Scary
Indiana Republicans go back in time.
October 5, 2005
Meanwhile, in the Situation Room...
JOHN KING (filling in for Wolf Blitzer): I'm maybe a contrarian here, but I think this president is suckering the Democrats, that he sees Scalia and Thomas on the court, sees them as intellectual powerhouses for his cause, sees Roberts to manage the court, and now wants not someone to go in there and be the intellectual powerhouse, but to be a damn good conservative vote and the Democrats saying oh, she's nice.
BILL PRESS: Let me tell you, John, I'll take your point but I'll up you one. I think he's conning the Democrats and I think he's conning the conservatives like Pat Buchanan. Look, this is one of the slickest con jobs I've ever seen. He wants an extreme conservative on there. He's not going to take one everybody knows is an extreme conservative. He takes a Scalia in sheep's clothing. He puts, you know, Harriet Miers up there.
Nobody knows anything about her. And I'm afraid the Democrats are going to fall for it just like they fell for John Roberts and say we don't know much about her, she seems like a nice person, and therefore, she's got to be maybe another Sandra Day O'Connor. Karl Rove and George Bush would not have nominated her if they didn't know here well, and know where she stands on the issues.
BILL PRESS: Let me tell you, John, I'll take your point but I'll up you one. I think he's conning the Democrats and I think he's conning the conservatives like Pat Buchanan. Look, this is one of the slickest con jobs I've ever seen. He wants an extreme conservative on there. He's not going to take one everybody knows is an extreme conservative. He takes a Scalia in sheep's clothing. He puts, you know, Harriet Miers up there.
Nobody knows anything about her. And I'm afraid the Democrats are going to fall for it just like they fell for John Roberts and say we don't know much about her, she seems like a nice person, and therefore, she's got to be maybe another Sandra Day O'Connor. Karl Rove and George Bush would not have nominated her if they didn't know here well, and know where she stands on the issues.
"[I]f the Democrats don't raise that issue in the confirmation hearings, they will continue their record, as a whole, with some luminous exceptions, as a whole, of being a party that is spineless, gutless, hapless, clueless and now leaderless." - Ralph Nader, 10/4/05.
Yep, pretty much.
Pic by James Wages.
"My job is to lead and to solve problems." - Bunnypants, 10/4/05.
Well, you suck at both.
"A political disaster"
No, besides former House majority leader Tom DeLay's second indictment.
No, not the SEC's investigation into Senate majority leader Bill Frist's alleged insider trading.
Ummm, no, not VP Cheney's office being named in the CIA leak probe.
OK, not Iraq, either. Geez.
'ABC's Terry Moran asked [WH spokes-tool Scott] McClellan if Bush appointing his personal lawyer, someone with no experience on the bench, is "not the definition of cronyism, what is?"'
She's a a trailblazer! She served as counsel to the president's gubernatorial committee in '93! She represented him in a fishing dispute!
Kelly O'Donnell: To what extent did the President's personal friendship with Harriet Miers have an impact on his ultimate decision? And those who say that it is sort of the appearance of cronyism, that -- did this relationship give her an advantage, and the fact that she was heading the search committee?
McCLELLAN: Well, the President knows her well. He has known her for some time now. But the decision was based on who was the best person to fill this vacancy. And she has the qualifications and experience needed {????? -Ed.} to do an outstanding job on the United States Supreme Court, and that's why the President selected her.
Q: Was he rewarding a friend?
McCLELLAN: I'd say look at her record. She helped clean up the Lottery Commission!
McCLELLAN: Well, the President knows her well. He has known her for some time now. But the decision was based on who was the best person to fill this vacancy. And she has the qualifications and experience needed {????? -Ed.} to do an outstanding job on the United States Supreme Court, and that's why the President selected her.Q: Was he rewarding a friend?
McCLELLAN: I'd say look at her record. She helped clean up the Lottery Commission!
George W. Bush has just rung the death knell for his presidency, says a Star-Trib editorial:
For the Supreme Court of the United States, a president under fire for cronyism has chosen the ultimate crony. 
Now the Ted Kennedy left will have a field day portraying Miers as an unqualified crony while the political right remains unenthused and silent -- because they, too, consider her an unqualified crony.
