while the rest of us cry

* athenae: "I've never in my life seen such slavish devotion to an absolutely fact-free state. I think at this point if George W. Bush himself came out of the Oval Office, hand in hand with Cheney, and declared the whole thing to be a clusterfuck and so totally over, over in Freeperville and in Jeff Goldstein's comments section, you'd find dozens of people claiming it must have been some Democrat who got to them."

* "Mr. Bolten is said by a number of Republicans in Washington to feel that Ms. Miers is indecisive, a weak manager and slow in moving vital paperwork through the system. She came to the White House in January 2001 as the staff secretary and then held one of Mr. Bolten's former jobs, deputy chief of staff for policy, before Mr. Bush appointed her as White House counsel in November 2004." (link)
6 months ago they tried to give her a lifetime scotus gig.

* froomkin: "Dana Milbank writes in The Washington Post: "It took so long to silence her -- a full three minutes -- that Bush aides began to wonder if the Secret Service's strategy was to let her scream herself hoarse.... 'The Secret Service response to Wang's shouts at Chinese President Hu Jintao appeared to be slow, but because Wang was standing in a press area, authorities initially thought she was asking a question out of turn, a source explained."

* was it a coincidence that the scotty/rove 'fake-up' occured the day before Hu came to town? a one-day story and all that...

* Pink: "Mr President - how do you sleep while the rest of us cry?"