"H.R.H. George IV" originally appeared here.
for the week ending 3/24/07:
[W]e will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants. . . .
Listen, first of all, these U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President. I named them all. . . . They serve at our pleasure. . . . And I repeat, we would like people to hear the truth.
– G.W. Bush, 3/20/07
What happens when the grandiose fantasies of a megalomaniacal, emotionally palsied fraud finally come crashing through the plate glass window of reality? Well, for one thing, that "good ol' boy you'd wanna have a beer with" facade drops faster than a schoolgirl's knickers at a Justin Timberlake concert. After watching the clips of Bush's performances last week, I was reminded of a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Ooh, a king? Well, I didn't vote for you!"
What we saw last week was the real Bush: imperious, contemptuous, rigid with thin-lipped anger, one straightjacket lace shy of a full-blown meltdown on national television after Congress personally affronted him (not once, but TWICE!) by announcing that they were no longer playing by his arbitrary, self-serving rules. The AUDACITY! For the first time in six years, Bush ran up against a Congress no longer manhandled by his unctuous toadies and not-so-petty criminals, but instead by men and women determined to rescucitate the legislative and judicial processes. The nerve of Pat Leahy, John Conyers, and Linda Sanchez, demanding the heads of his Rasputin and Schlegelberger! (Sorry, Harriet, you needed more mascara to even qualify as Tammy Faye Bakker).
To put it mildly, Bush handled the confrontation with the grace of a coddled, furious two year-old who's just learned that the word "no" works in two directions. The "generous" compromise offered by the White House sounds like it came directly from the mind of a child in thrall to a tantrum, with its "heads I win, tails you lose" language. But I have to keep reminding myself that this is an administration that does all that it can to keep Bush the Lesser insulated from the the outside world, like overprotective but criminally lazy parents.
Because TBogg always says it better than I could ever hope to:
As bad a president as George W. Bush has been (and lets face it, not only is he the worst ever, he's actively lobbying to be considered worse than at least the next five, possibly six presidents…) he is a worse person and it shows whenever he is under pressure; he melts down into a greasy little puddle of glares and smirks and incipient panic. But tonight was special. Tonights performance lays to rest any notion other than the fact that he's not a very bright man who has nothing but contempt for a world that refuses to dumb down for him.
—
With weeks as juicy as this one was, it was extreeeemely difficult to pare down the list of links, because schadenfreude makes for some funny shite. So I'm breaking this pile o' pith into subsections.
Part I: Political Theater?
Damn you, Adam Felber! Do you know how hard it is to get toasted english muffin crumbs out of this keyboard? Fanatical Apathy has a transcript of Karl Rove's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
D r i f t g l a s s has fond recollections of some other instances of "political theater"…
Kerry at 100 Monkeys Typing wishes George "The 'W' Stands for 'Waaaaaah!'" Bush a happy anniversary.
The wickedly funny Athenae at First Draft raises a legitimate point: Who the fuck is responsible for handing out the White House email accounts?
Poor, deluded James Inhofe. According to Sir Oolius at She Flies With Her Own Wings, even after Inhofe made an utter fool of himself in front of the entire committee and audience and got publicly spanked by Barbara Boxer, he still thinks he ran circles 'round Gore logically (to continue with the Python references).
Hissy fits? You want hissy fits? The Good General J.C. Christian knows from hissy fits.
Hey, If I Ran The Zoo's Tom Hilton — what are you trying to say?
Part II: In Which Our Heroes Scratch Their Heads and Say, "Quoi?":
World O' Crap's Scott feels left out because he wasn't invited to the DOS party celebrating the Gathering of Smeagols last week. And so he taunts them…
Poor Doughbob Loadpants has writer's block and can't quite get that book, Liberal Fascism, done. d at Lawyers, Guns, and Money has boundless amounts of sympathy for him. No, seriously . . . *snicker* Hammer of the Blogs' Heywood J. takes the opportunity to poke Jonah with a well-oiled stick. And James Wolcott piles on. (I should note that every single one of Wolcott's posts last week is a gem…)
Speaking of door stops, I suspect Atlas Jugg . . . I mean, Pammycakes will get an advance copy of John Bolton's new book, titled Surrender Is Not an Option, according to Steve over at No More Mister Nice Blog. BTW, I have it on good authority that Ms. Juggs will make a reappearance in the not-too-distant future.
