[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Ashcroft will have a hard time getting renominated. Rumsfield might, too, if he is invited back.

Sorry, but what does this sentence mean?

[aquaculture]

It means that the neocons will finally be booted from the 2nd Bush administrations, since they're about as conservative as a communist, and they've led us into an unnecessary war we can't win. Makes sense, since a lot of the neocons used to be borderline commies themselves. If it weren't for this misadventure in Iraq, Bush'd win next year in a cakewalk. Now it might not be so easy. Thanks, Wolfowitz you dork.