How was Bush to remember the names of the thousands who bribed him?

22 days . . . tick, tick, tick . . . . . . . .

You’d think a guy with a dead muskrat on his head would have stuck in his mind, though.

I have to say, I kind of almost prefer the idea that this whole thing is his staff freelancing to get in solid with some big Republican donors. After all, what’s the boss going to do? Notice?

slow ticks, but finite. Finite is good.

And between now and then we get to watch an increasingly desperate Bill Kristol try to hold back the tide with yo liberal mamma jokes. All win.

As someone who is relatively proud of both my bald head AND the lines on my face, I wonder just who it is guys like this one think they are fooling (other than themselves)?

yeah- but GW Clusterfuck knew him only as “Davy Crockett”- the nickname he gave him.

Great lookin gooper ain’t he?

Mr. Toussie should have spent some of that $25,000 on a new “rug” …. that one is terrible. I guess it’s okay if…….

That thing’s growin on it’s own- must have an irrigation system.

It is all a sham designed by Karl Rove to enable TradMed to tell the “violated procedures” Marc Rich pardon story once again, magically just before the Eric Holder confirmation hearings. The pardon, the unpardon — all theatre for consumption by the reich-wing media.

Dude will get his pardon in the MLK weekend rush; in the meantime, the segue from Toussie’s pardon (that didn’t follow the procedures, go to the pardon attorney, wait the ‘required’ five years, or get the approval of the prosecutor) to the Rich pardon (that didn’t follow the procedures, go to the pardon attorney, wait the ‘required’ five years, or get the approval of the prosecutor) is very, very easy.

Karl has laid down the crumbs, and TradMed follows obediently.

it’s a wonder they weren’t able to scrub that photo. well, i guess, karl is gone. what’s the point now? all those with a place to go are far away. worst ever is too good for the shrub.

I can’t imagine. It can’t be what his hair actually looked like back in the day, and why would you choose that as a new look?

Bald is hot, JMO. Half the guys in my office shaved their heads as soon as their hairlines started to recede.

btw, it’s a nice lookin rug ain’t it?

I dunno – I really don’t think they want the kind of attention given to Berenson and his evolving attitude towards defrauding HUD that they’d get if they try to do this during the transition, when they should be looking for islamic influences in Obama’s inaugural tie.

So why should the White House or Republican National Committee not want to advertise that Singer was the host of such a fabulous luncheon — 70 folks at $20,000 a pop?

Maybe it’s his media nickname, “vulture capitalist,” coined because his firm buys up debt held by Third World countries at a discount, then sues them to force repayment in full, sometimes for even more than the original amount.

This reeks worse than Ann Coulter’s black dress. How on Sarah Palin’s green earth can this Singer guy collect a dime of furrin monies without additional coersion from Bushco? They weren’t paying before. Why would they pay now?

you got the attention of half the male population with the “bald is hot” comment. bad girl. :)

After this brief Obama interlude, won’t it be nice to have a Bush back in office when Jeb gets (s)elected so that this kind of stuff can resume? It’s the Republic way!

Looks Like Muskrat Love.

Mr. Touppie.

A History Of The Bush Administration – A Legacy of Shame
Chapter 1 – War Criminal
Chapter 2 – Scuttling the Economy
Chapter 3 – The Destruction of Government Agencies
Chapter 4 – Katrina incompetence
Chapter 5 – Gang of Thieves (example #182,647 Isaac Toussie pardon)

It’s almost as bad as Sam Donaldson’s…..and that’s saying a lot. “g”

Nevermind the guy’s rug – what’s with W’s suit? looks terrible. If I spent what he does on suits, I’d be pissed if mine looked so… ill-fitted and ordinary.

Bush the Lesser is leaving office with a big constitutional mess, just like how he came into office. Courts (and probably TV gasbags) will be hashing and rehashing whether or not the Idiot Son can have take-backs on pardons. He can’t even exercise absolute sovereign power properly.

Got the attention of my hairy husband too ;)

I’m guessing he’s the sort of person who doesn’t like to be told his suits have to be let out when he’s shared a few too many pisco sours

This is the only valid reason that anyone has come up with yet. The whole thing is theatre. There is no valid reason for Bushco to find a conscience.

They highjacked the treasury to the tune of $700 billion with no viable story. They got busted on the stories they invented. Now Paulson is the Business Person Of The Year.

As a last resort, Cheney can be trotted out for a Go Fuck Yourself.

I love threads that are filled with the fun and frolic of shallow criticism. Heehee.

Rove is such a vile man.
I can’t wait until he gets his.

he can take a joke.

Well, it may look like a good idea from where they’re sitting, but I have to think that Joe Sixpack is going to see this as a distraction when they try to move to all Marc Rich, all the time.

Not that I’m a great Holder fan, but it’s going to be a little difficult for them to focus on this as a purely Democratic problem, what with the pardon being for screwing poor people on bad mortgages and all.

hey, you callin ME shallow?

Speaking of “Ann Coulter’s black dress”, has she had her jaw unwired yet? She has been noticeably silent, both before and after her broken jaw accident. As a matter of fact, she has been unusually silent through out the election. What gives?

mebe she has had an epiphany.

Oh, I’m sure you’re deep compared to me. I’m as (unapologetically) catty as they come.

She’s coming back soon, and on NBC’s Today Show, no less.