GOP family values – they're not just for breakfast anymore! C'mon, everybody, sing along with Attaturk at Rising Hegemon. (No kidding; apparently, Mitch Miller's my fourth cousin.)
Part III, in Which Today's Worldly Weirdness is Brought to You by the Letter "N" and the Number "5":
Whiskey Fire's man about town and poet in residence, Thers, reminds me why I'm glad I don't have kids. Then again, what with Abu Gonzales "looking out for the children," I'm afraid for everyone else's.
Salvage at Hairy Fish Nuts, who still won't forgive me for misidentifying the rank of the military trout dude from "Return of the Jedi", notes that once again, Jesus has been found, this time in a rather . . . ironic . . . place.
Harry Hutton, resident non sequitur at Chase Me Ladies, I'm in the Cavalry, provides your weekly moment of WTF?
And now, the video portion of today's entertainment:
I'd like to thank NTodd over at Dohiyi Mir for GIVING ME RECURRING NIGHTMARES FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!
On the other hand, StudioDave at Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Nachos made me giggle for, like, the entire day with this one. I see that it's been around for a while; that's what I get for not watching television.
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WT !!
ESTEN!
Hello, Teddy – See you at YKos2?
Oh my god!
Georgina Regina!
That is one of the best ever!
TSF!
(not driving anywhere today, thankfully.)
Yay snark!
So when is that pic gonna be on a postcard?
That pursed-up pout is perfect.
Wait.. How would you know that?
I may have set a personal EPU record at fdl this past week. This from the bottom of Phoenix Woman’s previous thread:
I’ve been saying here since last Wednesday that the key to unravelling Rove’s power is getting Harriet Meirs under oath on the stand to testify about the use of non governmental communication to relay political instructions from the WH to wherever. She might lie, but her chances of doing that are less than with other key players.
Gotta go remove eight inches of new snow from the driveway/parking lot…
That’s a horribly troubling pix at the top. But I do like it. And savor it in a naughty sort of way. ;0)
He named them? Isn’t that something parents do?
The Kenosha Kid @ 7
Oh, I have my connections, Kenosha.
And I love that Python skit.
dave™� @ 5
I’m thinking about making it available on t-shirts, etc.
“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What i tell you three times is true.”
The crew was complete: it included a Boots–
A maker of Bonnets and Hoods–
A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes–
And a Broker, to value their goods.
A Billiard-maker, whose skill was immense,
Might perhaps have won more than his share–
But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,
Had the whole of their cash in his care.
There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,
Or would sit making lace in the bow:
And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,
Though none of the sailors knew how.
There was one who was famed for the number of things
He forgot when he entered the ship:
His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
And the clothes he had bought for the trip.
He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
With his name painted clearly on each:
But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
They were all left behind on the beach.
The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
He had seven coats on when he came,
With three pairs of boots–but the worst of it was,
He had wholly forgotten his name.
He would answer to “Hi!” or to any loud cry,
Such as “Fry me!” or “Fritter my wig!”
To “What-you-may-call-um!” or “What-was-his-name!”
But especially “Thing-um-a-jig!”
While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
He had different names from these:
His intimate friends called him “Candle-ends,”
And his enemies “Toasted-cheese.”
“His form in ungainly–his intellect small–”
(So the Bellman would often remark)
“But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark.”
He would joke with hyenas, returning their stare
With an impudent wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
“Just to keep up its spirits,” he said.
He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late–
And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad–
He could only bake Bridecake–for which, I may state,
No materials were to be had.
