Sparkles the Iguana @ 109

I am going to cross-stitch Fitz’s rebuttal onto a pillow.

Wouldn’t i be nice set to music? Ed*ard Teller, you set it for soprano and h’chord, I’ll sing it. Hmm, how about soprano, harpsichord and chainsaw?

KNOW you gotta include an accordion, for Fitz himself.

Fitz’s “silent ways” have to do with the fact that while he may be a star to us Firedoggies he has no intention of becoming a Media Plaything. He’s the opposite of Brittany Spears.

A good Catholic Boy who observes Ash Wednesday?

Hmm. Maybe I should take him to a Robert Bresson double feature on our Dream Date.

Good match of man and movie. Cool heads, ardent hearts. Or, you could go for the Rosselini, The Little Flowers of St Francis. What a movie!

Jeralyn Merritt wrote a column in the Huffington Post saying she believes Libby should be acquitted. At least that is what I took from it.

she says that if Libby is acquitted she will be disappointed but the blame falls to Fitz. Has anybody had any thoughts about why (besides being a defense attorney) she said this? It just seems so depressing. Just wondering…

I find Jeralyn’s opinion to be without merritt (pun intended), kinda like those right wingnuts on Nov. 7th telling the American voters they made a BIG mistake by replacing the dysfunctional majority in congress.
I think Jeralyn is shamelessly canvassing for the opportunity to defend Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz – pick one (Fitz will take them down, one by one like Guinness on a hot day)
By minimizing Fitz, she is saying that she can win against him, something I don’t think any sober defense lawyer believes after watching the best tag team – Zeidenburg & Fitzgerald – make a mockery of Libby’s 8 million defense.
That’s why Wells & Jeffres capitulated and began patting themselves on the back – Perry Mason Moment – HAH
During the rebuttal, I think (but cannot confirm) Libby scribbled, “Can I get Mr. Mason to handle my appeals?”
Jeralyn, since you were so awed by Wells’ “sobbing act”, perhaps you will use it in your next summation.
Will this ever make it to youtube? I would pay to watch the prosecutors’ summations.

beyond any standard of measurement,
just, THANK YOU!

You are truly special.

Yes, I got your book – from a local bookstore at least a couple weeks ago.
And I warned them they’d need more.
Can’t wait to go back, if we can just get out the driveway thru the snow, and see if they did.
The bookmeisters at the store acted really interested when I told them about the book, just as the trial got underway.

Sequel?

Oh heck. Hug the doggie, get some good uninterrupted sleep at HOME, then think about that. Safe trip, hon. ;->

I wonder if Gonzalez can fire him or reassign him off the case. He can certainly fail to reappoint him at the end of his term. There has been a lot of this happening lately- U.S. Attorney’s on sensitive cases not being reappointed.

If as a result his wife had a job, she worked at CPD, She gets dragged into newspapers. People want to find out was a law broken when people want to know, who did it. What role did
Defendant play. What role did VP play? He told you he may have discussed this with VP. Don’t you think FBI desesrves straight answers. When you go in [that] jury room, your commonsense will tell you that he made a gamble. He threw sand in the eyes of the FBI. He stole the truth of the judicial system. You return [a guilty verdict] you give truth back.

Could the “when” have been an “and” and the comma after “know” have been a pause?

I don’t know what is right to do under the circumstances. If you write you next book, it’s something to decide…here and in other places but definitely here.

once again, Genuflect! Genuflect! Genuflect! Thank you!!

OT I found this little gem over at Juan Cole’s place:

The US is considering attempting to go into Sadr City after the Mahdi Army and Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute is now in favor. He says he over-estimated the Mahdi Army and under-estimated Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki earlier. Kagan doesn’t have the slightest idea what he is talking about when it comes to Iraq, and he is advising Bush what to do, who knows even less.

It encapsulates the essence of our experience in Iraq: the blind leading the blinder.

Remember [Paul O’Neill, http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/02/21/hey-guess-who-snuck-into-a-courtroom/#comment-515510 <p>I found an interesting <a href="http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=262">poll </a>(Pew) in which Americans were asked right after Libby’s indictment wether they thought he was guilty or not. These were the results:</p> <p>Guilty: 43%<br /> Not Guilty: 15%<br /> Don’t know: 43%</p> <p>Even among Republicans opinions were split, with 27% of GOP’ers saying he was not guilty, and 25% saying he was guilty.</p> I found an interesting poll (Pew) in which Americans were asked right after Libby’s indictment wether they thought he was guilty or not. These were the results:

Guilty: 43%
Not Guilty: 15%
Don’t know: 43%

Even among Republicans opinions were split, with 27% of GOP’ers saying he was not guilty, and 25% saying he was guilty.

15 minutes?? I’m definitely wearing my NASA diaper.

Best. Comment. Ever.