After reading this, I'd REALLY like to learn that the very unlikely possibility of an affair between Ashcroft and Goodling is true.

are those the same statues ed meese had covered too?

code phrase: most suspects are guilty

Can the taxpayers get our money back?

"The department spent $8,000 on blue drapes that hide the two giant, aluminum art deco statues, said spokesman Shane Hix. For aesthetic reasons, he said, the drapes were occasionally hung in front of the statues before formal events. The department used to rent the drapes, but has now purchased them and left them hanging.....

Hix said the Justice Department bought the drapes to avoid having to rent them every time the agency had a formal event. The drapes cost about $2,000 to rent.

He also said Ashcroft was not involved in the decision.

"The attorney general was not even aware of the situation," he said. "Obviously, he has more important things to do."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/29/statues.htm

Well, you were pretty certain isn't wasn't a man that issues with the bronze boobies....

And, pray tell, who were they renting the drapes from at $2,000 a pop of taxpayer money? Which GOP events company in DC got that bid?

Oh yeah, fact check for National Journal: the bosoms really are not that ample. They're actually pretty dainty. See the photo from USA Today.

someone needs to "get some action"

Sorry, way off topic here, but seriously, can you get an underwear model that looks less like Dana Perino for the ad that runs in the middle of the page. That just creeps me out.

Monica L. and Monica G.
Blue dress. Blue drapes.
Both at the center of a presidential controversy.

Coincidence? I think not.

Something doesn't add up here for me. Didn't Ashcroft cover up the "bosoms" back in 2001 or 2002? Wasn't Ms. Monica still in law school, or at least doing her stint in oppo research at the RNC then?

Maybe I have my time line off.

Apparently she got her J.D. in 1999.

Monica, Monica, Monica. *sigh* I'm sure she meant well.
Monica might have once been a true believer but I think getting burned by Rove may have changed all that. It could happen.

front

meese is a pig:

yes, exactly

When former Attorney General Edwin Meese released a report on pornography in the 1980s, photographers dived to the floor to capture the image of him raising the report in the air, with the partially nude female statue behind him.

MONICA M. GOODLING
Regent University, 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464-5041

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EDUCATION

1997 - REGENT UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL(S) OF LAW AND GOVERNMENT
Joint Degree Candidate for Juris Doctor and a Masters of Public Policy

1996 - UNIVERSITY OF PARIS/ UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW
Completed the Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris, France

1996 - AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW
Completed the first year of a Juris Doctor program in the top 20% of the class

1995 - MESSIAH COLLEGE
Graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications
Minors: Political Science & Chemistry

1988 - DALE CARNEGIE & ASSOCIATES
Graduated from the Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speaking and Human Relations

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LEADERSHIP & WORK EXPERIENCE

1994-1995 - PRESIDENT, MESSIAH COLLEGE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Served as the chief executive officer of the student government association, which entailed organizing and overseeing 80 clubs, organizations, and groups; helping develop and execute the $250,000 budget; and representing students before the board of trustees, administration, faculty, and staff.

1992-1994 - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, MESSIAH COLLEGE YEARBOOK
Served as editor for two years, developing leadership and managerial abilities through the development and supervision of a 320 page publication and $54,000 budget; negotiations with publishing and photography companies; and recruitment, training and directing a fifty person staff.

1991-1997 - SELECTED COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS

Institutional Planning
Finance
President's Cabinet
President's Inauguration (Chair of two committees, member of a third)
Student Association Executive Cabinet and Council (Chair of both)
Senator and Class officer
Homecoming Registration & Hospitality (Cochair), Parade (Chair), and Court (Chair)
Family Weekend Planning Committee and Staff
Fall Welcome Weekend
Dorm Council
Special Olympics
Spring Break Service Projects (Treasurer)
Representative three years, National Student Leadership Conference on Faith & Values (Wash., D.C.)
Representative two years, National Student Leadership Conference at Taylor University (Indiana)
Representative, Conservative Leadership Conference (Wash., D.C.)
American Bar Association Volunteer Work a Day
Political Foundation

1995 SUMMER - HARRISBURG HOLIDAY INN CONFERENCE CENTER AND HOTEL
Worked in Guest Services at the Front Desk.

1995, 1994, 1993 SUMMERS - WEST SHORE COUNTRY CLUB
Organized and coached a 110 person swimming team of children ranging in ages from four to seventeen, while also teaching private lessons and lifeguarding.

