Is New Albany's Gang of Four preparing an ambush of Scribner Place? Only the shadow knows.

Word on the street, as yet unverified, is that the shamelessly regressive members of the New Albany City Council are planning a push to rescind the council’s Scribner Place resolution as part of a last-ditch sanitation department bailout scheme.

Details are sketchy, but such excremental political maneuvering on the part of the city's most visible group of ward-heeling looters has been widely anticipated, and could come as early as the forthcoming City Council meeting on Thursday, August 18.

If true, it would seem to indicate that the lawyerly investigation into the bidding process demanded by the city's conspiracy theorists has turned up no smoking gun.

Furthermore, having previously urinated in a highly public fashion on the conceptual basis of ordinance enforcement in New Albany as a payback for their colleague Jack Messer's interest in the position, additional grandstanding on the topic of Scribner Place would allow the Coffey/Price/Schmidt clique to yet again humiliate a fellow council member, this time the besieged Donnie Blevins.

Sadly, the civilized world continues to look on, smirking and giggling, as New Albany persists in its favored traditional pastime of self-destructive political demagoguery, with the chief architects of the twice-monthly bludgeoning having no more of a clue as to a viable future for the city than the denizens of the spitwad blogyard over yonder.

Here at NA Confidential, we remain eternal optimists, and refuse to believe that our central civic embarrassment, the Gang of Four, would be so gutless as to float such a resolution while Mayor Garner is on holiday.

Then again, we also thought that even the likes of CM Dan Coffey and CM Steve Price would refrain from attacking the positions of city officials Tony Toran and Adam Dickey as a thinly-veiled quid pro quo for CM Coffey's and Mrs. Price's catastrophic losses in the Democratic party leadership races last spring.

But they did. Apparently subtlety wasn't among the degree programs offered by Bazooka Joe University.

To save time, we'll make a space here for the link to Ben Zion Hershberg's Courier-Journal article tomorrow morning: Here's what the Gang told me to tell you simple folks ... and why we here in Louisville continue to laugh.