Oh looky! Jim Byrne is starting off the conference. What in the heck does Jim Byrne do all day, anyway? He was supposed to be mangling... managing some of the Iglesias complaint. They don't even give the guy a bio on the OSC website and he's been deputy special consul for how long now? 14 months, that's how long. It's pretty clear Bloch doesn't want him there.

Why doesn't anyone know anything about James M Byrne?

Posted at June 20, 2008 2:26 AM in response to "Why Isn't The White House Letting Him Go?"

Bloch is a perfect case of Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Posted at June 14, 2008 12:12 AM in response to Bloch Pushed Underlings To Counter Negative Press With Comment Posts

Oh my gawd, Schaffer's campaign manager is Dick Wadhams? How could anyone forget DickWad?

Wadhams was Senator Macaca's campaign manager. Also an article in Slate suggests he was Karl Rove's protege and loved going negative early and often.

Posted at June 1, 2008 4:00 AM in response to Who's Behind That Mysterious Earmark?

Mrs Panstreppon,

Can you please link your articles on these topics so we can see them, and also to start getting them relinked into search engines?

Is there any way you can ask the folks behind the major search engines why they have been removed without your permission?

Posted at April 7, 2008 3:03 PM in response to Today's Must Read

No one could have possibly foreseen that putting crooks in charge of money would lead to illegal behavior.

Posted at March 6, 2008 9:02 PM in response to Today's Must Read

Yeah... except according to DonSiegelman.org, Siegelman can't appeal his sentence!!! Why? Because there's no trial transcript, and that has to be filed to appeal!

More here.

Posted at February 26, 2008 12:09 AM in response to Schumer Questions Mukasey on Siegelman Case

Hey, it finally worked! Alright!

Posted at February 5, 2008 2:32 AM in response to Muckraker 3.0 Redux

From a quick look at the comments on the old thread, I noticed something missing, something that helped fuel Katrina.

It was Cindy Sheehan. She was protesting right outside Bush's ranch right about the time Katrina hit. I really think it was perfect storm of both of these events that showed how completely out of touch Bush was, on so many levels.

He wouldn't meet with this woman who lost her son, and it made him look afraid.

That got everyone talking about Iraq, and Bush's not serving in Vietnam due to his family connections.

He wouldn't acknowledge that we had a huge national disaster.

And he wouldn't acknowledge he had named a bunch of unqualified hacks, which is why things were even worse than they had to be with Katrina.

I really say it's Cindy and Katrina, better together.

madhaus
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

Posted at December 29, 2006 10:57 PM in response to What's New? Events of the (Two) Year (Cycle)

I believe the phrase you meant to use is "The vise tightens on the middle class." Vice refers to unpleasant habits and occupations; gambling, prostitution, drugs. That's why Dick Cheney is known as our Vice President.

A vise is a tool to hold something down or keep it still. You can be caught in a vise, but you can also be caught by the Vice Squad. The latter will probably put you in a small cell where you can move around a bit, though.

Since I didn't see anything in your article on the high cost of heroin or the insane prices for an outcall, I suspect you wanted to use a vise instead.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

Posted at June 29, 2006 2:38 PM in response to The Vice Tightens on Middle Class Families