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Republican Congressman Bob Ney, who pleaded guilty to two felony charges on October 13, finally resigned from Congress on Friday. Why the delay? I think TPMmuckraker has it figured out:
[H]e just needed to hang around Congress until November 1st to get his last paycheck of $13,000.
You’ve gotta think these things through, see.
Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post:
President Bush’s foremost political liability going into the mid-term elections is that the American people aren’t happy he took the nation to war in Iraq and don’t believe he has a way out.
In other words, they think Bush made a mess and has no idea how to clean it up.
Now, in what may be the ultimate show of Karl Rovian chutzpah, Bush is righteously attacking Democrats for not having a plan to clean up the mess he himself made.
Let’s see: if Democrats say what they will do if they win the election, they’re prematurely “measuring their drapes.”
If Democrats don’t say, unanimously and in great detail, exactly what they will do if they win, they have “no plan.”
Oh, no! The Democrats have walked straight into another brilliant Rove trap! (He is a genius, you know.)
Linda Ellerbee of Nick News, Nickelodeon’s news show for kids, on the NewsHour:
If we have “messages” on Nick News, it comes down to three:
One: Ignorance is not bliss…
Two: That wherever you find bad things happening, you will always find good people trying to make it better.
And the last one is that we are probably all more alike than we are different.
Nick News will air a special election report called “Cheap Shots and Low Blows” on Sunday evening at 8:30 eastern time. The discussion should be more enlightening than most of the cable news shows.