Comments on: Instant Karma? http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:53:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Scott http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673809 Scott Sun, 06 May 2007 12:38:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673809 <p>Anyone like this idea. Bear with me: Bush knew that Harriet had broken numerous federal laws with the laywer firings and probably other obstructions of justcie as well. Rather than firing her for “no apparent good reason” but to distance himself from these crimes, he nominated her for SCJ, knowing full well that she would be laughed out of the running, which she was, giving her a great reason for resignation and moving on. It gives Bush an out and allows him to continue to rid himself of bad blood. Anyone? Anyone?</p> Anyone like this idea. Bear with me: Bush knew that Harriet had broken numerous federal laws with the laywer firings and probably other obstructions of justcie as well. Rather than firing her for “no apparent good reason” but to distance himself from these crimes, he nominated her for SCJ, knowing full well that she would be laughed out of the running, which she was, giving her a great reason for resignation and moving on. It gives Bush an out and allows him to continue to rid himself of bad blood. Anyone? Anyone?

]]> By: Liam http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673467 Liam Sun, 06 May 2007 04:23:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673467 <p>Mary,Mary, quite contrary and I’m so glad you are! Good on you. I always love to read your comments.<br /> Are we to believe that Sampson came into Margolis’s office, READ THE EMAILS TO HIM, dropped this bombshell. Samson never explains why and Margolis never asked him to explain.It sounds like Margolis thought Samson was wired for sound.Is this a supreme lack of curiosity on Margolis’s part or is there something not quite right?.</p> Mary,Mary, quite contrary and I’m so glad you are! Good on you. I always love to read your comments.
Are we to believe that Sampson came into Margolis’s office, READ THE EMAILS TO HIM, dropped this bombshell. Samson never explains why and Margolis never asked him to explain.It sounds like Margolis thought Samson was wired for sound.Is this a supreme lack of curiosity on Margolis’s part or is there something not quite right?.

]]> By: clamberite http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673199 clamberite Sun, 06 May 2007 01:53:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673199 <p>Answering my own question Title 28 541 link here:<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/28/usc_sec_28_00000541----000-.html">US code</a></p> <p>#3 Each US attorney is subject to removal by the President.</p> Answering my own question Title 28 541 link here:US code

#3 Each US attorney is subject to removal by the President.

]]> By: clamberite http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673191 clamberite Sun, 06 May 2007 01:48:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-673191 <p>How many times have we heard about the USA’s that they “serve at the pleasure of the president”? What does that mean? Does it mean that only the president can fire them? I thought I read here or somewhere that is the case. If so, how can Gonzo fire them? It would have to be a White House operation to be legal, if in fact that is the case so what gives? Maybe somebody who posts here knows for sure.</p> How many times have we heard about the USA’s that they “serve at the pleasure of the president”? What does that mean? Does it mean that only the president can fire them? I thought I read here or somewhere that is the case. If so, how can Gonzo fire them? It would have to be a White House operation to be legal, if in fact that is the case so what gives? Maybe somebody who posts here knows for sure.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672916 earlofhuntingdon Sat, 05 May 2007 23:15:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672916 <p>That Conservatives today are trying to revivify Social Darwinism is a parody. It is like screwing electrodes into the neck of a cobbled-together corpse and telling Eyegore to pray for lightning. It is a sure sign that they are are morally bankrupt.</p> <p>“Social Darwinism” is not social, and it is not about Darwin’s explanation for the evolution of species by the natural selection of better adapted individuals. Natural selection - quick death or no procreation for the many, longer life and good sex for the few - is not about progress, just better temporary local adaptation. </p> <p>“We” are here because we’ve collectively won a succession of evolutionary lotteries, like Rumpole winning his four-horse accumulator. Accepting that doesn’t require moral choices; but deciding how we get along amongst ourselves as thinking beings does. </p> <p>Social Darwinism attempts to justify a social circumstance — great wealth for the few, brutal conditions for the many (eg, workers in microwave popcorn factories) — as inevitable and morally good. It is an excuse for unrestrained selfishness, used by the haves, who hope to have more, by denying the many a vote, or better laws, education, working conditions or jobs. </p> <p>That’s not “natural”, simply a selfish choice that need not, ought not be made.</p> That Conservatives today are trying to revivify Social Darwinism is a parody. It is like screwing electrodes into the neck of a cobbled-together corpse and telling Eyegore to pray for lightning. It is a sure sign that they are are morally bankrupt.

