On the $1000 Mint Julip, available at this year's Kentucky Derby:

Ah, at last. Something that says I am beyond disgustingly rich. Sure you already
wipe your ass with hundred dollar bills, but people couldn't SEE you doing that.

A golden globlet and a silver straw! House boy, come rub my feet. No not with
your hands. With the giant panda foot. No, that's the backrub giant panda foot.
The other one, next to the rhino penis.

Oh, never mind. Now I need another wad of hundreds...

As regarding the Illinois legislatures attempt to force Impeachment proceedings:
I would hope the Republicans would weasel out of it.

Talk of censure and impeachment, bad for Bush. Bad for Republicans.

Actual impeachment proceedings, good for Bush and good for Republicans.

Because a) They won't actually impeach him short of him driving up to the
House of Representitives with a dead hooker in his limo.

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b) It gives them an issue where they are being beset by "radical
liberal forces". Republicans have been continuing to trot out
that song and dance despite controlling the media and all three
branches of the Federal government. One of the reasons Republicans
have suffered so much is no one buys that anymore. When things go
bad (Katrina, Iraq, gasoline, corruption) they have no one to
blame for themselves.

I think the average American is fairly leery of impeachment, especially
after the Clinton debacle. While I agree he deserves it, the best way to
do it is to win in 2006. Let Bush and the Republicans flounder in a sea of
corruption, leaks, and bad news. If the Democrats can come up with some
sort of simplified, National positive message (Health Care for all, paid
for by removing the Bush tax cuts for the rich sounds fairly good to me...) then
they have a chance, redistricting or no.

It is hard to imagine a crappier job than White House Press Secretary.

It is bad enough to have a job requiring daily grilling by people looking for a
story, or any gaff or slip. But being Press Secretary for THIS White House,
where information is held so tight and there is so much hostility against the
free press (Not to mention the incompetance and corruption, but that is a more
politically biased evaluation), is horror enough to give Lovecraft chills.

The job is to quite deliberately say nothing of meaning and repeat mindless
talking points over and over. Not to mention daying stuff you strongly suspect
to be lies (if not outright known to be lies, although generally I believe the
PS is deliberately left out of all loops). You will be mocked daily (and Daily)
and bear the brunt of all the sins of everyone else in the Executive Branch.
Vice President shoots an old man in the face: You get yelled at.

That is a SHIT job.

Having said that, I actively despise all the present White House's Press
Secretarys (Fleischer, McClellan and now Snow), because to be willing to do such
a shit job means you have to be a True Believer. True Believers in this
Adminstration are pretty far down on my respect list, somewhere below Pia
Zadora.

More objectively, this should help. Scottie was a terrible PS. He always looked
sweaty and uncomfortable like he was lying. Ari was much better. It was like you
were playing poker with him. Maybe he was lying, maybe he wasn't. All you really
knew was that he thought you go fuck yourself for all he cared.