Monkey Dust

Once again, I'm surprised to link to someone--in this case, Eleanor Clift at Newsweek (a good friend emailed this to me):

Senior Republicans on Capitol Hill know that Iraq is a mess. A few brave senators like John McCain, Chuck Hagel and Richard Lugar have spoken out, but most are staying silent in solidarity with their party. They’ll tell the truth after the election. The incompetence, hubris and arrogance of this administration has cost American lives and treasure, and left whoever is president over the next four years a situation that will be almost impossible to correct. "If we could hear the inner deliberations of this administration, it would scare us," says a former Republican operative, who knows how the Bushies play the game. "They know they've been caught. Their strategy is to throw up enough monkey dust to get through the next four weeks."

I'll consider "monkey dust" in light of this recent Ben Tripp column that suggests Bush is not merely a disgrace to humanity, but a disgrace to primates. And something tells me it's a lot more noxious than pixie dust.