Welcome to Dean Country. Population: Bush.

[Plaid Adder]

Not Howard Dean...John Dean.

Tell me we're not all thinking that. Watergate only really picked up steam after an insider decided to break ranks. Over the past few months, the critique has been slowly moving from the outside in. We've now gotten to someone who's an ex-Bush cabinet member. Sooner or later, we'll get to someone who's a CURRENT cabinet member, and then we can finally get him measured up for that suit of jam, cause he is TOAST.

Moohoohahaha,

The Plaid Adder

[Firespirit]

1. AGREED..

This may sound funny, but I'd bet on the current cabinet member being Ridge. Think of it... he used to be considered an up-and-coming Repub. Now his political career is in the toilet, he's regarded as a clown, a fall guy/front man for Ashcroft, and is most associated with the idiotic Paint-by-Numbers Terra Alert scheme, which pretty much everyone except the duct-tape people and FOX fans considers laughable. Yet he would have the insider scoop.

I may be dead wrong, but if any of the current cabinet members would leak information, I think he'd be most likely.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi Firespirit!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Firespirit]

5. I'm not really new...

Been a member since early last year, but I haven't posted since the conquest of Iraq began. But thanks anyway!

[Plaid Adder]

7. Actually, it makes some kind of sense

As you say, the words "Tom Ridge" and "clown" are now closely associated. He's got a grudge, and it would be normal for him to try to justify/excuse his own clownitude by revealing the undoubtedly insane directives he's been getting from the top, or should I say the Big Top.

That color-coded alert thing is crazy. But you know what? People still take it seriously. My mother, for instance. She was all, "Oh, I'm so nervous about your father flying when it's code orange." I'm like, "Oh, yeah, that's right, it's still code orange, isn't it?"

I mean really. If they had any real information about an upcoming terror attack, wouldn't they just go stop it? What the hell are these alerts supposed to mean?

Faugh,

The Plaid Adder

[spooky3]

2. Sad to say, we are missing an important element present during WG

that being 2 reporters acting with the support of Katharine Graham to dig into the facts and tell the truth.

[Cleita]

3. There are still some reporters out there who might

step up to the plate now that the revelations are starting to get legs.

[Plaid Adder]

6. It won't be in an establishment paper.

But some marginal media outlet will jump at the chance to rake in the dough that this story will bring them.

At least that's what I hope.

Fingers crossed,

The Plaid Adder

[Zomby Woof]

8. Oh no!

You got bit by the toast bug too! :o

That toast just never shows up on our plate...

[Plaid Adder]

9. It's like in Alice in Wonderland

Toast yesterday and toast tomorrow, but never toast today.

Oh wait, that was jam. Well, same difference.

I know he's been declared toast many times in the past. But you gotta have hope, I say. Hope for toast, I say!

Maybe tomorrow,

The Plaid Adder