Ex-Majority Leader Tom Delay Caught With His Pants Down Around His Ankles

A Texas grand jury charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates today with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme. DeLay, 58, is accused of a criminal conspiracy along with his henchmen for cooking up an elaborate but twisted scheme to hide corporate contributions.

The House of Representative rules states that indicted members of the house leadership must resign from their office (but not Congress itself). DeLay resigned this morning. I suspect further wrongdoing will emerge as people are given subpoenas and immunity. The full story is all over the usual news sources and blogs...

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School Of Rock - Geezer Edition (Four Days: $8,500)

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This article is from today's Fox 411 column by By Roger Friedman. I didn't know this camp was real; I always thought it was just a funny episode of The Simpsons.

Daltrey Joins Rock Fantasy Camp

"David Fishof's annual Rock Fantasy Camp has just snared its most famous counselor yet: The Who's Roger Daltrey.

Daltrey will join Dickey Betts, Mickey Thomas, Neil Schuon, the entirety of Cheap Trick and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead next February as they instruct high-paying campers in becoming rock and roll stars.

The price for the four-day weekend, scheduled Feb. 16-20, 2006, is $8,499.

I don't know if that includes bug juice or panty raids, but it does have its own version of a color war: a battle of the bands at the House of Blues in Los Angeles at the end of the weekend.

Personally, I'm going to audit the class where Daltrey shows you to how lasso a microphone. "

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Painting: The Balance Of Power Tilts

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The Poetry Of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld X:::::::::Where Is Osama bin Laden?

The great part of Rummy's circumlocution here is that he could be referring to anyone, dead or living, who has ever lived on earth. /jb



Where is Osama bin Laden?

We do know of certain knowledge
That he
Is either in Afghanistan
Or in some other country
Or dead.
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The Poetry Of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld IX::::::Accuracy

Accuracy

If I said yes
That would then suggest
That that might be the only place
Where it might be done
Which would not be accurate--
Necessarily accurate.

It might also not be inaccurate
but I'm disinclined to mislead anyone
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The Poetry Of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld VIII::::::Litany: What I Don't Do

Litany: What I Don't Do

I don't do quagmires.
I don't do diplomacy.
I don't do foreign policy.
I don't do predictions.
I don't do numbers.
I don't do book reviews.
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[each line is from a different press briefing)

The Poetry Of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld VII::::::What I Think

What I think

I believe
What I said yesterday

I don't know
What I said,

But I know
What I think and--

Well, I assume
It's what I said.
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[A new one, from an undated quote from a briefing]

The Poetry of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld VI:::::Predicting The Future

Predicting The Future

I would not say that the future
Is necessarily less predictable
Than the past.

I think the past
Was not predictable
When it started.
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The Poetry Of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Part V:::::A Confession

It's become a mania, and I am starting to make my own Rummy poems from briefings and press conferences..which I am now mixing in with the already known Rummy poems.


A Confession

Once in a while,
I'm standing here
Doing something

And I think

What in the world
Am I doing here?

It's a big surprise.
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(Interview with the New York Times May 16, 2001)

The Poetry Of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Part IV::::::The Digital Revolution

The Digital Revolution

Oh my goodness gracious,
What you can buy off the Internet
In terms of overhead photography!

A trained ape
Can know an awful lot
Of what is going on in this world,
Just by punching on his mouse
For a relatively modest cost!
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(press briefing following his European trip June 9, 2001)

Matt "Sleazeball" Drudge Strikes Again

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This morning on the Drudge Report, the headline was "Cindy Sheehan arrested at White House in cunning stunt." The headline is a play on the joke that goes something like "A cunning stunt, or a stunning c***." As he almost always does when he crosses the line, he changed the headline shortly after to "FUN: CINDY ARRESTED AT WHITE HOUSE.
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Poem: Dogpaddling

Dogpaddling

Caught in the riptide
She went down
Like an anchor

But sweet life pulled her
Wobbling to the surface
Like an air bubble

Her fear sprouted fins
And she dogpaddled
Like she was going home
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