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* Deep in the bowels of his fortified bunker, devilishly wringing his hands, Hu Jintao channels his best evil scientist: “Yes, yes, my plan is working perfectly.” [Peking Duck] MORE »

C’mon, Pat — just shit or get off the pot: MORE »

He was either demoted and shamed and reined in, or this is no difference at all and he’s just as powerful as ever. The truth, as always, is probably somewhere in between, but we more or less stand by our original take: Rove’s done trying to get policy shit passed, and is moving on to election-winning and image-managing. Which he’s actually good at. Though hopefully he won’t be too distracted by that whole upcoming indictment thing: MORE »

We understand that the judge in Republican congressman Tom Delay’s criminal trial has been removed due to the “appearance of impropriety,” since the judge has made donations to Democratic campaigns in the past. Delay’s supporters asked that the judge step aside “to protect the integrity” of the judicial system. We see a slippery slope here: What if, say, a Supreme Court judicial nominee had been the personal lawyer of someone who has business before the Court? She might have to withdraw her nomination or something. Should there not be any other reasons to withdraw it. Geez, next thing you know, judges and litigants won’t even be able to go duck hunting together anymore. MORE »

Fox is reporting that Scooter Libby has submitted his resignation. Does this mean that someone has the paperwork somewhere? We’re clicking on that dumb site. Who’s Fitzgerald’s webmaster, anyway — Ken Starr? MORE »

Raw Story is reporting that Fitzgerald will grace indictments on–we hope you’re sitting down–Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. Citing the usual “lawyers close to the investigation”–evidently locked out during a lunch break–the Rawsters claim that Rove will catch an obstruction count, and that Scooter is looking at perjury and obstruction. They waffle, though, on the key question of whether anyone was violating the 1982 Intelligence Identities act that originally set this whole crazy caravan in motion. First they claim that Fitzgerald believes Scooter broke the law, but then they issue this closing disclaimer: MORE »

We applaud the extraneous geniuses at “Backup Brain” for creating a much more elaborate play at-home “Indictment Bingo” card. It generates randomly ordered row and lines of all the possible suspects from the almost-sure-things (Karl Rove) to the maybe-shouldn’t-be-on-the-card (Chris Matthews). So if you’re the kind of person who likes to watch the news with a score card, here’s your thing. As if hearing the list of indictees itself won’t be exciting enough! MORE »

Entries in our Indictment Bingo contest keep pouring in, and we expect another round with the revelation that the special prosecutor has ruled out issuing a final report on his investigation. This means that indictments are all but certain. We’d say something about hubris but it’d be an insult to pride. I mean, shit: This administration is responsible for the deaths of thousands of American soldiers in a hunt for non-existant WMDs and they threaten to be brought down because of a petty snipe about a blow-hard househusband. It’s not the crime but the cover-up indeed. MORE »