FYI

I hope you've realized by now that (depending on how things play out) this whole Foley matter (FoleyGate? PageGate? IMGate? AreYouFuckingKiddingMeGate?) has the power to give the Dems control of both houses of congress. Would I rather win based on a public realization of the lies that they have been told and the uncountable destruction this administration hath wrought? Sure. Will I settle for a sad, middle aged closeted gay congressman sliming all over teenage boys? Hell fucking yeah.

One thing to keep in mind as this is framed (and please repeat whenever possible) that the republican leadership's claim that they only knew about the fairly innocent (if CREEPY) emails, and not the totally off the chain IMs, makes them just as culpable. It took less than one day after ABC broke the story for the IMs to come out. Any kind of even quarter-assed investigation would have uncovered the truly salacious stuff pretty damn fast. So in effect, id doesn't matter whether the House leadership only knew about the emails, because if they were informed of them, and did an investigation (as they claim) then they either uncovered the other stuff and hid it, or they did a criminally poor investigation. Either way, they must resign. And in fact, they may.

The smart question is: what are Rove & Co. going to come up with to counteract this?

Update: we must now scrub ourselves until we bleed.