The last of the crew needs especial remark,
Though he looked an incredible dunce:
He had just one idea–but, that one being “Snark,”
The good Bellman engaged him at once.
He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared,
When the ship had been sailing a week,
He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
And was almost too frightened to speak:
But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone,
There was only one Beaver on board;
And that was a tame one he had of his own,
Whose death would be deeply deplored.
The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark,
Protested, with tears in its eyes,
That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark
Could atone for that dismal surprise!
It strongly advised that the Butcher should be
Conveyed in a separate ship:
But the Bellman declared that would never agree
With the plans he had made for the trip:
Navigation was always a difficult art,
Though with only one ship and one bell:
And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
Undertaking another as well.
The Beaver’s best course was, no doubt, to procure
A second-hand dagger-proof coat–
So the Baker advised it– and next, to insure
Its life in some Office of note:
This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire
(On moderate terms), or for sale,
Two excellent Policies, one Against Fire,
And one Against Damage From Hail.
Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day,
Whenever the Butcher was by,
The Beaver kept looking the opposite way,
And appeared unaccountably shy.
ROTFLMAO! 707!
H.R.H. Incurious George!
you are brilliant and your writing is delightful.
I will repost a link to a smashing thrashing of Bolton in case you missed it watertiger, since it is actually on topic here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-zAAsaZPrg
Ed*ard Teller @
9
Oh, I saw that, Ed. John Dean pointed out that whatever her other failings, Miers is smart enough not to even think of lying under oath — especially not in this case, where there’s too much that’s already public knowledge for a lie to escape undetected.
Have fun!
Ehrenstein, i love you.
angie @ 15
*blush*
youtube
I do think it’s time to push him over that edge. Political theatre it may be, but we’re too much a visual society now, and everyone needs to see it: the emperor with no clothes.
watertiger @
12
Liberal Mountain strikes again!
Bush for me is just not all that complicated. He’s a lazy, rich, devious, spoiled brat. Who has never had to take responsibility for his actions or done an honest days work. Trouble is, this little ‘Dennis the menace’ has his finger on THE button.
George won’t admit that “Yee-hawww!” doesn’t work as a foreign policy. Now he’s learning that “Nyah, nyah, nyah” won’t work as domestic policy any more.
My favorite fantasy: George W going batshite-crazy on live TV. Complete with foaming at the mouth and tears.
“Well, for one thing, that ‘good ol’ boy you’d wanna have a beer with’ facade drops faster than a schoolgirl’s knickers at a Justin Timberlake concert.”
Loved it
Hey Watertiger,
That “schoolgirls knickers” remark is just plain lousy.
How about you demean someobdy your size. Somebody who can piss back at you.
Damn your misogyny that picks on little girls.
Joel Mael
john in sacramento @ 20
thanks for that! they had such magic.
I miss them and thank goodness for youtube.
watertiger @ 14
I believe I’d buy that t-shirt–
but cubicle-wall-size poster might be good, too.
More Atlas Juggs!
That picture is so wrong but then, oh so right!
angie @
26
You could caption the picture “Shut Up!, Shut UP!, I ORDER YOU TO SHUT UP!”
tejanarusa @ 26
It would look good on a billboard!
Cheney and Bush are “acting-out” again. Time for another ‘time’ out boys.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Vice President Dick Cheney has vowed that the administration would not allow an early withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, despite efforts by Congress to impose a deadline on US combat operations there.
I wish Bush wouldn’t put words into our mouths.
Americans never said we want a fishing expedition or that we want to investigate “honorable public servants.” We said we want investigations of Gonzales, Miers and Rove (and their political spawn).
Jane Hamsher @ 27
Heh.
Tony Snow and the magic flute– who knew– the mouth close ups were disturbing to watch, though.
that little child from StudioDave– priceless, precious and hilarious. I love his accent, his facial expressions and “you know what he did?”
thank you kindly.
Where is YKOS2?
