This Sam Phillips song is dedicated to William Donahue from the Catholic League. I feel sorry for this twisted, evil old man who seems to have so confused his personal political agenda with the work of God. He’s not alone in this, of course, but because he can rally so many people to attack those […]

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E.J. Dionne takes a stroll down memory lane:
The senator vigorously rejected the president’s claim of executive privilege. “I find this extraordinary and troublesome,” he said, “and I think it will ultimately be damaging to the president. . . . This is an attempt to stonewall our committee, and the public will be outraged.”
Doesn’t that sound […]

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It makes me feel very, very happy to know Molly Ivins spent the last two weeks of her life with Anne Lamott, the wonderful writer.

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Bud Crimmins is one of the fired U.S. attorneys:
So indeed, all of us connected with this administration’s Department of Justice are being quizzed about politicization in other cases. I have been asked time and again whether this or that U.S. attorney around the country has perhaps acted or not acted based on political considerations. […]

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When you ask people to destroy their own souls, you should have a better reason:
He and other soldiers discussed the Geneva Conventions during military training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, in 2003, before being deployed to Iraq. But it became clear they were not always expected to abide by them, he says. Some of the soldiers […]

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Get Smart was one of my favorite shows as a kid. To boot, I liked Tennessee Tuxedo - the common ground being that voice of Don Adams. Lance Mannion has an interesting piece about Barbara Feldon and Don Adams, and Bob Newhart as well… if you liked these shows, you’ll enjoy the post.

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From Elizabeth Edwards:
I want you to turn that compassion and determination now away from me and toward others. Either toward the particular others around you who need your love and support, because, I promise, your love and support is powerful, or toward the collective others who need us to fight for universal health care, […]

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I was going to try to write something funny about a Bush Admin appointee at the Fish and Wildlife Service, Julie MacDonald, sending internal agency documents to her online role playing game buddy (who is likely a child) for review, but why even bother?
MacDonald confirmed that she also sent the Delta Smelt document [the Delta […]

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It’s getting good:
Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush’s key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House. The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified in yesterday’s hearing with a former top Justice Department official as seeking the resignation of a US Attorney […]

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Don’t act surprised: After all, he’s been mispronouncing “Boehner” for years.

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It’s getting hard to keep up with all of the Bush administration’s scandals.
A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information to private groups seeking to affect policy decisions, the department’s inspector general concluded.
The investigator’s report on Julie A. […]

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Bill Greider in The Nation:
Take a deep breath. The nation has arrived at an extraordinary political moment. The Congress is about to instruct the President he should withdraw from the ongoing war. Yes, I know the fine print in the House and Senate versions has lots of wiggle room. But the congressional action is still […]

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Anyone who’s still giving these goons the benefit of the doubt needs to have their head examined:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was more deeply involved in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys than he has sometimes acknowledged, and Gonzales and his aides have made a series of inaccurate claims about the issue in recent weeks, […]

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It’s amazing how many Republicans have faulty memories, isn’t it? Except when they’re keeping score, of course…

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The former chief of the DoJ’s voting rights section says the U.S. attorney purge had one main goal: fixing elections.

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So my friend Mary Beth calls me as she’s driving through the California desert with her kids. “Oh shit, I don’t know whether I should have taken that turn,” she says.
“Do you want me to look it up?” I offer. (I’m sitting at my computer.)
“Okay.”
So I boot up Google maps. “What town are you in?” […]

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For a non-Suburban Guerrilla edition of my favorite internet saga, WordPress Kills Web Servers Dead, have a look at what’s happening to one of my personal favorite websites Sadly, No. About once a day you can see a text only version of the site and the rest of the day you get nothing. Oh thank […]

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Watch this, and find out whether your eyes, your ears, or your mind melts first.

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From the AP -
Gonzales’ former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, in remarks obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, spoke dismissively of Democrats’ condemnation of what they call political pressure in the firings.
“The distinction between ‘political’ and ‘performance-related’ reasons for removing a United States attorney is, in my view, largely artificial,” he said. “A U.S. […]

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Seriously, the spambots are overwhelming our host server. We have to take drastic measures, or life as we know it is gone forever. Or something…
I know it goes against the grain, but please register to comment here. It’s like a vasectomy - it only hurts for a minute, and you’ll be glad later.
[Chris adding] If […]

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For the memories? For being a good little German soldier and helping to cleanse the ranks of the Justice Department? We can only ponder:
A previously overlooked e-mail from the Department of Justice document dump may turn out to be a smoking gun, of sorts, that links White House Adviser Karl Rove to the US Attorney […]

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A very serious problem. As anyone familiar with the disease could have predicted, Berube simply Can’t. Stop. Blogging.

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As opposed to the Washington Post’s usual “truthiness” soup du jour:
Allegations of voter fraud — someone sneaking into the polls to cast an illicit vote — have been pushed in recent years by partisans seeking to justify proof-of-citizenship and other restrictive ID requirements as a condition of voting. Scare stories abound on the Internet and […]

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Josh Marshall from today’s White House document dump:
Not good, not good. The White House Counsel’s Office gave explicit sign off to the DOJ’s letter falsely claiming Rove and Miers played no role in Tim Griffin’s appointment as US Attorney. And the sign off came from Chris Oprison, the guy at the Counsel’s office who Sampson […]

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Remember the Eddie Murphy - Dan Akroyd movie? It seems my best friend and I have traded places in the past few months. I’m the one all stressed out about work and she’s… taking yoga. And blogging.
Bitch. She’s supposed to be the workaholic, not me.
It’s all quite Kafkaesque. Last week, someone asked me out; I […]

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