I'll be monitoring the media in Paraguay to see if Little Boots gets in a visit to see new 100,000 ranch.
Posted by Christopher at March 9, 2007 02:32 AMAs usual Krugman makes a crucial point (despite being behind a fee-based service). It's not just the 8 US Attorneys fired for NOT cooperating with the Bushies, it's the dogs who didn't bark in the night. What about the others?
Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans, and 298 involved Democrats. The main source of this partisan tilt was a huge disparity in investigations of local politicians, in which Democrats were seven times as likely as Republicans to face Justice Department scrutiny.
If Democrats had not retaken the Senate and House, this would be just one more unreported degradation of the system of laws and justice; one more brandy and cigar salute in the Fellows lounge of the AEI.
Posted by DeminNewJ at March 9, 2007 03:42 AMBush is in Latin America trying among other things to "encourage" biofuels and corn exports---to Latin America. I wondered about that. It wasn't that long ago I was learning in school that corn was the subsistence crop of South America and plentiful. Then, I heard some film makers who had done documentaries on those South American women who are left behind when their male counterparts emigrate to the US and Canada. Apparently, one of the things that happens is women take up a lot of tasks and lead their male-less communities, but they generally do not try to farm as it is traditionally a male occupation--and guess what: no corn gets produced. As a result, they are all dependent on US corn imports (the tortilla scandal) and pricing is outrageously low.
So, Bush is pushing corn exports to worsen the problem of under-cutting native corn production, increase the rate of emigration of male farmers who need to find other kinds of work, and maybe even cut into South American oil sales all at once. Gee, another trifecta!
Posted by gtash at March 9, 2007 04:30 AMWhat is it with gay porno stars and the GOP?
CPAC’s Gay Porn Star Honoree and the Politics of Personal Crisis
Cpl. Matt Sanchez was once a gay porn star and male prostitute when he introduced at last weekend’s CPAC.
Sanchez was homored by the conservative group and he was photographed with Michelle Malkin, Annthrax Coulter and later, he even made an appearance on FOX Noise's Hannity & Combs.
Christopher, I read an article last week about Cpl. Matt Sanchez. I hear he is Jeff Gannon's lover. Oh, and don't forget about the Madam in Washington who is threatening to expose all her clients on Capitol Hill. Scum, all of them.
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 05:20 AMAttorney General Alberto R. Gonzales agreed yesterday to change the way U.S. attorneys can be replaced, a reversal in administration policy that came after he was browbeaten by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee still angry over the controversial firings of eight federal prosecutors.
Gonzales told Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and other senior members of the committee that the administration will no longer oppose legislation limiting the attorney general's power to appoint interim prosecutors. Gonzales also AGREED TO ALLOW THE COMMITTEE TO INTERVIEW FIVE TOP-LEVEL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS as part of an ongoing Democratic-led probe into the firings, senators said after a tense, hour-long meeting in Leahy's office suite.
Look for Gonzales to resign for family reasons.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030801087.html
Judith, Gonzales may resign? That burrito has balls enough to produce a family to cause a reason? Make that treason?
I totally forgot, Christopher, old One Hanging- Ball-Like-Hitler will escape to his new ranch in Paraguay after he exits the USA in '09. How under-discussed the spik ranch is among media whores!!! Perfect place for a fascist to live. Will Laura live in a little hut on the ranch or will she return to Midland, TX?
Posted by Mal Feasance at March 9, 2007 05:45 AMfrom your link: The People respond (SFGate):
Chavez, aligned with Cuba's Fidel Castro and a fierce critic of Bush, is marking Bush's trip with a rival tour of the region.On Saturday, the Venezuelan leader will speak at an "anti-imperialist" rally in a soccer stadium in Buenos Aires(...)
"anti-imperialist" rally... t'heehee.
Posted by jdmckay at March 9, 2007 06:01 AMQuote of the day caught by ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/
...police clashed with protestors in Brazil... & adding insult to injury, "MAYAN PRIESTS WILL PURIFY A SACRED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE TO ELIMINATE BAD SPIRTS AFTER BUSH'S VISIT"
wonder if the priest is available for use in and around our WH in 1/09 as Bush exits the premises.
Posted by mainsailset at March 9, 2007 06:20 AMForget Bush. Unless the impotent Dems do something serikous to limit him, he's here until 2009.
Now Tom Brady. That's another story. Even interesting.
Posted by Alex at March 9, 2007 06:29 AMI wonder if the DC madam provided services for Rove and others in the WH. We still haven't been told who Jeff Gannon was visiting overnight in the WH.
Posted by JohnT at March 9, 2007 06:39 AMA woman accused of running a prostitution ring threatened to immerse Washington in a sex scandal yesterday by saying she was considering selling 13 years of phone records to raise funds for her legal defence. The threat by Deborah Palfrey, who was indicted on racketeering charges this week, saw lawyers claiming that the records would soon lead to a client list of 10,000, including some of Washington's most influential figures.
I'm betting she will commit suicide or disappear.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 07:11 AMThe only thing more embarrassing than listening to Bush deliver a speech in English is listening to him deliver one where he throws in Spanish words. It's the sort of thing that makes one want to apologize to the world yet again for not doing enough to keep this bufoon from being our President. Truly cringe-inducing.
Especially that joke about 'Jorge Doob-lay-vay'.
Posted by biggerbox at March 9, 2007 08:12 AMSee. This is what's been missing from the WashDC that makes it sooooo interesting. Sex.
