You missed a couple turns there: Feinstein leans in and then backs away, Ubie and Simon drop out, Bustamante gets the lead, Arnold gets called an ass-grabbing Nazi, the scandal backfires on the LAT. I think Issa was still in the race on July 4 as well, no?

It's been pleasant to watch the speedup of the cycle to DVD. I remember in the early 1990's, watching a movie go from first run theater to the two-dollar theater in one week, to video in a few weeks, to premium cable in a month, and to regular cable in six weeks. But that was a movie which failed.

Then again, Terminator 3 wasn't a real hit.

Speaking of “The Feiler Faster Thesis on steroids,” whatever happened to the “scandal” concerning Mrs. Wilson? Does anybody even remember the incident? Why have the liberal media taken it off the radar screen? Could it be that it became glaringly obvious that she had not been a secret agent for over five years---and therefore no laws were broken?

The Valerie Plame affair is simply another example of the “mainstream” media working closely with Democrat ideologues to destroy a Republican President. Oh shucks, there I go again making a big deal about something so five minutes ago!

David,

In an online chat a couple of weeks ago, Dana Priest was asked the same question. She said that while the investigation is going on, there probably won't be much news, but that there's definitely more to come.

The best thing about the sped-up political (and news) cycle is that it keeps members of the ADD generation like myself so much more entertained. That was the great thing about the recall election: even though I voted no, at least it was *interesting*.

"She (Dana Priest) said that while the investigation is going on, there probably won't be much news, but that there's definitely more to come."

Are you holding your breath? Did you also know that someday Shaq O’Neal is going to beg me for mercy on the basketball court? And pigs will even fly. On the contrary, any further news on Valerie Plame will likely be buried in the back pages of the New York Times. This turkey is already cooked and devoured.

If the FBI can come up with the name of the likely leaker, and it is somebody important, it will be a front page story for a day or two. Otherwise, Ms. Plame will go back to the obscurity she desires, and Mr. Wilson will return to the obscurity he deserves.

It is a little too soon to call this one dead, though. Particulary when you notice that Ms. Linda Tripp just got 500K for one of the last administration's unauthorized disclosures.

Not to defend it too much, as Terminator 3 wasn't that good a movie, but if you include the foreign box office, it was indeed a hit. Schwarzenegger still draws a big movie audience overseas, even if he can't do it in North America anymore. If it didn't make a big profit worldwide, there's no way that he would be given $30 million for it, which he apparently was.

There are two felons currently working on the White House staff who deliberately compromised the CIA's WMD proliferation efforts to gain political advantage for the GOP.

The investigation is off the front pages because no news is available. This is what all presidents guilty of malfeasance hope will happen when an investigation moves to the Justice Department - they hope they can stonewall and ride it out. GWB, unlike Nixon, looks likely to get away with it, partly because today's media are so timid and easily cowed. Incidentally, the "liberal media" aren't manufacturing headlines because there is no liberal media. The media has a conservative bias.

Chukovsky,

Geez, I didn't know that the editorial board of the NYT, the WaPo, NBC, CBS, and ABC were run by a cabal headed up by Richard Mellon Scaife!

Then there's that Klavern of Bircher Moonies over at the LA Times. You know, the ones who pulled all those strings to get that Austrian Stormtrooper elected?

Christ, thanks for letting me in on the Big Secret. Wait till I tell Al Franken the big news...

Be Seeing You,

Chris

"There are two felons currently working on the White House staff who deliberately compromised the CIA's WMD proliferation efforts to gain political advantage for the GOP."

Of course, several things which are thus far unknown but looking more unlikely as facts come out have to have taken place for them to be "felons"... but let's not let facts get in the way.

having felons in the whitehouse shouldn't be surprising -- as the Bush administration appears unembarrased to employ individuals who *already* been found guilty of lying to congress, and *gone to jail.*