Okayyyyy.... Now make this man NEVER employable again.... Never... Let him stand on the street and beg for money.

His job, according to him, was to act as a loyal scrivener for the occasional utterance from a GOP political boss, whoever it was (Senator, White House Rover, DoJ General, or Indian Chief). After collecting a loose set of scrivenings, and unburdened by the slightest hint of critical evaluation, he then passed his scrivened list back to the Bosses and waited for reactions, if any. Seeing none, he then obediently and mindlessly passed it over to the executioners.

A nice job description for a 4th grade school-kid. But he is a loyal Bushie!

yeah, what happened to grassley's line of questions.

security code --copper--hokee, dokee.

Ah, yes...the Hatch - Sampson Mormon connection...

Another example of why religion should NOT enter into political decisions.

I'm not anti-Mormon, I'm not anti-S. Baptist, I'm not anti-Roman Catholic, I'm not anti-Jewish...I'm not anti-anything EXCEPT politicians allowing their religious views to pervert judgements that are in the best interests of the U.S.A.

i know that if i were in a similar position, where i was asked by my superiors or overseers or whatever, about certain HUGE things in my job that i'd spent more than a year thinking about, i'd better effing remember or i'd lose my job. and i'd better present proof of my decisions.

i know he resigned already, but how is he not impeached? along with ag, of course?

there's a shocking amount of short-term memory loss in the bush administration.

also, why are people always writing the security codes in their messages? aren't we supposed to write those in the box? or am i unhip and missed the joke?

It seems apparent that Sampson and Goodling were merely the points at which the White House and the Department of Justice touched on the matter of the US Attorneys.

MediaFreeze asks, "What Happened To Grassley?"
VERY good question. It has to be more than his dissing Lurita yesterday.
indeed, if those of conscience were to peel away now, it really would be a point of no return.
The GOP is nervous...and walking on eggshells.

They know no one is fooled. And, they can scoff at those of us who are paying very close attention. However, they are very worried about controlling the 'dog and pony' show in the eyes of the public.

they poll extensively, and the numbers are causing real heartburn and anxiety.

At the least with the Dem's in control, we're getting some much needed oversight and one also realizes that this process while having to wait for Gonzalez in mid April, will feel more like pulling a ripe scab from an old cut.

I'll be the first to admit that watching live theater was always heads and shoulders above watching a movie. However, the one question that should be asked after the whole enchalada is exposed for the cronism cock fighting it is, should be what is going to happen to all of those politically sensative cases that Lam was working on?
For heaven sakes Senators, you've already plunged the knife in. Now cut to the chase while twisting it and ask that one question we're all wondering about.
Meirs and MC-Rove should bring down the house. Does the little lady have the brass knockers to charge at her questioners? This should be gooooooooooood!

Thanks Senator Schumer. You're doing a fabulous job with these pukes. Also, keep it up Josh. Loved the your video you posted on TPM. Do more of them!

This guy Sampson is such a weasel. He'll resurface again in some position of power. Just like Yoo, Gingrich, DeLay, Eliot Abrams. They never go away no matter how criminal they are...I feel like I'm in a horror movie sometimes w/creepy clowns surrounding me.

Tripped up by the Kyl and Kyle there! So let me add the observation that Sen Kyl seemed as upset with them firing Charlton as Sen Ensign is with Daniel Bogden being fired. Unhappy base, I'd say.

Josh...

Wow, your presentation on the historical time line on the "slipped-in" minor clause in the Patriot Act and the "slipped" under the radar Tim Griffin and his political agenda mission should and has just made this citizen even pissed off more at this "corporate corruption - political driven - non ethical American - drain the tax payer - hire my old time buddies - War for profit" administration!
Thank you ;>

There should be an award for Bush administration staffers like Sampson. It should be called a 'Brownie Award' after the prototype. Candidates must be young but look even younger, and have been placed in a position miles above their actual level of professional competence because of their loyalty-well there is another meaning to 'Brownie' that does not need to be explained.
The true distinguishing feature of a great Brownie is speaking out in ones own defense by stating the appalling principles behind one's existence in plain language as if there was nothing to be ashamed of. "What's wrong with using the instruments of government to advance my partisan agenda? Why would anyone expect me to be competent or have the best interest of the country in mind? I'm a political hack, dammit!"

