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. Monica Goodling is resigning:
There have been questions about whether Goodling and others misinformed Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty about the firings just before he testified before the Senate committee in February.
Dowd said that a senior Justice Department official had told a member of the Senate committee that he was misled by Goodling and others before testifying.
The potential for taking the blame for the department's bungled response "is very real," Dowd said March 26. "One need look no further than the recent circumstances and proceedings involving Lewis Libby," he said, a reference to the recent conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff in the CIA leak case.
Lewis Libby was found to have lied his face off by a jury of his peers. I don't know quite what her attorney is trying to say here, but I doubt it's what he thinks he is.
. Mary Ann Ackers has been all over MSNBC today pimping her Edwards email/fundraising non-story. Ana Marie Cox set the record straight yesterday, which should have put an end to it but didn't:
Mary Ann's story — and my post — both leave the impression that it's a specific get well note that lured people in. It isn't. It's true that the current "message" from John and Elizabeth on the website is about her illness, so I imagine that many of the notes they got were about that news, but it's not as though the campaign was specifically asking for get-well wishes and then (intentionally or not) asking sympathizers for money.
I know it's hard to show up when the network has booked you wall-to-wall to talk about a particular story and you have to tell them it's bogus, but it would have been the right thing to do. Nice glasses, though.
. Oh please, let it happen:
Lawrence Kudlow wrote a column a while back saying he hoped President Bush asked Vice President Cheney to run for president in 2008. It was a fine idea then and it still is — not because the current field is particularly weak, but because Mr. Cheney is so much more experienced and shrewd a figure, one who could help settle some of the arguments about the Bush years in favor of Mr. Bush. A White House aiming to get Mr. Cheney elected could also avoid some of the hazards that befall lame-ducks — drift, brain drain, irrelevance. Such a campaign might lift Mr. Cheney 's own standing in the polls.
A girl can dream, can't she?
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Run, Dick, Run!
Hi Jane
First sentence…”resigning”
I actually know Larry Kudlow pretty well, although we havent spoken in years.
Knowing the side of him that I do, I cant believe the stuff that comes out of his mouth these days.
Dick n Monica 08!
I like the sound of that!
So what does it mean that she resigned. Did she give up executive priviledge protection claims and now she is just another citizen???
Probably wishful thinking on my part but I suspect she is going to see some jail time here for contempt of Congress when she doesn’t show up to testify under oath.
Also is she on her own dime for her defense or are we taxpayers going to have to pay for it??
Appreciate any comments on this.
Jane, did you see Cheneys comments from a few days back where he said the admins lawyers are investigating the constitutionality of the 22? Amendment. (you know, the one that says two terms at most)
Why would any woman vote for, or work for the Bush administration?
So, Jane, please help me understand (and good luck to you on that one). If Goodling is no longer an employee, what can she do or not do (will do or won’t do) that she could have/would have otherwise, with regard to testimony. I swear I learn more at FDL than I do anywhere else.
For more on Monica Goodling, Rachel Paulose and the latest news, email archives, hearings, legal filings and other essential documents on the Bush DOJ prosecutor firings, see:
“The U.S. Attorney Scandal Documents.”
TeddySanFran @
2
Damn straight.
Crikey. Is the text of the resignation letter cited in this article correct?
How can a senior level DOJ employee (not to mention law school graduate) have such poor writing skills? Oh, wait. This is the Bush Administration. They govern as well as Monica Goodling writes.
I would like to know who’s footing Goodling’s lawyer bills.
I read the transcript of Cheney’s interview with Limbaugh. Amazing in a scary sort of way. Condemning Pelosi for trying to promote Peace. How dare a Speaker of the House undermine the War Presidency! He is one ultra wingnut.
Democrats salivate over a Cheney run the way Republicans drool over a Hillary run.
flatford39 @ 7
As I understand it, executive privilege protects information, not personnel. So her change in status doesn’t affect the protection of executive deliberations one way or the other, but on the bright side, it does highlight the ludicrousness of the frequent claims from administration figures that “I don’t have to testify at all because of executive privilege.”
OT but also, oh my. So I’m a newbie @ FDL, see, though something of a reg at dK, who went crazy mad for you all during the Libby trial. So, in a burst of enthusiasm, I just went on Gabble.. and…, couldn’t figure out how to get my comment to post. Everybody there was saying, “hello?…” and “I hate lurkers…” and the rest and I was madly clicking away and… Nothing.
