Eric Margolis:  The 'Fin de Regime'?
An Out-of-Touch George Bush Now Presides Over a Lost Foreign War and a Morass of Influence Peddling. China's Taoists philosophers warned that you become what you hate. We see this paradox in Washington, where the current administration increasingly reminds one of the old Soviet Union. Using a $115-million aircraft to listen to cellphone calls by a bunch of jihadis in Waziristan staggers the imagination. FBI agents are reportedly spying on such nefarious "terrorists" as vegetarians and animal rights activists. "Terrorists" ("enemies of the state" in Soviet talk) threaten the U.S., so anything goes. Money is the Achilles heel of democracy.

Jeremy Alford:  Passing the Bucks
Special interests want lawmakers to return money from indictment magnet Tom DeLay. What will Charles Boustany Jr. do? Boustany has no plans to return the money.

Bush at a Wedding Video
The Smoking Gun would like to be the first web outfit to formally offer Dubya an artifact for his future presidential library. The Republican's wacky performance in this 1992 wedding video excerpt--shot years after Bush went cold turkey in July 1986--needs to be preserved for future generations.

Drunk Bush Video
Check out Bush! He is seriously tanked. Silly stuff.

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