” dont know what’s up, but my trust in these people to do the right thing has completely dried up”

I think my way is better.. just don’t have any trust at all in any of these people. To paraphrase the Dixie Chicks, they don’t deserve any respect whatsoever. The rethugs needed a diversion from their own ethically impaired souls, Jefferson gave it to them. I wouldn’t be surprised if rethug politicos keep this alive, complaining about the violation of Jefferson’s rights, just to keep Jefferson in the papers as a fallen Dem politician. They’ll get more press mileage out of this than we did for the Hammer and Cunningham this way. Have no faith. That’s the only posture that works with these stinkers.

At the back of the tatami room, on the left, I see a Go board.

Very very appropriate.

whistleblower has “rat fink” type of baggage, a “wathcdog’ is what a whisleblower is.

we need to change the vernacular…these laws would have never been changed if the proper vernacular were used to make thes laws

That pharase should tell anyone with a grain of sense how to think about this issue. As a rule, I’m against reflexive “enemy of my enemy is my friend” thinking. But Cheney (and Addington) are purely and simply trying to prevent the unraveling of the giant Republican web of corruption, slush funds, and shell organizations.

Barney Frank’s statement on the issue makes political and legal sense. It was quoted in a FDL post of a few days ago, and on Sunday by Josh Marshall.

Kitty on the right: ” I am Catzilla! Attack the tail!”

Kitty on left: “Bring it on!”

Michael H. McLendon, deputy assistant secretary for policy, said Tuesday he would relinquish his high-level post on Friday. McLendon supervised the VA data analyst who lost the data and is the first official to leave after VA Secretary Jim Nicholson pledged to hold officials accountable after the May 3 burglary, in which a government-owned laptop and disks were stolen from an agency analyst’s home in Maryland.

”Words are inadequate to describe how I feel about these recent events and the impact on the band of brothers and sisters of service members and veterans that we are supposed to serve,” McLendon wrote in a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

”Given that this very serious and tragic event occurred on my watch and in my organization, I feel it necessary that I tender my resignation,” stated the letter, which was submitted to the VA late Friday. ”I would be modeling the wrong behavior to my staff and others in VA if I took no action to be responsible. … ”

http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..Theft.html

I want Jefferson to resign, or barring that, be forced out due to being indicted. I want every GOPer to be indicted, as they deserve, but I want to make equally sure that no more criminals such as Abu Gonzales gets to run roughshod over their superiors (the Congress is superior to the Executive by design).