! Revolutionary cadres to the barricades! The Brutish are coming! Peasants storm the Winter Palace! Serf’s Up!
I’m just saying- if he managed to overturn the 22nd Amendment, I think people would stop underestimating his intelligence.
Well, now, if that pesky little amendment were set aside, wouldn’t that mean that the Happy Horndog would also be eligible to run again?
GeeDub would be lucky if he carried Texas. Hell, he’s be lucky if he carried his parents!
Or overestimating their own. 
Oh that thought brings a tear to my eye. I’m thinking about voting for Hillary so that Slick Willy is in the White House again. I mean, he could spend his whole time there on the crapper and have more of an impact than Dubya.