WaPo: Proof Bush Admin Not Fully Cooperating With Fitzgerald!

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 9:15 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 21:15

With tonight's bombshell article from the Washington Post one thing should not be overlooked: here we now have definitive proof that Bush's administration has not been fully cooperating with Fitzgerald's investigation.

Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the investigation.

Citing a confidentiality agreement in which the source freed Woodward to testify but would not allow him to discuss their conversations publicly, Woodward and Post editors refused to disclose the official's name or provide crucial details about the testimony.

Let's be clear, a Senior Administration official withheld crucial evidence regarding the investigation into the outing of a covert operative from the prosecutor until as late as one week after Libby was indicted. Not only have they been stonewalling the investigation, but they still refuse to come clean and tell the American people who in Cheney's administration didn't leak Valerie Plame's name. Read More

Chafee, Collins, Snowe, McCain, Warner, Graham, DeWine

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Monday October 31, 2005 · 6:50 AM PST

2005/10/31 · 06:50

Those are the names to remember, not Alito. Everyone should be writing letters and calling these so-called "Moderate" Republicans and DEMANDING that they stand up with the Democrats and block this cave in to the right wing nutjobs.

Chafee, Collins, Snowe, McCain, Warner, Graham, DeWine

And just for good measure, we need to be calling "our" Gang of Seven to let them know that they better regard this cave in to the right wing nutjobs as an "Extraordinary Circumstance". Read More

RedState: Bush to nominate 'Scalito'

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 8:07 AM PDT

2005/10/28 · 08:07

The folks are RedState.org are all a twitter that President Bush will be nominating a Judge known as 'Little Scalia' or 'Scalito' for short.

'Scalito' ... or Judge Alito is a sitting justice of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He's known to have a judicial philosophy almost the clone image of Scalia although his personality is said to be more temperate. Read More

Halloween Horror: The Saturday Night Nomination

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Thursday October 27, 2005 · 7:03 AM PDT

2005/10/27 · 07:03

Here's a fright story for all you dKos'ers:

Forget the Saturday Night Massacre... can you imagine if Bush were to use his withdrawal of Miers to settle up with Fitzgerald? Think of this scenario; Fitzgerald visited with Rove/Luskin the other day and what if that conversation centered around a different sort of plea bargain?

ROVE: Look, Patrick, there are many ways of making a deal. Let's talk a different type of bargain. As you know, our Supreme Court nominee is getting absolutely hammered. I fear her life as a nominee is not long for this world. Now, if say, these pesky threats of indictment were to go away on Friday, well... you know President Bush thinks the world of you...

FITZ: A little you scratch my back...?

ROVE: I think you get the picture...

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Monday October 10, 2005 · 10:18 AM PDT

2005/10/10 · 10:18

Someone should ask McClellan to confirm if this is the official White House view of Patrick Fitzgerald's office:

Rove redux

But the investigation has taken a toll on White House aides, many of whom now fear that the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, is intent on issuing indictments.

"Fitzgerald's office, although very professional, has been very aggressive in pursuing people," the adviser said. "These guys are bullies, and they threaten you."

Given the title of the article, this was most likely Rove whining pathetically. The White House has said they would cooperate fully with the investigation, but here you have a White House aide calling a part of the Justice Dept. a bunch of bullies. They should ask Scotty if the White House has changed their policy of cooperation given one of their aides taken this hostile tone...

Doesn't sound very cooperative to me.

Lawrence O'Donnell, "[this] will either add a count or force Rove to flip"

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 2:02 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 14:02

Reacting to the news of Rove's new trip before the grand jury, Lawrence O'Donnell says this means Luskin is desperate and that the prosecutor has every right to expect that this "will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else."

What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, believes his client is defintely going to be indicted.

So, Luskin is sending Rove back into the grand jury to try to get around the prosecutor and sell his innocence directly to the grand jurors. Legal defense work doesn't get more desperate than this. The prosecutor is happy to let Rove go under oath again--without his lawyer in the room--and try to wiggle out of the case. The prosecutor has every right to expect that Rove's final under-oath grilling will either add a count or two to the indictment or force Rove to flip and testify against someone else.

I'm as excited as everyone else, but I still think there is reason for caution here. Read More

The Crucial Question: Did Rove Get Punk'd OR Did Rove Punk Dobson?

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Tuesday October 04, 2005 · 5:07 PM PDT

2005/10/04 · 17:07

This NYTimes article provides the only question Democrats need concern themselves with over whether to support Harriet Miers or whether to fight like hell to filibuster her:

Conservatives Are Wary Over President's Selection

Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, started calling influential social conservatives to reassure them about the pick even before it was announced. He called James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, over the weekend, [...]

