what? is he suddenly 4 years old? he wanted to "get a reaction"?

Good way to show you're a consummate professional. Suggest something to get a rise out of someone.

now kyle, we can't fire the one that has a public corruption case where everyone knows about! listen little buddy, only the ones that we can hide. love karl

Is sampson under oath?

do u think fitz didn't go after others in the w.h. cause he was told not to?

Why Pat Fitzgerald? Hmmm. I think i see a pattern here. It's slowly coming into focus. Not quite sure what this puzzle is supposed to look like yet, but it's something...

I'd like to see a follow up on what he meant by "get a reaction." I would understand him to mean that he was testing the waters to see just how far he could go axing people for purely partisan reasons. Fitz was apparently one step beyond what even Miers would consider appropriate. These people have been drunk on their own power for far too long.

It was inappropriate, but he still said it. And he said it because...?

And he doesn't remember why? Not at all the GOP lizard brain at work.

Kyle's the next Scooter Libby

1. Note that Sampson doesn't say, though he makes it seem, that this was the one and only occasion on which the possibility of getting rid of Fitzgerald was raised.

2. His equivocating on his recollection with regard to Rove under questioning by Schumer means he should be asked in follow up to detail any and all conversations he recalls about the issue of Fitzgerald at any time and with anyone, including but not limited to Rove and Gonzales.

George: I did sumthin a little crazy, today, Jerry ---I suggested to Mr. Steinbrenner that we fire Patrick Fitzgerald

Jerry: You did what ?!!!

enter Kramer

Jerry: Get this Kramer, Georgie boy here told Steinbrenner they should fire Patrick Fitzgerald

Kramer flinches, gags, bugs out his eyes

Kramer gasps: Whyinthehelldidyousuggestathinglikethat???

George, slumping: I don't know, I guess I just wanted to get a reaction out of them.

Jerry: You've really lost your mind your time

Is it me or does the way that Scooter Sampson answers questions sound/seem a lot like the way that Kyle Libby answered questions before the G.J.?

Get a rope.

If it comes down to Rove or Bush, guess who goes?

To get a reaction?? Boy these guys are real cards.

Nixon: Well, we COULD fire Archie Cox

Fred Fielding: Wha???

Nixon: Hah! Had you going there didn't I . . . But, no seriously, let's can the motherfucker.

He asked to get a reaction? Good for him -- keeps his bosses on their toes.

But holy crap neither of them was willing to be the first to say no?

I think this guy's proud of it. He must have a portrait of Richard Nixon hanging over his mantle. I wonder if he wanted to pull the plug on a Saturday night.

This is the guy who wanted to become a US Attorney himself, sans any prosecutorial experience. He wanted to go Democrat hunting.

He thinks like a Nazi. Keep him away from matches.

I know the Republican party is chock full of this type, but, it's still jaw dropping when you hear it straight out.

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon . . . you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time."

*Obvious follow ups*

Q: You said: "I knew it was inappropriate", why was it inappropriate?

A: yadda yadda yadda

Q: Why did you not apply that same standard to Carol Lam?

so it just wasn't the right time to can him .... jesus ...

Dear Kyle:

Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work--and life.

Love,

Karl

may I suggest disbarment so this guy can never profit off his idiocy?

I remember some stuff when the Libby case really was heating up (pre-indictment) where there were some whiffs that they were going to try to replace Fitzgerald. I might have read it on TPM...not sure where.

There is room at Guantanamo Bay for Sampson, Gonzales, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc. They are enemy combatants and deserve to be tried and convicted for their crimes. As a lawyer, I can tell you that one punishment for treason is death.

Kyle: Let's put Deb Yang on the list. She's going after Jerry Lewis. He's not only chair of Appropriations, but he's raising a ton of money for us.

Harriet: Not necessary. I talked to Ted about her.

Kyle: Ted?

Harriet: Olson, you little dweeb! The guy who argued before SCOTUS and got us elected.

Kyle: I don't understand.

Harriet: He's at Gibson Dunn. They're going to hire her. I understand she's demanding a bundle, though.

Bill: Doesn't Gibson represent Lewis?

Harriet: She'll use the "single mother" excuse.

Bill: I wish I was a single mother.

Kyle: OK, then. How bout if we can Fitzgerald?

I think that Patrick Fitzgerald was very aware that if he went too far in the Valerie Wilson investigation that he would be out for political reasons. That explains why he had Rove testify one more time to correct his earlier testimony. Had he not done that and instead indicted Rove he knew he would be gone. That act of cowardice saved Fitzeralds career.

What is up with GOoPers hiring little boys for really important positions? I mean: Asst. Attorney General? And the guy is 35???

Reminds me of the child prodigies the CPA hired in Iraq to, you know, overhaul the entire economy of Iraq, things like that. Fuck the pros - what do they know, anyway?

So much for "the best and brightest" . . .