Help? Or anyway, a link to Instructions for the Non Geek…
t’anks you guys.
Just catching up at the end of the day. Apparently Republican Rep. Darrell Issa also met with Assad.
urban pirate @
5
You have my sympathies. I’ve occasionally caught part of his TV show and he’s pretty much impressed me as having no idea how 95% of the country is forced to live. He actually stated on air that “unemployment compensation was a paid vacation” and should be stopped. That statement in and of itself was enough to classify him as an idiot.
urban pirate @ 14
Who’s footing Scooter’s legal bills?
urban pirate @
8
That was an April Fools joke. The web site was for the “New YOURKE Times.”
As poisonous as all these individuals are in government, I’m sure they’re no less toxic in the private sector.
Somebody ought to create a website tracking the movements of Bush officals / appointees when they’re back to living as private citizens. You know, as if they’re incorrigible sexual predators. For reasons of public safety.
barbara @ 10
I asked the same question a little up thread but my guess is “I smell a deal”. Now there’s a clever name for a new reality political TV show. I think that she is about to throw Gonzo under the bus for immunity from prosecution. I think there are some pretty nervous people inside the belt way right now.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 15
Chris Mathews sez the GOP sees “Daddy” in Fred Thompson. I think some GOPers might get moist over Dick too. He is the ultimate authoritarian cult leader.
dakine01 @ 22
Oh? I hadnt seen that. I just did a google search for it and found THIS though.
http://2004.georgewbush.org/news/termlimits.asp
Cheney / Satan 2008!
Oh good. At least the first writing infraction seems to be a typo.
Cheney has a JAR of minus twenty for most Americans. Only the ditto heads still love him.
So, yeah, go ahead and run Dick, I can’t wait to see the campaign ads for that one.
urban pirate @ 26:
This was at th bottom of the page you linked:
“2004 – WHITEHOUSE.ORG / Chickenhead Productions – All Rights Reserved
Use of this website parody indicates your understanding and acceptance of the terms of service.”
HAh, I think that GeorgeBush.org is a parody as well. Funny.
For all who want to know if Goodling’s resignation affects anything in relation to her potential testimony to Congress, the answer is NO. It does allow her to accept money or services for her defense without committing another crime; however, if she did not have independent means to cover her bills accrued before her resignation, that would present an arguable case of impropriety, although it would be extremely unlikely that it would be pursued.
Beware the parody and the photoshop! We don’t want Malkin to find out we’ve been “had” again…. Because, in Malkinworld, when you’re “had,” everything you believe becomes untrue.
I see you’re much quicker than I am Dakine01.
:)
So if Cheney runs, his poll numbers will rise from AIDS to the level of the Black Plague.
Phule @ 35
“Cheney / Pestilence ‘08
Two horsemen doing the job of four.”
flatford39 @ 24
Gonzo must be having pre-traumatic stress disorder for all the pending throw-him-under-the-bus initiatives. So given that he’s going down, have they now decided that he will be the fall guy for the whole deal? Will he go quietly? Does Bushiness really require an oath to fall on one’s sword? Sure looks that way. And the obvious question is “Why?” as in why would anyone get so sucked in by Junior as to jeopardize their career, never mind their souls. Apparently they really do believe they are: (1)above the law; and (2)will never be found out.
Bustednuckles @ 29
I thought that too, Cheney knows he doesn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell, so he’s gonna be a no show, who the f*uck would suggest such an absurdity!?!
Don’t miss watertiger’s most recent in her extraordinary series McCain Visits…
And then Rummy can have his lifelong dream of being VP nominee!
“I don’t know quite what her attorney is trying to say here”
He’s saying that poor widdle Scooter (a) was thrown under the bus to protect his masters and (b) was the innocent victim of a perjury trap in a partisan witch hunt. And if poor widdle Monica were forced to testify, she’d be badgered into making a silly mistake or careless statement that those evil Demonrats would call perjury so she could be persecuted, I mean prosecuted, no I do mean persecuted just like Scooter.
Cheney doesn’t have to run. Bush is going to declare terror emergency and stay in office. If he doesn’t, he knows he’ll go to jail later.
This is such crap. I mean I haven’t read about any Iranian military boats in the SF Bay lately. But with the number of Brit and American navy vessels in the area, they have to be hard pressed not to bump into each other in the Persian Gulf.
AP – British sailors and marines freed by Iran said Friday they were blindfolded, isolated in cold stone cells and tricked into fearing execution while being coerced into falsely saying they had entered Iranian waters.
