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Some interesting news for your reading pleasure -- or disgust, as the case may be:
-- Just a reminder that we'll be having our first FDL Film Salon this afternoon with Robert Greenwald of Iraq for Sale at 2:00 pm PT/5:00 pm ET. Hope everyone can join us!
-- MSNBC reports that the FBI has requested that Foley's computer and other electronic equipment from his Congressional office be preserved for evidentiary purposes. (I listen to Rita Cosby so you don't have to...)
-- CNet reviews an IM-scanning safetyware program to protect your kids from "a Foley." (H/T to Rayne for this find -- that was a quick leap into the lexicon, wasn't it?)
-- Wes Clark will be campaigning with Ned Lamont in Connecticut on Friday -- Ted Kennedy is there today, just FYI. (One wonders what the Clintons are doing next week...since I hear that Kerry will also be campaigning for Ned, and Edwards already has, and that Warner is working with the Lamont campaign as well...hmmmm...)
-- Froomkin's White House Briefing is a Must Read today -- fantastic compendium of issues.
The only thing anyone wants to hear from the president right now is his reaction to the Congressional page-sex scandal revolving around former representative Mark Foley and rapidly enveloping the GOP House leadership.On top of that, the public doesn't trust him. A fresh round of polls shows that most Americans think Bush has been intentionally misleading about the progress in Iraq, they oppose his war there, and they don't think it's making them safer. His approval rating is back down to a dismal 39 percent.
And establishment Washington has finally and conclusively written him off as being in a state of denial.
And that is just for starters. Great read from start to finish today.
-- Digby asks about the silence of Holy Joe. (As Atrios says, "wishes are not ponies.")
-- Joseph Califano has some thoughts on the state of the House of Representatives under the Republican leadership:
The most troubling aspect of the Mark Foley scandal is not his conduct, disgusting as it was, but what the response of the leadership reveals about the rancid state of partisanship and the consequent decline of the House of Representatives. Speaker Dennis Hastert presides over a legislative body so infested with mistrust that it doesn't even have a functioning ethics committee. Since the House is incapable of washing its own dirty laundry and policing itself, the speaker has to turn over that responsibility to the attorney general and the executive branch of government.
-- The NYTimes says that Hastert is going to fight back to keep his job. Well, that should be interesting. Anyone want to talk odds on the buses versus Hastert question?
-- Perhaps Denny ought to talk with Roy Blunt, since he's been talking to Forbes about Hastert's questionable leadership.
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Christy -
ThinkProgress is reporting the following:
“I fear for Keith Olberman”
“So why do I fear for Olbermann? Because I know his bosses. In the runup to the Iraq war, I too worked for MSNBC – as an on-air pundit and a senior producer on the primetime Donahue show.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1003-36.htm
Here’s another link about Kirk Fordham’s resignation/firing: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thebl.....affer.html
Let’s see what happens next…
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 1
ha! seems that the firings (resignations) will continue… things are pretty “quiet”; anybody from the “leadership” doing talk radio today?
I think the FBI’s a little late on the requesting the computer thing…
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 4
Lying room only under the bus.
Somehow this reminder got deleted in the post the first time through — I’ve updated above but I don’t want anyone to miss this:
Just a reminder that we’ll be having our first FDL Film Salon this afternoon with Robert Greenwald of Iraq for Sale at 2:00 pm PT/5:00 pm ET. Hope everyone can join us!
So the FBI “requests” Foley’s computer be “preserved”?
Isn’t that kid-glove treatment Christy?
Doesn’t a law enforcement office usually secure evidence themselves so that no tampering can happen? I don’t get this. *Maybe* they learned (from the Jefferson incident) not to waltz into a congressperson’s office and take stuff. Maybe. Or maybe this is by directive of the DOJ and friends?
It’s a shame we automatically think the worse.
Wishes are not ponies…My grandfather used to say “If wishes were horses, beggers would ride…”
Does anyone have faith in the executive branch and the Attorney General to truly investigate this? Gonzales works for Bush, not us. If we’re going to place bets, I’d bet that the cover-up goes straight up to that office. The corruption is thorough and all-encompassing. Ordinary citizens are starting to see through the lies and the criminality thanks to the nation’s “leadership.”
Christy Hardin Smith @ 8
Thanks, Christy. I’m about to watch it now.
