Rest up. Next week: Baghdad, Gonzales and Goodling, World Bank. And a badly battered military.

Apparently Monica Goodling will be given immunity though "no decision has yet been made."

Of course, Gonzales will be testifying on Tuesday.  Senator Leahy sounded as though steam were coming out of his ears when he answered reporters' questions about the missing White House emails.  Karl Rove has been playing games with the Constitution since... when?   It appears to have been his life's work.  And hanging over his head, still, is action by Patrick Fitzgerald:  no wonder he doesn't want the contents of those emails out there.

There's a squall blowing up at Paul Wolfowitz's World Bank office -- not a minor storm but one which will tend to get overlooked for the time being.  The larger, long-term picture is more disturbing.   

Hanging out there is the question of whether the violence if Baghdad is growing exponentially -- the "surge" seems to have been a failure from its first moments.  The impact on the military of the battering it has been taking from Bush administration policies is becoming more evident each day.  As is the growing "power vacuum" within the Bush administration. 

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[smintheus]

On the "battering of the military": Have you seen the reports about the rise in the rate at which recent West Point grads are fleeing the Army? It's starting to resemble the infamous years of collapse after the Vietnam war.