[philman_36]

The Justice Department, by taking this unprecedented step, steals the thunder right from under the partisan Bush-haters on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn) -- the latter mulling a run for the White House in '04 -- had planned to launch a lavish fishing expedition, featuring highfalutin, made-for-TV, dog-n-pony 'show-trial' "hearings", all in the "noble" pursuit of trafficking in innuendo, in the hopes of inflicting maximum damage on the Bush administration.
And isn't "Uncle Joe" over in Afghanistan right now? Who else went, I forget...
Won't the "damage control team" be scurrying about when he comes back from his jaunt!
Sweet irony.

[philman_36]

You remember Uncle Joe He was the one afraid to cut the cake. Bob Seger
And that's Uncle Joe, he's a-movin' kinda slow at the Junction, Petticoat Junction!