And those are just some conservatives. The blogosphere Monday was full of other conservatives who weren't silent, but outspokenly angry...
Now the Ted Kennedy left will have a field day portraying Miers as an unqualified crony while the political right remains unenthused and silent -- because they, too, consider her an unqualified crony.
And those are just some conservatives. The blogosphere Monday was full of other conservatives who weren't silent, but outspokenly angry...
October 4, 2005
Preznit PlayStation holds a press con
"An' there should be no doubt in anybody's mind what I believe a judge -- the philosophy of a judge. And Harriet Miers shares that philosophy."
Ohhhhh.... kayyyyyy....
Q: You've taken time to express that you know her heart, her character, you've emphasized your friendship. So it seems reasonable that over the course of the years you've known her, perhaps you have discussed the issue of abortion. Have you ever discussed with Harriet Miers abortion? Or have you gleaned from her comments her views on that subject?
Bunnypants: I don't have a litmus test for judges. I want judges who are qualified and blah blah blah. But I do not have a litmus test.
Q: Sir, you've already said there was no litmus test --
The Doofus-in-Chief: Correct. And I'll say it again: There is no litmus test.
Q: But she is not someone you interviewed for the job that you didn't know. You've known her a long time. Have you never discussed abortion with her?
Preznit Stupid: In my interviews with any judge, I never ask their personal opinion on the subject of abortion.
Q: In your friendship with her, you've never discussed abortion?
Bunnypants: Not to my recollection have I ever sat down with her. John...
Q: Mr President, how are you going to pay for everything? You know, the war, Katrina, your tax-giveaways to your rich buddies?
Knucklehead: First, let me remind people that we are at war. Ah'm a war president. We're trackin' down the Zarqawis....and we're gettin' 'em... as you recall, we got that fella in Baghdad. We're makin' progress. In the war on terra. I mean the war on global extremism or whatever the heck we're callin' it today... Now, when it comes to discretionary spending, non-security discretionary spending, the budget I submitted to the United States Congress actually reduces non-discretionary -- discretionary -- non-security spending. And as a matter of fact, if you look at the trend line for non-security discretionary spending, I think...what the heck wuz I just sayin'? Let's see. April.
Q: Thanks. How are you going to bridge the divide of poverty and race in this country beyond economics and home ownership, after Hurricane Katrina and also the Bill Bennett statements?
Preznit Stupid: Ownership. People gotta own stuff. An' edumacashun.
Q: What if you don't own anything?
Bunnypants: Yore head is shiny. Heh heh.
Q: What about 2008 and the Republican Party trying to gain more of the black vote?
The Doofus-in-Chief: I am really disappointed I didn't get more votes with African Americans because I have tried to put black people in the cabinet, in the sub-cabinet... not just in positions, but in positions that affect people's lives. I gave a black guy a job!
Q: Are the response results from Katrina acceptable yet, sir?
Bush: I think it worked pretty good. But then there was the reaction about, how about getting this debris removed. And there was some bureaucracy, some rules that prevented the debris from getting removed right off the bat. And I'll explain why, if you're interested. Okay, now that you're interested, I'll tell you. Because they didn't want to be moving federally-paid dozers on private property. Imagine cleaning up the debris and a person shows up, and says, where's my valuable china?
Q: WTF? Dozers? Mr President, when Laura told you "It's Jim Beam or me," did you switch to Jack Daniels?
Bunnypants: I don't have a litmus test for judges. I want judges who are qualified and blah blah blah. But I do not have a litmus test.
Q: Sir, you've already said there was no litmus test --
The Doofus-in-Chief: Correct. And I'll say it again: There is no litmus test.
Q: But she is not someone you interviewed for the job that you didn't know. You've known her a long time. Have you never discussed abortion with her?
Preznit Stupid: In my interviews with any judge, I never ask their personal opinion on the subject of abortion.
Q: In your friendship with her, you've never discussed abortion?
Bunnypants: Not to my recollection have I ever sat down with her. John...
Q: Mr President, how are you going to pay for everything? You know, the war, Katrina, your tax-giveaways to your rich buddies?
