Here, without further elaboration, is one week’s worth of Bush-shit, and other Republican shenanigans. The sheer length (and the breadth and depth) of the list speaks for itself.

Monday, December 3

• The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran explodes a nuclear bombshell: “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program”.
• Paul Wolfowitz is being called up, and may soon be on the Bush administration roster once again: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel”.

Tuesday, December 4

• President Bush presents a thoroughly improbable “didn’t ask, didn’t tell” defense on the question of whether Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told him in August about Iran suspending its nuclear weapons program in 2003: “In August, I think it was Mike McConnell came in and said, we have some new information. He didn’t tell me what the information was; he did tell me it was going to take a while to analyze.”
• President Bush explains that he was so thoroughly outraged by a Saudi court sentencing a rape victim to 200 lashes and 6 months in jail that he’s clean forgotten whether he personally brought it up with King Abdullah or not.
• Michael Guest, former ambassador to Romania, speaks out “with eloquent sadness” at his retirement ceremony against discrimination by Condi Rice’s State Dept. against “the partners of gay and lesbian foreign service officers”.
• TPMmuckraker reveals that State Dept. officials Kevin Barry and Justine Sincavage, who were responsible for overseeing Blackwater in Iraq, are slated to receive performance bonuses between $10,000 and $15,000 for ‘outstanding performance’, despite all the ample evidence of unparalleled ineptitude.
• On Tuesday night, Mike Huckabee was still totally unaware of the Iran NIE that was released on Monday morning, creating an immediate firestorm, and leading to a presidential press conference on Tuesday. When the content of the NIE was described to him, and he was invited to comment, he didn’t seem to understand what an NIE even is.
• Evidence emerges that Mike Huckabee lied about his role in getting convicted serial rapist Wayne Dumond paroled. Dumond is suspected of raping and killing two women after being paroled.
• One year after first facing criticism from the Boston Globe for employing a landscape company that employed illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney fired the landscaper. By an amazing coincidence, this happened right before the Globe was due to run a follow-up piece saying that the landscaper still had illegal immigrants working at the Romney mansion.

Wednesday, December 5

• On Tuesday, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said that President Bush had first been briefed on the Iran NIE’s conclusions on Nov. 28. On Wednesday Seymour Hersh reported that Bush had a “private discussion” with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about the NIE’s conclusions on Nov. 26.
• Arlen Specter complains about Harry Reid calling Senate Republicans puppets on a string. Apparently, Specter considers that calling a Senator a puppet is imputing a “conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator” although being a puppet is perfectly worthy and becoming.
• In a testament to the enduring impact of the Bushworld’s abstinence-only policies, the nation learned that in “a troubling reversal, the nation’s teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials”.
• The White House suddenly announces, in its own inimitable way, that President George Bush, National Security Stephen Hadley and Press Secretary Dana Perino (among others) had all lied for more than two days about when Bush was first told that new intelligence indicated Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

Thursday, December 6

• Former Bush aide Dan Bartlett declares that the media asked all the right questions in the lead-up to the War on Iraq. He also commends right-wing blogs for faithfully re-broadcasting exactly what they’re told: “They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them.”
• La Perino ties herself in knots explaining how it was truthful for Bush to say McConnell “didn’t tell me what the information was” even though McConnell had told him that Iran’s nuclear weapons program “may be suspended”.
• President Bush announces a grandiose mortgage rate freeze plan. Billed by Bush as benefiting 1,200,000 homeowners, it will apparently benefit much less, maybe only 240,000).
• Sen. Arlen “Not-a-Puppet” Specter forces the Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone voting on contempt resolutions against Karl Rove and Josh Bolten for one week.
• Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says of American deaths in the War on Iraq: “Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers.”
• Half a skip ahead of a NYT investigative report, CIA director Michael V. Hayden announces that the CIA “in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody”.

Friday, December 7

• Senate Republicans refuse to allow Democrats to pay for the annual Alternative Minimum Tax band-aid with offsetting new tax revenues. The national debt stands to increase by $50 billion as a result.
• We learned that Judee‘s Rudee-arranged NYPD 24-hour friends-and-family taxi service plan began well before previously acknowledged by the Giuliani family campaign, well before Judee’s ongoing adultery with Rudee even became public knowledge.
• On the subject of the CIA’s destroyed torture tapes, La Perino certifies that once again Incurious George was the last to know: “He has no recollection of being made aware of the tapes or their destruction before yesterday.”
• Republicans filibuster energy bill to death in the Senate.
• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse reveals how the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel has certified that the President is allowed to trample laws with impunity, and the Justice Dept. is only empowered to look on or look the other way.
• Mitt Romney’s wife says of Mitt Romney’s “Ich bin ein Mormon” speech: “People were saying, ‘It was like George Washington,’ ‘It was the Gettysburg Address.’ I mean, it was unbelievable, the response I heard from the people in there that heard it today. Almost everyone said they were moved to tears.”
• State Department Inspector General Howard “Cookie” Krongard is forced to resign. Not because he did anything wrong, but because he became a political liability: “A State Department official said that Krongard had become a political liability, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, through aides, asked him this week to leave.” The State Dept. thanked him “for his dedication to public service”.
• Peter Hoekstra, Jane Harman and Jay Rockefeller angrily deny Mike Hayden’s bald-faced claim that “leaders of Congressional oversight committees had been … told in advance of the decision to destroy (the CIA’s al-Qaeda interrogation tapes).”

Saturday, December 8

• The Justice Dept. and the CIA’s internal watchdog are going to investigate whether the clandestine destruction of the al-Qaeda interrogation tapes warrants a full investigation.
• CBS reports that “a well informed source told CBS News the videotapes were destroyed to protect CIA officers from criminal prosecution”.

This is just one bloody week. A 8-year presidency consists of 416 weeks. There are 58 weeks left to go.

Try and multiply all this Bush-shit by 58 in your head. On second thoughts, don’t. Just leave it to the professionals.