Video.

Ever.

I am laughing my fucking ass off.

It would have been nice if the funny video had gotten it right — Republicans weren’t firing “attorneys general for political gain” they were firing US Attorneys. Is this stuff really so complicated?

Sometimes it’s simple. Not always.

waynemadsenreport.com is suggesting the firings were partly a coverup for the first USA firing (which isn’t even included in the list we usually see). Why coverup that one? WMR says it’s because he was investigating the DC Madam case and knew all the Repubs on her list. I think it was also there in Maryland where the assistant USA was brutally murdered.

So, “simple”? Perhaps. But, it needs investigation for us to be more certain.

Heffelfinger appeared on the list in January 2006, and a month later he voluntarily resigned. When he heard of Ms. Goodling’s testimony he had this to say:

I did spent a lot of time on it… That’s what I was instructed to do [by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft].

If it’s true that people within the Department of Justice were critical of the amount of time I was spending on Indian issues, I’m outraged. … Are they telling me I spent too much time trying to improve public safety for Native Americans, who are victims of violent crime at a rate 2 times the national population? If they are, then shame on them.
Who could object to the fact that a U.S. Attorney from Minnesota was devoting his time to improving the lot of American Indians? Well, that would be whoever is victimizing a lot of American Indians.

Does the name Jack Abramoff ring a bell?

Admittedly, none of Jack Abramoff’s Indian client/victims were up in Minnesota. But after his guilty plea, also in January of 2006, the investigation into his nefarious activities widened. Disrupting the subcommittee of U.S. attorneys that dealt with American Indian issues at that crucial time probably didn’t help the investigation.

Or it could just be a coincidence.

Please visit the Schapira blog, “What we know so far …”

“… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”

::laughing outloud::

thank you, christy. that’s perfect.

Now we know how much was at stake, and how much was lost, when Hoyer won the battle over Murtha for Majority Leader. The failure of the rank and file Democrats to support Murtha shows that they were more interested in pork and earmarks politics than reigning in Bush on the war.

So why are we all so shocked now?

I’m not. As much loved as Maxine Waters is by many FDL’ers, she backed Hoyer. That just goes to how opaque the power game is on the inside.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Maxine, too. But politics is politics. She had her reasons, as did others.