Guitar_Playing_Bastard @ 36
http://www.yearlykosconvention.org/
Chicago…
Thanks for the picture!
Since our children are grown and we have no more kids pictures, our fridge was kind of lonely.
So we have dedicated the front of the fridge as a kind of wall of shame to this administration.
It’s fun and any cartoon, picture etc. gets a place of honor.
It makes our friends laugh and it puts this sorry president and administration into perspective!
Watertiger rocks, as per usual, great catch:
“The royal we”(Pluralis Majestatis) is the first-person plural pronoun when used by an important personage to refer to himself or herself. It’s best known usage is by a monarch such as a king, queen, or pope. It is also used in certain formal contexts by bishops and university rectors.
katymine @
37
AAh, m’kay. Too far for me. When it’s in CA., I’ll be there. So, for this year, y’all are safe from the angry, in-person ranting.. ;-D
If Boxer shows up, someone please rag on her for me?
Oklahoma kiddo @
10
Not as bad as the pic from last night…THAT was disgusting.
As to Iran, things are starting to look up. That is, for the Bush boys and girls, the neocons and fascists in general. Wonder if this was planned by the U.S.?
AP – Iran announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, citing the new U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.
’cause i’m such a huge fan of watertiger’s, i wanted to change my nom de plume to woodsnake
but it just doesn’t sound as sexy.
GWB43 montage courtesy of my husband the Zappa fan
Not enuf snark to go around
go Ducks!
Chimpy has always been someone that the mindless want to have a beer with because he can play the bully with a friendly face. It really is frat-boy in semi-adult guise. He’s personable and easy going just as long as he gets his way. But a mean and vidicitive a** b*stard when he doesn’t. The true and complete meltdown WILL come as long as Nancy and Harry and Leahy and Kennedy and Waxman and all the others keep challenging him. He won’t be able to control himself because he won’t be able to control everyone else; especially the Congress.
moi @ 42
ach, too bad you weren’t born in a fire year.
dakine01 @ 42
Well yes. It was radical. I liked it though. ;0)
SusanD @
24
Remember Nixon unraveling during his live resignation farewell at the White House? Once he started talking about his mother, it was all downhill from there. The psyche just started spewing free associations. Jaw-droppingly scary stuff. And we were ever-so-glad that when he finished he got on a helicopter and flew away.
Maybe someone in the press corpse should ask Georgie about his mother at the next live all-networks Deciderer media extravaganza.
Oklahoma kiddo @
49
Well yes. It was radical. I liked it though. ;0)
It brought out some of my vestigial sexism in a not pleasant way… But I guess he brings out the worst in many of us just because he IS the worst of ALL of us.
I have a couple other ‘royal examples’ – he fits into these so naturally…
here and here.
moi @
44
I too am a woodsnake.
Every time I see the Chimperor boarding Marine One, I have flashbacks to ‘74.
We have already seen Poppy Bush reduced to a Frosty the Snowman puddle while lamenting just how bad the Bush family name has become. It is so bad that poor wittle Jeblit doesn’t have a political future.
Barbara’s Marie Antoinette moment during Katrina finally exposed her for the blue-blooded racist she is deep down.
Chimpy’s meltdown moment is coming.
-GSD
GSD @ 55
Who was it here at the Lake who said they were on “Face Boil Watch”?
That had me laughing for a day and a half.
Always makes me think of one of the seven plagues.
watertiger @
54
I keep praying for the picture of his final exit on Marine 1. He’ll probably pull a trickster with the arms thrown out in the V. Lawdy help us.
GSD @ 53
Y’all saw how University of Florida retracted its offer to give Jeb an honorary degree?
“AAh, m’kay. Too far for me. When it’s in CA., I’ll be there. So, for this year, y’all are safe from the angry, in-person ranting.. ;-D”
I think I’m a bit too rad for YearlyKos. Probabaly too over the top for SF anymore. You could call me an SDS’ish type of guy.
