Miss Molly warned us about the AIGs of the world

Molly Ivins gave us the heads-up at the same time she sounded the alarm about Gramm-Leach-Bliley in particular and Phil ramm in general.

“Too Big to Fail” will be the new order of the day. And guess who gets left holding the bag when they're too big to fail? One of these monsters goes down, and it will cost as much as the whole S&L debacle.

Yep, a full decade ago, some non-economists had more brains than Phil Gramm (not hard), Alan Greenspan and others.

Oh, you meant Bruce Ivins, not Molly

I’m beginning to wonder if, after the anthrax case fell apart against Steven Hatfill, President Bush didn’t personally direct the FBI effort against Dr. Bruce Ivins.

Think about it. First, it’s been more than 18 months since Miss Molly died; Shrub must have been pining all this time for his nemesis and so, got confused.

Social worker Jean Duley, who claimed Ivins was nuts based on cursory evidence and who has her own problems, would then be the Ann Coulter of this affair, urging Bush on to run the dastardly Ivins to ground.

As for the skepticism of Congress about Ivins’ motive or lack thereof, that would prove this was a librul conspiracy with the dastardly Ivins.

As for trying to find a motive, maybe Bush riffed on the 1993 non-assassination non-attempt and concluded the whole terror-by-anthrax was a plot against him personally by the evil Molly Bruce Ivins.

Beyond personal motive, Bush surely sees this as his last chance to vindicate his “legacy” in the Global War on Terror, or the Global War on Intelligence, take your pick.

See, this IS all explicable.

Good-bye, Miss Molly, we’ll miss you

A Texas original, Molly Ivins, is dead at 62. That said, I’m reminded of Jim Hightower’s waggish comment that anybody who graduated from Smith College can’t really be considered a populist.

I hope your will includes some last kick at Shrub, like dumping your ashes on his Crawford “ranch.”