let’s see

Liev Schreiber as Fitz
William Macy as Scooter
Jeff Bridges as Amb Wilson
Virginia Madsen as Valerie Wilson
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Rove
Judy Davis as Judy Miller
Jeffrey Wright as Echenrode
Patricia Clarkson as Mary Matalin
Kevin Spacey as Gold Bars Luskin
Darrell Hammond as Big Time

oh and,

Julianne Moore as Jane Hamsher
Holly Hunter as Christy
Parker Posey as Marcy

all that’s left is the obsequious egomaniac Russert and we’re ready for pre production – what about Tim Robbins (think Bob Roberts)

who me ? intentionally distracted ? nah . . .:)

say, did we ever figure out where Shooter spent the night?

In Bunker’s bunker.

‘morning all… are we ready for another day in the trenches?

Admittedly, there has been much lately to trigger such a reaction, but the thought of all of us walking around with vomit in our mouths may cause me to…

Enlisted

Cheney’s Power

White House Watch [by Dan Froomkin, WaPo] reader Joseph Britt of Sun Prairie, Wis., writes in response to yesterday’s column about Cheney’s omnipresence:

“It’s interesting that very expansive claims of Presidential authority have over the last few years been made on behalf of a President so weak that he has done what none of his 42 predecessors ever did — assign vast responsibilities for making and implementing policy to the one official he cannot fire. . . . I wonder that this aspect of the Bush administration has been so little remarked on; one would think that something that had never happened in over two centuries would attract more notice.”

I would say that it’s not a singularly unique situation. Bush the Elder likely served in a similar capacity to Reagan–particularly in the second term.

We simply don’t think of it in the same way because of the extraordinary effort that was made by Reagan’s people to deny the public a view of Reagan’s growing confusion as the years went by, combined with Bush the Elder’s desires to do things without leaving many fingerprints.

One of the first things Bush the Younger did upon inauguration was to ignore the Presidential Records Act for ten months, and then issued an Executive Order which turned the Act on its head and made VP exceptions to the act which previously never existed.

I think that’s significant, in the context of the comment highlighted above.