***this is a long post... I just have to get this out, folks. What the hell are we going to do ABOUT these issues?

This message is intended for Josh and associates to find out if TPM is strictly a reporting organization or if it is a people-powered action organization?

I think we are getting bogged down in the details. Yes, the oversight hearings must carry on. Of course. But maybe we, the citizens who are paying attention and who absolutely see the writing on the wall: the federal government has been co-opted into an RNC machine for retaining power by suppressing the vote by those likely to vote against the RNC and by rewarding corporations with large cash taxpayer-funded prizes for playing ball.

I am outraged after listening to the pathetic hearing with Sampson today (watching republican hacks diminish and distort the facts and watching Sampson do the Ronald Reagan dance of “I don’t recall”) and the completely infuriating hearing with Lurita Doan with her utter contempt for accountability.

And today I read a news story about a Qui Tam case in the minerals royalty department that basically shows that the Bush program has facilitated non-payment of royalties for oil companies that amount in the millions. Maybe billions, given the astronomical profits the oil companies have made.

Oh, and I can’t even describe my outrage at the loyalty oaths mid-level forestry officials have had to make in order to keep their jobs. What will be the state of our national parks in 2009? (and is Jan 2009 even and end-date to this madness given the RNC control of our government and elections? Maybe a republican will win, and we will have another 4 years of the same. That is a real concern.)

As much as I appreciate Patrick Fitzgerald’s efforts, um, why aren’t there any indictments in the Plame outing? Oh, cause Patrick said there wasn’t enough evidence to proceed? Isn’t it his friggin job to FIND the evidence? Christ, we know the who, what and where. I need a much better explanation about why Cheney isn’t in jail. At the least, why does he have his security clearance?

Don’t even get me started on things like the FDA having a veterinarian heading the women’s health department in that agency. Or the HHS guy who just resigned from the access to contraceptives division – the guy who is a member of an anti-contraceptive organization for god’s sakes. Or the fact that our country has burned the Geneva Conventions. I mean… torture, no habeaus corpus, renditions. Our country has 100s of human beings who were kidnapped and secreted to an off-continent location to face god knows what fate. Is my phone tapped right now? If the bush govt wanted to tap it, it would be tapped. I know this! I also know that I am not a criminal nor am I planning to be a criminal. What’s wrong with this picture?

I am getting to a point here. The level of corruption is seeing the light of day. And work is being done in the House and Senate to uncover more. But, what is going to happen with all of this new evidence?

At the very least, the president should be censured. At the most, people need to be indicted. Special Prosecutors need to be appointed to investigate every single situation that smells of corruption. The Inspector Generals of every single federal agency need to be, dare I say, sequestered and given a safe haven from which they can do their jobs. I don’t know.

I could go on and on. The gist of all of this is that only a fool would believe that there is any serious business taking place in *any* department or agency which has bush appointees running things. There is enough evidence to conclude that if a bush appointee is making decisions, that those decisions are partisan and geared toward two things: election tampering/manipulation and lottery rewards for corporations. In EVERY federal office.

It would take 20 years to get to the murky bottom of this mess. This e-mail to you today is to find out if TPM is strictly a reporting organization or if it is a people-powered action organization? Cause, frankly, the people need to shut down the RNC-controlled federal government.

Well, I needed to get this out.

What the hell are we going to do about this mess? The Congress can only do so much. The only thing I can think that they can do to REMEDY these issues is file articles of impeachment. And they aren’t going to do that. So why the hell have the oversight investigations? Why? I know it causes me great pain to endure the details.

What the HELL are we going to do about this mess?!!!

Security word: school. (so let's the school the bastards for a change!)

Kyle, I know the perfect place for you to contemplate what you should have done.

Prison. Go there, stay there, and live for a long, long time.

from having taken a few law classes in college the term "weasel words" stuck in my brain. Guys like him remind me why the term sticks.

Nothing but a little weasel, spineless little puke....serving at the pleasure of the president

This should be the beginning of the end of the Republican Party if they, the republican in the congress, don't demand an accounting of the President's actions in this constitutional show down.

What is apparently so many smoking guns could be turned on the party in the next election. The all important independent voter smells corruption in the party as in 73 and if there is no Wicker for non-kool aid drinking Republicans to get behind, why bother to deceive themselves?

David P Lyons,

Well at the least, we know the AG lied to Congress. So now, we're using that to lift up all sorts of rocks and see what's squirming underneath them...

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