He lives...

With all this pious banter about reform, maybe an eager beaver legislator could launch a committee to purge the felonious Ryan's name from State government--they could start with the State of Illinois website.

Deep within this website could be some very interesting code, or "meta tags" as they say in the geek business.

Go ahead.

Type the following in Google: "George Ryan campaign website" (here are the results).

The first natural listing returned, the official State of Illinois website, speaks volumes of old man Potter's reign.

And if you think its just because he was a past Governor, guess again. Neither Blagojevich, Edgar or even Stratton returned such results. (OK, Bill did not have a website, but you get the idea).

CP: illinoisshadow.blogspot.com

Liar, Liar, Plame on Fire

It appears that 43 learned a lot from 42 on how to shade the truth:

President Bush 9/30/2003

"Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action... But I want to tell you something -- leaks of classified information are a bad thing. And we've had them -- there's too much leaking in Washington."

AP 4/8/06

"President Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics...an attorney knowledgeable about the case said Saturday...Bush merely instructed Cheney to "get it out" and left the details to him..."