Goss, but Not Forgotten

Our crazed loner brother has a fittingly spiteful and vitriolic Porter Goss poilitical obituary up, great reading while you’re waiting for someone to publish tomorrow’s stories on the resignation, which will either be earth-shattering or bland retellings of shit you’ve been reading on Wonkette (and TPM, Harper’s, etc.) for a week now. But this passage is certainly fun:

“Something happened,” neo-conservative magazine editor William Kristol said on Fox News this afternoon. “It’s going to be a bad few days. We’re going to discover something … It will be something not good for the Bush Administration.”

Fox News actually got a phone call from a “top White House official” during Kristol’s damning comments, and Kristol was cut off so Bush mouthpiece Chris Wallace could say the Goss resignation is just a harmless part of the “White House shakeup.” Sure.

Does Kristol actually know anything? He’s probably just playing the pundit gambit of predicting something a) vague and b) huge, but, if nothing else, it means that there’s your prevailing conventional wisdom: Shit’s gonna go down this weekend.

Fall of an American Criminal [Sploid]

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Bush in Katrina-Land

Bush’s belated and brief visit to the areas hit by Katrina may also have been bogus. In an open letter to Bush, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu questions why the equipment to repair levee damage that had been so plentiful when the President arrived, wasn’t there the next day:

Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment.

All of a sudden the rescue troops finally showed up, the clean-up vehicles; we didn’t see those over the last days here. In an area where it really isn’t urgent, there is nobody around, all the remaining people went to the city center.

KATRINA: LANDRIEU ASKS FOR MORE HELP [Newschannel 6 via Sploid]
“German Reporters - BUSH STAGING Rescue Missions!!!” [Progressive Independent]

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