Mary Cheney must be feeling very proud.

Her neck, like that of the Coultergeist, looks primed for the guillotine. Let them eat cake.

Unfortunately, there is no law to protect gays and lesbians from getting fired from their jobs. It was a tactical error to focus on gay marriage before equal rights IMO.

Shocking!

Oh, wait, no. Not really.

What an odious little puke. I suggest the Eighth Circle of Hell for her. Steeped in crap or immersed in a lake of boiling pitch? I'm leaning toward the crap. Poetic justice.

Wow. Where to begin?

First of all, for those who have posted that it is "perfectly legal" to fire a federal civil servant for being gay, please check out Executive Order 13087 and the employee manual at http://www.opm.gov/er/address2/Guide04.asp.

Second, is there anything to this story other than rumor, triple hearsay, and the richly satisfying confirmation of what readers of this blog wanted to believe in the first place? Seems like pretty thing soup.

Actually, DC has a local law against discrimination in hiring for gays and lesbians as do many states. So while it is true that it is legal under federal law to fire someone for being lesbian or gay, it is not legal in DC.

The actual city of DC has very progressive hiring and tenant laws for everyone. It's only the out-of-towners (texans) that suck.

And what else should we expect from a no-talent intellectual midget like Goodling? Another fine standard-bearer from a fantastic institution of theocratic learning.

I know a few lesbians that could and would knock the blond off her stupid, stupid head. What a sycophantic pustule! So sorry her "career" has been cut short by her own hackery idiocy.

Quelle dommage! (Wait - is speaking French worse than being gay OR a Democrat?)

What is it with Republicans and the private sex lives of others? Today the Haters are out to get the homosexuals. Tomorrow it could be the BDSM crowd, or people with foot fetishes, or the men who love sheep (and the women who won't wear wool). Basically, if a Republican in power decides what turns YOU on is aberrant, you could lose everything. As for Goodling, she deserves a sound, protracted thrashing from a big lesbian dominatrix.

Goodling fired Hagen because Jesus and Pat Robertson told her to.

-AF

Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

I pray pray PRAY that the inspector general at DOJ is wise enough to drag out his investigation until a new administration is in place.

All of these inter-related cases involving Gonzo, Rove, Goodling and that bizarre little sub-human Kyle Sampson.... If any sort of heat comes down on these people while Bush is in power, they'll all get blanket pardons.

And maybe the next Admin will issue an executive order allowing an outright ban on hiring anyone who came within a mile of Regent University.

How long before we find out that the recently engaged Ms. Goodling has a little lesbian secret of her own?

Thought you folks would appreciate this re-post of something I originally posted at FDL almost a year ago, then put on my blog (click my name for the URL link).

from Friday, August 10, 2007
Bang Bang, Waxman's Wooden Hammer...

Monica was skeptical,
She was too respectable,
For a real law school.
Late nights all alone back at Regent.
oh oH OH OH!!!

Ky-ull Sampson,
working for the Rovian,
Calls her on the phone.
"Can we get these a-ttorneys fired,
Mon- ick- uh?"

But as they put those names on the list,
A knock comes on the door.

Bang! Bang! Waxman's wooden hammer
came down upon the desk...
Bang! Bang! Waxman's wooden hammer
exposed what they had said...

Back in charge again.
Henry deals the cards for them.
Davis (Cannon, Lungren) gets annoyed.
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant Sce, e, e, ene,

He tells Henry "shut-up-and-cut-Monica,
A-break because she's blond,"
Whining when she sobs,
"It must not be So, o, o, o.."

But as she winks at those dirty-old-men,
He lifts the gavel high...

Bang! Bang! Waxman's wooden hammer
Came down upon the desk.
Bang! Bang! Waxman's wooden hammer,
Henry, you're the best!

P.C. BLOGOSPHERE-
said, "We found a secret here."
Henry stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures.
OOH -AHH, Uh Oh!!

Joe and Valerie, standing in the gallery
Watched old Scoot go free..
The judge does not agree
and he tells them So, o, o, o.

But as the cast walks out of the court,
A noise comes from behind.

Bang! Bang! Waxman's wooden hammer
Came down, that tough old slueth.
Bang! Bang! Waxman's wooden hammer
Made sure we knew the truth..

Whoa, oh, oh, oh. Wooden hammer.

Hmm.
While I don't disagree that Goodling seems to have focused on Hagen's sexual orientation, I have to caution those of us who assume that's the whole story.

It may have been the excuse, rather than the cause.
What was Hagen working on?
Any malfeasance ever happen at the Dept. of Indian Affairs? (rhetorical question!!111!)
Having seen some of Monica's testimony, I would not be surprised if she and her cohorts were already looking for something on Hagen that could plausibly be accepted as a cause, for use as a smokescreen.

To lower the hackles a bit, we readers are getting sucked into rhetoric that really isn't representative, based on a few key words and little proof, despite what we all want to be outraged about.

She wasn't fired for being gay. Sensational headlines aside, her contract was not renewed. I am a government contractor also. I have had several contracts not renew. That doesn't mean I was ever fired. The stilted, half-story is that this nice, defenseless (maybe gay) woman was suddenly, unexpectedly jobless. We do not know if this is true, and as such, this is a Faux-news style report that unfortunately we readers have become too good at picking apart. In reality, we have a sharp, knowledgeable DOJ-experienced (maybe gay) lawyer that would sue the crap out of the place if there was actual civil rights infringement or labor law violation.

Speaking from experience, there is not a federal contractor in the country that should expect long-term status with a client beyond the term of the existing contract. That is defined as an employee. I doubt the reason cited for non-renewal was "gay", though no reason needs to be given. Could actually be that no government need continued or that a government employee was able to take on the task.

I just reread your story sources... A person that knew a person suggested that some other person remembered that someone said that she had a problem with someone else's sexuality. That's what you are running with?? And no investigation by you about contract, follow-on by someone else (or government employee), who was cited present at this meeting, etc.? You are just seeking a reaction, not reporting news. The DOJ, nor most courts cannot use this as evidence, nor sourced as such. So why is a huge headline here about Gay Firings at DOJ? That's not even accurate. Perhaps you folks are putting on a bow-tie and we are gonna see a TPM 360 soon?

I don't like supporting Gonzo cronies, so please stop this. There is enough actual illegal activity out there. You don't need to stretch for this.

Neither unexpected or unusual... this might actually help in the deep base - let alone become a good stalling tactic along w/ Johnson and who knows what else is gonna pop up.

I don't condone what Monica Goodling is said to have done (or what she has acknowledged doing). But the scale of the damage done by Monica Goodling seems to me infinitely smaller than that done by the smiling Doug Feith, who is now said to have opined that anyone concerned about torture was "siding with the assholes." By whom, when, is Mr. Feith going to be investigated (along with Mr. Yoo and the lawyers who "visitied Gitmo" to take down some ideas that they'd received?

Monica Goodling: poster child for the banality of evil.