“Social Darwinism” is not social, and it is not about Darwin’s explanation for the evolution of species by the natural selection of better adapted individuals. Natural selection – quick death or no procreation for the many, longer life and good sex for the few – is not about progress, just better temporary local adaptation.

“We” are here because we’ve collectively won a succession of evolutionary lotteries, like Rumpole winning his four-horse accumulator. Accepting that doesn’t require moral choices; but deciding how we get along amongst ourselves as thinking beings does.

Social Darwinism attempts to justify a social circumstance — great wealth for the few, brutal conditions for the many (eg, workers in microwave popcorn factories) — as inevitable and morally good. It is an excuse for unrestrained selfishness, used by the haves, who hope to have more, by denying the many a vote, or better laws, education, working conditions or jobs.

That’s not “natural”, simply a selfish choice that need not, ought not be made.

]]> By: The Oracle http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672912 The Oracle Sat, 05 May 2007 23:14:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672912 <p>The entire Bush administration is a Hatch Act violation.</p> <p>But then, the very inception of the Bush administration involved a Hatch Act violation, when five Supreme Court justices decided to intercede in the Florida recount in 2000 and overruled the Florida Supreme Court decision to let the recount continue.</p> <p>Based on the U.S. Constitution’s take on states having control over their electoral process, the Florida Supreme Court should have been the court of last resort. But it wasn’t. Five “partisan” Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court butted in to give the election to Bush, for purely “partisan” reasons.</p> <p>The blood of all the 9/11 victims, the blood of all the Hurricane Katrina victims and the blood of all our soldiers killed over in Iraq along with all the Iraqs that have died IS on the hands of these five corrupt Supreme Court Justices…besides being on the hands of all the Hatch Act-violating fools in the Bush administration.</p> <p>And now we learn that in addition to the five “blood-stained hands” Justices gaming the 2000 election for partisan purposes, Karl Rove and the Republican “death machine” have been gaming every election since, practicing voter fraud time and time again.</p> <p>Thank God that Democrats won in November 2006. Now it is possible to hold all these corrupt Republicans accountable.</p> <p>Hmmm, I wonder how Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Senate committee that he chairs is doing in holding the Bush administration accountable? Oh, right, being a DINO, Lieberman is just as corrupt as those Republicans he’s NOT investigating.</p> The entire Bush administration is a Hatch Act violation.

But then, the very inception of the Bush administration involved a Hatch Act violation, when five Supreme Court justices decided to intercede in the Florida recount in 2000 and overruled the Florida Supreme Court decision to let the recount continue.

Based on the U.S. Constitution’s take on states having control over their electoral process, the Florida Supreme Court should have been the court of last resort. But it wasn’t. Five “partisan” Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court butted in to give the election to Bush, for purely “partisan” reasons.

The blood of all the 9/11 victims, the blood of all the Hurricane Katrina victims and the blood of all our soldiers killed over in Iraq along with all the Iraqs that have died IS on the hands of these five corrupt Supreme Court Justices…besides being on the hands of all the Hatch Act-violating fools in the Bush administration.

And now we learn that in addition to the five “blood-stained hands” Justices gaming the 2000 election for partisan purposes, Karl Rove and the Republican “death machine” have been gaming every election since, practicing voter fraud time and time again.

Thank God that Democrats won in November 2006. Now it is possible to hold all these corrupt Republicans accountable.

