is bad news the new good news?

What a week, huh? And the last day or so—whew!

In the last 24 hours, we've seen troubling reports that Dick Cheney directed "Scooter" Libby to release classified information to discredit critics of the war in Iraq...we've heard hard-to-ignore accusations from a former top CIA official that the White House "cherry picked" intelligence to make the case for war...and we've received stunning evidence that the president sat on his hands and did nothing for 12 hours after the White House had been informed that the levees broke in New Orleans.

—John Kerry

Yeah, that’s all amazing stuff. . . amazingly awful stuff! And there’s more, actually: new Abramoff-Bush revelations, a pending re-vote—because of a clerical error—on the draconian budget cuts, the media actually using the term “playing the fear card” when talking about Bush’s Los Angeles speech. . . .

If this somehow brings down the Republican regime, great. But, remember, when the shit hits the fan, it’s still shit. . . and it still blows.