In an attemp to cleave the Democrats apart, the Republicans of the House offered up a mutated version of the call from Representative Murtha’s to get our military out of Iraq. They changed one word – withdraw the troops as soon as practible, to “withdraw the troops immediately”. They have stooped to a new low even for them, according to Nancy Pelosi.

In a White House memo send to key staff yesterday, Bush ordered his staff to take refresher classes on ethic rules. No doubt Bush is backpedaling to create some sort of damage control after Dick (go fuck yourself) Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was indicted for lying to the to a grand jury.

White House counsel Harried Miers will conduct the ethics investigation. No doubt she thinks it the greatest idea ever and that Bush is the smartest-est man alive for coming up with the idea.

This also comes on the heels of Bush’s lowest approval ratings ever. A CBS poll on Wednesday put Bush’s job approval rating at 35 percent. Less than half Americans view the president as trustworthy and honest, which begs the question - will Bush sit in on his own ethic’s classes? He was never an academic type.

I thought this would be a long 4 years for me….Bush is going to reap what he has sewn over the first 4 years. I’m sure there will be more corruption and scandal to come.

Back in may we reported how Tomlinson ramped up his efforts to root out all liberalism at PBS. He fired the CEO, Cathleen Cox, and started tracking the polital leanings on broadcasted programs, specifically the Bill Moyers.

Turns out the entire nation is not asleep and this got the attention of the inspector general. The inspector general’s report is expected to say Tomlinson violated the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which established the relationship between CPB and PBS, in trying to subvert the independence of public radio and TV.

The CPB is prohibited from producing, distributing or scheduling shows. It was set up by Congress to be a firewall between public broadcasting and the federal government, to protect public broadcasting from political interference as PBS and National Public Radio received federal funds.

So what is illegal about what Tomlinson was doing? He authorized funds for the Moyers’ content study without board approval. He also pimped $5 million in underwriting (from Republican buddies and/or corporations no doubt) to place a conservative public affairs show on the PBS airwaves. He required PBS stations to carry the show.

Reps. David Obey, D-Wis., and John Dingell, D-Mich., sparked the investigation when they called last May for corporation Inspector General Kenneth A. Konz to look into reports that Tomlinson used questionable tactics and corporation funds to exert political influence over public broadcasting.