"Extraconstitutional," she says, and she don't mean spare

The top U.S. diplomat said she had not spoken directly with Musharraf since he announced what she called "extraconstitutional" moves on Saturday. In addition to suspending the constitution, he ousted the country's top judge and deployed troops to fight what he called rising Islamic extremism.

(Chicago Tribune)

Or maybe she does. You don't suppose they have an extra one lying around in Washington somewhere, do you? Might come in handy: The old one's looking pretty threadbare.

Oh well. The US didn't put all its chips on Musharraf, Rice says. Haliburton got most of them. Just tossed Mushy a few spares. Extrachips, I guess. About $11 billon worth, that'd be. What else would we be spending it on anyway, sick kids?

So Rice is "disappointed," she says.

Yeah. Me too.