Deep Throat ain't Dead yet

This just in from Political Wire. Deep Throat is ill. I guess we just need to see who the next Nixon aide is that dies. Only then will we know who Deep Throat is. John Dean writes in the Los Angeles Times:

I have little doubt that one of my former Nixon White House colleagues is history's best-known anonymous source — Deep Throat. But I'll be damned if I can figure out exactly which one.

We'll all know one day very soon, however. Bob Woodward, a reporter on the team that covered the Watergate story, has advised his executive editor at the Washington Post that Throat is ill. And Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source's identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat's obituary.[...]

So I apologize to my source if this information was never meant to be public, but it is a tidbit too hot to keep sitting on.

Shame on you, John Dean! If it's off the record, you don't write about it! Take it from someone who knows!

What's that, Joe Trippi? Howard Dean is running in 2008?!? A Dean run for President in 2008 means one thing: FLIP-FLOP. DNC Chairman-elect Howard Dean would then become a flip-flopper for saying he would not run for President if he becomes the DNC Chairman.

Trippi reaffirmed the widespread belief that Dean will serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee but added that he expects the former governor to leave the DNC before 2008 to run for president a second time. LINK