Turdish

The GOP must be in trouble -- it's getting scatological out there.

First there's England's Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, all over the media for having called Bush "crap":

The remark is said to have been made at a private meeting in Mr Prescott's Whitehall office on Tuesday with Muslim MPs and other Labour MPs with constituencies representing large Muslim communities. Muslim MPs wanted to press home their objections to British foreign policy and discuss ways of improving relations with the Muslim communities.

Ah, then, tally ho!

But did it really happen? Is there any, say, brown trail of proof?

The Deputy Prime Minister's office said last night that the meeting was private and would not confirm or deny his use of the word "crap". " These discussions are intended to be private and remain within the four walls," said one official. "They are private so that there may be frank discussions."

The poop is in the pudding, shall we say. English pudding.

Meanwhile, Bush-alike Sen. George Felix Allen (R-VA), has certainly stepped in it. Yesterday he used a demeaning, arguably racial epithet to refer to a dark-skinned videographer working for his opponent, Senatorial candidate Jim Webb. You can see the raw video here or watch Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room lay out why George knew what he was doing.

The phrase "macaca" might be nonsensical to most Americans, but it's actually a French North African racial slur that Felix would have had reason to know. But what takes this into the toilet bowl of GOP political life is what his own aides are using as their latest (there's been three or four) defense of his stinkbomb:

According to two Republicans who heard the word used, "macaca" was a mash-up of "Mohawk," referring to Sidarth's distinctive hair, and "caca," Spanish slang for excrement, or "shit."

Said one Republican close to the campaign: "In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance." Allen, according to Republicans, heard members of his traveling entourage and Virginia Republicans use the phrase and picked it up. It was the first word that came to his mind when he spied Sidarth at the weekend's event, according to Republicans who have been briefed on Allen's version of the event.

So in "Allen's version" the only mistake was that the very first word that popped into his head was shit.

Now, I'm wondering if this could be a bumper sticker this election:

"Vote Republican! Vote shit!"

"The crap always floats to the top!" (w/image of Bush)

And how about:

"GOP happens."