Now that you mention Rove - this sounds like more of his hatchling "faith-based" distributions of tax revenues for political dirty tricks. Segretti, could you have imagined the devolution of democracy your legacy has sparked?

Posted at March 17, 2008 10:08 AM in response to All Muck Is Local: Cloak and Dumber

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Posted at March 12, 2008 3:57 PM in response to Today's Must Read

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There can't be much doubt that Wall Street was maintaining a watchful eye on Spitzer's activities. That he made enemies among their ranks is hardly a revelation. I hate to see him resign as this will be an excuse to silence further disclosure into the QAT International arrests, who the other depositors, operators, and managers were, and when the holding company was created. Further discovery into potential links to the perfect laundering scheme of "faith based charity" (federal) distributions will disappear.

An earlier parallel to this lone ethics threat was a nobody Congressman by the name of Gary Condit whose popular legislative packages could have imposed catastrophic fiscal accountability on the current executive branch. (Condit was tried by the media for having a relationship with and then murdering a congressional aide). His House Bills would have forced the WhiteHouse to obstruct even more prosecution. More to the point, it seems odd that with all the investigative agencies, financial institutions, and communications companies conscripted into spying that Chandra Levy's real murderer has never been found. The lack of interest arouses suspicion of partisan complicity. But what's one more obstruction in a list that is virtually endless.

Posted at March 12, 2008 11:19 AM in response to Today's Must Read