Plamebait

Someone needs to come up with another name for the emerging scandal surrounding the White House besides Plamegate. Why are we compelled to apply the -gate suffix to any kind of political malfeasance? Watergate is so 30 years ago but yet our metaphors are still trapped in the ’70s.
And here’s the President in all of his eloquent grandeur: “Leaks of classified information are bad things.”
Well, yes, they are. And the sky is blue, but I knew that already too. Poor Bush. You just know that he doesn’t have the kind of subtle ruthlessness necessary for deception and backstabbing. But he’s surrounded himself with plenty of sharks who wouldn’t hesitate to sell out their own mothers if it suited their nefarious designs.