STEVEN GRILES AND SUE WOOLDRIDGE: WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD MARRY EITHER ONE OF THEM?

Well, there are several obvious answers there, but the main point is that Bush's crooked ex-Deputy Secretary of the Interior Steven Griles and ex-Department of Justice anti-environmental hack Sue Wooldridge now cannot be forced to testify against each other. As The Hill so elegantly put it this morning, "two Bush administration officials who have been linked in scandal are now linked in wedlock... They were married March 26, three days after Griles pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his relationship with Abramoff and a previous romantic partner... Legal experts note that people can refuse to testify against their spouses, and that in some cases, people can prevent their spouse from testifying against them. 'There have been plenty of cases where marriage was a good strategy for a criminal defendant,' said Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor. But he added, 'It’s plausible they simply picked an odd time to wed.'”

Adam, the art director, is responsible for the lovely wedding picture and he asked me to include his take on this. He rarely does, so I agreed. His main point is that this typically Republican wedding is yet another demonstration of how these hypocrites preserve the sanctity of marriage-- not unlike Mitch McConnell's marriage of convenience to Elaine Chao.