"... what you're trying to do is cherry-pick your phrase"

Actually, Tony, that's what *you're* doing. The reporter is offering the common-sense interpretation of the e-mail.

Karl knows where too many bodies are buried, Busta.

Man, it's been a great year for muck . . . and we're just getting started!

When you do it, you're trying to "cherry-pick your phrase." When I do it, I'm trying to "accentuate the key phrases."

I guess the rule the gop lives by is that you do whatever it takes to defend your side, anything and everything, break the law, lie and lie and lie. They see anyone after the truth as an annoyance and an enemy to be defeated.

Where do people learn such behavior? I could never do it. I could never get up there and tell lie after lie after lie the way Snow does. For him, it seems to come as natrually as breathing. And he seems to view it as a virtue, a great skill.

Man, if Miers winds up in the hot seat over this, I can't see how anybody but white men will ever work for these people. The only people who get screwed are minorities (and Libby, somehow).

Posted by: EH
Date: March 16, 2007 02:17 PM

EH--a friend alerted me to this W phenomenon years ago. When it comes to picking members of disadvantaged groups [women=Miers, Rice; Blacks=Rice, Powell (google colin powell my lai report), Hispanic=Gonzales], they go out of their way to select people of less than stellar qualities, thus forcing Ds to criticize members of groups that normally support Ds. Or maybe they select the unqualified ones because their white maleness would be threatened by highly qualified members of disadvanteaged groups. Or maybe both & other motivations too. In any event, we see how they are thrown overboard when convenient.

Why does the press continue to pretend that this administration has any credibility whatsoever?

Long ago we passed the point of even the dullest amongst us owing it to our future the responsibility of cutting off the ring with these neocon crazies.

While we shadow box with coy minion Tony Snow over yeaterday's stunt, the administration, as always, is three steps ahead of us. They're already deep into the next criminal enterprise beyond bombing Iran.

The relevant question now is not what these guys did in replacing the attorneys. The question is what Gonzales is doing this very moment. If this administration feels he is at risk, then they will push through their forward agenda right now while he is still in the office.

If we put under a microscope who he is meeting with and what "business" he is conducting right now, we'll see ahead to the next national travesty.

Probably putting the finishing touches on the AG's opinion that concentration camps fit the desctiption of "due process" spoken to in the Bill of Rights.

"We'd like to replace 15 to 20 percent of the current U.S. attorneys, the underperforming ones."

The DOJ only fired 10%. What about the other 5-10%?

On 3/13/07, Senator Feinstein spoke about the USAs being fired and said "really, the first group to go was this group."

Who else was on the DOJ hit list?

"Man, if Miers winds up in the hot seat over this, I can't see how anybody but white men will ever work for these people. The only people who get screwed are minorities (and Libby, somehow).
Posted by: EH
Date: March 16, 2007 02:17 PM"

Libby is Jewish. That makes him a bona-fide minority as well. Even more so in the Bush administration. Bush was the first President in a very long time to not have any Jews in his initial cabinet. He did pick up one or two; Bolton and Chertoff (is the chief of staff and the terrorism czar actually in the cabinet? I'm not sure). Nevertheless, Bolton didn't even arrive until the first term was over.

tontocal, I don't think it was so much as removing USAs who were doing their job fairly and impartially by investigating crooked politicians who happened to be Rethuglicans, it was more a case of putting in place USAs who were more likely to act as part of the GOP's dirty tricks department. You know, instigate bullshit voter fraud investigations against Democrats at opportune moments, just like they used terror alerts in the 2004 election campaign. Of course a benefit of that would be that investigations of crooked Goopers would stop or at least get stonewalled.

"You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie".-Bush

"No mention of political loyalty; it's performance"-Snow

I'll let you do the math.

"Well, let me ... you know, here's ... again, let's put all this in context. The President has the presidential authority to replace anybody he wants."

That doesn't make me feel any better about the whole situation Tony.

Amnesia Plagues White House!
Not to worry, they'll all remember a new, improved-- and eerily consistent--story tomorrow.

This is appears to have all the trappings of a killer scandal. Underlying the cover up (firing US Attorney's for performance, now exposed as merely political cover) which will get those who originally testified to that under oath impeached or prosecuted for lying to Congress is what they were covering up. The firing of Lam (and any other US Attorney including Fitzgerald) who were prosecuting GOP's. The whole Rove strategy is/was to make for a generation long GOP majority, and in that comes the urgent motivation to 'loyalty'. Loyalty to Bushies is loyalty to the grand scheme. Firing 8 US Attorney's allowed for cover to fire Lam and NM and Arkansas' US Attorney's. Firing them all back in '05 would have provided the same cover but it was too big and noticable.

My last guess is the orginator of the idea which everyone is protecting will end up being GW himself. It is a naive idea, one made of sweeping forward thinking attitude.

My last guess is Simpson is not going to go down as the scape goat like Libby has shown he is willing to take a January '09 pardon. We might have a Dean expose here and then the wheels fall off.

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