IAOAAP (I am only an amateur prognosticator), but I think the resignation strengthens the likelihood that she’s bucking for immunity. It could be that the hundreds of pages of unreleased documents Christy wrote about this morning — and/or the RNC emails Saint Henry of Paraffin is demanding — independently provide sufficient incrimination against her, regardless of whether she hews to the Fifth.
And also it must be getting tiresome for Monica (as well as Kyle) to be taking the fall for McNulty…or does anyone really believe Paul was innocently misleading Congress because of Monica’s bum information?
Mark Shields on the PBS News Hour mimics WH criticism of Pelosi trip to Syria. His explanation of why it was inadvisable for her to go could have been scripted by WH. He calls it a misstep. This seems strange in a format where a National Review contributor waits next to him to do that very thing.
SteveNS @ 36
Army of One, baby. :P
SteveNS @ 23
YES!! And now, with the power of the internet, we can do this!!
Personally, I think they should all be implanted with GPS tracking devices so that we can follow them on Google Earth.
SteveNS @ 23
The healthcare sector is lousy with them. I just caught up with reading a big stack of Modern Healthcare; a veritable rogues gallery!
SteveNS @
36
AAAHHHGGGG! twitch.
ralphbon — i think they were all in cahoots, alla them. Abu lied, McNulty lied and Goodling is trying to keep her mouf shut cause she’s caught in the lies and she’s trying to save her goody two shoes self…
they really thought they’d win in November and that they would never get caught.
the karma noose is tightening.
jmo.
man oh man oh man, that would be incredible
if he is actually dillusional enough to run, (if he’s not impeached first), watch the morons gather around him like he is the second coming
he will get every single vote from “the base”, all 29 percent of them
that would be the mostest funest election evah!
this is off topic-from the thread ‘hide and seek’, but i wanted people to know
Reposting of an EPU’d comment on the previous post:
Tangentially off-topic, but not . . .
Several years ago my wife and I were on vacation in Arizona and were eating lunch at Terra Cotta Cafe in Tucson (highly recommended by the way), when our attention was grabbed by the conversation at the next table. Fortunately the fact that it was a late lunch and we were practically the only parties in the place facilitated the eavesdropping.
The party consisted of two early middle-aged men in three-piece suits and two good-looking, well-dressed women no older than their mid-twenties. It quickly became apparent that they were all devout fundamentalist Christians, as indicated by the small talk addressed such matters as the instantaneous creation of the Grand Canyon and the askance glances over their ice tea glasses at the wine bottle we were sharing.
As the talk turned to business, it became apparent that the men represented an organization called the Blackstone Alliance Defense Fund, and that they were pitching the women on joining the cause as talent spotters. The BADF, it emerged, offers to fund the legal educations of promising young Christians in return for their commitments to later volunteer their legal skills in the service of the right-wing, theocratic agenda. The pitchers made it plain that they were after prospects who had the academic records needed to get in to the top-drawer law schools – Yale, Harvard, U Mich, Berkeley, etc. It did not appear that the women were lawyers, or even wannabe lawyers. Instead they held jobs, whether in academia, church organizations or whatever, that somehow positioned them to spot potential recruits.
Anyway, I thought this memory tidbit might interest people here as another protruding tip of the vast Christian Dominionist conspiracy iceberg. If anyone else knows anything about this group I’m curious. Especially if any of these young whippersnappers Rove is placing in various USDA offices came out of this operation.
http://www.alliancedefensefund…..stone.aspx
mostly, i was shocked by the bolthouse link on this-what i want to say is- i know that in our community we buy organic, how many of us are funding bolthouse organics? i assumed they were a good company, they aren’t, important to get this out, i think. even my mom buys their stuff………time to stop payment. sorry about the off topic. shocked me.
I support Speaker Pelosi.
so, abu torture’s lead council “resignes” after making bizzare claims that she can “plead the fith” without even being posed a question
then she “resigns” and I expect her to somehow still refuse to appear?
wow…I’m telling you, I never thought I would have this much fun if we won a majority
ralphbon @ 44
Great perspective, well put. Also loved the reference to Sir Henry- I looked his surname up in the Dictionary of American Family Names- and it says “Maker of wax, Candle stick maker” So now all we need is the butcher and the baker and we’re on our way!!
