Kevin Drum quoting Steve Benen muses that it's become complete chaos in Washington with everyone blaming each other and no one managing to blame the Media, Dems or the vicious bloggers.

Over at TNR, Eve Fairbanks worries that the scandals are just one big mess and we'll miss the trees for the forest.

You know what this reminds me of? Foley and the Page Scandal. After that really started blowing up in their faces the GOP started acting rather like this, with everyone blaming everyone and leaders trying to instill order and message discipline but failing miserably.

This has been happening with increasing frequency since the elections. I have to confess though I post-date Watergate (and thus REFUSE to ever stick the "gate" handle on a scandal as if it were a pot) I cannot imagine an organization (the GOP machine) imploding like it has. In the weeks before the election I compiled a post that consisted of JRR Tolkien's description of what happened to the armies of Sauron after the Ring melted. Basically like kicking over an ant hill, the ants panic and die. But it also reminded me of something else.

I'm pretty comfortable saying Bush is trying for a dictatorship and failing at THAT as he has at everything else (I mean I'm probably not going to be hauled away and tortured for saying that). But what's happening to the GOP seems to be like what happens when a third-world dictator goes down, one day everything is fine but the next thing you know rumors are flying and everyone is off to join the rebels in the hills as the mob starts hunting for blood.

The fall of a tin pot dictatorship is what I think the best analogy is to describe what's happening to Bush and his GOP right now.