Does no one but I see that the wheels are coming off this Administration? Now, the Thug In Chief has addressed the public by saying, "Today, I accepted the resignation of Scooter Libby." But then he went back to acting like it's just another day in the White House.

Business as usual. Except that now the cloud that's been hanging over the White House has thickened. There is a storm gathering. Karl Rove remains unindicted but still in serious legal jeopardy. With the sycophant Harriet Miers withdrawing her name from consideration to the Supreme Court, and a serious indictment today, it's looking like the Bush team is knocked back on its heels. Everyone focuses on "what's next?" which is understandable. But anyone can see that this is just the beginning, spin it as you like. The worst (for the White House) is yet to come. People who are breathing a sigh of relief that it was only one person should not rest easy. Patrick Fitzgerald has yet to prove that VP Cheney wasn't involved, or that Karl Rove wasn't involved. But that's just a matter of time, and Mr. Fitzgerald seems to have plenty of it. I personally would've liked to see Rove indicted also, but at least we got one of the bad guys.

Now, for the rest....

The last part of this article gets my goat.

Karl Rove's legal team suggesting that because of an e-mail that did not mention the Plame leak, Rove could have just forgotten when asked by investigators? If his dream team has plans of using this argument, then Karl Rove should wipe the smirk off his face and, to paraphrase Howard Dean, just report to his cell. Since it is widely known that Rove leaked Ms. Plame's name to the press, and Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment has peeled back a broader effort to punish Joseph Wilson for the sin of disagreeing with the Bush people, an argument like Karl Rove merely "forgetting" that he did it is specious at best. Just because he appears to have dodged a bullet this time does not by any means suggest that Fitzgerald hasn't got another round in the chamber, and if what the reports say about him are even half true, he takes his time, waits for his moment, and when he fires, he seldom misses.

I was just thinking today that for the last 5 years of George W. Bush's tenure as President, we Americans have been living inside of a reality created by the Bush White House. In that reality, the war in Iraq is just, the economy just roars ahead, no one inside the Administration could possibly do wrong and it always tells the truth to the American people.

There are of course, other permutations to this reality, like Bush is a strong and decisive leader, his judicial appointments are fair and balanced qualified people. On and on and on.

This is an alternate reality inside of a twisted mind. For years we've had to deal with a large portion of the country believing that reality. Now, as the latest poll shows, people are waking up and looking at the true reality, and it ain't pretty in the least. More shocking is the realization that our "fearless leader" is a delusional moron and his staff are a bunch of sick, psychotic, armchair warmongers whose video game illusions of victory are costing lives in the real world where the rest of us live. These people believe they are beyond indictment, beyond accountability, beyond the reach of the law. If I weren't so angry at how they have wrecked my country, I'd recommend treatment for them. These aren't sane individuals. But Because their dementia has led to serious breaches of public trust, treatment as mental patients is not an option. They need to be dealt with as criminals. Insane, quite possibly, but criminals first and foremost.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a terrifying thought to me two years ago, when he won the recall elelction. My sense that he would be a garden variety Republican when he tried to cut the Nurses Union off at the knees. Like so many oligarchs before him, Schwarzenegger wanted to be the one calling the shots and a swift death for fools who dared challenge him. He seemed to think big balls and big talk would be able to bring these people to heel, but what he missed and what Republicans seem to miss continually is that in a pluralistic democracy, you cannot govern by fiat. This is why dictatorships tend not to work too well here. For further evidence, see the so-called Presidency of one George Walker Bush.

So now that this try at politics has gone horribly wrong, maybe the Governator should go back to his day job, assuming he still can.

I voted for John Kerry in the last election. The things he is saying now are the things he was saying then. Then, enough people believed the fear and smear tactics to give Bush and Voodoo Priest Cheney the White House again.

Nearly a year into the second term and things couldn't be more fouled up than they are now on every single front. John Kerry was right about everything he said in 2004. Not only right, but forward looking and perceptive. Assuming he does revive his bid for the Presidency in 2008, and I hope he will, the Republicans will not be able to field a credible candidate to beat him, given the way the wheels are coming off now. No one believes these thugs anymore. At the moment, Kerry is looking the most, God help me, presidential, of anyone in this whole debacle.

About the only thing that could make this worse for the GOP is more charges and an impeachment process of Bush or Cheney or both. Like I said, if we're all talking about that in the next year or so, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.