OT but exerpts from the Edwards appearance tonight up now:
more here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..dwards2008
watertiger @ 58
Yes I did.
And then I saw how the scumsuckers in the Alumni Office voted him in as “honorary Alumnus.” Somebody just HAD to try to spoil the moment, huh?
BTW — What’s doing with Georgie’s pRezinential Liberry? Did that university in Texas finally agree in spite of the faculty uprising?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 59
So, how’s the Weather, Man?
;-)
I used to work for U. of Florida for plant pathology years ago. I was heartened at the snub that Bush got from them. U.of F.; you’ve come a long ways, baby.
Bush is starting to get a bad case of Dorian Grey face. His downward frown is much more pronounced, his hair is getting tufty and gray and his furrowed brow is looking even more simian as the days go on.
If things keep up his whole head might turn into a boil.
-GSD
As to poor Jeblit. You can pick your friends buddy…….Too bad SMU didn’t decide against honoring The Decider.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 59
I think the only area I’m not totally radicalized in is paying the bills. We have to stop building the debt/deficit as that is a security issue what with China suposedly sitting on $1Trillion cash. However, some of those old tax rates that FDR had during WWII would probably help. Tax estates? You betcher a**, bubba! And tax all these CEOs for everything. And ban companies that move their hdgtrs to Bahamas or other tax dodge locations from getting ANY gov’t work…
(Climbing down off my soapbox for a bit now) :})
Mrs. K8 @ 62
That’s good. I like it! ;0)
watertiger @ 58
What? Linky, please!
As to Tony Snow…..The creepy conservative closet cases must have witnessed how well he blows a metal flute and figured he’d be just as proficient on the skin flute.
How right they were.
-GSD
tejanarusa, brb with link.
Who will deny the Jebster?
-GSD
Linky for you Tenjy.
Over at TPM…
Phoenix Woman… did you see anything in your document diving yesterday … I sure did not.. Not one reference on the transition of important cases….
I do not care what business you are in, what position you hold, THE number one considerations with leaving a position is the transition of work unless the whole department is just gone. In nursing each shift gives report to the next. When closing an office, you hand off the files and summary reports to the new office. When leaving a position handling clients, meetings with the client and the next person assigned for a smooth transition.
tommy yum @ 53
I too am a woodsnake.
i guess it’s better than firepig or waterrat or something…
I noticed today that somebody stole Fitz’s Dark Cloud over the OVP and they are all saying there’s a Dark Cloud over the Justice Department.
watertiger @
35
One question. Usually when Atlas vlogs she looks like a drunken slattern whom my Tennesseean father would have described as having been “rode hard and put up wet” (he said that one night about Angie Dickinson on a Dean Martin roast and it just described so much).
On her latest outing, Atlas is a whole lot prettier. What’s up with that?
Hey, Kiddo –
Now that you’ve got them subterranean homesick blues, you better look out kid, they keep it all hid.
Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin’ that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone’s tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don’t matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don’t try “No Doz”
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows
ah, here it is:
Suck on that, Jebby.
Wave to Mrs. K8….
I love it in The Rocky Horror Picture Show when Frank says of Rocky “I didn’t make him for YOU!”
Good lighting?
Jane,
Maybe Bonzo Bolton threw some cash-money to Pammy for mallet and trowel make-over.
-GSD
Thanks, WT and GSD.
I so hope it’s true that his political future hs been destroyed by his idiot brother. It’s an appropriate fate.
“She almost looks human,
It must be the lighting.”
(Sondheim)
Hey katymine! Waves back!
Am going out back now.
What with the sun heating the pool blanket, the water temp is now 71 degrees. That’s still a wee bit cool, but I am in no mood to wrestle the wetsuit on today, so I’m gonna get out there while the sun is on the water.
How are you doing?
One question. Usually when Atlas vlogs she looks like a drunken slattern whom my Tennesseean father would have described as having been “rode hard and put up wet” (he said that one night about Angie Dickinson on a Dean Martin roast and it just described so much).
