Alright - I’m going to have to spend some time this weekend trying to wrap my head around all the nuance of AttorneyGate. The latest Bush regime scandal has grown into such a labryinth of political twists, turns, and intentional distractions that it’s almost impossible to follow the action without a scorecard and a timeline. I’ll probably spend hours at TPM and ePlurbis Media trying to digest everything. But, when Tony Snow invoked the Libby Defense™ on behalf of his mates in the regime earlier today, it caused my left eyebrow to arch at about a 45 degree angle, even before I begin to mind map the minutiae over the next few days:

“It has been described as her idea but … I don’t want to try to vouch for origination,” said White House press secretary Tony Snow, who previously had asserted Miers was the person who came up with the idea. “At this juncture, people have hazy memories.“

I feel pretty confident that the threat of a little jail time will clear up many of those pesky, inconvenient memory lapses. The paper trail has simply grown too long.

And think about this (or maybe, don’t): if high level political triangulation, corruption, and obstruction of justice is so damn forgettable by members of the Bush regime, what degree of atrocity is actually required for these people to “remember” a particular event or circumstance?

It’s scary. The largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on the face of the planet is controlled by a crew of corrupt Alzheimer’s patients.