One of the more revealing things about watching ProsecutorGate on me teevee is seeing how confused the Republican talking heads are about the concept of non-politicized justice. Pat Buchanan brought up JFK appointing RFK as his Attorney General. Sorry Pat. Just because JFK had the almost inhumanly bad judgment to appoint his brother AG doesn’t mean we have to apologize for it 46 years later. It was an atrocity of justice back then, and what the Bush administration has done to our Justice Department is an atrocity right now. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson is confused about why it would matter if Domenici called a U.S. attorney to ask that they hurry up an investigation and then hung up on him and had him fired for refusing to do so. I don’t even think these clowns are spewing talking points. They’re genuinely confused to learn that there are ethical standards for the Department of Justice.
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The talking heads are indeed giving a fascinating Stepford projection on all this except it’s as if the power cord is unplugged and there’s no gas in the generator. It’s obvious that the talking point publisher has taken the day off-there’s not much of the typical mantra line rhetoric appearing, instead there’s this drunken struggle for a talking point that will stick. And with this particular scandal, info is popping so fast that this morning’s excuse is this afternoon’s fools’ errand.
Yep. And a man who kills for a living gets to decide who is moral based on who they love.
The world is upside down.
Gonzales seems to have “comped out” of that course. And the “talking heads” on the cable channels have ignored the idea completely. (What would you expect of Newt Gingrich’s supporters.)
But the more significant part of this issue is “What did the attorneys who didn’t get riffed do to keep their jobs? I normally don’t plug Senator Clinton, but she is right on here. The issue of voter fraud, and the overall complicity of Republicans in a network of malfeasance and fraud are worthy of our attention. Let’s listen to what she is saying. Obama may be more “real,” Edwards more sensitive, but she’s certainly got cajones.
michaelmt,
Is it possible that she cribbed that observation from Paul Krugman’s recent NY Times column? And is she really addressing voter fraud, etc. or are you?
The news analysts indicated she was referring to the (convicted) voter fraud in NH (the phone jamming case, that has been traced right back to Rove’s office. Where she got her information? With her staff–probably even she doesn’t know.
They also can’t seem to get straight the difference between “serve at the discretion of the President” [i.e., President gets to pick ’em] and “pervert the justice system to do whatever the President wants, legal or illegal.”
Someone on Randi Rhodes show yesterday read from the impeachment articles on Richard Nixon the one that listed his using the Justice Dept. for his own political ends. Please resurrect that from history’s archives.
Hi Mauimom-
Here is a link for the articles of impeachment that were drawn up against Mr. Milhaus Nixon.
In count one subsection four you’ll find:
There may be more in other counts…not sure.
BTW- if you really live in Hawaii then I am very jealous. It’s been a cold winter in the east.
From five minutes after the hearing, the Republican “talking point” has been that “Clinton did it too…” and the Democrats have not simply, clearly in words of one syllable explained that it’s normal at the start of a term, it’s not normal in the middle of active investigations!
Can you see the latent racism…immigrants = hire crime and to think the agent-of-hate Kris Kobach is a law professor at a taxpayer funded university..
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Kris Kobach, a University of Missouri law professor representing Hazleton, said the city has a long history of welcoming immigrants to the community. But after 2000, “something had changed. Hazleton had seen new criminals and new sorts of crime,” said Kobach, an immigration adviser under former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
In court papers, Hazleton officials said illegal immigrants have committed at least 47 crimes since last spring, consuming much of the city’s police overtime budget. Illegal immigrants were the subject of one-third of all drug arrests in 2005, and they have driven up the costs of health care and education, the city said.
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I need glasses “higher” crime
It’s not that they don’t know there are ethical standards; what they don’t grok is that the world is actually starting to pay attention to the people who believe that ethical standards should actually apply to Republicans.
Ethical Standards, in GOPland, are just rhetorical devices for smearing the nonGOP opposition. The idea that they need to abide by them themselves pretty much rocks them to their little theocratic monarchist souls.