Cheney is suddenly all over the place with his lying crap and I’ve been wondering why. Maybe the neocon/winger/evangelical part of the GOP has taken a good look at the current crop of 08 candidates and decided that they all suck and that Darth is their perfect guy. Meaning, I guess: sociopath. Can they really be so deluded that they think he can WIN? Must be something else up their sleeves…or I want to know what they are smoking…
Rob Zuber @
27
I like that… But, why wouldn’t Cheney run as veep again … put Satan out front and let him take all the heat — he’s used to it at least …
wrt the Edwards emails: does anyone providing their email expect not to hear back sometime? In the 21st century, unless you opt out, you must expect some response.
This non-story story was just one more way for TradMed to re-play its lovely “go home and die” theme for Elizabeth.
Angie, isn’t the karmanoose the last car in the train of causation?
I still don’t understand the reasoning of Ms. Goodling. It’s as if she says that she lied to her bosses, and her bosses then incorrectly answered questions under oath, so therefore she (Goodling) faces criminal penalties, thus she invokes the 5th?
But….it’s not, as far as I know, a “crime” to mislead your boss?
I urge Congress to call her on this. Force her to appear, ask a kajillion questions, and have her invoke the 5th each and every time.
And then…ask Alberto The Towel Boy if DOJ has yet to launch a criminal investigation into Goodling’s “criminal” acts. If not, why not?
Ghostman
dmac – your post was only partly OT, imo. All of this stuff/these people/these companies/these religious groups are linked in subtle, heretofore-unrecognized ways.
I went to the ADF site this morning, and was fairly shocked reading it (but only a little surprised). And I’m not at all surprised that Leininger has a hand/dollar in it.
I’ve been following Leininger’s trajectory for years here in San Antonio. He got rich with a company called Kinetic Concepts, now KCI, originally w/ a special hospital bed, now other healthcare products.
He was a major power behind the push for school vouchers in Texas, and gave lots of money to religious “charter schools,”, especially in our Edgewood District (heavily Hispanic and poor).
Anything he’s stuck his pudgy filthy rich fingers into bears investigation.
And on the Bolthouse – another thing I’m glad to know.
ralphbon @ 59
707!
I remember Bob Woodward not so long ago floating the name Dick Cheney as a likely republican candidate for president. God knows his motivation, trying to seem more like an insider or whatever.
On Monica G, is all this a smokescreen to raise the stakes very VERY high? The pre-emptive lashing out at congress seems foolhardy, unless she has VERY valuable info, and wants to: 1) assure the White House she is unwilling to talk, and 2) get a blanket immunity agreement in advance of testimony.
I suspect she has the goods to blow the doors off a White House already running on flat tires, and she is selling her cooperation very dear indeed.
urban pirate @ 14
Friends of the White House, now that she’s no longer a government employee.
Even Monica’s Mom is involved…
Goodling’s mother, Cindy Fitt of Osceola Mills, Pa., said the resignation had been anticipated. “She told me I’m to say ‘no comment’ for everything,” the mother said in a brief telephone interview.
… of course, her mother has already spilled the beans that “the resignation had been anticipated”.
Link for Monica’s Mom:
http://www.kentucky.com/522/story/35358.html
Ghostman it is a crime to cause someone to provide false testimony to Congress. I think some of this has to do with her finding a way to sing about the fact that nothing she failed to tell McNulty was anything he didn’t already know. (Did my brain just generate a triple negative?)
Scottir @ 62
Jonathan Turley made the very astute point on Countdown yesterday that Goodling, as White House liaison at the DoJ, is the link between the DoJ officeholders (ordered to cooperate by His Shrubness) and the Executive Office of the President (protected by executive privilege, in the BoyKing’s view). By taking the Fifth — should she continue to invoke it and not be granted immunity — she has single-handedly driven Congress’s inquiry from DoJ to the White House.
yellowdogD @ 63
hold on a mminute!
the fact that she “resigned” doesn’t mean she no longer works there…for instance, rumsfeld still has a desk at the pentagon and abu torture tried to keep paying the first guy that resigned over this also (I forget his name)
flatford39 @ 24
You know, I was wondering that myself. I think her lawyer’s overbroad and unenforcable 5th ammendment letter worked and the Committee may have given her Ari Fleischer style immunity
Check the t-shirt Goodling is wearing in the picture-which was taken at a Regent U picnic.
It looks like a Ralph Lauren knock-off t-shirt. Her wearing it would be violating a number of regs and laws–as well as policy. Not a good example to set as a senior DOJ official and Regent U grad.
And then…ask Alberto The Towel Boy if DOJ has yet to launch a criminal investigation into Goodling’s “criminal” acts. If not, why not?
