Bush Speechwriter Latest Rat to Jump Ship

Bush senior advisor Michael "Gersie" Gerson, resigned his position this week. Rather than walking out the side door like Andy Card and Scott McClellan before him, Gerson, who had his own office in the West Wing complete with Bowflex and fully-equipped bathroom, decided to flush himself down his own toilet to join his fellow propagandists in the sewers of DC.

Along with the optimistically vague "compassionate conservative" and famously innacurate "axis of evil" contributions he made to Bush's lexicon of public comments, Gerson left nothing else behind but a fine fecal mist.

I will remember Gersie as the skid mark he was on the porcelain bowl of American history.