Jeb, Go Away...

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The Big Apple...

says "Bite Me!"

GOP bill targets NY Times

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He May Do Hard Time...

Limbaugh caught with illegal viagra

Not For Profit Profiteers...

Amoral Nonprofit Groups Funneled Money For Abramoff

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Happy Summer...

Bad To The Bone...

Senate panel releases report on Jack, Grover, Ralph

Bully..!

Springsteen Mocks Ann Coulter, TV Pundits

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Praise The Lord...

Evil Moneychanger Ralph Reed Defrocked

The Latest Numbers...

referendum on graft and corruption..?

Zogby polls - Wall Street Journal online

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Just Say Guilty...

Ex-Bush official Safavian convicted Abramoff, Justice Dept. agree sentencing delay;Abramoff believed to be assisting prosecutors...

Bi-Political...

Love conquers all...

Scooter Libby Defense Fund plans dinner at home of Democratic strategist James Carville...

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TGIF..!

What a month this has been so far...evil doers here, there and everywhere! So much to do, so little time to blog...I hope to get back in the daily groove next week.

Duty Calls In Hottubistan..?

DeLay dazed, unfazed and 'confused' as usual

No Shame...

Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate

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Deal-No Deal..?

I love that show! ;)

So I rolled Karl...It is a very good thing.

"The language used by Luskin strongly suggests that Rove got immunity in exchange for his cooperation (it is probably the same deal I have been suggesting was offered to Novak way back when. . . )Otherwise he never would have testified in the Grand Jury to begin with.

“Does not anticipate seeking charges” means that if Rove testifies at Libby’s trial as expected, and as his agreement no doubt provides for him to testify, (lawyers call it providing “ongoing cooperation”), then all will be well for him. But if he “goes sideways” on Fitz and testifies differently from what is now expected, he could be charged–w/perjury certainly, and his deal to avoid criminal liability in the larger conspiracy could be “off” as he could face charges in that as well.

All told, a very standard deal and not unexpected. The more interesting issue and the reason for optimism now is that he couldn’t have gotten such a deal without having something important to offer Fitz. The “no prosecution” letter pretty much guarantees that he that he made a good deal. Either he offered up Cheney himself, or he offered up Libby to guarantee a conviction so Fitz can roll up Libby to Cheney. Either way, for me, I see Cheney going down and that’s something I can live with!" [more]

Ruby Red Slippers...

Never go out of fashion - just ask Dorothy, Tinkerbell, Mrs. Claus, Jason and myself.

Tim, You Ignorant Slut...

;)

Chillin In The Stable...

just eating my oats.

Iowa poll: Edwards tops Clinton - Whispers of Fitz

In reality, the article doesn't even mention me, but let's first focus on the fall elections before letting the media do what it does best - taking an exciting exercise in democracy and turning the general election into a long drawn out and horribly boring two year horse race.

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Rep. Jerry Lewis - Slow Roast...

Just say "No, thank you!" to graft and re-election.

AL ZARQAWIS DEAD, ZED...

ready to party with 72 Congressmen.

DeLay's Parting Advice...

Visit me in prison.

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6/6/6

Just say "No, thank you!" to graft and Satan.

Dedicated Americans...

I am proud to know and the thousands of others just like them at the DOJ and FBI.

The Enron Case That Almost Wasn't

"When Mr. Berkowitz left his office at 3:30 a.m. on May 16, with the trial's final closing argument just five hours away, he looked around and saw more than a half-dozen bedraggled F.B.I. agents, several of whom had been part of the Enron investigation since it began four years earlier.

One agent's young daughter, a toddler, was so angry at her father for his long absence from home that she refused to come to the phone anymore. Still, none of the agents intended to leave the task force's offices that night. Some of them used a shower in the basement of the federal courthouse to freshen up before that last day of the trial.

DAYS after the jury began deliberating, Mr. Hueston and Mr. Berkowitz took a five-mile jog. Later, they settled into chairs on the deck of Big Woodrow's restaurant on a sweltering Wednesday night. A waitress eased her way through a rowdy crowd, delivering a bucket of crawfish and Corona beers to the prosecutors. As the surrounding crowds watched overhead televisions, cheering on the Houston Astros baseball team, the two men discussed their shared ordeal." [more]

TGIM...

for those who love hard work and justice in America.

Hate Crimes...

and speech have no place in America.

CNN's Jack Cafferty rips Republicans for wasting time on gay marriage when country has so many other priorities and problems to address

"This is pure politics. If has nothing to do with whether or not you believe in gay marriage. It's blatant posturing by Republicans, who are increasingly desperate as the midterm elections approach. There's not a lot else to get people interested in voting on them, based on their record of the last five years.

