The hell with evidence go out and arrest someone!
“Another fired prosecutor, John McKay, of Seattle, tells NEWSWEEK that local Republicans pressured him to launch a criminal probe of voting fraud that would tilt a deadlocked Washington governor’s race. ‘They wanted me to go out and start arresting people,’ he says, adding that he refused to do so because there was ‘no evidence.’ “
Who will be the first republican to call for Gonzales’s firing?
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After Tough Week, Gonzales Says He Remains Focused – washingtonpost.com: “‘This attorney general doesn’t have anybody’s confidence,’ said one GOP adviser to the White House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so he could be candid. ‘It’s the worst of Bush — it’s intense loyalty for all the wrong reasons. There will be other things that come up, and we don’t have a guy in whom we can trust.’
Gonzales has always had an uncertain relationship with conservatives, many of whom opposed talk of appointing him to the Supreme Court and suspect that the former Texas state judge is more liberal on abortion and other social issues than they would like. Gonzales’s predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, by comparison, was a conservative celebrity who once pondered a run for the White House as an evangelical Christian candidate.”
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If you don’t read Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo, you should bookmark it today.
“I mean, where to start and where to stop? As Mayor Rudy put a cop with numerous alleged mob ties in charge of the NYPD. And Kerik’s main credential going in was that he’d been Rudy’s driver.”
Aside from what’s beginning to look like a “rudy-watch,” Josh and friends have been keeping a close eye on the US Attorneys’ scandal.
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The hell with evidence go out and arrest someone!
“Another fired prosecutor, John McKay, of Seattle, tells NEWSWEEK that local Republicans pressured him to launch a criminal probe of voting fraud that would tilt a deadlocked Washington governor’s race. ‘They wanted me to go out and start arresting people,’ he says, adding that he refused to do so because there was ‘no evidence.’ “
Who will be the first republican to call for Gonzales’s firing?
Categories: US Attorneys
After Tough Week, Gonzales Says He Remains Focused – washingtonpost.com: “‘This attorney general doesn’t have anybody’s confidence,’ said one GOP adviser to the White House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so he could be candid. ‘It’s the worst of Bush — it’s intense loyalty for all the wrong reasons. There will be other things that come up, and we don’t have a guy in whom we can trust.’
Gonzales has always had an uncertain relationship with conservatives, many of whom opposed talk of appointing him to the Supreme Court and suspect that the former Texas state judge is more liberal on abortion and other social issues than they would like. Gonzales’s predecessor, John D. Ashcroft, by comparison, was a conservative celebrity who once pondered a run for the White House as an evangelical Christian candidate.”
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Robert Kuttner writes in the Boston Globe:
“My bet is that impeachable offenses will emerge from Congressional investigations. What will protect Bush and Cheney from that fate is less the merits of the case than the electoral calendar. It is simply too close to the 2008 election.”
The same thing that saved Reagan.
Jamison Foser, of Media Matters writes a compelling piece on the nastiness we’re seeing from Coulter, Down, Mattews, & gang:
“The MSM’s failure to properly convey the extent of Ann Coulter’s bigotry, nastiness, and irresponsibility hasn’t resulted in her being ‘marginalized’ — it has helped her become an icon of the right without any accountability for the conservative movement that embraces her. Coulter’s column, receptacle of much of her hate speech, appears in numerous newspapers across the country. Media Matters, outraged emailers — 834 by one editor’s count — and others have begun to put a real dent in her reach. Yesterday, we posted a list of papers running her column, as well as their email addresses, and the parade of op-ed pages announcing that they are dropping her is growing almost by the hour.”
Let’s hope in 2008 we have an election on the issues and not a rehash of the vile rightwing smears we’ve seen since seeminly forever.
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