(I listen to Rita Cosby so you don’t have to…)
LMAO
Breaking CNN….
Fordham (sp) fired
Wow, thanks Stephen Parrish. One down!
BTW and way OT (and way hard to write), I could use a little FDL community energy and love. The mass they took off my neck this week (giving me a lovely Frankenstein zipper scar just in time for Halloween) was cancer and now I get onto the wonderful and exciting cancer treatment treadmill. If y’all can light some virtual candles for my household I’d be grateful. Thanks.
I heard something about this on NPR’s news at the top of the hour:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/g.....61003.html
marksb– done! blessings and much hope heading your way.
{{{hug}}}
Yesterday’s metaphor for Foleygate was “tip of the iceberg”. With Fordham off to spend more time with his family, the new metaphor should be that of an avalanche, as in “the first resignation will snowball into a full-fledged avalanche of resignations from the Republican leadership.”
meta @ 11:02 am and 11:06 am -
You’re welcome - and we will all have to wait almost three hours from now for the FDL Film Salon.
Condi has two very “profound” messages for the people of the Middle East and the world today. First, she tells Hamas they cannot “rule the region”. That’s acceptable, because ruling the Middle East is reserved for the only nuclear power in the area, the Israeli government. By consent naturally. Our consent, that is. And then this sage Rice informs us that the “U.S. will help the Palestinians”. Help the Palestinians do what, exactly?
marksb - healing light and energy, and prayers headed your way.
marksb, I’m so sorry to hear this. Please take good care and we will certainly send you our best for your return to good health. Surround yourself with support and stay as strong as you can, and do let us know how you’re doing.
what angie said at 11:08.
marksb-
You will be in my thoughts. Take care of yourself.
Anne @ 6
FBI: We’re on top of this. BTW what are computers?
Stephen Parrish — oh, thanks for that bit, hadn’t caught that yet out of Detroit on Patriot Act.
Apropos of nothing except backgrounder, Judge Denise Page Hood, if memory serves, also handled some of the bankruptcy stuff for Dow Corning on breast implant litigation, if memory serves correctly.
That’s the second important bit I got from NPR today.
If you have the chance, see if you can find and listen to an interview aired this morning on NPR with John Yoo, author of far too many evil positions for this administration. To hear him questioned on S. 3930 Torture Bill will bring one immense soul-searing pain, but it’s necessary to hear how dispassionately Yoo reflects upon the plight of persons taken into custody and detained — regardless of whether they are charged or no, or innocent or no.
If I were by some freak of fate to be sworn in as President after the 2008 elections, I would immediately have John Yoo picked up and detained on suspicion of seditious acts, for conspiring to undermine the Constitution and the fabric of this nation. I would put him in Gitmo — and I’d leave him there, to the letter of S. 3930 that he so fondly embraces.
If only wishes were ponies…there would be real justice and just deserts.
meta @ 10
The Attorney General and the rest of the Bush legal team, give lawyers their much undeserved bad-rap reputation. Sooner or later, at the very least, Gonzales should be disbarred. He is a disgrace to the profession.
marksb, hang in there, lots of good FDL vibes heading your way.
I’m looking forward to Fordham’s retaliation. I’m thinking he’ll sing like a canary.
How some Republicans are feeling about their party, from Redstate:
Final post on Redstate
marksb - My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.
Get yourself to someone who specializes in herbs/vitamins/organic diets and, along with conventional medicine, strike this illness on all fronts.
People familiar with Fordham’s side of the story, however, said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
They said Fordham had repeatedly warned Hastert’s staff about Foley’s “problem” with pages, but little was done.
The complaint about Foley was brought to the chairman of the page board, Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL), last spring, and he then consulted with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Jeff Trandahl.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thebl.....affer.html
marksb — we’re here for you, no matter the challenge ahead.
Keep the faith, keep up your spirits, too, although I know it’s easier said than done. I know there are more than a few of us here who’ve faced similar challenges and are still here to help you through it.
FDL’rs have been so kind and generous when we’ve faced challenges here; I know I’d be only too glad to pay it back and forward if you need to talk.
marksb,
Take care
Another candle for marksb. Take care.
Cozumel @ 32
Since its almost always better damage control to keep people inside the tent peeing out, I think I like seeing Fordham shoved outside the tent . . .
marksb @
15
We’re with you, man. My wife had several biopsies and a lot of scary stuff the past few weeks, but we were lucky; they all turned out negative. I hope for the best for you.