On her latest outing, Atlas is a whole lot prettier. What’s up with that?
Whoever played Bolton was a LOT uglier.
Mrs. K8 @ 61
A former member of that group teaches at a community college in Albuquerque.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rudd
watertiger @ 77
And missing Lee Press-On Nails.
Listen: strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
sturgeone @ 87
“There’s some lovely filth over here!”
It does my heart good to hear Monty Python being quoted.
“I thought we were an autonomous collective!”
Iraq is reaching full boil again. Attacks near the Syrian border and also in Diyala province.
5 US troops killed in bombings putting the US toll close to 80 again.
Surging the lies.
At least we can hear the US and Iraqi generals doing their best Baghdad Bob impressions about how everything is going great guns.
-GSD
watertiger @ 79
A tiger in her tank?
Oh, have a heaping serving of “PSYCH!” with your schadenfreude:
GRAFTON CO., NH — Sen. John McCain said his presidential campaign would not meet its fundraising goals this quarter, and his campaign advisers acknowledged that ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney may wind up raising more.
more here.
Mrs. K8 @ 83
Sheesh! Coming in for a break from blowing eight inches of fresh snow, only to see friends complaining that 71 degree water is too cold. It was minus 14F here last night, but it has already reached the low plus 20s, and when I’m done with the snow, I’m going into my greenhouse, which should be around 80F by then, and planting some boxes with romaine, arugula, shiso and meusclin.
But I was thinking more along the lines of the “unified theory” from earlier this morning while breathing CO behind my snow blower. Those two guys in charge of security aspects at the WH that Waxman had at his hearings the week before last – it probably is part of their duties to track who uses what inside the building in regard to non .gov or WH phone system communication. Might we get them back on the stand to see if people have to make a list somewhere of the cell phone numbers and e-mail accounts they use which are not logged into the system?
Ever since we discovered Karl Rove usually met Abramoff off-campus in weird alleyway discussions and info transactions, I’ve been thinking there’s a way into their crimes and it has to do with the alternative com devices and systems they use. Once a crime is pinned on this, the whole thing will unravel more quickly than it already is.
Truth Surge!
Truth Surge!
Truth Surge!
But, sir, the emperor has no clothes!
No shit!
Oh no you did dint!
Oklahoma kiddo @
59
I’m definitely too rad for FDL, all my comments get moderated prior to posting. That’s ok, I guess, I’d probably moderate me, too. Some folks don’t like their truth that raw.
…John Bolton’s new book, titled Surrender Is Not an Option…
That just can’t be the same John Bolton who surrendered his UN post, can it?
Mrs. K8 @
50
I am distantly related to Richard Nixon and his mother, who are direct descendants of my Mendenhall ancestors who lived in and around Philadelphia approximately eight generations ago.
Frank Probst @ 95
Koo koo ka joo, baybay!
Guitar_Playing_Bastard @ 96
You guys would surely spice up YKdeux! GPB and OkK – the truth, like oysters, can only be handled raw by courageous people.
Back to the snow before the wind comes up!
From the Associated Press quoting Chuck Hagel, Repub – Nebraska
Go get ‘em Chuck..
BTW — What’s doing with Georgie’s pRezinential Liberry? Did that university in Texas finally agree in spite of the faculty uprising?
Well, if not, I’ve got a little broom closet that’s pretty empty. I think it’d be perfect for the GWB library – with room to spare.
He makes a better queen then Ken Mehlman.
Exquisite work on that photoshopping.
Speaking of academia stiffing a Bush, The U of Florida faculty refused to approve an honorary degree for Florida ViceRoy Jeb Bush.
However, since I believe it was SMU considering Our Benighted Emperor’s library, and it is religious based – evangelicals seeming to be all in favor of authoritarian government… as long as they are Christian — I believe SMU has agreed to host the library. Or… was it Baylor??
