http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/358438p-305276c.htmlWhew. It is getting darn hard to keep all the Bush administration scandals straight. Condi, Karl, Katrina, subpoena - the mind whirls like a blender making GOP smoothies. Who did what, when? Was it insensitive, inept or actually illegal? Is there an independent prosecutor in the house? How about the Senate? Who's a crony, who's a phony - aieeee! Never fear. Here is a handy list of mnemonic devices, same as you'd use to cram for a history test, to help you remember who did what wrong:
Secretary of State Rice: Shocked America by shopping for shoes during Hurricane Katrina. Remember it this way: C-O-N-D-I = Continued On Nonchalantly, Disaster Impending. Or, if you prefer: Customer Of Nonessentials During Inundation.
Bill Frist: Rhymes with ill wrist. If your wrist was ill you would go to the hospital. And maybe that hospital would be owned by HCA - the very company that Sen. Frist's family founded and that Frist (R-Tenn.) held stock in until just before its stock price tanked. This sale has prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate possible insider trading (rhymes with senator fading).
Tom DeLay: Accused of laundering money for fellow Republicans. Stepped down as majority leader of the House after being arrested. Since other accusations may follow, keep things simple by using the "DE" prefix: "DE-Lay is DE-nying/ DE claim that he's lying./ If DE-Lay is DE-bunked/ Then DE-Lay is DE-funct."
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Karl Rove: Anagram for LARK OVER. As the architect of Bush's rise from failed baseball team owner to President of the United States, deputy chief of staff Rove has indeed been on quite a lark. But now that people are speculating he may be implicated in a coverup in the Plame leak (see Judith Miller, above), the lark may be over.
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