Maureen Dowd on WGN radio now: 7:36 PM CDT

[Gabi Hayes]

Edit: http://wgnradio.com/listen/liveWGN.ram

or on radio AM 720

talking about this weekend's column

[ThomWV]

1. Link?

[Gabi Hayes]

3. ha...here

http://wgnradio.com/listen/liveWGN.ram

[Gabi Hayes]

2. talking about how both W's think they pulled themselves

up by their bootsraps

how W got bailed out by daddy's influential friends ALL his life, from college through the 2000 elections

"biggest safety net of any American president"

[dflprincess]

4. Like Molly Ivins says about him

"Born on 3rd base, but thinks he hit a triple."

[Cocoa]

5. Warren and Dowd are having a contest

who can sound more nasal on the radio.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. don't forget the logrolling smarm

she always wins the nasality contest, though

Mike Allen on now, having just discovered the rampant cronyism infecting the junta

only took him four and half years!

I really hate that weasel

talked to him on this very show right after he wrote his braggadocio about being whisked off to Baghdad on the secret Turkey Escapade

[Gabi Hayes]

7. interesting factoid:

3000 presidential appointees, who make most of on-the-ground decisions.

the junta was never afraid to take advantage of this fact, and use it to their greatest advantage, reflected thusly:

Sixty percent of Bush junta Inspector General positions were filled by patronage appointees, while only 20 percent had any accounting experience

those numbers were reversed under Clinton

these numbers were revealed in answer to Warren's typical Bush defense of a question, when he wondered whether it wasn't just more of the same thing that happened under WJC

they never mentioned what happened to the other 20 percent of the IG appointments