When the Evil Elf Goodling of Regent went up to testify last week, there were lots of humorous (in an ironical way, not Chris Rock/Robin Williams way) moments. Like her revelation that her stint as Student Council president qualified her to hire and fire men and women charged with enforcing the laws of the land. But by far one of the best moments came here:
SENSENBRENNER:Now, let me say that this committee has spent $250,000 of the taxpayers' money basically investigating the replacement of U.S. attorneys whose terms had expired.
I was the chairman of this committee for six years during the Bush administration and the chairman of the Science Committee for four years during the Clinton administration.I never signed a subpoena, because I didn't have to.And I never asked my committee to request the Justice Department to obtain a grant of immunity to anybody.
It seems to me that with this fishing expedition, there ain't no fish in the water.And we've spent an awful lot of time and an awful lot of money finding that out.
Sensenbrenner who is one of the leading facist authoritarian cultists in the US Government (he's never met a law restricting civil liberties that he did not like) complaining that Congress had spent $250,000 on an investigation into suspected malfeasance (which by the way seems to have some substance there "Tex" [his nickname, btw]).
I'm guessing that ol' Tex has forgotten the 70 or so million dollars spent investigating the spots on Bill Clinton's dick, and if Monica was a spitter or a swallower.
So real quick (cause it's a nice Saturday afternoon, and I gotta run some errands) let's fire up the Wayback Machine and see what ol'Tex had to say about the North American Spotted Clenis:
But being a poor example isn't grounds for impeachment; undermining the rule of law is. Frustrating the court's ability to administer justice turns private misconduct into an attack upon the ability of one of the three branches of our government to impartially administer justice. This is a direct attack on the rule of law in our country and a very public wrong that goes to the constitutional workings of our government.
To me, making a false statement under oath to a criminal grand jury is an impeachable offense, period. This committee and this House decided that issue by a vote of 417 to nothing nine years ago in the Judge Nixon impeachment.
IOKIYAR, indeed. And does ol'Tex seem to think that the apparent conflicts in testimony and possible witness tampering by Abu Gonzales are much of an issue to be spoken of in the "rule of law and what do we tell the kids mode?" apparently Not So Much.
Amid sobs and waving American flags, hundreds of Maryland Army National Guard soldiers bid goodbye to family and friends yesterday and prepared to deploy to Iraq, part of the Guard's largest deployment from the state since World War II.
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Many of them had returned from a year's deployment in Iraq as recently as May 2006.
Meanwhile, several miles away their Commander Guy bravely went on yet another vacation at Camp David where his every whim, need and want was brought to his pampered ass.
I wonder if anyone told these soldiers today that the CIA told the Preznit Happy Holidaze in January 2003 (and probably earlier) that he'd be sending everyone elses kids but not his into a meat-grinder in Iraq? Probably not. Sometimes there are just things you don't want to know.
And I gotta tell ya, I'm just broken up about it. No, really. Oh, and there's this too....
The Justice Department considered political affiliation in screening applicants for immigration court judgeships for several years until hiring was frozen in December after objections from department lawyers, current and former officials said yesterday.
The disclosures mean that the Justice Department may have violated civil service laws, which prohibit political considerations in hiring, for as long as two years before the tenure of Monica M. Goodling, the former aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales who testified about the practice this week.
So, you see Monica was really just following the established policy of politicizing the Justice Department, you don't think that a graduate of a 5th tier law school and ex-Student Council president could have come up with that on her own do you? Besides, she was too busy measuring that nekkid bimbo with the scales in the lobby of DoJ for a drape.
I'm sure that this won't be my last allusion to this, but every time I hear "Goodling" I think of some faery-tale creature from a Terry Brooks novel or something .... "The shape-shifter Goodlings waited for the Shannara brothers to come home from the pub so they could accost them as they entered the forest..." or something.
