fitz!

I’m with Teddy. Fitz!

fitz!

Wow! So, Chuck and Diane, how do you now feel about your homeboy, Mukasey?

Fantastic piece. Fantastic.
Digg HERE!

schumer is complaining? the guy who helped give us mukasey?

schumer can bite me

What does President-elect Obama intend to do about the Department of Justice?

I highly recommend a call to Roto Rooter, then flush repeatedly.

dugg – its like they read us newton – their conversation tonight was like reading an fdl thread.

Turley.
Got’yer AG right there.
Fuck.

Fitz indeed!

Dugg

Chuck and Dianne probably wish Bush would give Mukasey a pre-emptive pardon, that’s how I think they feel.

sorry wigwam, this is the comment I meant to make in reply to your 4

I hope there is still time for us to propose a better AG. I am a glass half full kind of gal.

Chuck & Di are so shameless about their obvious and catastrophic failure that they have no idea. I’m convinced that they feel nothing about downstream effects.

63 DOJ employees with the Schlotzman-Rove taint. Can’t be fired? C’mon.

Chiquita Banana Bandits Bought Best Barrister Bar None

I remember Sen. Whitehouse asking OIG Fine about what to do with them. He (Fine) said that any punitive action would be unfair, and that normal civil service monitoring would be sufficient.

Whitehouse wanted them reinterviewed and culled.

it is important to look forward, not back.

I highly recommend a call to Roto Rooter, then flush repeatedly.

Those assholes that Schlozman hired should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. But that would be illegal.

So, instead, they should be given the job of prosecuting Republican criminals, and, if they prove less than competent at doing so, they should be fired for cause.

Stake out the photo copy machines. These are ass-print pranksters.

I keep hearing that. Its a recurring theme. Like Groundhog Day.

too many Pac contributions cocktail weenies can do that to a senator…

first thing we oughta do is outlaw cocktail weenies

Rationale: better than no AG at all
Downstream: Gonzales, but with grey matter

A little birdie tells me there will be more revelations in the next few days. Stay tuned.

If only the prosecutors and judges at Nuremberg had possessed the wisdom to look forward and not back…

“Justice Jackson, what’s with all this looking back and stuff? Dude, get a life.”

Elmore and I are watching the American Experience on PBS on Nixon….. it is amazing to see the tactics he used that have been used by the repugs to today……. he didn’t run against someone, he destroyed them.

Nixon sure taught them well didn’t he……

uh huh – holder is a placeholder to be tossed so the rest can go through and then obama submits his real choice?

If only the Senate Watergate Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Special Prosecutors had possessed the wisdom to look forward and not look back…

pbs oregon is showing make em laugh: the funny business of america

hoping ae airs here soon

too many PAC contributions cocktail weenies can do that to a senator

from mcclatchy today: Bailed-out Wall Street helps float Obama inauguration

p.s. i haven’t forgotten who put up lots of $$$ for the dnc right after getting a pass on lawbreaking with the fisa modification (att)

and the truman commission

I meant for “Pac contributions” to be crossed out, I would never suggest that Pac contributions could influence a senator…

I want my Edit function back!

them too

LOL.

i thought you meant to say pac contributions to buy senators cocktail weenies.

uh huh – holder is a placeholder to be tossed so the rest can go through and then obama submits his real choice?

Please!!! Dawn Johnsen. Please. Please. Please.

i thought pac contributions are pretty much the cocktail weenie of political currency

A truman commission and a church commission – must we choose? cant we multitask?

I like Senator Specter a lot more than most people around here, and I will understand the “Gah!” and “Jeebus!” reactions from all of you. You are forgiven.

But I hope Arlen has a big day with Holder in the chair. A very big day.

excellent explanation – thanks!

that would have worked…

Fitz!

OT: Today, Glenzilla all but ripped body parts from a noted NYT columnist. Final line of Update III:

… is it even possible to imagine an Op-Ed or column being published by a major newspaper that enthusiastically trumpeted all of the great strategic benefits that would accrue to Muslims from the violent deaths of large numbers of Israeli civilians, the way Friedman today did with regard to the deaths of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians?

Not a pretty sight.

of course, cocktail weenies have also been known to become senators…

As Republican senators go, Arlen is one of the better ones. And, tomorrow, I think I might be cheering for him. Obama could do soooo much better than Holder.

… and perhaps vice versa.

which gets us full circle back to Chuck and Dianne?

late late nite upstairs

from the nyt (warning lichtblau is author): Parties Brace for a Fight on Justice Dept. Choice

And then there’s this from HuffPo:

PoliticsHarry Reid In GOP Crosshairs: Group Forms To Unseat Him In 2010

Damn! I’m finding myself cheering for the Republicans. What’s happening here?

Not a pretty sight.

i thought it was beautiful. *g*

Pelosi gave an excellent interview on NPR this morning. The female anchor kept pursuing the tax on the wealthy angle, ie: Isn’t it a bad idea to raise taxes on anyone at this time? Don’t we need tax cuts for everyone? More tax cuts and tax cuts?

Pelosi explained that tax cuts for the weathiest one percent were a primary cause of the fiscal crisis.

thanks, glad to hear that someone is explaining that kind of thing. good for pelosi.

sounds like she just didn’t get enough of those cocktail weenies…

The BBC had a great piece on radio describing Obama/Chicago/U of Chicago and his wonderful legal mind. I highly recommend it.

Holder is so much better than AG under Bush it is laughable. The last AG under Bush can’t even find a job as a dogcatcher.

NPR (National Propaganda Radio) is a wasteland. Drain the swamp of NPR.

It is my lifelong experience that once a person exhibits cowardice and complicity at an important moral juncture in his or her life, THAT person is more likely to repeat that cowardice in subsequent difficult choices.

I have seen in in the progressive movement. Holder appears to be precisely that kind of Git-Along Personality.

Since he will get appointed, Mr. Holder may that this post as an opportunity to prove me totally wrong.

I wouldn’t be happier in that event to pardon Mr. Holder from my accusations, but I am NOT going to hold my breath, because Mr. Holder’s character is most likely set for life.

Sorry, it’s early.

It is my lifelong experience that once a person exhibits cowardice and complicity at an important moral juncture in his or her life, THAT person is more likely to repeat that cowardice in subsequent difficult choices.

I have seen that behavior in the progressive movement. Holder appears to be precisely that kind of Git-Along Personality.

Since he will get appointed, Mr. Holder may use this post as an opportunity to prove me totally wrong.

I wouldn’t be happier in that event to pardon Mr. Holder from my accusations, but I am NOT going to hold my breath, because Mr. Holder’s character is most likely set for life, and already part of the Clinton record.

It’s laughably ironic that Schumer is criticizing the decision not to prosecute Schlozman as it was he and his Wall St. backers who pushed for Mukasey to be installed as AG. The same Mukasey who has refused to prosecute ANY Bush loyalists who have obviously broken the law. Thank you, Chuckie. You desperately need to be primaried…

contempt for congress seems the least of the sins, but what’s the rule of law without repercussions for failure to appear?