Vis Numar: Murtha has the votes for majority leader

Did I say Vis Numar? I meant Jerome Armstrong. Pluto is in the third house at a near-exact with the Crab Nebula’s gonads, which means things look good for Cut and Run. Some Democratic constituents will be pleased, but most have no idea what they want and will therefore react with appropriate ambivalence.

Whom do we root for here? I guess it depends on how much damage we think Murtha could do. Two years of ethics scandals, Okinawa idiocy, and Haditha exploitation would do wonders for our chances of retaking the House, but at what price? And what if the old crank gains some influence over Iraq policy?

On the other hand, how much difference is there?

Hoyer, disturbed that the press seems to think there is daylight between him and Murtha on Iraq, said that “Any representation that Congressman Hoyer endorses a ‘stay-the-course’ strategy or advocates sending more troops to Iraq is wrong” and distributed joint letters to the president he and Pelosi, among others, signed.

Meanwhile, here’s Reid’s roster of incoming committee chairmen. Is that suspected leaker Jay “The Sieve” Rockefeller I see pencilled in for Intel? He and Harman would make quite the pair; a new Risen and Lichtblau bombshell every week, baby! The stock might even get back to $30.

Apropos of nothing except the fact that we’re speculating, how do you think Bush feels about this? It’s going to be awfully hard come amnesty time to claim fences don’t work if the Saudis think they work well enough to keep out terrorists.

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