Turn Out the Lights

the party's over!!! More shake ups in the White House staff and I couldn't be happier. First, a new chief of staff and today's news that Press Secretary Scott McClellan and the "architect", Karl Rove, both removed from positions of high influence. McClellan was the closest this country's had to Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon's press secretary, and both men delivered the same great amounts of b.s. and lies. As Ziegler knew he had a party line to deliver, I wonder if McClellan does. To think, this guy either caught himself or his bosses in enough lies to earn an "F" in honesty in my book. Karl Rove has also been removed from major policy decision making, as Josh Bolton, Bush's new Chief of Staff has smartly removed him. Rove will be further implicated in the Libby scandal; not that he broke the law, but that he is too closely tied with Dick Cheney and the smear tactics that helped Bush cinch up the war vote in 2002 and 2004. Rove's rise and fall couldn't have been more meteoric; what I never liked about Rove wasn't his ability but his desire, his lust for appealing to people's basic prejudices and ignorances. Shrewd and brilliant, but one couldn't ask for a greater Lucifer in the art of public perception and deception. Good riddance, both of you.
Now, the big departure of the day: Ace Young, from American Idol? What gives? Now, Ace has never been the strongest singer of the bunch but he sure didn't suck as badly as Kellie Pickler, the lil' southern belle who's so far out of her element and league that the only two things going for her surely aren't her talent and performance ability. She needed to go a long time ago and her abysmal performance last night wasn't even lost on herself. She did, as she exclaimed, butcher last night's song and the viewing voters should have sent her packing.
Six days until the Seeger Sessions, no news on the on-sale date for the Pavilion.

On a personal note for those of you who know, yesterday was our last dosage of medicine! Now we just wait and hope and pray and watch what happens...