Media Matters has an “Action Alert” right here.

Enough is enough. Even NBC-affiliated hosts and anchors have expressed disgust over some of Ann Coulter’s more offensive rhetoric. It is time to hold NBC accountable. In light of both her history and the numerous condemnations of her by NBC staff, the network should reconsider reportedly providing Coulter with a platform from which to make these comments. Let NBC know what you think.

If anyone wished to question the Toussie Pardon he most assuredly deserves, here’s all that needed to be said:

These monies were donated in the patriotic spirit of terrist fightin’ Bush Pioneers. Toussie is an American Patriot Act and a proud supporter of the American Dream – The Ownership Society. Every Freedom-Loving American should have the right to a home he can call his own – even if but for a brief moment. That’s the Toussie way and it’s the American way. If you don’t like it you can go fuck yourselves. /s

The MSM would eat it up and ask for seconds.

Mockery has its place. Toussie got pardoned for defrauding HUD (something his own attorney spent years in a $21 million dollar investigation of Cisneros for maybe doing), contributed to the mortgage crisis, and scammed Suffolk County out of $2.5 million dollars (which he wasn’t required to repay – he paid a five figure fine), knocking their public land acquisition program off line for the rest of the boom.

Now the President of the United States, in recognition of his dad’s relationship with, among others, one of the people who brought down the US financial system and a guy who guts third world economies, pardoned him so he could get his real estate license back.

It’s like something out of a Christopher Buckley book. You have to laugh. Crying hurts too much.

Can’t imagine Coulter having a “come to Jeebus” moment. Lightening would strike for sure.

She was shut out of CPAC this year (the young republicans had to get her in). I think our lady of the renovated face is one of the people they’ve decided to toss over the side in an effort to renovate their image (and the fact that her full van Susteren sorta failed doesn’t help much, probably).

let the insults roll. :)

I’m with ya–and I really do love the mockery. No one can dish it like pups around the lake.

More:

Despite Ann Coulter’s long and well-documented history of controversial statements, NBC has once again reportedly invited her to promote her latest book on its airwaves. On Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, during a segment in which she called President-elect Barack Obama an “atheist” and asked if “we could get all of his aliases before he’s sworn in on the Quran,” Coulter announced that she is scheduled to appear on the January 6, 2009, broadcast of NBC’s Today. Enough is enough. Even NBC-affiliated hosts and anchors have expressed disgust over some of Ann Coulter’s more offensive rhetoric. It is time to hold NBC accountable.

ya know, lots of people have had a time in their life. remember coulson? it took prison.

Maybe Toussie wore his rug because he didn’t want Bushie rubbing his bald haid. Bushie loves him some bald-headed men….

Coulter did a Palin fluffer quite recently:

http://www.editorandpublisher……1003924740

i like sarah. she’ll be fun. what i would love ta see is the far right ta be energized once again. we need ta see it ta make an informed opinion, ya know.

Oh, she did, though, have a come to jesus moment. She wrote a column during the primaries about what a bad christian Huckabee is for allowing evolution to be taught in the Arkansas schools, which Ann would never do.

I think evangelical darling á la Schlafly is pretty much her only career path at this point (and you notice that she has started covering her knees in public, which is a great mercy for which I am truly thankful).

The Toussie Twofer: Buy a Toussie-built home. Sure, it’ll fall apart on you, but the mortgage trickery will have you on the street before it happens. Hey, you’ll be supporting Republicans! It’s a three way!

I guess they heard how much CBS wanted her for the Dan Rather thing.

Well, GE can’t be too happy about the faint prospect that defense industries are going to suffer.

ya think she has a place as the grand dame? what would she live on?

and marketed specifically to minorities and civil servant, too.

Probably what she lives on now. Cigarettes and chardonnay.

What no kool aid?

carbs, you know.

Well, Sweet Jane was

Livin on reds, vitamin c, and cocaine

So I’d guess Vile Ann can live on cigarettes and chardonnay.

I wonder if the Doomsday Clock will get turned back when Bush leaves?
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/…..70117.html

The US taxpayers are on the hook for six months of protection for Cheney; protection that can be extended by DHS. It is not surprising that he feels safe to talk about his involvement in torture, etc. This protection will go with him if he wants to travel outside the US? Too bad he wasn’t told to pay for his own protection. His last laugh at taxpayers, I guess.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/8476

long strange trip much?

Well, I did survive the ’60s and ’70s. Somehow.

He probably has an underground tunnel from his new home to the adjacent CIA headquarters

Is it really by the CIA?

Well, that was shallow and bitchy and fun. Thanks, folks (feels weird to be awake when the next post goes up…)

Lookie, Lookie…Two draft dodgers gettin’ chummy!

Robert Toussie was convicted of dodging the draft back in the midst of the Vietnam War…and fought his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court with his wealth.

The Supremes finally decided in his favor in 1970…but here’s what it said:

“There is no doubt that the jury found that Toussie willfully failed to register and thereby subject himself to the same possibility of military service that faces other young men who fully comply with their legal obligations. There is some cause to feel that dismissal of the indictment in such a case is an injustice in a society based on full and equal application of the laws. But while Congress has said that failure to register is a crime, it has also made prosecution subject to the statute of limitations. “Every statute of limitations, of course, may permit a rogue to escape,” Pendergast v. United States.”

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/us/397/112.html