Hmmm, I wonder how Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Senate committee that he chairs is doing in holding the Bush administration accountable? Oh, right, being a DINO, Lieberman is just as corrupt as those Republicans he’s NOT investigating.

]]> By: OK http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672786 OK Sat, 05 May 2007 22:06:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672786 <p>Karl Rove…</p> <p>“…shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20<br /> years, or both.”</p> <p>I think both is called for, given the circumstances.</p> Karl Rove…

“…shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20
years, or both.”

I think both is called for, given the circumstances.

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672765 tejanarusa Sat, 05 May 2007 21:57:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672765 <p><a href="#comment-672547"><em>Shez @ 136</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>wow Stephen, thanks for that. To read it makes so many memories and names come flooding back from that time. </p> <p>Teddy, there is at least one more of Monica at their picnic on this page:<br /> <a href="http://www.regent.edu/alumni/chapters/washington_dc/DCPicnicPhotos.htm">Regent DCPicnicPhotos</a></p></blockquote> <p>Wow, there are more pictures on that page than all the others of MG I’ve seen before.</p> <p>But doesn’t it make you want to google all the other LAW alums, to see if they’re among the 150 Regents grads in government?</p> Shez @ 136

wow Stephen, thanks for that. To read it makes so many memories and names come flooding back from that time.

Teddy, there is at least one more of Monica at their picnic on this page:
Regent DCPicnicPhotos

Wow, there are more pictures on that page than all the others of MG I’ve seen before.

But doesn’t it make you want to google all the other LAW alums, to see if they’re among the 150 Regents grads in government?

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672708 tejanarusa Sat, 05 May 2007 21:23:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672708 <p>Mary 4 at 129<br /> You go girl! (I know, trite, dated, but the way I feel reading that post.)<br /> I’ve missed your cogent well-reasoned, well-informed, not to say, passionate posts. (maybe I just read when you’re not posting).<br /> I agree - Comey looks pretty good compared to the rest of the crew, and I like his testimony last week, but he surely does not have clean hands. thanks.</p> Mary 4 at 129
You go girl! (I know, trite, dated, but the way I feel reading that post.)
I’ve missed your cogent well-reasoned, well-informed, not to say, passionate posts. (maybe I just read when you’re not posting).
I agree – Comey looks pretty good compared to the rest of the crew, and I like his testimony last week, but he surely does not have clean hands. thanks.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672706 earlofhuntingdon Sat, 05 May 2007 21:21:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/05/instant-karma/#comment-672706 <p>Monica Geldling might credibly claim ignorance, though not innocence. Mr. Sampson, however, COS to the head of his department, Chicago U. law grad. and colleague of Liz Cheney, can claim neither. He has a file, he had meetings about its contents after having suddenly discovered that he probably should have done that rather sooner. </p> <p>On discovering Mr. Sampson’s newly-found binder, like a lost book discovered on cleaning the temple, did not McNulty or Alberto or Moschella or Sampson himself have a duty to inform Congress that additional records pertinent to their investigations had been discovered and would promptly be delivered to them? </p> <p>Curioser and curioser. Long past time for a criminal investigation. Perjury and obstruction charges for key aides should be among the least of the WH’s worries.</p> Monica Geldling might credibly claim ignorance, though not innocence. Mr. Sampson, however, COS to the head of his department, Chicago U. law grad. and colleague of Liz Cheney, can claim neither. He has a file, he had meetings about its contents after having suddenly discovered that he probably should have done that rather sooner.

On discovering Mr. Sampson’s newly-found binder, like a lost book discovered on cleaning the temple, did not McNulty or Alberto or Moschella or Sampson himself have a duty to inform Congress that additional records pertinent to their investigations had been discovered and would promptly be delivered to them?

Curioser and curioser. Long past time for a criminal investigation. Perjury and obstruction charges for key aides should be among the least of the WH’s worries.

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