Author: BooMan

Some Thoughts on the Court

Posted by | Oct 27, 2005 |

Here is my three-hours of sleep, no time to digest, initial analysis of what the Meirs withdrawal means.

I’ve been predicting that 2006 is going to be a swing election like 1974 and 1994. The humiliating defeat of Harriet Meirs is symptomatic of an institutional rot within the GOP. In many ways, it reminds me of the demise of HillaryCare, and I think it augurs very badly for the GOP in next week’s, and next year’s elections.

Below the fold, I’ll discuss strategies and predictions:

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What’s So Funny?

Posted by | Oct 27, 2005 |

The NY Daily News reports that BooTribbers are not the only ones with nibbled cuticles:

Jittery Bush aides gnawed their nails yesterday as a special prosecutor zeroed in on White House political guru Karl Rove’s role in blowing a CIA agent’s cover.

In the closing hours of the grand jury probe, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald paid a visit yesterday to Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, prompting speculation that a plea bargain could be in the works for the deputy White House chief of staff.

It was the latest of several one-on-one meetings between Fitzgerald and Luskin, the Daily News has learned….

Two weeks ago, at a political event in Texas, Rove brushed aside concerns from anxious pals. “He said he was fine and he said it with gusto,” one of the well-wishers recalled.

A week later, however, Rove seemed down and distracted to some of his White House colleagues…

While White House staffers were tense, Fitzgerald’s team relaxed from their stoic, all-business demeanor. The cheery prosecutors shared an elevator ride with a News reporter and cracked up over a private joke.

Plead Rove. Plead.

Meanwhile: Supply your own best guess on what the joke was.

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Waiting to Exhale

Posted by | Oct 26, 2005 |

Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has asked the grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to indict Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, lawyers close to the investigation tell RAW STORY.

Fitzgerald has also asked the jury to indict Libby on a second charge: knowingly outing a covert operative, the lawyers said. They said the prosecutor believes that Libby violated a 1982 law that made it illegal to unmask an undercover CIA agent.

If Libby is charged with the 1982 act, that will destroy the Martha Stewart defense. Of course, the Martha Stewart defense isn’t much of a defense. She went to jail.

CNN is reporting that the White House is, ironically, disappointed at news that Fitz may not make any announcements today. Apparently, they are ‘waiting to exhale’, also known as their ‘asses are puckered tight’.

And based on the Washington Post’s editorial on Cheney today, I’d say they are doing a poor job of pre-indictment spin:

As for Mr. Cheney: He will be remembered as the vice president who campaigned for torture.

That’s right, even with his ass on the line for coordinating a conspiracy to violate Joe and Valerie Wilson’s civil rights, Darth Cheney is more interested in making sure torture remains legal.

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Speculation Thread

Posted by | Oct 25, 2005 |

Since we are all jumpy with P.I.S.S. (pre-indictment stress-syndrome), I thought we might want to fantasize and speculate a little. Some people are calling this Fritzmas Eve. What do you want under the tree tomorrow?

And what the hell do you think will happen if Cheney has to resign?

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