Ghostman
Well, Alberto’s a little busy right now. What I read is not only that he’s practicing his tesitmony, but also that he “contacting” Senators. I take that to mean that he’s feeding Senators questions he’d like to have asked. Watch to see how many times he begins his answers with “Senator, I appreciate the opportunity to answer this question”. I hope that the D’s are paying enough attention to ask Abu whether or not he’s communicated with R members of the Committee before his testimony.
I do agree with G-man that the Justice Dept should be investigating Goodling’s essentially confessed criminal activity.
67, ralphbon: It is? I honestly didn’t know that. I thought you only commit a crime if you, yourself lie to Congress. Hmmm.
Ghostman
lhp—
Help me understand, does resignation change someone’s capacity for being subpoena’d to appear in front of Congress? And if so, on what basis.
Any info you have on federal judges extra bonus points.
As we await the next chunk of BushCo to crash, here’s an ex post factor defense of Judy Miller that should bring a smile to the lips of all Firedoggies.
She was a “weak witness” you see. So Fitz was going to far by jailing her.
Actually I think he didn’t go far enough. Any excuse to make that unspeakable creature do hard time is well worth it.
Ghostman @ 73
I believe one of the lawyers here will confirm. I’ve read speculation that this is one of the potential crimes about which she’s pleading the Fifth.
egregious @ 73
I am thinking her 5th amendment has less standing if she is currently employed by the department of justice
abu torutre couldn’t fire her, that would be self incriminating in itself…I am pretty sure this “resignation” was directed by rove
tejanarusa at 61
And on the Bolthouse – another thing I’m glad to know.
yeah, i was shocked, really, i can’t count the number of people (democrats) who buy their products, i had no idea. want it to be known far and wide and see how long it takes for them to go belly-up…………the article at alison at 69 in the hide and seek thread is where i read it………i went into the ADF website which i posted at 52, i read their ‘watchdog’ cases, current things they watch, wow, all inconsequential piddly school rights things, sidewalk preacher rights, how they are against ‘homosexual’ things……..they put it into terms of erosion of traditional family………but they didn’t scare me as much as the bolthouse part………
lotta people buy their stuff and don’t even know that they are directly responsible for opposing freedoms we support……….very shocking. bolthouse farms is in every health foods store all over america, in our regular grocery stores, too……..and liberals are the ones that buy more organics than anyone, we are supporting their company and their agenda with millions of dollars!!!!!!!!…….i found my new rant. everybody’s gonna hear about this one………..
The scene: Beleaguered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at cramming session…sweating profusely.
Gonzales looks to murder board supervisor Ed Gillespenis and asks:
“How do you spell honest?”
-GSD
Brad Berenson– Kyle’s attorney was also Susan Ralston’s attorney during Abramoff…
what a interesting world DC is.
here’s some info on him, does anyone think there might be a conflict of interest?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind……_Berenson
Was John Ashcroft clever or dumb and lucky to have abandoned ship when he did?
I think he was clever. A wingnut tool and not a nice guy, but smart enough to git while the gittin was good.
Cutting through all the latest Cheney Iraq bull… Rove is still ‘the one’.
SteveNS @ 36
I love it!
McCaffrey on “Hardball” calling the Bush explanations for going into Iraq and it’s rationalizations for staying in Iraq as “an out of body experience”.
egregious @ 74
resignation would not change congress’s ability to subpoena her to testify.
Federal Judges are usually inveited to testify and I can’t recall any time that a judge refused such an invitation (though it would be approapriate to do so if the judge beleieved that he was going to be asked to comment on a specific case–they are not allowed to do that)
looseheadprop @ 70
Here’s a quote from Conyers’ spokesperson:
I may be reading too much into it, but it sure sounds to me like Conyers hasn’t given her anything yet.
Lewis Libby was found to have lied his face off by a jury of his peers. I don’t know quite what her attorney is trying to say here, but I doubt it’s what he thinks he is.
To the authoritarian cultists who are still with them, nothing done in loyal service to the Republican Party or a Republican administration can be wrong. If it is illegal and they are prosecuted for it then they are martyrs and heroes suffering at the hands of unjust laws, activist judges, partisan prosecuters and biased juries. The fewer cultists there are and the further from reality they become, the more ridiculous this stuff is going sound, but they have to keep pumping it out. It’s all they can do.
