A Brief Aside With a Nod To Tony Montana - Bush To Former Insiders: "Jou Fuck Wit' Me, I Fuck You Right Back":
The Rude Pundit's pity for former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill began at the end of his interview with 60 Minutes when he rhetorically asked Leslie Stahl, "Why would I be attacked for telling the truth?" Poor bastard, believing he was dealing with honorable men, when, like so many before him, he learned he was dealing with brutal prison guards, the kind that'll fuck you up the ass with a billy-club and say you deserved it. See, what O'Neill doesn't understand that anyone who's ever seen a Mafia film understands is that no one gives a shit if you lie; it's the truth that you need to be whacked for. Ask Joseph Wilson. Ask Scott Ritter. And the hit has been put out, since a single document shown on CBS had the word "Secret" written on it. (Interestingly, that document was the plans for a post-Saddam Iraq - which of course leads to the obvious question of "There was a plan?") That left an opening for the Treasury Department to call for an investigation of what documents O'Neill took. O'Neill claims he had the documents okayed by the Treasury Department's chief counsel, and, in another cutely naive statement, adds, "I'm surprised that [Secretary John Snow] didn't call the chief legal counsel" before announcing a call for investigation. Of course, this is accompanied by the expected backpedaling on some of the harsher comments about Bush being a "blind man" at cabinet meetings, which, if you look into the President's vacant, alcohol-ravaged, coke-faded eyes, you know is true.

Ahh, the former chief of Alcoa couldn't wait to tell all about his nearly 2-year sentence to the Bush White House via the cold, dead embrace of Dick Cheney. And now he must pay and pay dearly. The Bush mob is coming. Why do you think we haven't heard from Karen Hughes? They are going to squash Paul O'Neill with all the disproportionate force of a redwood falling on a banana slug. Honor is worthless. Personal self-respect is garbage. Loyalty is all.