And on Page 2 - WA GOP Senate candidate Mike McGavick had a half-eaten baby in the backseat when he ran that Stop sign and blew a point-one-seven...

Here's one for those of you out there that love spinning the spin doctors - the NYTimes plays up the fact that (gasp!) Karl Rove is political plutonium these days. The piece should lead those that are still interested to a changing national Congressional map. But the Bushies pray to their very-much-straight-and-oh-so-white Gawd that you don't read that far into things. Because if you really begin to get excited/enraged by the prospects of Dems this midterm regaining the House...well you'll get all uppity and that's just what the terrorists want. To be honest, I still see the GOP maintaining weakened-but-complete control through '08 when the Earth (or whatever remains of it) falls out from under them in historic terms. Whoever's in charge after the November election is screwed regardless. Be careful what you wish for, you Commies. Better that it be a GOP reduced-majority that gets bitchslapped by every single issue that comes up (and they will) through '08. Even if the Dems get elevated into the split control position, they're on the upswing. Yes, yes - their plans are nonexistent and everyone loves to pile on their losing streak yada yada yada. Seriously now - none of that shite matters. The Bushies and the GOP drove us into the ditch we're in and...wait for it...wait for it... well, Rove's the so-called Brain behind it all. Or Rove was. Maybe I'm just lapsing into a moment of hopeful reflection because of the ABSOLUTELY stunning weather GrungeCity's got goin' on this afternoon as I sit on one of the ABSOLUTELY stunning window seats at Espresso Vivace on Capitol Hill as the rest of the city is at the tangle that is Bumbershoot or U-Dub's Husky Football opener. But if you read anything beyond the tealeaves left in the manky teacup Ann Coulter and her ilk have been drinking from...sucks to be a Bushie these days. Especially if you're forced to read the ugly bits of your performance review in our Nation's indisputible paper of Record.

Hope your own momentary pronouncements don't come back to bite you in the ass. Rock on.