But if you can appeal to the hatred, bigotry, or discrimination in some people, you might move them to the polls to vote against that big, bad gay married couple that one day might move in down the street."

Bush backs federal marriage amendment to wag his dogs

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Saturday backed a resolution to amend the Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman even though the idea has little chance of being passed in the Senate. "Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society," Bush said in his Saturday radio address. "Marriage cannot be cut off from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society."

Despicable!

Wit V. Twits...

Have You Heard The One About...

While we bide our time waiting for the frogmarch, on occasion we are treated to moments of that rare Fitzgerald wit that neither Scooter Libby nor Karl Rove are probably quite so appreciative of at the moment.

Mr. Boultbee, who lives in Victoria, recently asked to be excused from a court hearing in Chicago in order to attend a Canada Day barbecue and dance at the Victoria Golf Club, where he is a member.

The hearing, slated for June 30, is a "status hearing" in the criminal case involving Mr. Boultbee and other former executives of Chicago-based Hollinger International Inc. They face several fraud charges over allegations they stole more than $80-million (U.S.) from the company. Mr. Boultbee and the others have pleaded not guilty and none of the allegations have been proved.

Canada Day "is a time when people enjoy the camaraderie of friends and family," Mr. Boultbee’s lawyers said in a court filing. "As July 1st is a Saturday, Canada Day is celebrated this year on June 30th, the day of the hearing. A party at the defendant’s club [the Victoria Golf Club], for which he has paid in advance, is scheduled for June 30th."

Fitzgerald was remarkably unmoved by Boultbee’s pressing need to barbecue, as he was the crying about undue financial hardship:

In a court filing, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said defendants are often required to attend these types of hearings to ensure they "appreciate the seriousness of the charges." Mr. Boultbee’s request, Mr. Fitzgerald said, "demonstrates a gross lack of appreciation by this defendant of the gravity of these proceedings."

In the filing, Mr. Fitzgerald also called Mr. Boultbee’s complaints about the trip’s cost "frivolous."

"Obviously, the government did not select the Chicago-based location of the company [Hollinger International] that defendant chose to defraud," the filing alleges. [more]

I only tell it like it is - the material is readily provided by the defendants. ;)

Fristy Bidness...

FEC finds Frist violated law by failing to disclose $1.4 million personal loan

CREW's complaint alleged -- and the FEC agreed -- that Frist 2000, Inc. failed to disclose a $1.44 million loan taken out jointly by Frist 2000, Inc. and by Frist's 1994 campaign committee, Bill Frist for Senate, Inc. The result of the discrepancy was to make it appear that Frist 2000, Inc. had significantly more money that it actually had.

In June 2000, Senator Frist took $1 million of the money that had been contributed to his 2000 Senate campaign and invested it in the stock market, where it promptly began losing money. In November 2000, Senator Frist sought to collect $1.2 million he had lent his 1994 Senate campaign committee. As a result of the stock market losses, however, Frist 2000, Inc. did not have enough money to repay the loan. Senator Frist solved this problem by having the 1994 and the 2000 campaign committees jointly take out a $1.44 million bank loan at a cost of $10,000 a month interest. Frist 2000, Inc. did not report this debt on its FEC disclosure forms. [more]

I heart CREW.

Colorful Commentary...

Guilty, Guilty
Skilling Lay softly with our song.

Happily, in Patrick Fitzgerald we have the judicial equivalent of David Ortiz standing on deck in the Plame case investigation. He has, like the Enron jury, carefully gathered and weighed the evidence, indicted Lewis Libby, Dick Cheney's right-hand man, and slapped Judith Miller in jail for, among other things, being Libby's press whore and mouthpiece in the run up to the illegal war in Iraq. You might want to keep some extra bottles of bubbly on hand, because word on the street is that Fitzgerald will soon indict Mad Dog Cheney and Turd Blossom Rove. Lay, Skilling, Fastow and Libby can school them in proper shower stall etiquette when these fat fish are tossed into the prison pond. [more]

Throwing A Dog A Bone...

Libby to get limited classified info
WASHINGTON - A former White House aide facing perjury charges will get only a prosecutor's summary of classified documents assessing the damage to national security from the leak of a CIA officer's identity, a federal judge ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton also said lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby must settle for a prosecutor's version of information contained in secret government documents that describe CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history. [more]

Sit, Scooter, sit. Good dog.

So Little To Do...

too much time...reverse that.

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