Perfect Storm?

Could this be the perfect storm that destroys the Republicans' midterm election hopes once and for all? It looks to me like bad news on the administration and the Iraq war on the one hand, with Bob Woodward's new book; and a family values/morality self destruction on the other with Rep. Mark Foley's resignation and subsequent revelations of a coverup by the Republican congressional leadership. Ouch.

According to the NY Times, the FBI is investigating Foley. The irony will be fantastic when he is charged under the same federal laws that he apparently helped write.

In an article on Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, The NYT discusses a meeting between George Tenet and Condi Rice:

Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed to persuade her to take action.

Details of the previously undisclosed meeting on July 10, 2001, two months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, were first reported last week in a new book by the journalist Bob Woodward.

The final report from the Sept. 11 commission made no mention of the meeting nor did it suggest there had been such an encounter between Mr. Tenet and Ms. Rice, now secretary of state.

I'll leave it at that, since this really is being beaten to death. And there's just that whole shooting fish in a barrel thing--it's just too easy.