Bush official quits over callgirl probe

Heh, heh, heh. You said "probe".

Sorry, just channeling Beavis there for a sec'.

Anyway, in what continues as a pattern of weekly, if not daily Bush administration scandals, Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias has resigned after being interviewed in connection with an ongoing investigation into the activities of a prominent DC prostitution ring, er, escort service.

Tobias resigned after ABC News contacted him with questions about the escort service, the sources said. ABC News released a statement last night saying Tobias acknowledged Thursday that he had used the service to provide massages, not sex.

All together now: yeah, right.

According to ABC News, Tobias said he contacted the escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage" and that there had been "no sex" involved.

But did the "massage" have a happy ending? Inquiring minds want to know.

I can hardly wait for Dana Perino's spin on this one: "Hey, at least they were female escorts".

Which I suppose would pass for good news to Republicans these days.

Just boys, er, Republicans being boys

Lies, betrayal, email, til now the scandals revolving around Bushie lapdog Alberto Gonzales, has had it all, except sex.

Until now.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's teenage boy inmates.

Among the charges in the Texas Ranger report were that administrators would rouse boys from their sleep for the purpose of conducting all-night sex parties. [Emphasis mine-CK]

Of course I can kind of understand if Gonzalees was confused, after all, as Mark Foley demonstrated, this sort of thing is just boys being boys for Republicans.