Knucklehead: First, let me remind people that we are at war. Ah'm a war president. We're trackin' down the Zarqawis....and we're gettin' 'em... as you recall, we got that fella in Baghdad. We're makin' progress. In the war on terra. I mean the war on global extremism or whatever the heck we're callin' it today... Now, when it comes to discretionary spending, non-security discretionary spending, the budget I submitted to the United States Congress actually reduces non-discretionary -- discretionary -- non-security spending. And as a matter of fact, if you look at the trend line for non-security discretionary spending, I think...what the heck wuz I just sayin'? Let's see. April.
Q: Thanks. How are you going to bridge the divide of poverty and race in this country beyond economics and home ownership, after Hurricane Katrina and also the Bill Bennett statements?
Preznit Stupid: Ownership. People gotta own stuff. An' edumacashun.
Q: What if you don't own anything?
Bunnypants: Yore head is shiny. Heh heh.
Q: What about 2008 and the Republican Party trying to gain more of the black vote?
The Doofus-in-Chief: I am really disappointed I didn't get more votes with African Americans because I have tried to put black people in the cabinet, in the sub-cabinet... not just in positions, but in positions that affect people's lives. I gave a black guy a job!
Q: Are the response results from Katrina acceptable yet, sir?
Bush: I think it worked pretty good. But then there was the reaction about, how about getting this debris removed. And there was some bureaucracy, some rules that prevented the debris from getting removed right off the bat. And I'll explain why, if you're interested. Okay, now that you're interested, I'll tell you. Because they didn't want to be moving federally-paid dozers on private property. Imagine cleaning up the debris and a person shows up, and says, where's my valuable china?
Q: WTF? Dozers? Mr President, when Laura told you "It's Jim Beam or me," did you switch to Jack Daniels?
- Transcript.
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Huh
Boy, are there a lot of people pissed off at the Harriet Miers nomination. And by "a lot of people" I mean "mostly republicans."
Wtf is WH stenographer Miller playing at?
A lawyer for Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's flatulent chief of staff, said yesterday that neocon playmate Judith Miller and her attorneys are responsible for Miller's time in jail, reiterating that she was given permission to talk to prosecutors a year ago.
Classy
The grown-ups are in charge...
Hey Cheney - go fuck yourself, you big-time major-league asshole.
Cleaning up Washington
Grand jury indicts scrofulous, morally vacant POS Tom DeLay on new charges, regrets that 'raving asshattery' isn't illegal in Texas.
The money laundering charge, a first-degree felony, carries a penalty of up to life in prison. The conspiracy to launder money charge carries a punishment of two years probation to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. The charge to launder the former majority leader's undies: priceless.
But the loathsome, powermad brownshirted DeLay - who has been admonished five times since 1997 by the House ethics committee - may not have seen the worst of it yet, say new reports.
October 3, 2005
Fabulous!
America's Mayor™ Rudi Giuliani may run for president in 2008. I can't wait to see the campaign posters.
*****
Disappointed, depressed and demoralized
"It smacks of cronyism."
"We passed up Gonzales for this?": Conservatives, unhappy about the Miers nomination, ponder a filibuster.
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It's raining Mehlman
Just how far up Bush's ass is RNC chairpuke Ken Mehlman's dick?
“President Bush has once again,..' - huh? Lost at Frogger? Misspelled 'and'?
"... after thoughtful deliberation and consultation,..." - yoink!!!! LOL. As if!
"... nominated an outstanding person in Harriet Miers..." - who? Outstanding how, exactly?
"... to serve on the Supreme Court. Harriet Miers has had a trailblazing career..." - wuzzah?
"... as one of the top lawyers in the country and is extraordinarily well qualified to serve on the Supreme Court." - dude, wtf's wrong with you??
Fun fact: "She apparently was on the board of Exodus Ministries, the convert-the-homos group." - one of RimJob's fretards this morning.
Ken Mehlman, swallowing the santorum for the misadministration.
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"Last week it was announced that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land) would henceforth be known as Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Shit Creek)." - from this week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots, at DU.
Mwwwwwwaaaa. Or as 'corrupt, indicted scumbag Tom DeLay (R-Prisonbitch).'
