He's a man, he's a treasure trove

So I've been busy this week and haven't had the change to talk about the impending departure of Bush's Brain. And I mean his figurative Brain; his actual brain evaporated sometime during the mid 70's.

That's right, Karl "Turd Blossom" (Actual nickname!) Rove is resigning at the end of August, presumably to spend more time questiong the patriotism of his family. Rove gave a goodbye speech on Monday in which he and President Bush were both on the verge of tears. Rove because he was losing his position of power, Bush because he just realized that Rove wasn't going to be working on his reelection campaign in 2008.

The news media played this up, oh, a little too much. It's not that surprising, really, the only remaining senior member of Bush's leadership team from the beginning of his first term is Elaine Chao, but being that she's the Secretary of Labor under George Bush, her work hasn't exactly been heavy touch.

This is good news, I suppose. I think many Democrats wanted to see Karl Rove leaving the White House in handcuffs, or on a stretcher, or getting blown by Ken Mehlman, but we have to take what we can get. Personally, Rove seems like the kind of guy who likes to be in a position of power, so taking even an iota of that away makes me very, very happy.

Everybody tellin' me rap good

Now, I didn't see the clip of Rove rapping because I want to keep my Raisin Bran down, but here are some of the lines I believe he might have used:

"My name is Karl and I'm here to say, I love excoriating Democrats' patriotism in a major way"

"It's a shame I'll have to get out of this game, did you know Joe Wilson's wife is Valerie Plame?"

"I know we've seen better days, by the way, I hate gays"

"In the private sector I'll make mad dollaz, also don't blame Al Gonzalez"

UPDATE: OH MY GOD WATCH THE VIDEO!!!

I've got one thing to say

Clinton-Obama '08!!!

Keep on playing those mind games forever

It's a banner week for President Bush! First, in an interview with the Washington Post, admitted that "we're not winning, we're not losing" the War in Iraq, later adding, "But we're really bringing our A game. We've got something to prove out there. I know that we've faced a lot of adversity, but we're really leaving it all out there on the field."

At right around the same time this week (maybe he accidentally caught a news broadcast), The President announced his intentions to change his military strategy in Iraq in an attempt to tamp down the violence and bring our troops home. How does he plan on bringing our troops home? By sending more troops to Iraq. At least he's recognizing there's a problem. That's step one in his recovery from being addicted to incompetence.

So, Bush's strategy for sending more troops? Slavery! No, sorry, I read that wrong. He suggested increasing the size of the military. John Kerry responded that only an idiot or someone who wanted to run for President 35 years later would join the military, and Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, and Bill O'Reilly scrambled to a dictionary to look up the term "serving in the military."

Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes, the danger must be growing

"Hey, Vlad, am I high again? Hey, is that an Oompa Loompa?"

President Bush continued his visit to Vietnam, where this time he met with world leaders and they dressed up in ridiculous outfits and posed for awkward pictures and some press person got fired. My favorite is the guy in the yellow.

Bush today is Indonesia, a country known for reallllllly hating him, so this ought to be fun. I expect bitter protests followed by fat Republicans feigning indignity. Good times.

In other news, gravely voiced Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel has once against proposed a military draft, an idea he has floated in the past but now since the Democrats will be in the majority, fat Republicans will feign indigity and start signing their kids up for the Coast Guard. In response to Rangel's plan, President Bush revealed that he and his entire family was gay.