For the 230th anniversary of the signing of the declaration, Bush has decided it needs an update.  Here are his notes for the work in progress.

We hold these truths [talking points]
to be self evident [in need of propagandization]:

that all [Super-Rich Straight White Evangelical American Republican] men
are created equal ['cept for queers & muslims & women & stuff like 'at],
that they are endowed by the Creator [the Preznit and vice Preznit and Rummy]
with certain inalienable [revokable at will] rights [exclude privacy],
among them life ['cept for Rag-heads and residents of jails and New Orleans],  
liberty ['cept for blacks and detainees and others if I say so],
and the pursuit of happiness ['cept for fags].

What's your take?

Last night's McLaughlin ended with predictions and John's was that Bush would pardon Libby before Christmas.

To me that is a shocker on a couple of levels. First because Libby is out on bail and likely to remain so through the appeals process lasting well through the last day of Bush's so-called administration.  Secondly, if true, it would be one of the most egregious abuses of Presidential power in the Republic's history, even for a group who seem to violate our law, custom and decency on a weekly basis.  

I can only imagine that the purpose of such a move would be to prevent Darth Cheney and others from becoming embroiled in this thing and risking the possibility that someone is going to spill the beans.  Floating a story like this at this time may also be a legal way, without being guilty of witness tampering, of sending Libby a message to STFU and not to cave.