To summarize briefly for those who do not understand Adam's "bad week to be Republican" comment, here is what is going on in the city:
1 - the 2000th soldier was killed in Iraq this week. This is a big deal, particularly in the increasing "Bad President Bush for sending our military there!" sentiment which is no longer confined to the "bleeding heart liberal" crowd.
2 - Harriet Miers withdrew from her Supreme Court nomination yesterday. She wasn't particularly impressive in her personal meetings with the Senators, the Senate Judiciary actually asked her to redo her questionaire because it was so full of holes, a lot of people were suspicious because she's Bush's personal attorney, and the far right conservative groups (also known as Bush's base) went ballistic because she was not guaranteed to rule against abortion.
3 - The entire city has been at a fever pitch of speculation because a number of high-ranking White House staff are under investigation for the deliberate naming of an undercover CIA agent in the media, which is a federal felony. This investigation has actually been going on for a year or 2, but this was the week that the indictments would be handed out for criminal behavior. The result: Vice President Cheney's chief of staff was indicted today with 5 charges and immediately resigned. Karl Rove, also known as President Bush's brain, is subject to further investigation. Rumor has it that there's a 3rd person.
Congress is not off the hook either. We have 2 more for you that happened last week.
- The House majority leader had to step down from his leadership position (not resign his seat unless he's convicted) because he was indicted and arrested for money laundering and illegally manipulating campaign funds. He is from Houston, so I'm sure Jared has heard about this one.
- The Senate majority leader is under investigation for insider trading on the stock market, which is the same thing that Martha Stewart went to jail for last year.
So ... yeah. It's a lovely time to live and work in our nation's capitol ... never a more wretched hive of scum and villiany (or however the line goes). My prevailing thought right now is that I'm glad the Supreme Court stuff has been put on hold - even if Bush named a new nominee today, the hearings still wouldn't happen until January. That means that Congress can just finish up the budget stuff in the next couple of weeks and LEAVE for all the holidays and not come back until after New Year's, and we can have some peace and quiet around here.
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Thanks Trina. No one here watches or reads the news, or knows how to find any of the thousands of news sites on the Web, so it's a good thing you're here to give us a fair and evenhanded recap of current events on the family blog.
I couldn't tell if Eric was being sarcastic there or not. I do pay attention to the news, but not much, so I was only aware of about half the things she mentioned there. Fortunately I can say that Tom DeLay was one of them. Otherwise that might have been really embarassing.
I was being sarcastic in fact. Sorry, but I found the post a bit patronizing. And by the way, 2000 soldiers killed in Iraq is not just "bad for Republicans." The US is at war, not the Republican party. In case you hadn't heard.
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