MURTHA (D-PA): Supporting the bill he and Bill Young worked out. We did everything we could to work this out. Did all we could do. I feel direction change in the air. Iraqis, administration. New political diplomatic effort. Meanwhile, we have to fund the troops. They will run out of money in the next few weeks. We have to do this. Goes over some of the elements in the bill. Equipment, family housing, support for military families. Other stuff, he's rattling this off. Money for Walter Reed, etc. Short ter problem to fund military for next four months. Longer term need to work on nurse shortage, doctor shortages (do you think if we stopped these kids from getting killed, we'd help their health?). By September we can judge where we are. (Sing it with me: See You In September). The situation in Iraq will not improve, but it's necessary to wait until September anyway. This is very painful, we're making progress, we have to take what we can get. I hope everyone votes for both bills.
Jack Murtha should know better, if anyone does. He's one of the first to have called for an end to the bullshit. Why he's caving to Preznit 30% Commander Guy is beyond me.
Well, no more Rip Van Winkle...but damn, September is a long way off for another artifical benchmark/FU or whatever. Olberman is right, they've sold out. I hope he plays this everyday to remind the Democrats that we recognize their cowardice in the face of the ultra-scary 30percenter.
Hillary and Bullshit Is there a difference? Not from where I sit. I no more want that triangulating, self-centered bitch to be the democratic candidate than I want another four years of Preznit DimBulb (thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that can't happen again). Why dis Hillary? Because of crap like this:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged the
Pentagon to plan quickly for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Iraq, yet she refused to say how she would vote on a war spending bill.
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"When I have something to say, I will say it," Clinton said. In recent statement, she has left unclear her position on when the bulk of U.S. troops should leave Iraq.
Now that's presidential style ... in the mode of the Commander Guy himself.
When I have something to say, I will say it. Jeebus. How many dead soldiers does it take before she decides the poll number support a position one way or the other?
Just because she's smart, well-connected, got a huge campaign war chest and thinks she deserves to be President doesn't make it so. Oh, and I have a small problem with this too: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton ...we don't have heriditary aristocracy in this country no matter what she may think. So fuck off Hillary, go be the best Senator from New York you can be and stand for something besides running for yet another job.
And I do use that term "leadership" very, very loosely...
Americans now view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the war began, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Just a thought... you all might want to fire those asshole advisors who "advise" keeping your powder dry or whatever the asinine phrase of the day is, and vote the way that 6 out of 10 people at home are probably thinking.
I guess that Preznit Puddin'head didn't get any smarter in the last two months did he? (Rhetorical question). He's still making those noises that sound like words that make the faithful believe that he actually gives a shit about the "Generals" opinions. As if.
One reporter asked Mr. Bush today whether the insistence on the importance of September - a date the administration fixed in part to gain breathing space in the war debate - would have the same disadvantage as the timelines for withdrawal that Democrats had sought and Republicans had derided: giving America's enemies in Iraq a target date, or a schedule, to use their violence for maximum effect.
Mr. Bush acknowledged, a bit awkwardly, that this might be so.
"It's going to make - it could make August a tough month," he said. "What they're going to try to do is kill as many innocent people as they can, to try to influence the debate here."
But the September date was General Petraeus's idea, he said, and it was proper to defer to commanders on such matters. (my emphasis)
Because you know, not a single part of this is anything HE bears responsibility for, right?
I'm guessing that any failures (or notable lack of progress) by the mythical September deadline will be blamed on (1)The Democrats (2) the "War Czar" (3) General Petraeus and/or (4) al-Maliki. Mix and match the order at your pleasure, because none of the blame will land with the idiot bastard son of a bitch in Oval Office.
Hi. I'm back again. Mental health days, doncha know? Glad to be back in the saddle. New job, new hours, new way of looking at life. Back in the cockpit again, which is nice. Less money, but more fun.
How can anyone hate that? Thanks for hanging around while I've been off "skying out".
Now back to the corruption at hand. It's a virtual fucking smorgasbord of malfeasance out there, isn't it?
