Billmon: Powerball for the Lord, Part 2

I don't know much of this is true, or what it says about Church Lady's fitness for the highest court in the land, but you have to ask yourself: Is this really the kind of stuff George W. Bush wants to see hashed out at her Senate confirmation hearings?

The man who succeeded Ms. Linares as director [of the Texas Lottery Commission], Lawrence Littwin, has said he was dismissed after a little over four months on the job when he tried to look into the GTech contract and the company's campaign contributions. He later voiced suspicions that GTech had exercised improper sway over the Lottery Commission because a highly paid company lobbyist held the secret to one of the fiercest controversies that had dogged Mr. Bush since his first campaign: whether he received favored treatment in the Vietnam War-era National Guard.