Threepeat
Yesterday was a day that the Bush administration would, undoubtedly, want to forget, but one which I'm sure many of us will think about for years to come. Let's take a fond look back at the events of February 9, 2006.
1) It was divulged that Scooter "Irving" Libby testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists.
Ah, the ol' "I was only following orders" defense. Fills you with a sense of nostalgia, doesn't it? Before you start planning that "Dick goes to OZ" party, I'm going to have to play the part of wet blanket (triumphantly reprising a role a fulfilled on Broadway for six years) and remind you, gentle reader, that this revelation might just be a) a straw man built up by Irving's defense team, in collusion with the administration, for the sole purpose of knocking it down or b) an attempt by Irving's lawyers to get their hands on some documents that had previously been restricted.
2) Michael "Forget about the levees and look at the ass on that horse" Brown is back! And he's pointing his bony, little finger right in the direction of his former boss. Brown is claiming that he has emails which prove that he notified the White House that the levee had given way, the city was flooding and his crews were overwhelmed. "There is no question in my mind, that at the highest levels of the White House they understood how grave the situation was," Brownie has stated.
3) Bush informed us, in the sketchiest way possible, that a terrorist plot to blow up LA's "Liberty" Towers. OK, it's really called the "Library" Towers, but for Bush that's getting fairly close and RATYHTL salutes our dyslexic President. See the special FOX News / Will Smith version of the attack here!
Sure, the only reason that Bush told us (and not LA's mayor) about it is because some Republicans have joined the Democrats in asking for hearings into the warrantless wiretapping program, and sure there's no evidence that the warrantless wiretapping program actually stopped the attack on the to Whatever Towers, but the good news is that a major terrorist attack was thwarted.