The Fat Lady Begins to Sing:
"'This administration may be over,' Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans' 1960s and '70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. 'By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over.'"

Conservative Talk Show Host Joins The Chorus:
"In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country ... a case can be made that he’s the worst President, period ... he’s either grossly incompetent, or a hand puppet for a gaggle of detached theorists with their own private view of how the world works."

Bush Continues Campaign to Destroy US Intelligence Capacity:
"The general considered the Bush administration's likely choice to become CIA director would be the "wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time," the Republican head of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Sunday."

"When the history of the Bush years are written ... the biggest untold story of the era is going to be ... The Death of Policy. George Bush's Republican Party is driven sometimes by ideology, sometimes by corporate fealty, and sometimes by nothing more than stubbornness, but serious policy analysis rarely enters the picture anymore ... The CIA is the latest victim of this corrosive syndrome."

More Goss Links to Hookergate:
"You've got to be relatively deep in the "Hookergate" weeds to follow this one. But Newsweek has now positively identified the CIA party-attender "Nine Fingers" as Brant Bassett, ex-CIA official and former Goss Hill staffer."

Australian Oligarch Controls US Elections & White House TVs:
"Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news?  Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted the Republican Party's share of the vote in the 2000 election and delivered Florida to Bush."

"... a far-right partisan who has used his empire explicitly to pull American political debate to the right ... an enabler of the oppressive tactics employed by dictatorial regimes ..."

"Fox News all the time at the White House ..."