Stuff a'brewin part two: Politix

Nothing better than to start Monday mornings with reasons to throw a party. We're drinkin at my house on August 31.

I guess that happens every day anyway, but now we have a special reason - Rove's resignation. He's out, as the Wall Street Journal announced this morning. (You can hear Rupert Murdoch sighing with contentment and rubbing his hands together about that little scoop).

Yeah, Rove lost his relevance. Yeah, he's been on his way out. Yeah, he'll still be able to pull all of the same strings. Blah blah blah. It still makes me happy.

But it also puzzles me a little. Rove's been able to keep his nose clean for a little while now, with Cheney and Gonzo taking most of the blows for Rove's dirty deeds. Why the sudden departure? He's been scapegoating our dear VP and AG, not the other way around. Are they next? What's he hiding? And why the WSJ instead of a speech? Something interesting is actually happening. Go, bloggers! Figure out what it is!

As an aside, Rove's interview is brilliant satire of the resignation genre. I don't believe for a second that it's because Josh Bolton asked him nicely to go. And, really, Karl, how did you use the "it's for my family" line with a straight face?


Second item of interest is an update to this post I wrote a few weeks ago. Brief recap: Ken Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon sing Bush's praises in the lead up to the Iraq war. And then, in early August, they write an editorial saying the war's going well. And the media freaks out and says "look!!!! Even critics of the war think it's going well!!!" And I think "who are these people??"
Glen Greenwald, one of my favorite bloggers, interviewed Michael O'Hanlon and asked him these very questions. The interview is good, but here are the highlights: O'Hanlon says "yeah, I was pretty much a staunch supporter, not a staunch critic, of that war thing." And he also says "yeah, all the people I met in Iraq, who told me things were going well, were handpicked by the DOD cause I thought I might die otherwise." Good times, good interview, good going Glen.