The real question is does it have a dual meaning here. Is her lawyer trying to hint to congress that she doesn’t want to be the next Republican hero and martyr, especially since she isn’t nearly as likely as Scooter to be pardoned. Most in Scooter’s position would have made a deal with the prosecutor. The exceptions are mobsters and high level Republican operatives, both of which are probably better off keeping their mouths shut, although for slightly different reasons. Monica may not want to take a fall for Gonzo, and she might not be important enough to be pardoned and cannonized later. If she thinks she’s being sacrificed and is on her own, then immunity might be just the ticket.
Remember when rent-a-manpooter Jeff Gannon talked about Democrats being “divorced from reality” at one of Bush’s pressers.
How, how deluded can these Republicans who are looking to a Cheney run for the Whitehouse be?
I can’t think of anything more delusional.
-GSD
Egregious@73 – There should be no change in witness status for Goodling due to her resignation. Also on an earlier thread, I was not inferring you had a disagreement with Raven I was observing that someone, I thought it might have been you but not sure, inferred that I had a disagreement with Raven, which I absolutely did not.
emptywheel @ 86
You see, I could read that just the opposite way, as to indicate that he gave her immunity to deprive her of the right to invoke the 5th.
emptywheel @ 86
I’ll tell you what;
unless she committed murder I don’t care what immunity she’s awarded if it gets resignation and indictments of abu torture
The impression here is that it is basically uncontrolled chaos in the WH. So… lookout. Iran.
angie @ 80
Oh Geez!! I saw him speak at a panel at UM. He was the designated Administration shill (Bill Leonard also spoke, came off like the Admin guy, too, but I see I was wrong there.)
Anyway, he’s a slimy slimy guy. I wonder if he also represented Ralston when she (supposedly) gave a deposition on Thursday to Waxman’s committee.
file this under “just plain nasty”:
hey maybe dick could run! in a few weeks mary cheney will be providing him with spare parts so he can live another 70 years.
looseheadprop @
70
Which Congressional committee is presently taking depositions from Department of Justice personnel? Might that committee wait until concluding those depositions before determining whether to grant her immunity?
urban pirate @ 5
He’s much more sensible now than before he did rehab.
http://www.washingtonspectator…..1adf_1.cfm
here is the link to the article that allison gave in the hide and seek thread…………page two is the blackwater and bolthouse quote.
jane and christy–any chance of doing a post about bolthouse organics in the future? a lot of people are buying their stuff and now that i know where the money is goin’ it makes me sick and makes me want to stand in the grocery and tell people……..one of my friends owns the healthfoods store here and i’ll sure be tellin’ her, but the kroger store is another matter………..
i’m not made of the stuff needed for a post about it yet……..but you guys are……….((((fdl))))
thanks for lettin’ me sound off……
AND GUESS WHAT?????????? our new democratic governor–former rep ted strickland donated over $300,000 of his left-over campaign funds to the ohio food bank!!!!!!! yeah, i like this man………a lot. and i’m not easily swayed. what a guy.
and i want to live long enough (i’m 48) to have all of the nasty stuff of the bush presidency come to light…….all of it, and i hope he lives long to suffer through each and every thing as it comes out in years to come…………to know that at any time, something else he did is being talked about and known, and that he can only be in his inner circle to get an approving glance, everywhere else, a fool and a liar.
Kind of OT – Do we have any word about whether Ralston showed up yesterday for he little chat with Henry?
stephen Parrish at 95
They could do it in an orderly fashion like that, or it could be a free for all like Iran Contra.
Who knows what they are thinking?
CNN’s going with the Cheney for President story. They’re playing it seriously. Some idiot says Bus h has been a “pretty good president,” so . . .
“experts” now saying that the other candidates are not catching fire. A “hunger” for something new. e.g., Fred Thompson, or Newt Gingrich. Please.
I think we should start a rumor that TRex is running.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 95
The House and Senate Judiciary Committees have been interviewing people, according to these rules:
That agreement covered:
* Paul McNulty
* William Moschella
* Michael Elston
* William Mercer
* David Margolis
* Michael Battle
And since McNulty blames Goodling for his mistakes during testimony, they’ll surely wait unti lhe has been interviewed (so far, it’s only known that Elston was interviewed, though they’ve been interviewing this week).
Helen @ 97
Good question. Here is Waxman’s letter to Ralston:
http://oversight.house.gov/doc…..-89529.pdf
You mean he is not?
Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to vote for a giant therapod with cute little koi sidekick?
I mean, really!
Do you know how much I dig Ned the Fighting Koi?
