The hell with the Raisinets and Diet Coke.

For this, I'm gonna need a large cappuccino (I like theatres with coffee bars) and 4 of those big chocolate chip cookies:

A special prosecutor's intensifying focus into who outed a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself is involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday.
At least one source and one reporter who have testified in the probe said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame affair.

In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers - most members of the White House Iraq Group - have testified before the grand jury, including the vice president's top honcho, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and two top Cheney national security lieutenants.

Cheney's name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge - with help from a secret snitch.

"They have got a senior cooperating witness - someone who is giving them all of that," a source who has been questioned in the leak probe told the Daily News yesterday.

I wonder what happens if Cheney's indicted? Do the Republican lackeys finally jump ship? Do they continue to argue that there's no such thing as treason when you're a Republican? Does Cheney hang on, or does he pull a Spiro Agnew?

Of course the larger question is what happens if Bush's entire support structure collapses around him. I think that between "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job", Harriet Miers, the frantic nail-pounding in the Gulf, and last week's scripted teleconference with soldiers, we have a bit of an idea.

And the first case of avian flu has been found in Greece now.