The Republican recession... from Bush!

In the past week...

Internationally: Elections in Poland and Australia this week ousted the sitting prime ministers in favor of opposition party candidates. Poland and Australia... two countries whose sitting leaders were still supporting the Coalition of the "Willing". Hmm... Poland's new leader has already pledged to withdraw the contingent of 900 Polish troops by the end of 2008.

Tuesday: Scotty McBombshell! In Scott McClellan's upcoming book, "What Happened", he reveals that he was lied to about Karl Rove and Scooter Libby's roles in the Valerie Plame scandal by "Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself." Recall that earlier this year, McClellan claimed Rove and Libby lied to him about their involvement in the outing of a covert CIA agent working on nuclear counterproliferation in Iran.
Reuter's covers it here.
Here an a great article from buzzflash explaining how important the implications of what Mclellan furthur confirmed really are. High crimes!!!!!

Tuesday: Two more Republican members of the House - Reps. Shays (CT) and English (PA) joined the Democrats in voting FOR the proposal to set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, joining Reps. Walsh (NY) and Jones (NC) as the lone GOP voices of sanity in the House. Could this have anything to do with 2008? Shays, English and Walsh all face rough re-election campaigns... Interestingly, Rep. Gilchrist (R-MD) flipped to Bush's side, as he faces a hard challenge from within his own party (presumably due to his prior anti-war views), and a handful of Democrats (most notably presidential contender Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH) ) voted against it for not being strong enough in calling for withdrawal.

Tuesday: After Karl Rove left his White House position, he sought employment as a political op-ed writer for TIME Magazine. He was rejected because TIME felt Rove was "essentially like an unindicted co-conspirator in a whole string of felonies."

Wednesday: Former Governor and now Republican Presidential contender Mike Huckabee on McClellan's revelations: "... [T]hese are serious allegations. They deserve to be thoroughly examined, investigated, and the truth brought to the American people."

Thursday: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN): "George Bush is a very compassionate person. He’s a very good person. And a lot of people don’t see that in him, and there’s many people in this room who might disagree with that…. I just felt a little bit underwhelmed by our discussions, the complexity of them, the depth of them."

Friday: Richard Perle says he was right about Iraq... invading Iraq, that is. He states that the "occupation was a mistake."

Sunday: Recall that, over the past few election cycles, the Republicans pointed at all the Democratic "infighting"? Well, now... Fred Thompson takes FOX News to task for being, essentially, biased against his run for President.

Today: Trent Lott will resign from the Senate! Ding dong, another witch is dead! The more conspiratorial amongst us will note that Lott's departure occurs just before new rules would kick in that prevent members of Congress from taking lobbyist positions until they've been out of government for two years.

Today: Top Pentagon military leaders hope the next Iraq assessment does not rely so heavily on the views of Bush hack Gen. David Petraeus, a clear sign that they expect a realistic depiction of the situation on the ground. In Petraeus's Iraq, things are going fine, so we can keep the military there. In real Iraq, things are not really improving, just... shifting... again. I think the Pentagon military leaders realize it is wasteful to play Whack-A-Mole in the desert at all, never mind for FOUR YEARS, and it should be time to end this war.