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FLASH… WOLFOWITZ MIGHT RESIGN, SOMEDAY… MAYBE… MORE »

Shoeless Paul still won’t resign from the World Bank, and the board still can’t decide how to make him go without firing him. It’s a bit like a Mexican standoff, except for how it gets more tedious instead of intense as it endlessly drags on. MORE »

* “If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too.” [Guardian]
* Howard Dean gets sued over one little “holding his ankles” joke. [No Agenda]
* Marine Corps gets underage soldiers blackout drunk, wakes them up in Anbar. [Hit & Run]
* Fred Thompson wants to send Michael Moore to a Cuban torture chamber. [Breitbart]
* Ric Keller puts suckas in tears. [Central Florida Political Pulse]

7 of the 24 members of the World Bank’s board declared Bank head Paul Wolfowitz a total bastard in a scathing report issued last night. MORE »

Condi Rice has been calling up a couple overseas friends lately. Just to catch up, you know? See how they’re doing? Oh, and to ask that they please stop asking for Paul Wolfowitz to resign. MORE »

Shaha Ali RZA, the woman just to the side of the center of the current World Bank scandal, would like you to know that just because her boyfriend Paul Wolfowitz got her a promotion and raise, she’s no bimbo. No, as he dating Paul Wolfowitz proves, she’s actually just an idiot. Someone can know 50 languages and still be a complete moron, that’s the magical thing about Washington. MORE »

So we hear. More to come! MORE »

The World Bank promised to officially declare that Paul Wolfowitz is an unethical prick last Saturday, so, naturally, their committee is expected to finally deliver their report at the end of this week. They’ve already let it be known that the board will decide that Paul violated conflict of interest rules, so at this point they’re just deciding whether they’ll recommend an outright firing or a “vote of no confidence” that would allow this whole mess to drag on another couple weeks — guess which course of action we’re predicting they’ll take? MORE »

The World Bank executive board has decided, as the rest of the nation has, that dragging out this Wolfowitz girlfriend scandal is just a lot more entertaining and fun than this poverty and loans and helping the developing world shit. MORE »

Paul Wolfowitz’s charming attempt to drag the entire World Bank down with him looks like it’ll continue unabated well into May. Someone’s performance review didn’t go so well! MORE »

Shoeless Paul Wolfowitz is going to go before the board of the World Bank and tell them they’ll have to either fire him, something they don’t really know how to do, or give him $400k and say it’s their own fault. Only on those conditions will he actually give in and resign. MORE »

Two Bush insiders are facing the toughest challenges of their careers: pretending to give a shit about universal criticism of their corruption and incompetence. So how are Paul and Al doing, this week? They’re fine, thank you. Now would you shut up and let them get back to work?

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