Well, looks like Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten are now officially in contempt of Congress, thanks to the 22-17 vote of the House panel, pictured at left. Miers and Bolten were arrested and sent to Abu Ghraib to await their show trial in 2012. MORE »

Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten will be charged with contempt this week by the House Judiciary Committee, beginning what will hopefully be an 18-month-long process of charges, arrests, impeachments, imprisonments and live, boring cable-news coverage that will ultimately end with Dick Cheney convicted of doing 9/11 and getting beheaded on live teevee. MORE »

Here it is, Scooter Libby’s receipt from the courthouse — evidence that his lawyers cut a quarter-million-dollar check (plus $400 for some fee) from his legal defense fund and had a courier drop it off. THE SYSTEM WORKS, PEOPLE. MORE »

It’s not even Friday and people are quitting the Bush Administration! Budget director Rob Portman is the latest to dive off the USS White House, leaving after just two years — first as “trade representative” and then as Josh Bolten’s replacement as budget chief. MORE »

Today’s racist Bush nominee is Henrietta Holsman-Fore, currently some factotum at the State Department and soon to be in charge of U.S. AID, which is basically in charge of all foreign aid to foreigners.

Holsman-Fore used to own a factory in Los Angeles, where she complained about her low-paid Negro Workers who kept going “back to the street to earn more money” selling crack.

Meet our Bush nominee of the day, after the jump.

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The House approved the DC -gets-a-vote bill, hooray! It passed 241-177. MORE »

While liberal webtards continue to call the Iraq Occupation a “failure” due to the hundreds of thousands of blown-up Iraqis, civil war and endless U.S. casualties, optimists point out that Iraq’s most precious resource will soon be available to all the western energy companies so cruelly kept away from the oilfields during Saddam Hussein’s reign.

Read the Good News the Main Stream Media won’t tell you, after the jump.

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With so many people leaving Washington this month, it’s hard to keep track of who got voted out of office or resigned due to various sex/bribe scandals or were murdered or were simply convicted of felonies and locked in prison forever. MORE »

Months upon months ago, we asked you, the reader, what’s worst about working for Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. Today, we’ve got a brief (but entertaining) update. In a department-wide email yesterday, Chao wrote: MORE »

• Glenn Greenwald goes long on the anti-Murtha movement, posts his letter to lawyer Mark Zaid. [Glenn Greenwald]
• More on Rumsfeld’s Senate Testimony, Think Progress commenter says: “Got an answer for everything. I work with a dude like this. It starts with a conversation about dogs and ends with a conversation about umbrellas…” [Think Progress]
• Self-proclaimed punky Josh Wolf remains in jail for refusing to turn over video footage of a protest. [Romensko]
• Ned Lamont apparently doesn’t find blackface jokes funny, plays dumb: “I don’t know anything about the blogs, I’m not responsible for those, I have no comment on ‘em…Independent blogs, I can’t say anything about it.” [Michelle Malkin]
• WP’s David Broder: “reflects the conventional wisdom of his clique back at them. That’s his audience. Once upon a time that clique had power and influence. They imagine they still do, but it’s fading, and not because of the rising power of blogofascism. It’s because the Bush administration doesn’t care what the Grand Old Men of Washington think. They’ve made that perfectly clear.” At least he’ll have a lot of drinking buddies when he’s put to pasture. [Eschaton]

So the NYT has reported that most, if not all, of the president’s men “have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy.” But are we talking Judith Miller serious here, or just Barney Miller serious? Below, we explain the differences between “serious legal jeopardy” and “frivolous legal jeopardy.” — GREG BEATO MORE »