The last nails in the coffin

It seems almost ironic that George H.W. Bush is helping put the final nails in the coffin of his son's administration but he has a lot of company. The people wielding the hammers are members of the Republican establishment who have finally come to the conclusion that George W. Bush and the neocon idea loges that surround him are simply incompetent and have become a liability to the party. Plame/Treasongate will come to a conclusion this week. The New York Times reports that the administration is Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges. One of the first tests was Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's appearance on Meet The Press where she suggested that perjury and conspiracy weren't "real" crimes. Even wingnut princess Michelle Malkin thought this was a mistake and hypocritical.

I really object to that--and so should every other rule-of-law Republican. Perjury and obstruction of justice are serious crimes, whether committed by D's, R's, or otherwise. Period.

As we have seen the Republican establishment considers the nomination of Harriet Miers to be a major political mistake and have not hesitated to say so.

The final nails may have come from Lawrence Wilkerson, Secretary of State Colin Powell's former chief of staff, and Brent Scowcroft, Bush 41 National Security Adviser.

The nails are all in, it's time to start shoveling on the dirt.