Since O’Lielly and someone at the AP want to tinker with Foley’s status as a Congressman, I’d propose this revision, amplifying from Christy’s post/link:
should read:
former Florida Republican representative and assistant Republican whip and chairman of the [name committee] to which he was appointed after initial revelations of alleged page stalking to House leadership Mark Foley and rapidly enveloping his fellow members of the GOP House leadership….
just a thought for O’Lielly and the AP….
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t stand that voice!
Oklahoma kiddo @
20
Help them to ‘die, and reduce the surplus population,’ of course. Condoleeza Scrooge!
Rayne @ 11:14 am -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.....dition_Act
The Sedition Act ceased to be in force at the end of John Adams’ presidency.
marksb
the candle is lit for you
bon courage, marksb
Boehner says Losing Foley’s seat is a foregone conclusion. Who you trying to kid Boehner? You’re up to your neck in this mess. You and Hastert should leave town! For good. Bring it on George! Bring it on.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 41
Maybe Bush will bring it back next year (and gut Marbury v Madison while he’s at it), so that Rayne can use it in 2008.
nice list christy
off topic, I need a few opinions here
thanks to the firedogs and the proprietors of the lake, I’ve compiled the following;
so, up until recently everyone (but a few who have a more intimate knowledge of what has happened) was accepting the administrations line that 9/11 was a “failure of inteligence”, that they “had the information but it wasn’t compiled”, that it was a “failure of imagination’
and from the start the dogs at the lake and others following the events have been pointing out that not only was the inteligence precise, that it WAS compiled, that there was NO failure AT ALL, accept among those who didn’t act on some of the the most alarming intel ever gathered
as we look into the claims that Rice was urgently breifed by the cia with the hopes of averting the attack they knew was coming, biefed on a level ten urgency, we find the state department documents those events exactly as the reports and that is indeed what happened
Not only was rice briefed, others as well, the cia was SO concerned about the precise inteligence they had, they had the “highesl level of alert”, and “everyone was running around with their hair on fire”
that’s indictment enough for anyone concerned about America’s national security
here’s a chronology of the events before the successfull attack in the middle of september, an attack we knew was comming yet did nothing to preventl
an alarm from credible sources is calling the cia to action, all of the intel is pointing to one direction, there is an attack comming
our inteligence knows it will involve highjacking and flying commercial airliners into government buildings, we also know they are targeting new york and washington…we confirm with high level of confidence the event will happen due to the unusual level of monetary transfers and comminications, we are pretty certain from this intel the event will occur within weeks, on the outside, months.
Tenet tries to get a meeting with the national security advisor, codoleeza Rice, concerning an attack soon to be delivered at our door, he has precise actionable intelligence and is pretty certain the attack can be averted if we do what we know can be done
Rice refuses the to meet
tenet thinks if he flies down and presents the intelligence in person the urgency will impress rice and she will take the intelligence more seriously…he needs her authorization to take contrill of agencies and programs that will protect America…this has been done before, the template is clear and will Tenet is certain we can avoid the attack if their inteligence is correct.
though Rice tried to deny the breifing, this meeting is documented with minutes, there is nothing to deny..her claim is exposed and here “memory” is embarrassed
at the meeting, Rice gives him the brush off and tells him she’s not going to authorise any of the programs Tenet requests to protect America, he needs to go and tell it to Rumsfeld and Ashcroft, maybe they will
she passes the Buck…maybe she doesn’t have the authority, maybe she doesn’t know if she has the authority, but she moves Tenet along to rumsfeld and ashcroft…tenet thinks Rice doesn’t care, but that’s his opinion, maybe she just can’t do what needed to be done…but she doesn’t raise the alarm to anyone, she claims she forgot the briefing
Tenet does not relent, he flies down to hand deliver his presentation to Rumsfeld and Ashcroft
they also don’t give a flying turd, they do not authorise any action Tenet requests to protect this nation and Tenet doesn’t know what to do next
Tenet has the infamous presidential daily brief written and hand delivered to the president of the United states
title of the brief;
“Bin Laden Determined to Attack the US”
the brief is a concise compilation of the intended targets, the method of attack, where the attack would come from, the exact buildings targeted, and the likely date, probably weeks, on the outside a couple of months
the president is breifed, in person, just as his aids, he also does nothing even though there is a template already created for the action that needs to be taken, none of it is authorised
a summary, from clarke;
pretty simple stuff right there, there were other programs as well, this is a sumary, none of it is done
and then the walls came down
so here’s the question
we know from page 128 that Clinton received an almost identical pdb, clarke tells us the precautions taken to avert the attack
my question is, if Tenet jumped through hoops before he put together the pdb, and the reason the pdb was put together was because no action was taken to prevent the attack, did tenet jump through hoops to get Clinton to respond and when clinton didn’t he out together THAT pdb
in other words, what led to the pdb clinton received
Hastert definitely needs to consult with Trent Lott on crisis management, and seek his support, before it’s too late!
