EGG FALLS OFF WALL

WASHINGTON POST WINS Understatement Award [story]  In other news: Egg falls off wall, staff convinced most pieces found, egg will be better than ever.

Rarely has a president confronted as many damaging developments that could all come to a head in this week. A special counsel appears poised to indict one or more administration officials within days. Pressure is building on Bush from within his own party to withdraw the faltering Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. And any day the death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq will pass the symbolically important 2,000 mark.

THE HERETIK KNOWS baseball loving Bush thinks he can get a pass on balls, but this time it may be three strikes and you’re out.  Or your staff is out. Or indicted. Or your nominee is withdrawn. Or people make the connection between bluster at home and death and disaster abroad. Yes, all the chickenhawks are coming home to roost.

UPDATE: IT’S FINAL Iraqis approve constitution [story]

Overall, 78 per cent of Iraqis voted for and 21 per cent against the constitution, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said.

But opponents, mainly Sunni Muslims who fear that the new Iraq will split into three largely autonomous regions, came close to mustering enough votes to derail the plan.

IRAQ IS NOW A NATION on paper. The election should be good news for Bush, but the bloodshed continues unabated.  For of Bush's "progress" in black and white,  Iraq falls deeper in the crimson red of continuing war read in  papers and online around the world

Comments

[jillian]

Bush doesn't have any balls, my dear.

[grannyinsanity]

This graphic is too perfect.

The only thing I don't understand is how this so-called plan to "confront head-on problems such as the Iraq death toll, while shifting attention to other areas such as conservative economic policies" does him any good at all.

The only things I can see when I look at those things are mountains of wasted lives, dollars and reputations that have resulted from his perverted practices and policies.