Here’s the funny part: Since Chimpy the Naked Emperor is going to veto any bill lifting secrecy for Presidential papers… The library will be like one big empty building…
What does he care… Doesn’t read anyway.
jayt @ 102
rxbusa @
45
How do you get Chardonnay out of a keyboard – don’t do that while I’m drinking!
Ed*ard Teller @
100
Thanks for your kind words. I’d probably scare them. If Boxer was there, I think I’d probably go full-throated and the cats all run when I do that. I have a voice. And i know how to use it. ;)
Like when the Christians came to the door yesterday and as soon as I realized it was *them* (they all have this fresh-scrubbed “Up with People” look) I just said “this isn’t the house for that” and the gal said “All we want to do is leave an invitation” and I lowered my pitch, raised the volume and said “please don’t.”
She almost scampered she wanted away from the doorway so fast. I like it when that happens. >:->
bravo bravo
imagine having the “faith” required to still support this president…..
Stephen Parrish –
Well, whaddaya know. You can’t choose your relatives.
Many, many moons ago I tutored German to students at Friends Central in Lower Merion PA (Wynnewood) and hung out with friends (pun intended) at the American Friends Service Committee on Cherry Street in Philly. (Even though I’m one of those ’social justice Catholics’ rather than a Friend.)
My memory is that the Friends were ashamed to call Nixon their own, just like the Methodists are ashamed of Little Boots.
Ya know, you would need some sort of expedition to find honorable public servants in the White House.
schaden-frienda
“The Firedoglake Effect”
http://tinyurl.com/2rnuc6
JT
More Bill Maher Clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCOjyhgkP9A
GPB – I love it when the ja-whoe-bas show up at my door. I always manage to have them looking at the ground and whimpering as they scurry back to the car.
Next year I am answering the door fully nude with a pitch-fork in one hand. (my pitch-fork is parked inside the front door ready and waiting.)
New thread from Jane.
I wonder what would happen if the Senate Judiciary refused to accept any of the proposed replacement US attorneys because they do not appear competent to do the job. Then demanded that no replacements would be approved unless their names were provided to the Judiciary committee, three for each position, and the Judiciary committee told Bush which of the potential appointees they would review.
Not approve, mind you, just review.
I’d enjoy that show. A lot.
Add this to my comment at 115 above
Or better yet – if the Senate refused to even hold hearings on any proposed US attorney submitted while Gonzales remains in office as AG.
Nancy Pelosi really gets under his skin. Outsmarted by a girl. Oh, my!
Yup. That presnential liberry’ll be empty, just like Dubya’s haid. But, let the man have his little vanity; he has precious little else going for him at the moment.
WOnder if Pickles’ll be the library marm?
tommy yum @
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Actually i AM a firesnake. *grins* Which would work, but it would take forever to get used to as a screen name.
Harriet Miers is a very smart lawyer and, whether you chose to believe it or not, she’s honest. Rove is a proven liar, and if they depose him without counsel, he’ll wind up in the slammer. If they ever get Harriet on the stand, with or without counsel, Shrub is finished.
Eureka Springs, AR @
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One time when the Mo-Mos showed up, I started talking about the Mountain Meadows Massacre. They stood there for about three minutes and then it must have dawned upon them what I was talking about and they suddenly developed the nervous complaint and had to go.
I also answered the door buck-naked one time, but without the pitchfork. Eye like saucers, man.
When it comes to defending the criminal wrong-doing of the Bush administration, few Republicans in Congress circle the wagons better than Texas Senator John Cornyn. With the exploding scandal over the firings of U.S. attorneys threatening the White House, Cornyn has come to the assistance of fellow former Texas Supreme Court justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. How ironic then that the same John Cornyn who defends “the Judge” now was the same man who two years ago excused violence against judges.
For the story, see:
“Cornyn Threatens Judges, Protects Gonzales.”
So, I wonder if President Bush viewed the pre-election Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) sex scandal as being “a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants”?
