Seen as Dull
    Unfortunately for Joe, he was seen as a dull, unimaginative and somewhat of a mamby pamby Mama's boy. "We really didn't start out to portray him as such but when you're Jewish and have those big jowls, what are we supposed to do?" said show creator Mamet. Joe scored highly with the pro-War, pro-choice viewers but that wasn't enough. His lock step voting with the president made him somewhat superfulous. "We just didn't need two 'W's'," reiterated Mamet. "Especially after what Chernobyl said, he remarked.

Chernobyl Tells 'The Whitehouse' Writers to 'Shake it Up or Else...'
    Last week, in a behind the doors meeting, Chernobyl threatened to cancel 'The Whitehouse' unless they stopped being so repetitive and boring. He specifically pointed out the shows reliance on wars and tearist plots everytime the ratings get low. It remains to be seen what his reaction will be to the announced tearist plot right after the Republicans lost the election. Will the firing of Joe be enough of a sacraficial lamb to placate the suits at Fox? 

Blair Has Problems at the Home Office
    One good aspect of this new story line is that it provides another opportunity to bring back Tauny Blair. Tauny appeared in Season 2 when 'W' first announced he was leading a "coalition" of five countries on a fishing trip in Iraq. Unfortunately the planned one month excursion turned into a three year sordid affair after the mission was 'accomplished'.

A Three Hour Tour
    In a hilarious twist, troops got confused as to who were the good guys and who were the bad guys. The only people who seemed to know what was going on were the Joint Chiefs played by Generals Myers and Pace. They kept telling congress everything was okay while Bagdad burned.

Old Plot New Blair
    This time, Blair gets reprised in a leading role monitoring and then investigating the muslims who were caught buying toiletries. "We've had them under surveillance for a while now, possibly a year or more. We got word that they were to act out the plot and so they were arrested." The men, women and children were caught red handed with toothpaste, Burma shaving cream, peroxide hair bleach and 9 volt batteries.

Burma Shave Was Clue
     The break came from a Pakistani informant who disclosed that he had a attended a meeting in London where the 24 member group discussed purchasing and using the items. The informant said, "I knew they were up to no good the moment they said they were going to use them. I mean what muslim would use toothpast for Allah's sake. We stink and we're proud of it. Besides what women is going to bleach her hair and what man is going to shave his beard? Burma shave my ass."

    Burma shave also clinched it Blair. "They had to go out of their way to find this one.  It's not like it's sold widely. And toothpaste. No one's going to believe that. Not even a dumb cabbie from Pakistan. So we got them off the street. They posed an immediate and ongoing threat to the public. We don't want these people getting cleaned up and acting civilized," he emphasized. "How could we discriminate then?"

Complete Disconnect
    Blair also denied the obvious connection between the capture of the tearists and the Republican loss in Connecticut. "They've been trying to boost 'The Whitehouses's' ratings for a while now.  They're going to bring back 'Leeza' with a new partner, they're going to have Cheney do some more shooting ala J.R. and the Machivallian liar Rove may even come out of hiding. The timing between the tearist plot and the election loss had more to do with dropping Joe and bringing me back on. His contract ran out and mine goes for two more years," said Blair.

Tearists Deny Threat
    For their part, the tearists denied being a threat. A spokesperson for the group said that they were just interested in seeing what people do in a bathroom. As for the Burma shave, they said it was widely advertised on the roads in India and Pakistan. Fortunately it had not yet changed its name to Myanmar. As for being a threat to British society, the group say that they doubted the presense of 24 clean muslims would be that disruptive. They also pointed out  that although their actions were  extreme, they were unable to recruit other muslims to their clean lifestyle.