I guess Abu Gonzo was bored so he found something constructive to do.Man is there anything these guys won't do ?

What crimes were committed?

Would Gov. Richardson get to appoint the new Senator?

Would he feel compelled to replace the Thug with a new Thug or cleanse with a fresh Dem?

How long will it take before we can kiss Joe Lieberman goodbye?

I want a memo laying out the details and our strategy by morning.

'Man is there anything these guys won't do ?'

Bob, it appears there is very little these guys won't do. Just GD amazing...

The answer, Bob, is no there isn`t.

Prepare yourselves for worse yet to come out.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw

Prepare yourselves for worse yet to come out.

Open the floodgates today, and drive some snakes into the sea this St. Pats.

Which blogger was it that said the 2nd term would be mired in scandal? Was that Jeff Jarvis?

I remember it was some bland white coastal guy. Michael Totten? Patterico?

Kevin implies that Dominici and Wilson fired Iglesias. But they are in Congress and the U.S. Attorney was replaced by the Bush Administration, not by Congress.

Sorry, Kevin, your evidence is flimsy.

Anyway, if we can figure out who that was, that guy should go on Art Bell.

Domenici sort of has an excuse, being senile and all.

"I would never, ever make a change in the United States attorney position for political reasons," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

The mire hasn't even started. The Dems need to make it as unpartisan, bi-party and for-the-benefit-of-the-country as possible.

This administration has been an international disgrace. Mall-administration needs to stop now.

On Attorney Iglesias, he was on NPR this evening. He was a Bush appointee. Would have resigned if asked. Will name who called him about the "closed files", if asked. Has been targeted as taking "too many days from the office" without mentioning he is a USN Reservist doing hi required 36+ day service/training. Seemed like what you expect a US Attorney to be.

Screw these guys. There is nothing ordinary about replacing so many US Attornies in the last 2 years like this. Has been hinted it is to raise the number of future potential Republican Higher Court appointees. One of the replacement Attornies is a Rove gnome.

As to Alberto Gonsalez, There's nothing this man says I trust. He's a sleazeball politico where law is a means, not a belief. Not one shred of morality.

His crimes list just gets longer.

...Kevin implies that Dominici and Wilson fired Iglesias....

Posted by: Frequency Kenneth on March 2, 2007 at 1:54 AM | PERMALINK

Your level of English comprehension is about 3rd grade. No where Kevin says that.

As usual, you expose yourself as an ignorant troll. But these members of Congress allowed themselves to use pressure they have no right to use to intimidate their states' U.S. Attorney. That IS dubious behavior.

The evidence is mounting that there has never been an administration like this one in U.S. history. The corruption and incompetence go down so deep it's like trying to plumb a bottomless well! The top 3 examples (or the worst 3) that stand out in my mind are:

1. The staffing of the Iraq Reconstruction project (or whatever they call those clowns in the 'Green Zone')

2. Katrina

3. Comments by ex-Cabinet officials that there was no policy-making structure existing outside of the political operation

And, to answer a previous question;no, there isn't anything these guys want do. Their only moral guideposts seem to be a sense of entitlement and the desire for self-enrichment.

James M.

No wonder the Republican minority squashed the ethics reform bill in the Senate; might make this already patently unethical episode of predatory influednce exertion and retaliation more prosecutable.

There's absolutely nothing surprising about the party of "traditional values" being traditionally ruthless, corrupt and amoral. They always were and always will be.

What amuses me is the way some political pundits assert that Bill and Hillary Clinton (Clinton, Inc.) punish their critics ruthlessly and keep a purported "enemies list". What horseshit! Only morons like American Hawk, Frequency Kenneth and Jay believe nonsense like that. The Clintons are pikers compared to Bush/Cheney Inc.

Why was Iglesias taking so long in his investigation? Partisanship? Maybe. But never attribute to malevolence what can be explained by stupidity.

Iglesias wasn't fired for partisan reasons. He was fired for incompetence.

I have to wonder if Dick Cheney and his good pal Karl Rove didn't whisper in the GOP congress members ears, "go after Dems" then punish the attorneys for NOT listening to this Al Capone style of leadership coming straight out of the Whitehouse?