By day's end, Mr. Dobson, one of the most influential evangelical conservatives, welcomed the nomination. "Some of what I know I am not at liberty to talk about," [...]

In an interview, Mr. Dobson said he came out to support her partly because of her faith and partly because he believed she opposed abortion. "I have reason to believe she is pro-life," he said.

This is the crux of the matter. Rove has now given his personal assurance to Dobson that Miers is "good people" and will rule as a female scalia on social conservative matters. Either Rove is Punking Dobson or he is, himself, getting Punk'd by Miers. Read More

Can Bush or Cheney be indicted?

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Sunday October 02, 2005 · 9:15 AM PDT

2005/10/02 · 09:15

In a single word: NO!

I am not aware of any decisions that would allow a sitting President or Vice President to be indicted by a Grand Jury. If anyone else knows of any relevant cases, please comment below.

But, since this question has been going around given the recent revelation from George Stephanopoulos:

"...President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions."

... and given the WaPo's recent article indicating Fitz is thinking of bringing conspiracy charges ... and given all the recent hub-bub around Senator Obama's recent diary, I thought it'd be a good idea to discuss what we want the Democrats in congress to do, should Fitz eventually name President Bush or Vice President Cheney as unindicted co-conspirators ( aka doing the Nixon dance ) ... Read More

"Abort Every Republican Politician At Birth"

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Thursday September 29, 2005 · 2:30 PM PDT

2005/09/29 · 14:30

You know, with all these incredibly stupid defenses of Bill Bennett popping up, it occurred to me:

But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every Republican Politician in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down.

Now, will the likes of Matthew Yglesias and Brad DeLong stand up and apologize for me? Did I just utter a completely worthwhile comment given the current problems with the law the Republican leadership is having?

Forget poor black people! If you want to see the real criminals in this country look no further than the Bill Frists, Tom DeLay's, Karl Rove's, Jack Abramoff's of the world. That's how you abort the crime rate in this country. Let right-wingnut-radio chew on that one and choke!

Into Hell

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Monday September 26, 2005 · 6:42 PM PDT

2005/09/26 · 18:42

Into hell. That is where I went this weekend.

Those of you who've been around me a little bit understand that I suffer from migraines. A lot. Well, yesterday I suffered like I've never suffered before. It began in the morning with an unusual headache for me. Unusual, because it was not a migraine, rather it was a regular headache across the full forehead and seemed familiar to rebound headaches I have experienced from time to time. This headache persisted throughout the day until it turned into my old friend --a full blown head splitting migraine-- in the early afternoon. Read More

Frist Gets Nailed. Stuffed. Cooked. Kaput. It Is Over...!

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Saturday September 24, 2005 · 6:37 AM PDT

2005/09/24 · 06:37

Frist Knew About Blind Trust Investments

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., was updated several times about his investments in blind trusts during 2002, the last time two weeks before he publicly denied any knowledge of what was in the accounts, documents show.

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Frist, asked in a television interview in January 2003 whether he should sell his HCA stock, responded: "Well, I think really for our viewers it should be understood that I put this into a blind trust. So as far as I know, I own no HCA stock"

Frist, referring to his trust and those of his family, also said in the interview, "I have no control. It is illegal right now for me to know what the composition of those trusts are. So I have no idea."

Documents filed with the Senate showed that just two weeks before those comments, the trustee of the senator's trust, M. Kirk Scobey Jr., wrote to Frist that HCA stock was contributed to the trust. It was valued at $15,000 and $50,000.

So, if Frist' knowledge of the law is better than his medical expertise then we can assume he's committed a crime. What was his office's response? Read More

12 Commandments of Anti-War Protestation

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Friday August 12, 2005 · 10:55 PM PDT

2005/08/12 · 22:55

I'm trying to keep this straight, but from what I can from the likes of O'leilly, Malkin, Redstate.org, Drudge, etc, etc...

You are legitimate anti-war protestor if and only if:

You've lost a child in Iraq.
You publicly repudiate the protesting by anyone who hasn't lost a child in Iraq.
You have always protested the war in Iraq and have always said mean things about President Bush.
You publicly repudiate the protesting by anyone who hasn't always protested the war in Iraq and hasn't always said mean things about President Bush.
You absolutely do not talk to the media lest you be called a media whore.
You publicly repudiate the protesting by anyone who has talked to the media or is a media whore.

Read on for the last six commandments... Read More

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