It's easy enough to list the ways that George W. Bush is similar to the Pride of Yorba Linda, Richard M. Nixon. In fact, it's too easy– the obsession with secrecy, the contempt for the constitution, the wiretapping, the history of binge drinking, etc. etc.– and now I learn they have one more thing in common: Fred Malek.
Malek's current attempts to acquire D.C.'s baseball team, the Washington Nationals, caught the attention of Washington Post columnist Colbert King, who has been prov
Well, it was quite a weekend in Washington D.C. In a previous post, Alex did a fine job of spelling out the facts in the case of ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Predator). The only thing that can be added is that Foley has now headed down a familiar path-- as Josh Marshall puts it: "Ahhh, once again, the last refuge of the disgraced House Republican: rehab." Foley's checked himself into rehab for alcoholism, perhaps in preparation for blaming his personal demons on the Demon Rum. (Is it a Church of S
I'm not much of one for sign and portents, the stars aligning, etc., but I was struck by a certain confluence of events yesterday.
First came the news of Watergate felon E. Howard Hunt's death.
Then came the opening statements in Scooter Libby's trial.
Hunt was always irked by the fact that he was remembered for the wrong crime. His Associated Press obituary notes,
Yet the bulk of his notoriety came from the one thing he always insisted he was not — a Watergate burglar. He often sa