marksb @
15
Mark, I’m visualizing healing energy and love for you and your household. I’ll light a real candle on my altar when I’m home from clinic.
All the best to you.
Stephen Parrish — oh nuts. Guess I better fall back on something else, like a terrorism charge rather than sedition.
I’m feeling pretty terrorized by Yoo, aren’t you?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 3
They also got rid of the woman reporter who was the MSNBC face on 9/11 reporting [sorry, I’m blanking on her name…especially because I thought she did an excellent job under great stress]. She subsequently “spoke inappropriately” on the college lecture circuit. Truth to power…cause for termination.
No rebroadcast on MSNBC on the 9/11 anniversary…they aired NBC’s Today Show coverage instead.
TJ @ 47
Maybe he could consult with Jon Stewart tonight live on the Daily Show.
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((((((((((marksb))))))))))
There is a powerful quote from a statement by Ned Lamont up at his official website:
“Secretary Powell is the latest expert to say that it is time for a change, and Connecticut deserves a straight answer from Senator Lieberman about why he continues to ignore these experts by pushing a failed ‘stay the course’ strategy,” said Lamont. “Last week, our intelligence agencies said ‘stay the course’ is endangering our security. Early this week, Bob Woodward reported that the administration has misled the American people about the reality on the ground in Iraq. Now, a distinguished military and diplomatic leader like Colin Powell is saying stay the course is a failed policy. When will Joe Lieberman finally face reality?”
“How much more does America’s national security have to be compromised before Senator Lieberman stops being an apologist for the Bush administration?” Lamont said. “We now have one of the Bush administration’s own national security icons saying it is time for a change. Connecticut deserves a senator who actually listens to our military and intelligence officials – not one who is so reliant on the Bush White House that he refuses to start pushing for a change in a war that is harming our country’s security.”
Prairie Sunshine @ 50
Her name is Ashleigh Banfield.
Prairie Sunshine– wasn’t that Ashleigh Banfield?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 44
John Boehner looks like a cross between Peter Lorre and Roy Cohn with George Hamilton’s tan.
Best to you Marc… Think positive… we need everyone in the struggle for truth justice and.. the american way!
We got your back!
Boy King better ramp it up with the arming and deploying of the cruise missile inventory targeting Iran, ‘eh? Get SpankTheFoleyMonkeyGate off Page One.
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marksb — sending healing wishes your way. I understand what you’re feeling right now. Our family knows too well the challenges of cancer and other chronic illness tests and diagnoses. And treatments. And steps forward and steps back. And more testing. And surviving.
Another reason to be mindful of net neutrality–there’s a wealth of information out in the toobz. Taking charge of your health and educating yourself will give you knowledge and strength in this difficult time. Take care.
Marksb-
Sending healing light and positive energy your way.
Sit and soak up the love and powerful healing energy flowing from FDL to you.
Peterr, angie — Yes!!!!!
Whereever she is now, I hope she knows that she did the right thing. On air and off.
Thanks, Christy –
Re: Froomkin and his report on the vastly (thankfully?) under-reported Bush campaign speeches….
How long will it be before Bush is required to openly call Democrats “Traitors” and “Treasonous Dogs” and call for their lynching to even get reported this election cycle? I mean, he is very close to saying that now.
Prairie Sunshine @ 61
She’s on Court TV now ; )
When is “enough” enough!
Rasumussen polls on Bush JAR have never gone below 40 percent for a month. After rising slightly to 42 last month, and as high as 45 percent in February, the number has falled back to 40 percent in the last week.
The “disapprove” rating is now 58 percent (”strongly disapprove now at 44 percent!), one point below its worst (59) rating. These are three-day rolling average polls. The results are in line with two other recent polls showing Bush JAR back down to 39 percent.
