But I’m also a Columbia Law grad, and to think that puts me in the same category as Libby and Armando, well, that’s another thing altogether.

I knew at the time — the library books stolen at exam time, the super-sharp elbows, the selfish disdain for anything but the most trade school attitude toward law school — that I had picked the wrong place to learn the law. Bruce Ackerman fled the Columbia to return to Yale as soon as Yale offered his wife a tenure track job.

You live with your mistakes but you don’t have to like them.

allan_in_upstate @
196

Well, a little poking around these internets uncovered the amusing fact that students at Regent Maddrassh University don’t want Mitt Romney to speak on campus
because of his Mormonism.

oh great. sectarian warfare

So long as it remains verbal…

I’d love to see the GOP “religious” coalition
self-destruct over religous differences.

This is politics, not religion.

The GOP use religious people to hide the Gooper megacorp welfare program.

Glad to see the religious “coalition” blow up in Rove’s porcine face.

it has to be investigate first, gather solid evidence, and hog tie them with an-sorry- unimpeachable case. THEN try their sorry asses, remove them from office and send them to the Hague. Whatever else we do we MUST NOT let them wriggle out of a less than airtight case!

I agree.

1) get all the facts out into the open before they can shred them.
2) impeach.
3) try them for their various crimes in US court.
4) the Hague.

nolo @ 202

very late rising, here. . .

imo, libby will almost certainly be
permanently disbarred — once
the appeals process runs its
course. he has been convicted of
multiple crimes — felonies, all — in-
volving “moral turpitude”. . .

and those are magic words to
bar authorities. perjury in-
volves moral turpitude. so it
is extremely likely he will
never practice law in d.c.
again — unless he wins a 100%
vacating reversal at the appellate
level. the chances of that occuring
are slim to none, given the solid
record judge walton laid down, at
trial, for every ruling he made
from the bench. . .

Never rule it out. Remember Laurence Silberman
is still lurking at Appeals. He did it in
Iran-Contra, I’m sure he’d be happy to do
it again, if he can manage.

oooh! — point-well-taken.

i will try to have faith,
though, that in the main,
the guilty stay convicted. . .

and this is one guilty fish, man. . .

p e a c e

Easy question! This is what “arrogance” looks like!

1,479 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..

Citizen Raven and the Firepup Patriots:

Brother Raven, you are COOKIN’ taday, Grasshopper…I used ta pride myself on my 11 year odyssey thru undergrad school includin’ a three year study abroad in the military, but you, my friend, have me covered. But ya know, there are a lot of us from the “Nam Generation” who ended up takin’ the long way back…many never made it offa the street though.

So I reiterate what I have learned by livin’ through the most corrupt period in American history (from the myth of the “Greatest Generation”, to McCarthy, to the Kennedy-Malcolm-King assassinations, to Watergate, to Iran-Contra and now a successful coup) and here it is: There is no problem in our society and no corruption in the body politic that can not be solved or cured by more democracy. Democracy is the most revolutionary idea in the history of mankind and we’re about ta lose it if we don’t rise up and take care of business.

KEEP THE FAITH TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER AND DON’T BE AFRAID TO TAKE WHAT IS OURS (LEGALLY, OF COURSE)!!

Amen to that!

Well, a little poking around these internets uncovered the amusing fact that students at Regent Maddrassh University don’t want Mitt Romney to speak on campus
because of his Mormonism.

oh great. sectarian warfare

Peterr @ 195

The WaPo had a story last October about the size of government growing under the alleged “party of small government.” In the chart attached to the story, it shows this for 2005:

civil servants: 1.87 million
military: 1.44 million
postal workers: 767 thousand
grant-related workers: 2.89 million
contractors: 7.63 million

Given these numbers, 150 alums from one school sounds to me like very small potatoes. (Of course, if they are in the right positions, they could be highly influential.)
———————————–
That’s exactly it. We’re talking about political appointees, not regular GS hires here for the most part.

Am I mistaken in there being a difference between ‘government employees’ and people working ‘in the Bush Administration’?

very late rising, here. . .

imo, libby will almost certainly be
permanently disbarred — once
the appeals process runs its
course. he has been convicted of
multiple crimes — felonies, all — in-
volving “moral turpitude”. . .

and those are magic words to
bar authorities. perjury in-
volves moral turpitude. so it
is extremely likely he will
never practice law in d.c.
again — unless he wins a 100%
vacating reversal at the appellate
level. the chances of that occuring
are slim to none, given the solid
record judge walton laid down, at
trial, for every ruling he made
from the bench. . .

Never rule it out. Remember Laurence Silberman is still lurking at Appeals. He did it in Iran-Contra, I’m sure he’d be happy to do it again, if he can manage.