“THE SCANDALS FINALLY BREAK”….Abramoff. DeLay. Rove. Plame investigation. Katrina investigation. Armstrong Williams investigation. I know I’m missing others, but you get the idea.

Kevin’s far too modest to point this out himself, but he predicted all of this (at least the general storyline) more than a year ago: “What do we have to look forward to if George W. Bush is elected to a second term? One word: scandal.”

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