My (was) conservative brother sent me his take on the Condi escapade

[SodoffBush]

I think we all believe that Republican fat cats tell GWB when to jump and how high.

Can you imagine these guys right now? They never liked Conde Rice - for being black, a woman, and possibly gay.

Now, she's on the verge of costing Bush the election because she wants to subvert justice! Oh my!!!!

If there really are Repub fat cats calling the shots, as we believe, I predict we'll see:

A. Conde simply changing her mind and agreeing to testify.
B. Conde quitting or getting fired.
C. Conde getting run over by a streetcar.

There is NO FRICKIN' WAY the Repub fat cats are going to watch their 200+ million dollars go floating down Conde's toilet. This won't go another week without a MAJOR development (maybe another war to take people's minds off Conde?).

How badly would the Repubs like to have some dirt to throw at John Kerry at the moment? Bush can try to crucify Clarke all he wants - that horse is out of the barn - the people believe the guy, period. And even if Bush could destroy Clarke - Kerry is still sitting there high and dry, completely untouched.

So look for Conde to fall, in one way or another, and for the Repubs to start throwing the kitchen sink at Kerry in order to try to get off the defensive. (I'm talking within 5 days)

[Gman]

1. I disagree!

Street cars are NOT the GOP SOP! The GOP much prefers small plane crashes.

[phatkatt]

14. Yep, street cars are public transit, therefore evil.

Maybe her SUV will roll over.

[asthmaticeog]

16. Although...

That might make for an excuse to slash any public transport funding that may come from the fed level.

[ewagner]

2. She can't resign

and they won't fire her because the flimsy facade of "Separation of Powers" would come tumbling down. She would be forced to testify and they have to avoid that at all costs.

[BR_Parkway]

4. There is no seperation of powers - BushCO impaneled this

investigation, not Congress!

And it's starting to get noticed:

"Lehman countered that Rice would not be sacrificing that principle, known as executive privilege, because the panel, which was appointed by the president, is "not an arm of the Congress."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4623066

[ewagner]

10. That's why I said

"flimsy facade". We know it's bs but she would lose even that if she resigned or got fired.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

5. If she cared so much about testifying...

...then she'd resign and testify. Wouldn't proving that Bush* is the awesomest president ever be reason enough to do that?

And who didn't see the Clarke response to Frist coming? "Oh, you wanna declassify that? How about ALL of my material? And while you're at it, let's see those daily briefs too. He he he. They've finally met their match.

[Kahuna]

15. She couldn't testify if she resigned. E everything is "classified"

with the bushistas. She'd be breaking the law.

[w13rd0]

11. They can't fire her...

...they'd have to whack her. They can't afford another "ex-insider gone author"...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

3. Or a fall in the office...

...like Joe Scarborough's congressional aide.

[Felix Mala]

6. Backwater Campaigning

They'll put her on the Dan Quayle campaign trail, along with their Secretary of Education, making major speeches in places like Buttcleavage, Idaho and ToeJam, Georgia.

[Bozita]

7. ooooh ... That's a killer comment!

thanks

[diamond14]

8. what's needed now is a big juicy SEX scandal....

seems that so far, the bushies are just real duds, sexless globs....mostly just alcoholics and drug-addicts stealing money from America....

but usually, where there's money, there's sex....

[goclark]

13. Larry Flynt Where Are You??

[lanlady]

9. it's not Condi's decision whether to testify

If Bush/Rove wanted her to testify, she would do it. This has been another in a series of PR miscalculations by the White House. Now they want to stand on principle in order not to admit to the mistake. It all goes to show that Bush et al., hiding behind that $180 million war chest, have total contempt for democracy and for the American public. I doubt very much that this is Condi's call, although if she had any integrity, which clearly she does not, she would break with this evil cabal.

[salinen]

12. I like how Chris Shays said it.