FWIW, I was in HS with a man who’s a partner at AkinGump and not all the partners there are happy about Monica/DoJ/Dowd.
aReader @ 102
I asked some of the Committee staffers, but some of them are on break this week (good for them) and I got no response.
South African style truth commission time confess now to everything or else face prosecution later on for anything you forget to tell. Also who is paying for her defense? The same folks who payed for Scooters defense I see a Rico case! That and we hit Monica with a civil suit, I’m sure there are plenty of Muslims who have been harmed by her acts against the U.S Consitituition we should try and strip her of her imunity to lawsuits for acts done as a government offical. Like Himmler who claimed to be a pencil pusher and not knowing I think she can be found guilty.
Scarecrow @
100
He isn’t?
marksb @ 56
Congress on break. Figures he’ll monopolise the news cycle.
Damn you looseheadprop 103.
looseheadprop @ 103
He’s been pretty vague; exploratory committee, sounding out contributors, visiting New Hamshire — that sorta thing. But mostly he just swings his tail a lot. I offered to write position papers and collect money.
things come undone at 106:
What a concept–RICO prosecutions against Loyal Bushie defense committees.
Not out of this DOJ, but can state AGs bring state level actions to vindicate federal rights?
I wonder about that too, emptywheel.
So who has the Trex for President bumper stickers?
I want one!
Hey Jane,
Astounding news in MI today!!
I bought make-up. Gotta do a TV interview for Lansing’s PBS station. So I finally bit the bullet.
trex for prexident
The letter EW linked to would not let me cut and paste to here but did anyone see on the second page that DOJ specifically carved out asking questions about JUDICIAL SELECTION????
Gee Whiz, why do you suppose the Senate Juciary Committee is being prohibited from asking DOJ personnel about JUDICIAL SELECTION.
Oh, Pat Leahy! Calling PAt Leahy!
so what are the chances of getting impeachment hearings against gonzales?
that would send a chill like you have never guessed through the administration, they would go out of their bird
emptywheel @ 114
Sure — dump the big news late on a Friday afternoon of a holiday weekend . . .
I think we should start a rumor that TRex is running
Well, I just assume everybody is running. If you don’t come up to me personally and tell me you’re not running, I just assume you are.
emptywheel @ 114
Ask them if their makeup person can do you. They put on much more than you ever would and it works for TV. If you are doing it from a remote location, find out if there’s a makeup person near your site that you can use. Don’t be shy. You’re the ‘talent.’
Jane Hamsher @ 109
Great minds think a like. Do you want to be TRex’s campaign manager or should I?
looseheadprop @ 116
Yup, I noted that in my post on it.
FWIW, I’m not sure if Conyers and Leahy negotiated back from these terms. They were also only supposed to have 2 staffers asking questions, and one account of Elston’s interview had many more people asking questions.
looseheadprop @ 121
Ooh, kin I have a job? I don’t have any actual skills, but once the campaign gets huge, like Hillary’s, you’ll need skill-less people like me to pad the payroll.
EW
if you do your own make up ask for a camera check right before you tape, so you can see if you did it right. make up person is $350.00 a day so they may not have the budget for one.
also take two or three outfits and camera check them.
Peterr @ 118
Really, it wasn’t planned that way. The Big Three and contractors like Mr. ew’s company get Good Friday and Easter Monday off. So we played all domestic like, went to the mall, bought a new washer-dryer, and, yes, makeup.
It took a religious holiday to get me to do it, you see.
squirrel hiller @ 115
Gore/Trex in 2008
waterproof, yet it breathes
New thread from scarecrow.
Cheney Gets the Half-Life of Lies
AAAck,you guy’s advice to EW about teh make up just brought a mental picture of Tammy Faye Baker.
Mind bleach, aisle 3 please.
Another tv tip for EW:
if you are seated, sit on the tail of your jacket so that it doesn’t ride up around the back of your neck.
also, don’t swing around in a swivel chair if they give you one.
squirrel hiller @ 129
Don’t forget to spit out that gum!
This is what Carpetbagger said the other day:
Jacqrat @
130
Hmm, The one day I did it was the first full day of liveblog. So I have the excuse thta I was so fried, I just plum forgot.
But I’ve got to be in Lansing for this for an 8AM show, and it’s a 1.5 hour drive, so I’m going to be pretty tired then, too.
