We all know how enamored the Bush administration is with lowering taxes. But one of Bush's Tax Court nominees, Glen Bower (that's him on the far right), apparently has taken the grand old Republican passion a wee bit too far on his own tax returns. Apparently a few of his "business" expenses were so audacious, and his persistence in deducting them was so obnoxious, that now his nomination is, as his good buddy Bush Sr. would put it, "in deep kim chee."

As my grandmother used to say, "Show me your friends, and I'll show you who you are."