And the stockings were hung...

Is the Bush Administration in Free Fall?

Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, investigating the leak that outed undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, has launched a new website. The website now features just a few documents from his investigation, but one presumes there are more to come, since it seems unlikely that he would bother with a new website if he were simply planning to end his investigation with no indictments.

There is speculation that Fitzgerald is investigating the phony marketing of the Iraq war by WHIG, the White House Iraq Group consisting of Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, Andrew Card, James R. Wilkinson, Nicholas E. Calio, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. It couldn't happen to a nicer gang of thugs.

The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court seems to be hanging by a thread, as the Bush Administration rolls out yet another version for public consumption. It still appears possible that Miers will be "borked" by the Right-Wing (including by Robert Bork himself). This is one case where it might be a good thing that the Democrats do nothing. Meanwhile, the "Harriet Miers" blog still gets higher ranking in Google than more "official" websites.

While we were cheated out of the long-awaited public frog-march of Tom Delay, and his smiling mugshot looked more like a campaign photo, he still saw the inside of a courtroom and hopefully will be spending a lot of his time on legal matters. We can still hold out hope of one day seeing bootleg pictures of him in a jail cell in his underwear. Daily Kos offers some more satisfying versions of DeLay's mugshot.

It should be an interesting week as the expiration of Fitzgerald's grand jury nears on October 28, 2005. The blogosphere is stocking up on champagne and other celebratory items in anticipation of Fitzmas Day, complete with Fitzmas carols.

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