“But I’ve got to be in Lansing for this for an 8AM show, and it’s a 1.5 hour drive, so I’m going to be pretty tired then, too.”
maybe take a make-up person and a portable defibrulator.
perris @
51
See Dick at the NRA convention!
See Dick visit Focus on the Family!
See Dick shoot Hillary in the face!
See Dick clutch his chest and fall down during the debates!
See Dick sneer! See him rant! See him rave!
Coming to Fox News in `08….
sometimes it’s so hard to come up from the basement and drag oneself to the next thread.
dakine01 @ 104
OOOh, do dish! Is it pro bono? No, he couldn’t ethically tell you. rats.
squirrel hiller @ 124
Hey, I could do that!
marcy-
all you need is a little mascara–i recommend maybelline full n soft-it washes off with water………and a little lip color, a little orangey would do well with your coloring……… revlon-cinnamon bronze 64/245
that’s all you need, according to my socialite mother………….the rest is natural………….
Ghostman @
60
sorry ghostman, WRONG, do it again
when your boss works for the Federal Government, it’s a violation of US Code, Title 18, Section 1001
under this section of Federal Law, lying to any Federal official or agency doing the government’s business is a felony crime
urban pirate @ 14
Good question!
Go Waxman, Leahy, Fitz, McNulty! Investigations, prosecutions.
It’s ACCOUNTABILITY TIME!
Oh boy here we go..attacks on the upcoming A*pac/Rosen/ June 4th trial are going to be fierce.
http://opinionjournal.com/edit…..=110009887
[Edited * by Mod]
I know I asked this in the last thread, but does anyone know how to find out the number of people in the Bush Administration? Since Miz Goodling in a proud Regent U. grad, and there are supposed to be 149 others in the Administration, how can I find out the total so as to get an idea of the percentage of Pat’s people in Administration positions?
I’m honestly not sure exactly what ‘Administration’ means, as opposed to regular government jobs.
And my dream GOP ticket? Cheney/Gingrich!
You bet.
Ms Rabinowitz’s WSJ claim “everybody does it” is not going to work. She may need to think about it a bit longer.
Turning over highly classified intelligence to a foreign government is serious business.
I think there should be an edit option on this blog as I make many errors.
emptywheel @
114
Good on you – unless I am imagining it i could have sworn you wore makeup and how lovely you looked at one of the unforgettable wrap-ups you and Jane did during the Libby trial – it was when egregious was at Plame House too and I didn’t have much doubt she cornered you and told you how truly beautiful you are with or without makeup – and who in their right mind would say no to our lovely Virginia power pup! Hey, I can’t imaging ever saying no to egriegious nor not follow her anywhere – anytime. ;~)
It may have been lovely Marcy – regardless the lipstick was most becoming.
me@146 – Yikes – I meant to end the comment with Jeralyn – but of course you all knew that. Lucy lives in this brat’s frazzled brain.
Orrin Hatch’s blatant smear on US Attorney Carol Lam is basically what Hatch used to save himself from total embarrassment on Tim Russert’s Meet the Press last week.
See http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..ction-mtp/
Hatch was going down hard. Russert letting Hatch get away with this just sends a message to other Republicans – when your lifeboat is sinking on this show throw the truth overboard.
Suggest everyone email Russert to ask for a correction and some accountability. It’s quite simple. And you might cut and paste this message or some version of it:
I saw MTP last week. Hatch’s smear on Lam is basically what he used to save himself. He was going down hard. Russert letting Hatch get away with this just sends a message to other Republicans – when your lifeboat is sinking on this show throw the truth overboard.
Suggest Russert issue correction about the lies on his show and hold his guests to some accountability to the truth when they are talking to him. Here are all the details about Hatch’s lies which need to be corrected: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/06/hatch-correction-mtp/
Link to email Meet the Press to ask for corrections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/
Conyers says she still has to testify
testify
Why do they keep using that picture of Tonya Harding on all of the Monica Goodling stories…?
But I thought Dick Cheney was already president?
I mean, with George W. Bush always on vacation, both physically and mentally, then hasn’t it been Dick Cheney who has really been running our democracy into the ground? Along with Karl Rove? And Alberto Gonzales? And a cast of thousands, you know, all the neo-con Republican nuts who believe “driving the message” requires lying through their teeth?
I figure Satan is going to have to add on a whole lot of additional rooms in Hell to handle the massive influx of neo-con Republicans who are going to end up there. I believe that this is where the phrase “liar, liar, pants on fire” originated. It might be time for all neo-con Republicans to invest in asbestos underpants. Just in case.