Or maybe it was an “overblown personnel matter” not deserving of the intense media coverage afforded it before last November’s elections?
Josh Marshall says: “But we know that US Attorney David Iglesias was fired because he wouldn’t submit to pressure from Republican activists and members of Congress to issue an election-timed indictment to save New Mexico’s Republican Rep. Heather Wilson.”
He also points out that what is “missing” from the DOJ document dump may be just as important as what has been released up to this point.
So, let’s look at the clues that might indicate what is “missing”:
1) By last October, Bush, Rove and Gonzales had politicized as much as possible the offices of the U.S. Attorneys.
2) The Mark Foley sex scandal broke like a tsunami wave over the House Republican leadership, the White House political strategists and all the Republicans running for election or re-election around the country…including Heather Wilson of New Mexico.
3) David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, is contacted during this critical October pre-election time-frame, to generate anti-Democratic Party publicity, to help Heather Wilson in her bid to retain her seat in Congress.
You do see the pattern, don’t you?
In Karl Rove’s mind, the essential thing before any election is to control “the message,” to control “the publicity,” and the Mark Foley sex scandal had turned last year’s Republican election strategy upside down. Instead of Rove ordering the “swift-boating” of Democrats, the Mark Foley sex scandal was “swift-boating” Republicans around the country, and the scandal was based on facts, not on fabricated lies.
Thus, all the Republican-appointed U.S. Attorneys were mobilized to “pushback” against the negative publicity of the Mark Foley sex scandal in an attempt to push this scandal into the background and replace this negative publicity detrimental to Republicans with news reports of contrived Democratic Party improprieties.
This is what is missing in the emails released. Any internal White House deliberations involving the Mark Foley sex scandal, as well as any communications with anyone in the DOJ that refers to the handling of the Mark Foley sex scandal last October, are not being released.
I don’t believe the Mark Foley scandal was the sole reason for the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys in November, but I do believe it served as a catalyst. Why? Because Rove and the neo-con Republican strategists realized that if certain U.S. attorneys were unwilling to “break the law” concerning “pushback” over the Mark Foley sex scandal, then (in Rove’s and their minds) how could these rogue U.S. Attorneys be trusted to “help” the Republican cause in the lead-up to the November 2008 elections? Thus, eight U.S. Attorneys, who chose following the apolitical, non-partisan “rule of law” over helping the Republicans retain control of Congress last year, HAD TO GO.
Which, of course, makes one wonder how corrupt the Republican-appointed U.S. Attorneys who were not fired are? What did they do to help “pushback” last year against the negative Republican publicity generated by the Mark Foley sex scandal? Can any of them be trusted to follow the “rule of law” and put aside their partisan allegiances, especially in the lead-up to the November 2008 elections?
Any “rule of law” American, whether Democrat or Republican or Independent, should be very concerned over the answer to these questions.
A better analogy than Queen Victoria would have been to put Bush the Younger’s mug on a photograph of Edward VIII.
Notionally dapper, inherently weak, attracted to authoritarians, literally gelded by mumps and virtually by Mrs. Simpson. He was tightly managed by his staff until even they could not save him from himself. And he WAS king, just not for very long.
watertiger @ 54
Actually, watching Babs see her little precious melt down on TeeVee is going to be frosting on the cake.
Perhaps because he received, but didn’t earn, his Harvard MBA, Mr. Bush believes in a caricature of management built around his inability to manage. Through the lifelong enabling of his father’s friends, Mr. Bush believes that a CEO is a success by looking the part, and by being able to use dad’s giant rolodex to call in favors as if they were owed to him.
Like a younger son who surprisingly inherits the family estate, Mr. Bush understands that he’s now the Massa in the Big House. But, he thinks he’s commanding when he demands that his mint julip be cold. He has no idea what the overseer does to get the cotton planted, harvested and sold – or through whose labor that takes place – nor does he think that’s any of his business. That’s the hired help’s problem. And ours.