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Here's more, from balloon-juice's Tim F. Maybe he's channelling DTS in the first paragraph? :

<<Centipedes and scandals. Revisit a short vignette that I wrote about a week ago:

I really hate centipedes. Spiders are cool, but there’s something about centipedes that drives me up the wall. So when those long-legged house centipedes show up in my bathroom I don’t want to get close enough to squash them. Instead I hit it with the Tilex spray (active ingredient: bleach). Sensing that it’s ****ed, the centipede runs around like mad for a short while, occasionally jettisoning a twitching leg. I guess the idea is that whatever attacked it will get distracted by the leg long enough to find some kind of shelter. Lizards do this with their tails, but centipedes make a better example because they can dump a decent number of legs in the course of a chase.

Kyle Sampson was the first twitching leg. Monica Goodling clearly jettisoned herself to get a better shake out of her inevitable scapegoating. Who will the White House jettison next?

Meet Deputy Attorney General Thomas McNulty.

The firestorm over the fired U.S. attorneys was sparked last month when a top Justice Department official ignored guidance from the White House and rejected advice from senior administration lawyers over his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The official, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, ignored White House Counsel Harriet Miers and senior lawyers in the Justice Department when he told the committee last month of specific reasons why the administration fired seven U.S. attorneys — and appeared to acknowledge for the first time that politics was behind one dismissal. McNulty’s testimony directly conflicted with the approach Miers advised, according to an unreleased internal White House e-mail described to ABC News. According to that e-mail, sources said, Miers said the administration should take the firm position that it would not comment on personnel issues.

When the Bushies dump the #2 official at DOJ they don’t have very many legs left.>>

Though, on some level, I start to see why Bush tried to get Miers stuffed upstairs to the Supreme Court, since she appears to be pretty deep in this, too.