No, I'm not taking a pass on the oil-for-votes story. In fact, I sat down to write it up immediately after Woodward mentioned it on 60 Minutes last night. In the end, though, I decided to delete the post before publication. (Supporting madrassas, terrorism and Bush-Cheney '04 was the typically understated title it carried, as I recall.) This subject is just too big -- too profoundly serious -- to treat it like a standard-issue Beltway imbroglio. So, if you'll forgive me, I think I'm going to keep my powder dry until I've seen the evidence.

But, my God, if there's even a shred of truth to any of this, Mr. Bush's reelect is about to find itself in the deepest kind of doo-doo imaginable....

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