We know George doesn't get any except for the box of tissues he keeps close. At least the old man had mistresses (and who could blame him with that white-haired banshee at home). And the topic of the day when father and son get together...well of course they talk about pussy...Jr has to talk about it since he doesn't get any. For the most part, Bush women don't seem to measure up to JFK's mistresses.
And of course, when Jr asked Pop what a "neocon" is, Pop says "Israel".
Posted by Alex at March 9, 2007 08:20 AMAnd the topic of the day when father and son get together...well of course they talk about pussy
On the idiot son's part, the talk of va-heenas is to cover his own predelections to puff the occaisional flesh cigar.
Posted by phidipides at March 9, 2007 08:33 AMThe problem in Brazil is that they let their citizens run around wherever they want instead of keeping them penned up whenever the big guy is in town like we do, plus they don't invade other countries for oil, and to them Israel is just another country. What kind of value system is that?
Posted by Don Bacon at March 9, 2007 10:05 AMAwww Georgie. They had to appoint his bedmate, some mayor from Tennessee, as an ambassador and send him out of the country. I hear Laura's jealous.
2008 prediction...
Al Gore & Bill Clinton as the ticket.
"They had to appoint his bedmate, some mayor from Tennessee, as an ambassador and send him out of the country."
Alex, his name is Victor Ashe. Surely no one could question who Jeffey Gannon was visiting.
Evidence of Bush's non-heterosexual proclivities keeps surfacing. Kitty Kelley's Bush Family expose' "The Family" (2004) had noted George W. Bush's homosexual relationsip with Victor Ashe, the Mayor of Knoxvillle, Tennessee.
Ashe, like Bush, is a member of the Yale University based Order of Skull and Bones, and was later appointed US Ambassador to Poland by Bush in December, 2003, after probes and inquiries by Congress.
http://www.ivenus.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000099.html
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 02:08 PM"Sanchez and Gannon are an item? Yikes!"
Christopher, don't you wish you knew about the secret lives of Sanchez, Gannon, Ashe, Bush and Karl? It would probably make your hair stand on end, or something stand on end (did I really say that? Bad girl).
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 03:57 PMWell, well, well, are the chickens coming home to rooste, so to speak?
The Huffington Post can confirm that the Nevada Democratic Party has decided to back out of a Fox News-sponsored presidential debate in August following Fox President Roger Ailes's recent remarks comparing Democratic Senator Barack Obama to al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
Fox News did not answer calls seeking reaction to the decision.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had already announced that he would not participate in the Fox debate. His party followed suit today, under pressure from the more than 265,000 people who signed a petition calling Fox "a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, not a legitimate news channel" and urging Nevada officials to cancel.
Danny Coyle, a MoveOn.org member who serves on the Executive Board of the Carson City Democratic Central Committee, yesterday offered a resolution calling on the state party to drop Fox, and it passed overwhelmingly among the grassroots Democrats in attendance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melinda-henneberger/democrats-dump-fox_b_43060.html
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 04:18 PMReid, what's that egg doing all over your face.
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 04:20 PM"Kate Winslet Wins Lawsuit Over Diet Story."
I don't get it. This is the third defamation of character suit Winslet has won, and yet no one will shove Coulter words down her throat. Go figure.
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 04:28 PMThanks Judith.
It looks like someone would push the Victor Ashe story. It's just hanging out there waiting for someone publicity.
Posted by Alex at March 9, 2007 05:07 PMWhatever happened to the case against Coulter for registering to vote in the wrong district in Florida.
Posted by Seven of Six at March 9, 2007 05:22 PMAlex, Victor, the former yale cheerleader and Bush's lover, is a story just like the Jeff Gannon story, that will never to see the light of day again.
Seven of Six, here is your answer to what happened to Coulter's voter fraud case. Florida, what a state.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766692/posts
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 07:13 PMGuess who is signing on with CNN. None other than Tom DeLay. No comment.
Posted by Judith at March 9, 2007 09:54 PMWellllll y'know.
Since Ann Coulter brought up the term "faggot" in referring to Edwards, and since Kitty Kelly published her book and apparently didn't get sued by the Bushes, we can assume her research for the book was scrutinized and got a passing grade from the publisher's attorneys.
So this would be a good topic for someone to take and run with. Maybe a headline like "Who's the real faggot here Ann?" This information is out in the public domain already by virtue of being published and available, all it needs to be is brought to the public's attention blogwise. Or do an interview with Kitty Kelly.
You can be assured that in the 90s, the right-wing nuttery would have ran with it if it was the same story against Clinton.
Posted by Alex at March 10, 2007 03:21 AMAlex, the GOP would run with it now if it were a Democrat. Of course, the story could be revived, but Democrats don't do that sort of thing, do they?
Posted by Judith at March 10, 2007 04:24 AMOne thing for sure, it would show the hypocrisy, AGAIN, of these people.
Posted by Judith at March 10, 2007 04:26 AMHehehe.
Dems do lack the "go-for-the-throat" mentality, don't they.
But that's what's good about blogs isn't it? Stories that have been buried can be revived.
It'd be more fun reading about George "Lips" Bush than the echo chamber of the Libby trial, the Walter Reed scandal, Iraq, Iran, etc etc etc which can be found on most of the Dem blogs.
Posted by Alex at March 10, 2007 05:17 AMAlex, a story about "Lips" has everything. Sex, Lies, & Cheerleaders.
Posted by Judith at March 10, 2007 06:13 AMThe Moral Majority. BARF!
Have all the trolls left the Country?
Posted by Judith at March 10, 2007 06:17 AM