Rasmussen on Bush Jar for Oct 4
Froomkin, linked above by Christy, cites other numbers favorable to Dems:
scarecrow @
30
The comments make interesting reading. Kool-aid versus non Kool-aid.
BobbyG @
58
Sadly, I just read that Javier Solana, who is leding the current negotiating team, now feels that Iran is just stalling — he is frustrated and believes talks will break down at any moment.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters.....ref=slogin
marksb…sending you healing thoughts. Do seek alternative medical advice on nutrition, exercise, vitamins, etc.
Our diet, air, soil….all so full of chemicals these days.
Think of the bad cells as little W’s…you’ll zap the cancer out of your system like that…POOF!
Please keep us posted.
In the context of Foley and this CYA House Republican leadership, Lieberman claims to bipartisanship and willingness to reach across the aisle… mean what exactly?
I imagine that Ned could push back a little on this front, that it’s House rather than Senate leadership is minor issue to most, I bet.
Just got an email for John Laesch’s campaign, he’s running against Hastert in Illinois-
Check here to listen online or find a station near you!
www.john06.com
(Partial re-post from late last thread.)
I did some checking this morning based on a nagging question, “how often is pedophelia happening with Republicans?” I googled for about 15 minutes, and in the process became genuinely frightened and puzzled..from the sheer numbers of cases I found. This is way, way bigger than I thought.
Maybe I’m dense, but I’d like to hear theories about why the Republican Party apparently has a much bigger problem with pedophelia than the Democratic Party.
scarecrow @ 64
With falling gas prices and before State of Denial and the House of Representative problems.
Sweet.
Time to Attack.
Here’s a link to Banfield’s speech that got her in so much trouble… most of it still true. ;(
http://www.alternet.org/story/15778
((((((marksb))))))
You are in my prayers.
Keep us posted about diagnosis and next steps if it would help you.
marksb @ 15
A huge package of prayers, thoughts and best wishes headed your way. Good luck too!
Well Cheney’s in my town…Houston spreading the Iraq gospel to help prop up Delay’s replacement in Sugarland. No signs of Luke Skywalker yet, but we’re hopeful.
marksb: Best of luck to you. All of us will be pulling for you.
*xyz @ 53
Glad to see that. It couldn’t have come soon enough. I hope he takes it two steps further:
1. Extend the “they are making us less safe” to “they are making Israel less safe.”
2. The same kind of thinking that got us bogged down in the Iraq quagmire is going to draw us unto another quagmire in Iran, which will be even worse and more dangerous to our exposed troops in Iraq, to US security interests, and to Israel’s security and survival. This President listens to a reckless crowd, people who have been wrong about everything and then lied about it; and Lieberman has been cheering them along every step. Just listen to what he said in his speeches: . . . .etc. Those are not the words of someone who is going to be asking tough, realistic questions and standing up to those who have misled American into these reckless policies.”
marksb-
Your candle is lit.
marksb:
Your willingness to share shows that you have the courage to overcome this.
Marksb– hang in there. We’ll be here.
MarcLord @ 70
They are uglier, dumber, and have fewer social skills, so they feel they have to force themselves on kids?? Only a theory (for now), but can any of you prove me wrong? :-)
marksb, if it’s thyroid cancer I have some resources and ideas for you.
Start with www.thyca.org They helped my sister a lot.
OT - Sometime in the last couple of days the Dallas area Air America bit the dust. It’s a religious station now. : (
marksb @ 9
The FBI may have opened an prliminary investigation (PI) or a full blown case file. We don’t know which.
The FBI does not have the right to just waltz in and “secure the evidence”, they need Probabale Cause for a warrant, or at the very least they need a prosecutor to agree to present to a GJ so they can issue a Grand Jury subpeona.
having said that, you might be able to use a “forthwith” subpeona whcih requires the items (like the computer) to be turned over right when you bring a subpaona.
However, considering the pussyfooting around that happened with the Search Warrant the last time, I ma not surprised that the FBI is handling it this way.
Don’t forget, once they make that request anyone so much as touching that computer may put themselves in livne for a destrcution of evidence/obstruction of justice charge.
Even if there is only a civil case, anyone noodling with the computer will cause a spoliation problem.
FBI seems to be going by the book.
