Yeah, show a chick with a big LCD screen running Linux, with about five terminal windows open....

bowm chicka bowm BOWM

I just got an alert from Yahoo that Bush is going to announce his replacement for Alan Greenspan at 1 pm Eastern.

Bush is going to announce his replacement for Alan Greenspan

It'll probably be his personal accountant.

It'll probably be his personal accountant.

Or Brownie. I hear he does a heck of a job.

It'll probably be his personal accountant.

I don't think we can assume it will be someone with any financial experience. All I think we can know is that Bush will have known them for over a decade.

They had this list of possible candidates in the Sunday paper. And they were all decent picks. This leads me to believe that this will either be some money guy from one of Dubya's campaigns or Grover Nordquist.

Poor shrift. This was wedding weekend, right? How was it?

Yep. Everything went fine. I did not step on the bride's train or lose the ring, nor did I trip walking up and down the aisle.

But the entire weekend was this surreal blur, and I just want to nap forever.

Also, I recommend that all political junkies out there purchase the issue of The New Yorker that comes out today (it's dated 10/31).

Jeffrey Goldberg has written a critique in The New Yorker of the Bush White House that equals Ron Suskind's devastating critique of Bush before the last election titled "Without a Doubt."

In "Breaking Ranks: What Turned Brent Scowcroft Against the Bush Administration?", Jeffrey Goldberg coaxes Brent Scowcroft to delineate his differences with the foreign policy proclivities of George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Cheney, and others.

And in the piece, George H.W. Bush is interviewed about Scowcroft -- and while Bush 41's comments are more elliptical, he stands clearly by Scowcroft's side in clear criticism of the decisions his son made.

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Jeffrey Goldberg's article is a devastating, serious critique of George W. Bush's foreign policy and national security team.

The article is not available online. However, parts of it are excerpted here: [link]

Also, the author discusses the piece here: [link]

Brent Scowcroft has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush.

Wow, I'm amazed that Papa Bush would publicly say anything even hinting at his belief his son is in the wrong. Privately, sure, the man's neither stupid nor unobservant, but I would have expected that family to present a united supportive front to the death.

It's a sad, sad day when I find myself missing Bush I, because at least the man had an understanding that foreign allies are a good thing.