Adios Alberto
Starting to look that way, according to the NYT. The GreatWhiteBoob is reportedly unhappy with the AG screwing up the The Great US Attorney Purge. The truth, of course, is that GWB is annoyed not because of the actions themselves, but because it’s starting to make him look bad.
Sen. Sununu is leading Republican calls for AG A.G.’s ouster, which go something like this:
“The attorney general has clearly misled Congress and the American people by suggesting the White House was not the originator of the idea to remove the U.S. attorneys,” said Bruce Fein, a Washington lawyer and former associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan. “He needs to resign.” – Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg
Yeah. “Mistakes were made”.
My favorite political cartoon of all time was inspired by the Reagan era. It is a portrait of George Washington, the caption underneath reads “Mistakes were made in the Cherry Tree Affair.”
Quite frankly I’ve found this Dept. of Justice firings business very complicated, and a bit boring. Thankfully, Jon Stewart explains it to me in this video:
http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2007/03/jon-stewart-explains-department-of.html
We need a special prosecutor. Give them a couple of years and a few million and maybe they can catch some peon in a lie and skewer their ass. Political stupidity ain’t a crime, gang.
“mistakes have been made”, how many times do we have to hear that? I think that’s enough “political stupidity” for the country to endure. Time for accountability for the “mistakes that were made”.
well the emails stated that “demonstrated loyalty to the president and attorny general” were listed as reason to keep people when the origional idea was to fire ALL of them. They chose to reduce that origional list based on loyatly to the pres.
I guess the idea was not only to appoint Activist Judges but Activist attornies as well.
Firing people for their political beliefs is against the law especially when each of the attornies had stellar performance records as has already been shown.
But hey, we already know that republicans are above the law
I seem to remember a time when if a public official said “I take full responsibility,” it meant that he would step down or take pay cut – or at least feel badly.
That phrase has absolutely no meaning any more.
Remember Nixon saying: “..if the President does it, it isn’t illegal..”?
Remember Kennedy taking responsibility for the Bay of Pigs. He didn’t try to pin it on Eisenhower or CIA intelligence flaws. We need leadership in this country not apologists.
Lo, have you read the Pentagon Papers. You might rethink the Kennedy thing.
I don’t remember Kennedy giving a speech to the American people making excuses for the Bay of Pigs? You have a link to that?
Read the Pentagon Papers, Lo.
read them.
what is your point jhc?
Transparency. Honesty. Accountability.
Could you elaborate jhc? I don’t remember Kennedy publicly shifting blame for the Bay of Pigs disaster to any other person or organization unlike what we see today. I am glad you are concerned with transparency,honesty,and accountability.I hope that carries to all administrations and not those you choose.
Transparency,honesty,accountability and the Pentagon Papers. There’s an historic odd couple.
I know of no administration that hasn’t had their problems with transparency and accountability. You?
No,but they do vary. Agree?
Still trying to understand the point your trying to make.
jhc,
My recollection of the days of The Pentagon Papers [Ellsberg, etc.], may not be as clear as yours. But if it’s your view that the ‘papers’ were examples of “Transparency. Honesty. Accountability“, why do you think they were so [officially]classified at DOD?
Not my point Max. I was shattering Lo’s comment about Kennedyb be a stand-up guy.
For the Irish in all of us:
Flynn staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Mary.
He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful.
Managing not to yell, Flynn sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood.
He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.
In the morning, Flynn woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Mary staring at him from across the room.
She said, “You were drunk again last night weren’t you?”
Flynn said, “Why you say such a mean thing?”
“Well,” Mary said, “it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly…..it’s all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.
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Kennedy took responsibility for the bay of pigs in front of the American people. You can watch the speech.You shattered nothing jhc. Your point is there is geo political posistioning going on that the American people don’t know about. Thanks for the enlightenment. My point was that he didn’t point fingers at the CIA or the Eisenhower administration although he could have behaved like the Bush administration and done so. He led, we don’t have that today.
Yet again, what is the point you are trying to make jhc? You haven’t made one yet. Don’t delude yourself.
When did he take credit for the “debacle” in Nam?
WOW! CryBaby Bush is about to throw a constitutional Temper Tantrum over subpoenas of his AIDS. This ought to be interesting. Its amazing how Bush feels no one in his administration should be held up to the same level of scrutiny as previous admins. Now he is willing to assert his Republican power of Special Rights to block legal actions. Quick Get a Beach Towel So superhero ABOVETHELAW can wear it as a CAPE. One more Bong Hit 4 Jesus and its Up Up and Away!
He had an accident in Dallas in ‘63 jhc. McNamara said he didn’t believe Kennedy would have escalated. But what would he know about it? I saw an interesting film with McNamara called “Fog of War”…There was good insights into the origins of Vietnam from one of the key players in the war.
I think PJ is one of these blog infiltrators:
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD150807#_edn1
Aha! Fifth Columnists in our midst. Nice work, JHC.
‘Lo … that was no accident ….
Dan, are you claiming that W had JFK whacked in Dallas?
The New England prep school cowboy was in Andover….
Don’t be so naive, JHC. The Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission and the Queen of England all chipped in for the hit.
Wow of all the times JHC accuses others of conspiracy theories he posts this.
“I think PJ is one of these blog infiltrators:”
Does conservative hypocrisy ever end?!!! LOL
You sound a little guilty, PJ. Or should we call you Ali?
Lo.. re: “Fog of War”.. Excellent documentary… have watched it 3-4 times. I do not forgive McNamara for any of his major and frequent faux-pas back then.
Not the least of which was his [initial] refusal to have the M-16 [receivers] chrome plated [along w/neither a maintenance manual nor cleaning kit]. That decision caused the direct deaths and battle injuries to our troops.
I will give McNamara this, he has lived long enough to see “what” he really was. But, at least he’s lived.
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