Harriet Miers pulls a cheney and selects herself as Supreme Court nominee
Preznit Poopers has chosen Harriet "no prior judicial experience" Miers, "a loyal member of Bubble-Boy's insular world of sycophants, cronies and minders the president's inner circle," to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.
The daughter of a turd-miner and the granddaughter of a goat ball-licker, Miers rose to become Bush's personal lawyer in Texas, working hard to keep both his nose and his ass clean. She became his staff toady secretary in Washington, was promoted to deputy chief of staff, told him bedtime stories over Ovaltine and animal crackers, and has never been a judge.
"She's just extremely devoted to the president."
"In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met."
Miers has been an enthusiastic supporter of the misadministration on a broad of initiatives including tax cuts for the wealthy, ruining Social Security, restrictions on federal spending on embryonic stem cell research, national insecurity, edumacation reforms and fighting porn terrism.
In hosting an "Ask the White House" interactive forum on the Internet before the 2004 elections, Miers lavished praise on a litany of Bush misadministration initiatives, then gushed, "I could go on and on."
Good God.
"I believe that senators of both parties will find that Harriet Miers' talent, experience and judicial philosophy make her a superb choice to safeguard the constitutional liberties and quality of all Americans," Bush bleated this morning. "An' she makes neat balloon animals!"
"She'll do a heckuva job!" - Michael Brown.
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October 2, 2005
Oh please oh please oh please
Source: Preznit PlayStation directly involved in leak scandal.
Oh please oh please oh please...
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Contract on America
Bringing honor, integrity and moral values back to Washington...
Washingtonians with long memories were barely able to suppress their grins. If [corrupt, indicted scumbag] Mr. DeLay and his supporters grasped the irony of the occasion, they gave no clue. Eleven years ago this past week, Republican congressmen and candidates unveiled their "Contract With America." Their proposals came just in time for the 1994 midterm elections, which brought the Republicans to power after a 40-year stint in the minority. Back then, Mr. DeLay and other Republicans promised "a new order." They pledged to drain the swamp that was Washington. Just over a decade later, they find themselves up to their necks in the muck.What goes around comes around for indicted scumbag Tom DeLay
IOW, karma's a bitch. Asshat.
Despite his readiness to condemn others, DeLay deserves the presumption of innocence. Even if the corrupt, venal piece of shit IS guilty as hell.
When Florida state and federal judges failed to order the prolonging of Terri Schiavo's vegetative state, DeLay said, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." The time has come for DeLay sooner than for the judges.
[F]ew politicians are as fiercely partisan, and no one was more insistent that President Bill Clinton be impeached...
When Florida state and federal judges failed to order the prolonging of Terri Schiavo's vegetative state, DeLay said, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." The time has come for DeLay sooner than for the judges.
[F]ew politicians are as fiercely partisan, and no one was more insistent that President Bill Clinton be impeached...
- from the Houston Chronicle.
Rep. Tom DeLay, whom a grand jury indicted on conspiracy charges.
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Senior misadministration officials could be charged with criminal conspiracy
Perjurers make the Baby Jeebus cry.
The public defense of both Karl "the fixer" Rove and VP mechanic Scooter Libby in the CIA leak scandal have focused on the specific claim they didn’t know Valerie Plame’s name. Even if that’s true, it doesn’t mean anyone is off the hook.
If Patrick Fitzgerald is unable to prove a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, Rove, Libby and others could still be charged with perjury if they lied to investigators. Today’s Washington Post floats another possibility:
If Patrick Fitzgerald is unable to prove a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, Rove, Libby and others could still be charged with perjury if they lied to investigators. Today’s Washington Post floats another possibility:
But a new theory about Fitzgerald’s aim has emerged in recent weeks from two lawyers who have had extensive conversations with the prosecutor while representing witnesses in the case. They surmise that Fitzgerald is considering whether he can bring charges of a criminal conspiracy perpetrated by a group of senior Bush administration officials. Under this legal tactic, Fitzgerald would attempt to establish that at least two or more officials agreed to take affirmative steps to discredit and retaliate against Wilson and leak sensitive government information about his wife. To prove a criminal conspiracy, the actions need not have been criminal, but conspirators must have had a criminal purpose.The White House Iraq Group could be in trouble.
-from Think Progress.
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