Well, for those of you who may have forgotten because the lenghty presidental campaign was unusually long and pushed back the snadalous first trm of George W., there are quite a few scandals that will be back into the news cycles.

Like Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagna, 2nd terms are for scandals and, in spite of every effort of Karl Rove, these won't just go away.

I don't have a particular favorite as to which one is going to do the most damage because I'm not too sure just who is ging to get caught telling the bigest lie but here is the list. Looks more like a horserace to me.

1. Leak-gate, where 2 senior adminstration officials fingered CIA operative, Valeria Plame to a Robert Novik in retaliation for her husband telling the world that the "mushroom cloud" scare was a lie.

2. Halliburton-Gate I, where the SEC is probing $180M in bribes by Halliburton to Nigerian officials over a gas plant from 1995-2002. (Dick Cheney was CEO from 1995-2000).

3. Halliburton-Gate II, where the FBI is probing contract irregulatities in Iraq and Kuwait contracts.

4. Halliburton-Gate III, where the Justice Department is probing on whether operations in Iran by a subsiderary gviolated US sanctions.

5. Spy-Gate, where the FBI is probing a high level Pentagon offical, Lawrence A. Franklin, for passing classified information to Isreal about Iran

6. Chalabi-gate, where the FBI is probing classified information that was provided to Ahmed Chalibi that he passed to Iran. (And I'd persoanlly like to know why the US threw millions of our tax dollars to this crook...)

7. WMD-Gate, with the Senate Intellegence Comitte probing into jusyt why no WMD's were found in Iraq.

8. Nuke-Gate, where the FBI is probinto just how the administartion came upon and used forged documents to make a case that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from Nigeria.

9. Abu Ghraib-Gate, where thre US military was caught red heanded violating international law in the treatment of prisoners and to date no one higher than rank of Sgt. has been charges with any wrong doing.

10. Guantanemo Bay-Gate where the Bush administartion and the US military are in violation of federal court orders to allow prisoners access to lawyers.

Yep, I hate to bring this stuff up but, like I said, these things aren't going to go away by bashing gay marriage.

Yep, looks like a horse race... If I had to handicap it I'd say that Leak-Gate looks purdy strong in a strong field...

What's yer favorite (for lack of a better term)?

Bobert