D. Kyle Sampson went is from Utah. He is self-described a "devout" Mormon. He is connected thru his parents to money & not a little influence. At least for his 3 years in Law school he had Cheney's daughter as a classmate [Pause for reflection.] He entered & exited private practice in a few months to jumped on the Bush 2001 bandwagon. He parlayed his connection with Ms. Cheney into an audition for the Bush transition team. He made the team spouting some sincere sounding angle on Bush as God's Messenger for politics & govt. He spent every waking second of every daylight hour on the Bush transition team offering to be of help & delivering on jobs others ducked & otherwise shaking his Bush booty in front of Karl's Shop. He was given a desk as an understudy to the CoS at Ashcroft's Department of Faith & Justice. Which is where he was ensconced when came his Big Break - really two Big Breaks in a row. Break #1 was that Ashcroft - the man so beloved of his saviour he lost a Missouri Senate race to a dead guy - beat an early retreat from the corner office. Break # 2 was that by 2002 the Decider apparently figured he no longer needed to brand his Justice herd with a hard right cross from God's Attorney. Instead Bush entrusted the Lord's agenda in facilitating well-intentioned wiretaps & the Testament to Torture & keeping non-believers from screwing up Karl's Kalculator at electon time with a lawyer to someone just as reliable - his own self. So Algae the Duck waddled out of the White House & straight into his Peter Principle job - but with D. Kyle at the Welcome Wagon.

As Schumer observed D. Kyle's a smart ass ... er a bright boy & he perked up to his good fortune as he ran Algae out the door in his spunkies every day. Big Break #2 we all know about - if Rove is Bush's Brain then Algae is the President's Poodle. Algae must be the only attorney in the country - maybe the only human being - who when the Shrub drags out his "Rube with 'Tude" act it just cracks him up. I'm drawn to conclude that if Algae didn't go all weak in the knees & giggle until stuff comes out of his nose Every Single Time his Patron wants to put a hurt on some guy or let one fry he would be long gone back to the Lone Star state doing triple Dos Equis lunches with under-prime mortgage lenders.

From all this I conclude [1]It would not be prudent to underestimate D. Kyle. He's clearly as capable as a chameleon at changing colors to suit the backdrop of his sponsors & bosses. So far he's played sycophant to the Decider - Black Baggie Boy to Big Time - MiniMe to Madam DeTurdblossom - & such a Dweeb he even makes Algae look good.

Of course now that he & his boss are engaged in a serious game of cutthroat - Algae is back to looking as dumb as he is for expecting D. Kyle to volunteer to morph into Algae's personal organic-based Kevlar. Today's performance as the product of splicing genes from Cheney & Rove suggests that D. Kyle abandoned his color as pond scum to Algae a week ago at least & saw today's hearing less of a threat [less than Ms. Goodling for sure] than an opportunity - an audition for the Show. I expect D. Kyle will be spotted next nesting over at the RNC or AEI or the Hudson Institute.

Bottom line - What to we mortals may look like a wet dweeb lying his creepy ass off may well look to those more Vulcanic like a virtuoso performance - on a tightrope over a tiger pit without a net. Memorize this guy's name & face & DNA. Big Time himself got his taste for Democratic meat at the feet of Rummy on the edges of the Nixon Empire. Rove found his groove working for Nixon's chief trickster Donald Segretti. Bush was born to it - a spoiled rotten bully born to a president & now every day letting us know which of the other 42 he could lay a can of whoopass on if he only was still around. And now we have this latest Gen X version - a little monster carrying the genes of all of those before him. I tell you - if this Congress doesn't drop him down the nearest well then blow up the well & fill in the hole in the ground & set fire to the hole then God help us all. In twenty years tops I expect we will all see him mouthing "Go fuck yourself!" to some honorable liberal Democratic senator.

As I recall, one of the chants in praise of the incoming Bush administration was that they were bring (cough) adults back to the government. At the moment, it looks like what they brought in was a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears also rans and trusted in their devotion to the cause to get the dirty work done. None of the folks I've seen on the stand so far seem to have the wits to stand up to a professional cross-examination or the know-how to keep their dirty tricks in smoke filled rooms from which no record could emerge. From Scooter Libby, with his poorly concealed attempt at suborning Judith Miller to perjury, onwards, it really looks like amateur hour here.
What it reminds me of is CREEP, whose G. Gordon Liddy had the 'will' to hold his hand over a candle but couldn't hire professionals who'd have had the good sense to take the tape off of the door at the Watergate Hotel.
I don't pity the chumps: the carelessness that came from their inflated sense of their own power will provide the evidence that puts them in the dock. Without it, they could've gone on running my country into the ground.

Sampson is clearly covering for Miers and Kelley here. "They just looked at me. They didn't say anything." Oh, right.

He has to bring up the fact that somebody said something about Fitzgerald being canned, because it's in the emails. But claiming the talk stopped at him creates a dead end for further inquiry.

You don't think this one was rehearsed to death?!

Kyle: I see prison in your future.

A devout Morman??

We should seriously look at the U.S. Attorneys that were not fired. Let's see if they were going after democrats exclusively.

I've been thinking about the put fitz on the kill list remark all day. It was a very pregnant few minutes when Kyle tried to figure how to explain.

I think in fact he did say it as a joke. The principals maybe got a good laugh. However, that joke makes no since unless the others on the list were getting fired for similar reasons and the one they would really like to get was pfitz. It was the ultimate insider joke but he couldn't say that.

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