Go get your Friday evening document dump groove on.

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I once got into a political argument with a dimwit who told me how informed she was because she read the New York Post every day.
Uh huh.

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If Clinton was such a lousy president, as Republicans would have us believe, why do they frequently cite him as justification every time they’re caught red handed, even when Clinton didn’t do it, too?
You never hear them say “Nixon did it, too” even though Bush’s presidency resembles Nixon’s much more than it does Clinton’s.

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Greg Palast:
IN AN E-MAIL uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove’s right-hand man, gloated that “no (U.S.) national press picked up” a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate scheme to challenge the votes of thousands of African Americans in the 2004 […]

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I didn’t get to see the debate last night, but it sure sounds like Mike Gravel is my kind of Democrat.

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Why Andrea Mitchell is a shameless liar:

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They make me sick:
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration’s detention policies.
Saying that visits by civilian lawyers and attorney-client mail have […]

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Riverbend:
On a personal note, we’ve finally decided to leave. I guess I’ve known we would be leaving for a while now. We discussed it as a family dozens of times. At first, someone would suggest it tentatively because, it was just a preposterous idea- leaving ones home and extended family- leaving ones country- and to […]

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You know, they’ve taken political corruption to a whole new level. The Hatch Act was designed to prevent abuses like this, so of course Rove just ignores it. Nice!

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Via The Fat Lady Sings, a field guide to political interviews:
1. Attack the Question. - “That’s a very silly question, how can you justify the use of the words ‘above the law’”?
2. Attack the Questioner. - “How many years have you spent in government?”
3. Compliment the question. - “That’s a very good question. I’d like […]

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By the time John McCain is calling for this, it’s clearly not a spontaneous GOP uprising, but a carefully orchestrated attempt to throw Gonzales under the bus in order to distract us. They don’t want us talking about the corruption cases he was trying to sandbag - and who was behind it:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) […]

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Perhaps this will jog his memory:
WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Feeney has insisted for years that he didn’t know convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid for their luxury golfing trip to Scotland in 2003.
But an e-mail obtained by the St. Petersburg Times on Wednesday shows that Abramoff’s office sent specific instructions on how to report the trip […]

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Condi doesn’t feel like answering under oath, so she won’t.

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Keith from last night:

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This is why we voted for them:
An angry Rep. Rosa DeLauro, fed up with what she sees as a Food and Drug Administration reluctant to act quickly and effectively to protect consumers, threatened today to withhold salaries from top FDA officials unless they became more vigilant.
DeLauro, D-3rd District, chairs the House panel that writes the […]

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Here’s what your Democratic Congress has been up to, bless their hearts them. We done good with this last election!

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Turns out that OSC investigator who says he’ll look into Rove is… under investigation. Oops!
At the OSC, Bloch is supposed to protect whistleblowers. But he’s been charged with reprising against those who challenge his agency and others. Before Bloch was appointed by Bush to take over the OSC, he was a deputy director and counsel […]

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But you have to admit, the people of Iraq are much better off than they were under Saddam Hussein - you know, when they had frills like electricity, water, housing and food:
BAGHDAD, April 25 (Reuters) - The United Nations rebuked Iraq’s government on Wednesday for refusing to disclose politically sensitive civilian casualty figures in what […]

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On that investigation of Rove. We’ll see if the OSC does its job impartially:
Tonight on MSNBC, fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias revealed key new details about the Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) probe into Karl Rove and other White House officials reported today by the Los Angeles Times.
Iglesias said that on April 3, he filed […]

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Get the popcorn again:
WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities.
But […]

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Glenn Greenwald:
I’m not one who subscribes to the view that our Beltway culture is so irredeemably vapid and broken that the entire political system is doomed, but those who do believe that were bequeathed several new gifts today for use in support of that claim, including:
(1) This article by The New York Times’ Adam […]

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Unbelievable:

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More sad news from Iraq:
BAGHDAD - Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing against a patrol base northeast of Baghdad, the military said.
The attack occurred in Diyala province, a volatile area that has been the site of fierce fighting between U.S. and Iraqi troops, Sunni insurgents and […]

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Who would have dreamed it?
Science Daily — Almost half of sales visits by pharmaceutical company representatives advocating the use of the drug gabapentin led to doctors stating that they intended to increase their prescription of the drug or recommend it to colleagues, according to an analysis of a survey completed by the doctors shortly after […]

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