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Wow. I guess yesturday is going down as a black day for the GOP. If I watched FAUX News, I would bet that I would be watching a breaking story about Clinton under tipping or maybe, later, a nice Peggy Noonan penned Reagan retrospective. Maybe a little Ronnie would make the Delay/Frist medicine go down better.

And while you’re watching the news, don’t buy the GOP message saying that Ronnie Earl is a dem-lover. Ronnie hates law breakers and it doesn’t matter to him what side of the isle they sit on. In fact he has gone after more Democrats over the years then he has Rethuglicans. He finds what stinks and then he takes out the trash.

FirstDelay got busted and now Frist is now in trouble too. Somewhere I bet Martha is a little P.Oed – half her shtick over the past year has been how if she were a man her little insider trading impropriety would be over looked. Sorry, Martha, even powerful and connected, Men get busted for insider trading, it’s not just you. Granted, Frist won’t do time, but he did make the mistake of going off message about Stem Cell research and this might be his punishment. I wouldn’t be surprised if Karl Rove made the call to the authorities himself. The White House is all about message discipline and Frist was a bad, bad boy.

Adding insult to injury:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday warned there will be an upsurge in violence in Iraq before next month's voting, but said the terrorists will fail. "Our troops are ready," he said.

First he kind of, sorta, in a round about not really, but almost, took the blame for the Federal fumble of the Gulf Coast catastrophe and now he’s admitting our troops are getting pounded! All that reality must be very confusing to him and The Base, cause, you know, the rest of us in the Reality Based Community all ready know our troops are getting shot at!. He comes back to the comfort of his fantasy when he says” The terrorists will fail” - And in what way are the terrorists going to fail? So far what have they failed at? They seem pretty damn good at killing our troops and creating chaos in the country. I don’t think they have “failed” at anything they set out to do. We are perfect targets and until our government spends the money and greases the wheels to get the supplies they need, our troops are going to continue to be shot like fish in a barrel. And as to his use of “upsurge”, when was there down surge? When was it ever not an “upsurge”?

More from coverage of Bush’s speech:

Bush's remarks in the Rose Garden came a day after Iraqi and U.S. forces announced they had killed Abdullah Abu Azzam, the No. 2 al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, during a weekend raid in Baghdad.

"This guy's a brutal killer," Bush said.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq issued an Internet statement denying that Abu Azzam was its deputy leader, calling him "one of al-Qaeda's many soldiers" and "the leader of one its battalions operating in Baghdad." The U.S.-led coalition, however, called Abu Azzam the mastermind of an escalation in suicide bombings that have killed nearly 700 people in Baghdad since April.

"We can expect they'll do everything in their power to try to stop the march of freedom," Bush said. "And our troops are ready for it."

So, we got another Number 2 Man. How many guys are Number Two Guys in the organization? I mean, damn. I thought my office was top heavy and then the bad guys say "Yeah, well, ya'll killed one of our guys. Whatever" Out troops would be "ready for it" if their Mamas wern't the people responsible for supplying their armour, our troops will be "ready" when they are armed.

Why is Freedom marching in circles?