Well, naturally, the full depravity of the GOP makes me swallow my words almost immediately. I still think the Republican pages are the most likely candidates for the leak, but sure enough, we now know that Palmer did investigate repeated instances of inappropriate contact with the pages by Foley. Despite that, they couldn’t bring themselves to do anything, nor even try to ease him out. Reynolds still convinced him to run.

This tops quire a lot for me. Even with the war, where I think they’re amazingly wrong-headed, I still think that many of the calculations are so abstract that if you really though we could ‘win’, it could be a moral position to think we should continue. But this is so utterly concrete. They just let it go on.

Maybe these commemorative Republican Butt Plugs would work better if stuck in their mouths. Maybe it would stop all their lying.

I believe Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh should also be honored with Butt Plugs named after them.

And, of course, once they all receive their gift in the mail, they should immediately insert each of their Butt Plugs, so as to keep their brains from leaking out anymore than they already have.

These commemorative Republican Butt Plugs might just put an end to all those Republican Washington leaks, especially with so many Republicans in Washington having their heads up their Butts…and leaking their brains out. Butt Plugs for all the Republicans. There’s the answer.

Just ask Scooter Libby.

To believe anything else, you’d have to believe either:
1) that a bunch of Republican pages handed off these deeply troubling e-mails/IMs to Democrats; or
2) that Shimkus or Hastert DID conduct an investigation, found the more sexual e-mails, and did nothing, but a staffer didn’t like the outcome, and leaked.

Neither of those makes much sense. I think it’s pretty clear that it was the pages themselves.

I said the last time the Republicans listened to Gingrich counsel on moral outrage in 1998 they lost seats…..they thought that the Lewinksy outrage was a good issue, but they lost seats nonetheless.

So the point is, the party that listened to Gingrich in 1998 and lost seats is now going to listen to him again in 2006. He is making a point of “moral outrage” and attacking the Democrats…which he thinks is a winner of a point but is likely a loser.

Sorry for the confusion.

-GSD

Need more cough-syrup.

’sall right, GSD. I was just trying to clarify some background — I’m reading Lindorff and Olshansky’s book right now and just finished the section that went over the abortive impeachment of Clinton.

But if there was ever a presnit that needs impeaching, it’s Dubya. No way he gets convicted in Senate, but his successors of every political stripe need to understand that the Shrub crossed way over a bright line.

BC

I love your research. It brings back painful memories, but ones that need to stay front and center. He almost lost here at his peak, but squeaked by, only to quit in disgrace in short order. So, any time you have nothing to write about, write about Newt. He’s as dangerous a character as the American Enterprise Institute ever spawned [rivaling Ledeen and Bolton]…

DOJ evacuated, now all clear given, don’t know what caused the alarm.
via CNN

…And yes, I am just that cynical to think it’s a ruse. I feel like I’m living in the old Soviet Union and every bit of news is inspected, detected, torn apart, compared, discussed, and seldom believed. It’s damned exhausting.

Yes. We’re all Kremlinologists now.

I was just thinking about “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” – the government lies and calls sane people, insane.