Steve Clemons at The Washington Note earns a ticket behind the curtain and finds that the Wizard is depressed. After attending a dinner populated with “a few former Secretaries of State and foreign ministers, top intelligence officials, think tank chiefs, Senators and House Members, former National Security Advisors and Secretaries of Defense,” Clemons says that “many TWN readers have already known and posted commentary on how screwed America is in its current situation — but still, it’s a different thing when actually dining and drinking with folks in mega-power positions who concur.” We are aghast to learn that mortals are endowed with analytical powers akin to those enjoyed by gods and we are shocked, shocked to learn that what we had taken as a Galactus-like indifference on the part of the mega-powerful is in fact the helplessness of wee lambs before the adolescent storm that is The President …

Digby pulls back the curtain — well, not a curtain, exactly, more like pasties — and reveals the nippleheads manipulating the levers of power in the Washington press corps. “I knew it would happen in one form or another … the DC press corps hates having to criticize Republicans. Republicans make them feel all icky and call them liberals (which they so, like, aren’t!) I confess, however, that I’m a little bit awed by how smoothly they have transitioned back into their assigned roles. I thought there might be a moment or two of cognitive dissonance as they went from grim and serious reports about terrorism and war to shallow personality politics and tabloid character assassination.” Yeah, well, there’s a precondition for cognitive dissonance that we suspect is lacking among the press …

ThinkProgress cites a heads-up in the White House Bulletin to the effect that dark forces are gathering to oust Karl Rove from the White House because “his partisan style is a hurdle to President Bush’s new push for bipartisanship.” Ah ha. Ah haha. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. Bipartisanship. Heh. Don’t be packing your bags just yet, Turd Boy …

And speaking of bipartisanship, Bush just renominated his surviving Kenny Boy to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors. A state department investigation found that Ken Tomlinson “signed invoices worth about $245,000 for a friend without the knowledge of other board members or staff, used the board’s office resources to support his private horse racing operation and overbilled the organization for his time, according to the report. On a few occasions, the report said, he billed for the same time worked on both the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, on whose board he was a member until resigning in November 2005.” What is it with these guys and horses? The renomination is actually an insult to Tomlinson; Bush cronies who screw up that publicly and that often usually win a promotion or a Medal of Freedom. Try harder, Ken …

Life lessons learned from Vietnam: “Asked if the experience in Vietnam offered lessons for Iraq, Bush said, “We tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take awhile.” Life lesson translation courtesy of bakho in comments on the Steve Clemons post linked in the first item: “If you put your hand on a hot oven, you only lose if you take your hand off the hot oven.” Life lesson question from us: are chickens inevitably awed by the healing powers of chicken soup? It’s a question not to be ba-balked at. Three dots, baybee …

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