As the election approaches it seems like the layers of this shit sandwich keep getting thicker and thicker.

WaPo has more on David Kuo's book, Tempting Faith. It sounds even worse, apparently this guy got a brain tumor and realized he had to come clean before he died. As a result we find out the office of faith-based initiatives was a clearly illegal slush fund for rewarding religious allies of the Bush administration (who has nothing but contempt for them).

Then we find out Curt Weldon (R-PA) has been under investigation for peddling influence to enrich his daughter. This asshole then claims the investigation is a political move. By the FBI. Under a Republican administration. Riiight.

Ney plead guilty last week, maybe he'll give up some more crooks to shorten his sentence. And in case you missed it, Norquist has been tied conclusively to Abramoff. He was a money-launderer too, maybe he'll see some jail (crosses fingers).

And torture, of course, doesn't work. But in the good news column, a bunch of geeks figured out how to track the rendition planes.

They're building more bridges to nowhere.

Civil war is in full swing in Iraq with refugees fleeing Baghdad and death squads killing dozens.

Not surprisingly support for the war is at an all time low (64 against, 34 for).

Oh, and on an anti-libertarian note, deregulating utilities does not work. It's interesting too that this article starts out by naming things that ostensibly benefitted by deregulation, but these are weak examples at best. With many benefiting from major leaps in technological innovation unrelated to deregulation. Harder to have such revolutions in sewage treatment, possibly because such models never allow companies to compete for individual consumers.

Phew, that's a lot of crookedness. Can we have this election already? The shit sandwich is stinking up the joint. Oh, and here's 181 reasons not to vote for LiebesBush.