I wouldn't bet that Ashcroft wasn't involved, even if Monica gets the credit.

There was quite a game of trying to catch people (not just Ashcroft) speaking in front of the statues, especially if it looked like they were "groping". I've seen a number of them with Ashcroft that are kind of funny...in a childish way, tee hee.

But the over reaction speaks loudly and the symbolism of covering up justice was priceless.

Frankly, I don't know why the statues would have to be covered up during formal functions either. Can you imagine going to Italy and asking for statues and paintings that showed breasts to be covered up...even the Pope doesn't seem to be offended. Some people need to grow up.

Why is she taking the Fifth when she has that Dale Carnegie course under her belt?? Speak, Monica, speak!

that's quite a resume

dale carnegie!
student government!
lifeguard!

even with the jd degree, that's worth about, oh, 60k as a front desk manager at a holiday inn, imho

affirmative action for white xian dimbulbs: the bush doj

Graduating from a Dale Carnegie course in a resume? how about Evelyn Woods speed reading?

Every sexually repressed women is really a tigress waiting to burst out.

The "Original Cover-Up" involved cloaking the scales of Justice, sort of like Diebold electronic voting. Now you see it; now you don't and you're screwed.

Messiah College: the only college for which you just can't come up with a mascot.

I'm scared that Monica attended a "Purity Ball" with her Dad.

This chick is like a kitsch collision between Up With People and Triumph of the Will.

Maybe after the Congrssional hearings, Goodling can pose for Playboy.

Drits'nDravy: I understand what you want. You want a moment of catharsis. You want to get back at the self-righteous blowhards that bullied the country into making reckless decisions in the name of patriotism and morality.
But I have family members who are just as unhinged as Monica. My brother could give Monica a run for the money (though he hasn't done anything illegal as far as I know). I don't speak to my mother or my siblings because their behavior and treatment of me has been condescending and exclusive.
But I wouldn't wish the kind of attention you are seeking on any of my family. I think of them as conditioned to fearfulness, repressed, gullible and naive. They honestly don't realize they're doing evil.
If Monica were Ralph Reed, that would be a different story. But the news that she was responsible for the draping of the statue indicates to me that she started out, at least, as a true believer, misguided and mislead. She's lead a very sheltered life. Her kind of upbringing did not prepare her for the environment of Washington.
Yes, I would like the fundamentalists to get what's coming to them. But unlike you, I know that the greatest punishment they will face will not be ridicule and derision at the hands of a righteously indignant public. Their punishment will happen when they descend into disorder with the rest of us as a result of their actions to undermine government - and the Rapture doesn't come. Then they will realize that they have followed false prophets and the lives they gave up for their dream of paradise, their youth and vitality, the sensuality and love they spurned, the friends and family they rejected, are gone and may never be recovered.
That judgement day is coming and it will be a very rude awakening indeed. Then, you will have justice.

I JUST MOVED MY BOWELS IN MY PANTS....

Keeper quotes:

"Monica Goodling is devoutly religious, which is to say she cannot tell right from wrong."
-nofltwlt, May 7, 2007 03:10 PM

"They honestly don't realize they're doing evil."
-goldberry, May 7, 2007 07:24 PM

Wow! Quite an impressive resume.

I can't believe, however, that she left out the "Laff-a-lot Traffic School" course she attended at 16 after her first traffic ticket.

Or the "Microwave Your Way to Good Cooking" class she got free when she bought a new oven range for her first apartment.

Someone should let Garance Franke-Ruta and Amanda Marcotte know about this.

Truly this thread was great therapy!

Steve, you found how easy it is to feel obliged to use the "code word."

goldberry, you outdid yourself in understanding and compassion for people like monica - and her plight.

And so many posters provided levity along with insight into the foibles of fundamentalist prudes who advertise what they fear by covering it up in public!

The word is "degree" and I don't now whether posters have earned degrees or set out degrees of humor, but thank you one and all!

Lolly
LMAO...Thanks

I'm not sure but what is the problem with keeping abreast of the situation?

I'm not sure but what is the problem with keeping abreast of the situation?

Posted by: stephen

Now that is the keeper quote.

Goes to Paris. Then on to Regents and covering statues. Frying freedom to make freedom fries. Must have hated the France ...

security code: cloth. Cannot cover shamelessness

IF this is true...

Okay, maybe I'm the only one who feels almost betrayed to consider that a WOMAN might be part of covering up a statue's breast.

It's just that everything tha