Renee in Ohio @ 194

Little Boots–Bush? I hadn’t heard that one before. Does it have a history?

It’s the literal meaning of the Roman Emperor Caligula’s name.

Bush – worst dictator since Caligula!

3. The one big thing out there that links Gonzo and Rove is Sealed v Sealed. Can anyone with PACER access confirm that that case is still pending?

You’re talking Fitz here, right?

The next step should be an indictment of the Plame 4: Libby, Rove, Fleischman and Armitage, for disclosing the classified job title and work of Valerie Plame.

This would build the public case for impeaching V.P. Dick Cheney.

moeman @ 142

Obama Statement on the Resignation of Alberto Gonzales
Washington DC | August 27, 2007 …

strong move, obama — get out in front and throw down …

I agree with his words. I just wonder why Obama has to take 100 words to say the same thing as Edwards can in 3 or 4 words. Has Obama taken speaking lessons from John Kerry?

John Edwards: “Better late than never.”

“A talented and honorable person is impeded in doing good work and his good name is dragged through the mud for political reasons.” Yuck.

We didn’t smear him for political purposes the way Republicans treated the Clintons.

No, we disclosed to the public all the criminal behavior we could find and it was Gonzales who smeared himself with muck by lying and saying “I don’t recall” repeatedly.

That we gain politically is hiz own damn fault.

Wasn’t that what Monica was doing?

Mod note: New around here?

OldCoastie @ 87

“his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons” – the shrub…

yikes!

Listen to the tape. Big pause before saying “mud” – choking on it?

Look at the video: he was thinking ’shit’, and was about to say it.

In case you return here, I looked up the Chicago opening and, no, he won’t be going for it, since it’s e.h. also. Can do in a pinch, but prefers not.

Oh DO try for it. The only way you know you won’t get it if you don’t try, ahem. Don’t make me come in there!

- just kidding. No, I’m not yer hystereotypical stagemommydearest, last time i looked. ;->

Fox news had it right, Paul Clement to be acting AG. He sounds like some one who wouldn’t be confirmed.

When tree limbs fall they are usually picked up put in a pile to be burned, ground up, or saved for a future use.
Maybe the fallen limbs have another project to do? What will he do when he leaves??

As Acting AG he doesn’t have to be confirmed. But given the fact that he would have to face “awkward” questions in hearings he likely wouldn’t be nominated.

But that’s generally a problem for any of Bush’s “preferred” prospects. Either they have prior baggage, or served in a position that might reveal too much dirt during questioning. The situation is not at all desirable for Bush…since stone-walling to the Judiciary Committee isn’t likely to win the confirmation.

Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Patriots:

This is a great day for progressives and confirmation hearings provide an open window for democracy to come rushing into everyliveingroom in the country. This was EPU’d last thread so I’ll give ya the short version:

There has been a titanic battle goin on in the oligarchy between Bush-oil-western fascists and the establishment pro-Clinton Yankee bankin’ factions. The axis of evil in the Yankee faction is the Murdock-Rockefeller institutions.

The Gonzales resignation signals a victory for the Yankees and the orders have gone out to the foot soldiers to cut the loses, purge the Bush faction from the Republican front and throw in behind Mrs. Clinton to provide smooth transition in 2008.

There will NOT be a Comey nomination unless the Democratic leadership has been told to shut the fuck up with continued investigations as a quid pro quo. Senator L***derman will stay in the Senate and Mrs. Clinton will rehabilitate him in the Democratic leadership if she is elected.

If Mrs. Clinton is elected President Steny Hoyer will be the next Speaker of the House, Rahm Emmanuel will be floor leader and Joe L**derman will take Durbin’s spot in the Senate leadership.

The fix is in folks, go back and look at the private meetings in the Whitehouse over the last four weeks between the fascists and senate Democratic leaders.

We ken still derail this fascist effort to resume respectability but it requires some balls in the Democratic Party and direct action from us folks out here in the trenches.

KEEP THE FAITH AND REMEBER YOU DON’T NEGOTIATE WITH FASCISTS!!!