Supreme Timing

"Wilson spent two decades in his country's service -- in diplomatic postings in Africa, chiefly, but also at the National Security Council, and in Baghdad leading up to and during the Gulf War of 1991. Former Secretary of State James Baker once thanked him for his 'outstanding service to the nation,' and the current president's father was equally effusive in a late-1990 telegram to Wilson in Baghdad." Plus, "get this -- Wilson had donated $1,000 to the Bush campaign in 1999!"

Arianna Huffington :

"So we now officially have a direct statement of what will come to be known as The New Bush Doctrine: 'If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.' . . . Of course, it would be hard for this 'someone' to continue to work in Bush's administration, since this someone would be in prison. But I guess the 'restoring integrity to the White House' President is assuring us that, were it even possible to work out an arrangement whereby the offender could continue to fulfill his White House duties from a federal penitentiary, this president just cares too much about integrity to allow that kind of thing."

Finally, if you believe that every single possible subject in Washington is studied and analyzed, you're right, as this National Review posting by Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women's Forum makes clear:

"As one might expect, three quarters of the 200 interns surveyed reported flirting among interns. But half had also seen it between interns and staff, and more disturbing, nearly one in ten had witnessed flirting between an intern and an elected official. One percent claimed to be aware of an intern's having an intimate relationship with an elected official -- a small percentage, granted, but it is still problematic if such affairs take place at all.

"Sleeping with a congressman or senator may be the province of the daring few, but plenty of interns are getting physical during their D.C. summers. Nearly half (44 percent) admitted to having 'hooked up' -- defined as a casual physical encounter including anything from kissing to intercourse -- since arriving in Washington. That's almost twice as many interns as when this question was asked in a 2003 survey.

"Alcohol goes hand in hand with the hook-up culture, with more than eight in ten interns responding that alcohol is 'always' (30 percent) or 'sometimes' (54 percent) present at social functions. Not surprisingly, the propensity to consume alcohol was linked to an intern's likelihood of hooking up, and four in ten interns admitted that they'd done things under the influence of alcohol that they wouldn't have done sober."

Wouldn't that last one apply to a whole lot of grownup non-interns as well?