First Rove then Gonzo!? What is up?

[Rex]

Two 'we will never leave' main men in the WH leave and who is next? Condi? Actually it doesn't matter, evidently they are corrupt down through the rank and file. Watch for even bigger cretins on the political horizon.

A ship of criminals now manning the lifeboats? Worried much are they?

[tridim]

1. This is all about rats jumping ship

No need to read more into it. They're fucked and they know it.

[rzemanfl]

2. They'd have to FIND Condi in order to have her quit. Where is

she anyway?

[Disturbed]

4. Look for her at expensive shoe stores.

She is busy shopping, as Busholini instructed us all to do.

[rzemanfl]

9. Or insulting jewelry sales clerks. n/t

[Rex]

5. Well since she screwed up diplomacy in the ME and central asia

they've left her by the wayside. Might as well retire, not like it would matter. I hear she really fucked up with the Russians - which is supposedly her field.

Looks like the ship is sinking...

[chelsea0011]

3. They need to start looking for jobs with 2008 coming up.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Leahy. n/t

[orleans]

7. no no no. first brownie, then rumsfuck, then tony, then rove, then gonzo n/t

[splat]

8. The legacy -- "I was badly advised for 7 years..." n/t

[tridim]

10. The campaign promise -- "I'll surround myself with smart people" nt

[splat]

12. Actually plausible: 'They were the smartest people I knew' n/t

[Orsino]

11. Bush's disapproval rating.

They're all corrupt as hell, but these departures may signal nothing more sinister than Bush's longing for a place on Mt. Rushmore.

[Generator]

13. I want to know why why why too

James Moore (Bush's Brain) on Countdown said it was because Bush is worried about his legacy and Gonzo was driving him down.

Mmmm...I don't think I buy it. But maybe Bush is that DUMB. The mind boggles. Bush's legacy-that's as funny as no diapers from birth.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

14. The only thing I can think of is that a group of repugs went

to dumbya & pointed out that they have to run again, not dumbya, & that rove & gonzo are tanking their chances. It was time to throw them overboard. Any closer to the elections & it would be too obvious.

I'm having a hard time believing that dumbya listened though. His stubbornness is well known & beyond the pale.

[ConsAreLiars]

15. When the ruling powers decide that their "president" is no longer doing the job they want,

whether because he is a massive fuck-up and greedy monster like the PNAC gang's chimp, or a power mad psychopath like Nixon whose evil nature had created a potentially revolutionary opposition movement, or merely ineffective at stuffing their coffers with an exponentially increasing amount of wealth like Clinton, they do a take-down, using their control of propaganda machine and money.

(edit a phrase)

[hyphenate]

16. We should maintain constant vigilance

and shout a new motto to the country--"Remember Watergate!" and force Republicans into acknowledging that the 43rd president's administration is even more crooked than the events from 33 years ago. When they try to counter with the Clenis, it will be apparent that a blowjob and a single count of perjury is hardly the pot calling the kettle black--in fact, if we can only maintain a rallying factor, it would be behooving of us to start carrying a few laundry lists of all the criminal shit that has been perpetrated on the U.S. from the GOP for the past 40 years.

Facts, not fiction, will be consistently in our favor. :)

[Skittles]

17. Gonzo left because Rove left

yup

[Oak2004]

18. This smells so much like something is up

I suspect Leahy et. al. found the smoking gun, or at least something potentially indictable, or at least the administration believes they've found it and are rushing to distance themselves from the apparent perpetrators so that they won't be tainted by it (or so they think)

[Lucinda]

19. I've been thinking along the same lines

Not sure who, what, where, and when...but it feels like this is more than meets the eye...