Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner

10/29/05

"With the indictment of Lewis Libby and possible indictment of Karl Rove, President Bush faces a fateful choice. ... It is worth pausing a moment to take stock of it all: The vice president's chief aide is indicted on perjury and obstruction charges that potentially implicate Cheney, since he told Libby of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's position. ... The religious right humiliates Bush on the Harriet Miers nomination. This will leave Bush furious at his usual allies, weakened politically, and Democrats and moderate Republicans in Congress more determined to prevent the far right from dictating the next nominee. Tom DeLay ... is indicted for corrupt campaign money-laundering, while his opposite number in the Senate, Bill Frist, faces potentially criminal conflict-of-interest charges for dumping stock. ... The president is caught flat-footed in the most serious natural disaster in a century...

http://tinyurl.com/ctdn4



Gotterdamerung for the Bushies?

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.Clair

10/30/05

This is what CounterPunch gets from Plamegate, and what we always got from Plamegate. The people in charge of the nation's destinies these last five years are very, very stupid. Only really stupid people could have thought that outing Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA employee was a good way of undercutting her husband, Joe Wilson...

http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn10292005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp