The guessing game is on in Washington. Who, the game seeks to know, will be the next Republican to fall from grace in a scandal, indictment or just plain political stupidity?
New indictments handed down against scandal-scarred former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay only fuels speculation that time is running out for others. Karl Rove and others inside the Bush White House top the list for future defendants because of their role in outing covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Longtime political observers say Republican arrogance created the feeding frenzy that has prosecutors high and low looking for ways to bring down the smug and powerful.
If so, it is a lesson in humility long overdue. The party leadership in Washington is domianted by zealots who think God annoited them to run roughshod over the law, the Constitution and anything else that stood in the way of an extremist political agenda.
But Washington is a town ruled by karma and what is happening today to the GOP is just another case of some good old fashioned karma comin' down.
Or, as Willie Nelson sang:
It's just a little old-fashioned karma comin' down
Just a little old-fashioned justice goin' 'round
A little bit of sowin'
And a little bit of reapin'
A little bit of laughin'
And a little bit of weepin'
Just a little old-fashioned karma comin' down
Mr. Thompson,
Some of that karma may indeed be boomeranging back. In light of your "rant" on CHB entitled "A Cardboard Cowboy" I suggest you check out this link from HuffPo below. It's amazing. Watch Dubya's jaw. What is that twitch about??
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/video/bush-miers.mov
I think it underscores CHB's now year-old claim that Bush is losing it and/or "on something".
The two suggested explanations I've read about the President's little tic are TMJ, and "tardive dyskinesia". The latter would support your drug theory.
Interesting . . . and worrisome.
They say "follow the money," I say follow Jack Abramoff, the right wing's most toxic lobbiest. OMB director David Safavian recently took a fall for his Abramoff entanglements (Safavian was Bush's "clean up guy," placed by the head shrub to streamline federal contract bungling). A guy like Abramoff can't pull his shady millions out without a wide web of accomplices. I expect more fallout from that line of corruption.