And now we have major media consternation about a group of Republican attorneys each making probably $200,000/year, who were canned. The real scandal in this is that these same attorneys will likely go into private practice making even more money representations corporations intent on further decimating working people in this country and throughout the world.

I don’t buy the argument that these attorneys were fired because they didn’t prosecute Democrats. That was just cover. The real reason is that Bush realized the Democrats might take control of Congress, begin hearings, multiple violations of the laws would be exposed, and they wanted to pack the top attorney seats with people who (1) would not prosecute Bush’s people and/or (2) would delay any such prosecution, or make quick deals.

Fitzpatrick wasn’t on the list. But then again, he didn’t go after Rove or Cheney, or for that matter Bush.

And Gonzales is now going to lose his job because he fired a few Republican attorneys? Unbelievable. The man who promoted torture, who told Bush that he was above all laws, will end up losing his job for firing a Republican attorney. Pathetic.

*xyz @ 3

I’m still hoping to see an FDL’er standing in the crowd outside the Today Show one morning, holding a sign that says clearly and legibly in large lettering:

Dick Cheney controls Tim Russert

EXXXCCCCEEEELLLLENT!!!!

Even better, remember the Lieberman kiss float? Can someone photoshop Shooter & Timmeh!! kissing and use that? Instead of the sign.

Someone must have scrubbed the references to John Fund(ament) beating his girlfriend on Wikipedia.

But I did find out that he was whoring the voter fraud scam prior to the 2004 elections:

Fund authored a book, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy (Encounter Books, 2004, ISBN 1-59403-061-8) about the U.S. system, which he describes as “a haphazard, fraud-prone election system befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world’s leading democracy”.

Earlier, Fund co-authored Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits (Regnery Gateway, 1992, ISBN 0-89526-516-8) with James Coyne. Some left-wing commentators claim that Rush Limbaugh’s book, The Way Things Ought To Be, was ghostwritten by Fund.[1]

Looks like he has been a vanguard for pushing rightwing electioneering scams for quite some time. Notice the term-limits book too. Notice how few calls for term limits there were when this Republican congress had gained majority status.

-GSD

Is Fund friends w/ Dan Gerstein?

Hugh @ 85

Patrick Leahy on the NewsHour talking about the attorney scandal. All 9 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee were asked to appear. None accepted. Arlen is hiding out it seems. I wonder why. Could it be that he didn’t want to answer any questions about how US attorneys could be replaced without Senate confirmation originated in his office? Cuz usually Arlen loves himself some TV time.

I want him under oath on this

Specter better retire in ‘10, or else he’ll get the Conrad Burns treatment.

punaise @ 29
hackworth @ 26
What if you had to look at Allan Greenspan’s face first thing on any given morning.

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imagine having to deal with his irrational exuberance

Oh sheez, not their sex life again.

Well, we can always talk about Greenspan and Ayn Rand. ;-) Supposedly he was the bottom in that relationship.

Similarly, Irving Lewis Libby, convicted felon, needs to be referred to as such. If some jurors want to cry at seeing Poor Widdle Scooter sent off to prison, they know nothing about this man. This neocon, PNAC, Cheney’s Cheney, liar, perjurer, obstructor of justice, character assassin, treasonous, hardcore SOB. We who read and write on this site (I may post this on kos too) should know better: his name is Libby. No more Scooter please.