With rumors flying about who would replace which indicted co-conspirator in the CIA leak investigation, Pensito Review has decided to sponsor a contest. Please write in the names of the people you think would replace Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, etc.

You can choose anyone you think would a) actually be selected, b) be qualified, or c) probably not be named but should be.

For example, I doubt “Jeff Gannon” could make a worse deputy chief of staff than Karen Hughes, whose Mideast “Listening” tour set back American relations almost as much as the war in Iraq. And yet, Hughes’ name is being bandied.

Nor could there be a bigger train wreck than Condo Rice for vice president, but at the Bush White House, nothing succeeds like…utter, abject failure. So no suggestion is too wild, too preposperous, too depressing to consider.

Come on, let us hear from you. The winner will receive something we haven’t figured out yet but it will certainly include being applauded on your favorite News and Information Web Site.