It looks like 30 days might be about right.

[PSPS]

Just some thoughts:

This is a little encouraging as far as the election prospects go.

This is the first time I can remember since this nightmare began six very long years ago, that the republicans have lost control over the "narrative" that they've been broadcasting through their willing media shills. You can easily see how it is freaking them out.

Hastert himself has said that he'd rather talk about <insert the usual lies here -- iraq, there rather than here, bush is great, terrorists, etc.>

That's what they've been doing all along, of course. Just "making our own history" by staging a six-year long series of events and speeches the same way a writer creates a "story arc," filling the news-cycles the corporate media willingly provides to propagandize the people.

But then this comes along, and they've almost instantly lost control of the plot. They're utterly lost and unable to regain their footing.

In the past, these daily outrages have been efficiently papered over by the press. But this is different. The press isn't playing along this time. I wonder why. Was the torture bill and the other "final solutions" passed in a hurry at the end of the session the "last straw?"

Frankly, I'm terrified this might peak too soon. But as the days go by, I'm thinking maybe it will be a "swoosh" and they'll "hit the window" perfectly with this as far as timing goes, scuttling the republican's plans for the next two years.

I wonder if word got out as to what they planned to do in the next two years, and it was so outrageous (which is saying something given the continuous stream of outrages, each worse than the last, we've witnessed for six years) that it was decided to stomp it out.

Of course, the criminal bush cabal will do anything to avoid the gallows that await them. It will be nerve-wracking month ahead.

[tblue]

1. The reason this story has taken over is because it's about SEX

Somehow, election theft, a war based on lies, death squads in Iraq, state-sanctioned torture, the end of habeas corpus, and endless indictments and suggestions of corruption just don't excite (some in) the public as much as who is screwing who.

Whatever it takes to bring these mofos down is okay by me. And if you think back on it, Foleygate was going on & being covered up DURING the entire Clinton impeachment mess. It should've been breaking news 10 years ago. BRING. IT. ON.

[anniebelle]

2. The ONLY thing gets these Repressive Regressives attention

is SEX -- the kinkier the better. They're a bunch of sick, neurotic, pathetic, ignorant (I mean that as "lack of want of knowledge") group of "folks" I've encountered in my 60+ years on this planet. Not only do they not know any truths about what's happened in our country for 6 long, horrible years, they don't WANT to know. But, whatever gets their panties in a wad enough to keep them off that (R) button at the polls is o.k. by me.

[kentuck]

3. The beginning stages of desperation...

the late stages, in 3 or 4 weeks, will not be pretty to look at...