What are we coming to? Not only have we lost the right, but the younger set can’t even say the word.

Yikes.

Question: “Fredo how many seconds have you ever spent doing federal litigation or as a federal lawyer before or after wrecking DOJ”

Then the Florida Gators can drink wine. They don’t need no water.

McClellan calls Bush a liar. Them Republicans sho like to point fingers at each other like chicken hawks long after they’re out of the frey and it could be relevant.

–You ain’t never gonna be US Attorney again, but you are typical of what happens when a twit with no federal litigation experience turns DOJ into a freak show with the most incompetent federalist society members with the least experience in key positions at Main Justice and as US Attorneys.

Rachel has taken her place with all the other dead wood at OLP at Main Justice gulping up your tax dollars while furthering the cause and tradition of the New DOJ by promoting incarceration indefinitely in the hole with no access to attorneys and trumped up charges.

If Mukasey were competent and had guts and were sincere about purging the rot, he would have fired her period.

rwcole @ 43

shooting wasn’t popular in Shakespeare’s day:

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
(2 Henry VI, 4.2.59), Butcher to Jack Cade”

Getting rid of all the lawyers in Will’s time was a way to remove any mechanism for the rule of law to operate. If memory serves, the character in this play wants to create a state of anarchy, started by eliminating those well versed in laws & ways to apply them…

As for Gonzales’ speech, when I read this post my first thought was that AGAG’s coverup q&a sessions before Congressional committees are @ a thudding end. Citizens can now ask the questions & make comments in a public forum.

Still want to schedule more public speaking engagements, Fredo? Maybe not w/out screening the audience first like GWB & Cheney do.

Lawyers in Shakespeare’s England were among the few who could read; they saw to the administration of government and collection of revenue. At a time when there was no meaningful representative government, they constituted government’s institutional memory, and knew what the law permitted and how it functioned.

Getting rid of them was a recipe for usurping the crown – and keeping it. No coinkydink that the first people Musharraf arrested in today’s Pakistan were judges and lawyers.

“Ettel said UPD expected most of the protester’s actions because they received information about some of the plans prior to the event. However, UPD did not anticipate what Gutierrez and Hachey did, he said.”

I am delighted that the campus police did not resort to the taser. (They did know the speech was being broadcast.) No doubt, the protesting students will face harsher punishment than Abu has yet received for his more grievous wrongs.

HOLY CROW HOLY CROW HOLY CROW!

MCCLENAN;

“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

“There was one problem. It was not true.

“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”

Scott M. should sign an affidavit setting forth sufficient and credible facts to establish probable cause that this administration did “cook” the pre war Iraq intelligence. It is called a “high crime,” Mr Conyers!!!!! Remember D. Kucinich’s privileged motion a few weeks back???

OT–

Filed under ha! ha! ha!:

Filed at 12:06 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — The turkey at the White House really draws a crowd. When President Bush stepped into the Rose Garden on Tuesday, he found visitors in every coveted seat, reporters standing three rows deep and staff members craning for just one good glimpse. They came for one of those signature White House moments: Bush saving the life of a huge, white, gobbling bird.

Bush granted his yearly pardon to the national Thanksgiving turkey, named ”May,” and a backup turkey who went unseen, who goes by ”Flower.”

The names were chosen in an online poll that drew more than 28,000 votes. It was close; people also liked ”Wish and Bone,” and ”Wing and Prayer.”

”They’re certainly better than the names the vice president suggested, which was `lunch’ and `dinner,”’ Bush said.

Sweet Mother of God! How did my country get here???