Meltdown

You gotta expect that Bush/Rove/Cheney/whatever has a big surprise planned this month, whether a Rovian attack on the GOP made to look like some Dems did it (his trademark) or Bush wiping his ass with the Constitution as he bombs Iran with nuclear weapons.

But as Sunday dawns, you've got a Republican Party in meltdown mode.

- They're macacca over lifelong racist Senator George Allen.

- They're contradicting over House homosexual predator scandal cover-upper Speaker Hastert.

- It turns out they did host corrupt super-lobbying Jack Abramoff at the White House a zillion times, leaked him key information, and even let him in on their longtime plan and date to attack Iraq.

- Baghdad is in curfew (rumors earlier of coup plans, now being called Green Zone suicide bombing watch) and a record three thousand citizens were killed in August. (Just imagine when they release the September numbers.)

- They're adding, through Bob Woodward's new book and at incredulous heights, to the Iraq-Vietnam War metaphors -- they went to Kissinger for advice and he showed them the damning memo he wrote in 1969!

- And their sneaky Path to 9/11 deceiv-a-drama has backfired, opening the door not just to Clinton's snapback on Fox but more revelation of how the Bush Administration completely dropped the ball on terrorism prevention pre-9/11, and, well, lied about it.

For a change, right?