Codpiece doth protect mere sock within.

1) The Mark Foley/young male House pages sex scandal broke onto the national news scene in late September, early October, and dominated the news through election day in early November. All other news paled in comparison. A major Republican sex scandal. Bad news for the religious base of the Republican Party. Especially when the coverup by Republican House leadership of Mark Foley’s activities hit the news.

2) David Iglesias, the USA in New Mexico, was pressured by Republican politicians and White House political operatives to prematurely release grand jury “sealed” indictments brought against Democrats in New Mexico. Any news coverage, local or national, that didn’t involve Foleygate would be good news for Republican chances in November, but even better news if the good news was indictments or investigations of Democrats. Maybe even bogus claims of voter fraud? Hey, anything to get Foleygate off the front pages.

Get the picture?

Any Republican-appointed USAs who didn’t get with this Rove-orchestrated campaign in October to deflect the nation’s attention from Foleygate and onto indicted or under investigation Democrats (bogus voter fraud claims, for example) would have been considered insubordinate, untrustworthy, not enough of a “loyal Bushie.” Any uncooperative USAs would have been blamed afterward for costing the Republicans control of Congress. They would have to be punished. Fired.

In other words, the pre-election Foleygate scandal acted as one of the catalysts that led to the firing of the eight USAs in early December. If we could get our hands on all the White House and DOJ/USAs emails between early October and early December, I just bet this Foleygate/USAs firing link would be revealed. And it would help explain why the Republican “explanations” for the USAs firings sound so disjointed, laughable and scattershot like a Dick Cheney shotgun blast…it’s all about misdirection.

dmac @ 189

could people please list the REAL LINK instead of comments written over the link???????????

i try to send stuff on–to media, etc…….and pdf links are impossible to send if i can’t catch the link…….have to send them to here, and get the link themselves……..would be much more effective if i could copythe link and then send on…………ie-the missing 18 days emails from earlier……..sent on to the diane rehm show, but couldn’t catch the pdf link quick enough to just send them the direct link……..very aggravating………….so, could people please start posting the DIRECT address instead of a comment over it?????????????????

I believe you mean html links (not pdf). And my short answer is “no.” Here’s what you do — very quick and simple — click the link to open on a new tab (I assume you have tabbed browsing). Copy the link from the browser bar (you’ll have to copy a link anyway), go paste it where you want it to end up.

One extra step.

OR right click, choose “Properties” and copy and paste the link (”Address”) from the Properties box.

Fact for the mass media:

ONLY THE PRESIDENT CAN FIRE U.S. ATTORNEYS.

Thank you.

Ahhhhh! But “they resigned”…that’s why they are so upset because they don’t know why they are “resigning”.

They “have personal reasons” but they can’t recall what they are….Alzheimers perhaps…but that lack of “recalling” what their personal reasons for resigning are…clearly makes it necessary to allow them to resign (for “performance related reasons”).

The analogy of the Alamo is actually an apt one. Jim Bowie did not survive it.

He also brought down everyone that followed his idea of “no surrender”.

But Bowie was fighting for the idea of Texas Independance…Bush is fighting for his PERSONAL POWER.

The Plenary President