Posted
Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:46 PM
'Twas
the Night Before Fitzmas
He's
making a list and checking it twice!
(AmericaBlog)
Twas
the night before Fitzmas, when all
through the House
The Senate was stirring, scared of
what Fitz had found
The press corps was reporting the news
with care,
in hopes that the indictments would
soon be there.
The
Democrats were nestled all snug in
their beds,
While visions of arrest warrants danced
in the heads.
DeLay was the first, then Frist next
in the task,
Rove and then Libby, who would not
be the last.
And
out on K Street, there arose such
a clatter
Outing an a covert agent is a serious
matter.
Away to the internet, I rushed to get
dirt,
For the GOP's plans, that's really
gotta hurt.
"Now
Dubya! Now Condi!
Now Rove is in trouble"
And if they get Cheney,
then it will be double!
Now, Libby and McClellan!
Ari Fleisher may be one of
the convicted felons!
Now indict away! Indict away!
Indict them all!"
Fitz
sprang to the grand jury, and told
them his tale,
And they prepped indictments to send
Rove & Libby to jail.
But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove
out of sight,
Happy Fitzmas to all and to all a good
night!"
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Posted
Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:35
PM
Catching
up
I sometimes
forget to post all the politcally-related
stuff I've been thinking of on this
blog. There are tons of new items arising
everyday, but the lanscape changes
so quickly, it's not really worth posting
here unless I can get to it daily.
To catch
up...
Matt
Lauer rakes Bush over the coals on
live TV. Crooks and Liars has the video.
The Washington Post chimes in too...
Photo Op Bites Back
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2005; 1:15 PM
It was such a lovely
photo op -- President Bush and his
wife joining the volunteers building
a house in Louisiana. The perfect
backdrop for an upbeat interview,
live on NBC's Today Show.
But then Matt Lauer
had to go and pull back the curtain
and ask: Isn't this all just an empty
photo op?
What ensued was an
unusually testy interview, with Bush
waving off more questions than he
answered, chiding Lauer for quoting
too many Democrats in his windups
and making it clear that he would
have been much happier fielding questions
about the charitable nature of the
American people than about politics.
Continued here with
transcript and video.
Huffington Post:
"The Wall Street Journal and
Bloomberg are working on stories
that point to Vice President Dick
Cheney as the target of special prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation
into the leaking of CIA operative
Valerie Plame's name. "
USA
Today on prosecutor Patrick
Fitzgerald:
Friends and critics agree that his
integrity is unassailable and that
he is relentless. The list of people
he has prosecuted -- including al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden, former Illinois
governor George Ryan and New York
mobsters -- shows he has no qualms
about going after the powerful.
Fitzgerald's politics, motivations
and style have prompted debate.
"He has no agenda," says
David Kelley, former U.S. attorney
in New York and a longtime friend. "He
looks at the facts, uncovers the
facts and goes where the facts lead
him."
Mary Jo White, who was Fitzgerald's
boss when she was U.S. attorney in
Manhattan, says she knows nothing
about his political views —
"if he has any, and he may not."
Fitzgerald, who declined interview
requests, is registered to vote with
no party affiliation.
From Reuters:
"President George W. Bush vowed
on Saturday that the United States "will
not run" from Iraq as it did
from Vietnam, as he welcomed voting
on a new Iraqi constitution and called
it step forward for democracy."
The fact that Bush
thinks we should have stayed and continue
fighting in Vietnam shows exactly HOW
out ofr touch he is with the feelings
of Americans. Most people think that
war was a waste of American lives.
A friend just e-mailed
me and is taking bets. He thinks Bush
is going to withdraw Miers from SCOTUS
running on a Friday afternoon so it
will disappear into a weekend news
cycle. Maybe not this week, but next.
Any takers?
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