370 days...

Just a few articles, since I have to analyze a bunch of stuff from Wuthering Heights, only to conclude that all the characters in that novel are dysfunctional.

It's almost like Jack Abramoff is TRYING to screw over the GOP:

Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public on Thursday that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal.

"The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything, who knows," Abramoff wrote in an e-mail to Kim Eisler, national editor for the Washingtonian magazine.

Abramoff added that Bush also once invited him to his Texas ranch.

Then again, I suppose it's just the truth that hurts the most. Now, we all know that visits to his Texas ranch are reserved for the president's closest chums, including failed supreme court appointments and indicted politicians. I suppose we can now add guilty lobbyists to that list?

Lalalalala... and speaking of indicted Republicans...

Court papers released last week show that [Vice President's Chief of Staff Scooter A.] Libby was authorized to disclose classified information to news reporters by "his superiors," in an effort to counteract diplomat Joe Wilson's charge that the Bush administration twisted intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons to justify the 2003 invasion.

The National Journal, a U.S. weekly magazine, citing attorneys familiar with the matter, reported that Cheney was among those superiors referred to in a letter from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to Libby's lawyers.

Oh, only if I could use sound effects...

I wish I had more to write... but I would just like to note that Decaf Democracy passed its ONE YEAR mark last Saturday. Oh, how things have changed since then...