but we can't let up - demand that they post a real abramoff piece!

and just because it told me I had too few words, tuck yourself in with "Say Goodnight, Karl!"

still not long enough...ok...one of my Senators has come out with a "NO!" to Alito - what are yours doing?  if you have one senator voting no and the other one on the fence, throw this at them:  "well, i'm your constituent as well - how can my senators have two completely different senses of what the state wants?"

Conversely, how mainstream can he be if Frist describes him as a liberal's "worst nightmare"?

and just to pre-empt the "too short" message, keep this interview with Paul Craig Roberts handy for the gabfests tomorrow morning.

The good news is that a well respected and widely read newspaper has finallllly labeled the Abramoff scandal as largely Republican---not once, but repeatedly and without pussyfooting.  

The not-so-good news is that it's the International Herald Tribune, which most Americans don't read.

Today I read that two Republican Congressmen are competing to replace Tom DeLay as the leader of the House Republicans. One would expect that the Republicans would be eyeing the most squeaky clean of their members to counter the corrupt image their party now has. And yet, one of the top contenders is Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, one of the most corrupt members of Congress. The other is at best only soft on corruption and at worst, based on the REPUBLICAN view of the Abramoff scandal (not our own), the other, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, is among the most corrupt Congressmen around. In their blind quest for power, Republicans just don't get it. Americans don't like corruption.

This is just a little something I threw together in an openthread over on kos...I figured I'd share it with you good people as well.

Of course, bush will return directly to Crawford as he takes the entire week of Thanksgiving off for vacation (as he has since taking office)...I don't think he ever undersood that four-day weekends aren't meant to be treated as seven day drunks, but to each his own.

I worry that the heat will come off of bush with the holiday break, but there is good news on the horizon...Scanlon's turning state's evidence, and republicans are running scared.  I don't even think bush wants to return to Crawford (where, of course, Cindy Sheehan is waiting to remind him that she's still pissed off about having her son killed in Iraq and wants an answer.

Scanlon starts talking,
Abramoff won't be walking,
Delay's now balking,
And Bush's leaks still need caulking,
GOP tactics are shocking,
But there's been less Chickenhawking,
Though con blogs are still squawking,
and Helen Thomas Scotty's stalking.