Marksb
light {good thought}
light {healing thought}
light {peace thought}
light {anti-stress thought}
light {thought for your friends and family}
slade @
67
Think of the bad cells as little W’s…you’ll zap the cancer out of your system like that…POOF!
Awesome suggestion. Marksb, may you be fully healed.
perrylogan.org has an extensive list of Republican sex scandals involving minors. (scroll down) What would the Dems’ list look like? I mean, he’s getting down to the level of assistant city dog catcher on some of these, and also has several ‘allegations’ in there as well, but still, WTF?
(Fair warning, while the site’s contents may be offensive to some, the site’s design sensibility is profoundly offensive to anyone with eyes).
Houses ethics committee meeting tomorrow acc to msnbc.
The whole wide world is less safe as a result of Lieberman’s complete support for the Bush policies in the Middle East. Lieberman’s actions over the last six years are at the very least border-line criminal. Mr. Lamont goes to Washington soon. Very soon.
Scarborough on Foley Another reason to vote Democrat
Chuck Todd on MSNBC invents new term: “Ex-Foley-ated”
perrylogan.org has an extensive list of Republican sex scandals involving minors. (scroll down) What would the Dems’ list look like? I mean, he’s getting down to the level of assistant city dog catcher on some of these, and also has several ‘allegations’ in there as well, but still, WTF?
(Fair warning, while the site’s contents may be offensive to some, the site’s design sensibility is profoundly offensive to anyone with eyes).
Munson Thurd,
Perry Logan’s list seems to have been copied from the Armchair Subversive site, which is more up to date. From some googling today, I can tell you it would be significantly harder to compile a list of democratic pedophiles who held office, I would guess on the order of at least 5:1. This is a rich area for research.
Thanks so much; you people are helping me cry—a damned hard thing to do.
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Now about the other shoe that’s been dropping this week: Rice and the damned warnings…
Is the Foley case what it takes to push this beyond a page A-24 single-column report?
I’m wondering if—as Foomkin implies—the Foley case pushes the Press and the public (further) over the edge regarding Bush as well. Could the negative atmosphere being generated by Foley cause these Rice lies to be looked at with more detail and more regard?
Interesting. Quite a study in mass communications and the process of political critical mass.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 88
My concern is the persistent 10 point (some polls) or 2-4 (others) gap. I’ve felt for some time that Lamont needs a sharper attack that goes after that portion of the Dems that Lieberman retains who mistakenly believe the Senator is better on national US and/or Israeli security. There’s enough evidence to shake this grip out there, but it needs to be highlighted by strong campaign statements and ads. If you couple that with suggestion from Book Salon that Lamont go after Joe’s shaky support of social security (his toying with privatization when Bush proposed that), then I think Lamont can start to pull away more of those remaining Lieberman supporters — still over 30 percent of Dems, according to some polls. And I think that’s where the winning margin is. The recent labor endorsements were also quite helpful.
scarecrow @ 89
Maybe so, but I think our own punaise got there first with ex-Foley-iated. (About 2-3 days ago.) Could be Todd has been lurking here.
Maybe someone can do a search of the threads. (I would not know how).
Rayne @ 26
I caught the very end of the PBS interview. A man was saying that it was too expensive for the U.S. to try all the suspects, to bring them here from overseas etc. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and waited to hear the interviewer say John Yoo.
There’s a blog up at Kos which covers this interview:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/4/134126/935
PBS worries me - so many people trust what they hear there 100% -we have to get rid of the top heavy board of R’s asap.
scarecrow @
89
Direct quote from the Scarbororough link:
orangejumpsuit @ 93
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least; I should have said, “Chuck Todd, after reading firedoglake, pretends to . . .” All great puns appear here first, with the possible exception of those punned by Dr. Johnson.
angie @ 87
Have they invited the lone Democrat or is he conveniently out of town?
Jinny– LOL! it is the ethics cmte, not the page board.
members here:
http://www.house.gov/ethics/CommitteeMembers.htm
For anyone who is unfamiliar with Ed Shultz - top radio talk host - who’s on in my area from 12.00 - 3.00 pm each day, other time zones different.
Ed is a great Liberal and a great voice for us. He breaks everything down and explains what’s behind what the politicians are saying.
angie 98
Oh sorry! I assumed and misread incorectly. Thought they had disbanded the ethics committee because R’s didn’t need it.