Reeks of organized, syndicated criminal behavior of the old Al Capone days except this time corruption is coming straight out of the Office of the President of United States, whereby they own the press, own the government offices, select only judges that do that they say and then accuse those in the judicial field of being “activist judges” – only when those in the legal field don’t do the bidding of Dick Cheney and practice complete corruption in favor of this administration.

How bad does it have to get before Americans realize how corrupt this administration is?

The Bush administration is completely corrupted. This administration is doing things that anyone else would go to jail for - this administration does completely criminal things with the sheer intent of doing criminal acts. Impeachment is the only answer to this kind of corruption.

Al, since when had this administration ever fired someone because of incompetence. ROFL

This is unfair. We should focus on the attorneys who kept their jobs. Iglesias was a bad apple and his unwillingness to play the game should not reflect on the justice department as a whole.

"Why was Iglesias taking so long in his investigation? Partisanship? Maybe."

It's strange how so many Bush appointees turned out to be partisan Democrats. Naturally, no true Republicann would ever have a disagreement with the adminstration . . .

"There's absolutely nothing surprising about the party of "traditional values" being traditionally ruthless, corrupt and amoral. They always were and always will be." - jim

Aw yes jim, one is reminded of Ronnie Earle at a time like this, who failed to bring down a Republican Governor and then set his sights on a Republican Congressman and, after SEVEN grand juries, received the indictment. But, how's that "rock-solid" case coming along?

And from your insane post, I am assuming you think that the Democrats have the "traditional values", right?. LMAO.

Kevin,
The reason I can't vote Republican is because I would be ashamed to have to contort the english language beyond recognition to make such weak ass arguments. One thing you have to hand it to your trolls for is they are the most difficult folks to embarass I have ever seen, and they stand right up and deliver this horseshit with (presumably) a straight face.

Wow.

"....and they stand right up and deliver this horseshit with (presumably) a straight face." - Dexter

Are you talking about Katie Couric?

Cheryl: Reeks of organized, syndicated criminal behavior of the old Al Capone days except this time corruption is coming straight out of the Office of the President of United States...

Makes you wonder. Are there any people out there knowledgeable enough about RICO law? Is the administration capable of being indicted as a racketeering operation?

Who was the Democrat that was supposed to be indicted? Has he been indicted yet? What was the crime? I'm not trolling here, I'm just curious. This has been all over TPM for a couple days, and Kevin is keeping up as well. But I've yet to see anything that even hazards a guess at who the democrat under investigation was.

You can always count on Kevin's trolls to spin (lie about) the junta's corruption. Thanks Al and Freq you never fail to entertain.

Jay: But, how's that "rock-solid" case coming along?

It's going splendidly.

DeLay has lost more court battles than he's won.

And when have conservatives ever opposed a prosecutor who comes out on top, even when he loses a substantial number of hearings against everyday criminals?

Only when a white conservative is involved.

Conservatives are all gung-ho about aggressive prosecutions when the prosecutors are picking on poor blacks and latinos.

Only when they pick on derelict and crooked white conservatives do conservatives become proponents on constitutional rights, and then they make up rights that don't even exist or embrace to the extreme rights that they belittle the rest of the time and want to limit.

BTW, Jay, how's that impeachment and prosecution of Clinton going?

Failed, eh?

Too bad.

So sad.

In fact, it went so bad conservatives continue to lie and say Clinton was punished for perjury by a federal judge, even though he wasn't.

Bush at 29% approval.

Jimmy Carter territory.

Richard Nixon territory.

Deal with it.

Iglesias wasn't fired for partisan reasons. He was fired for incompetence.

Yeah, Al. It is the obligation of all cadres to serve the People by advancing the Party, and by promoting its unique role as the vanguard of the Revolution.

State socialism is deader than Kelsey's nuts.
The Warsaw Pact is a memory.
The Soviet Union is in the dustbin of history with 8-track tapes and the two-handed set shot.

But somewhere Lenin's ghost is laughing its ass off.

Because here, in the good ol' USA, the Bolsheviks have won.

Otlichnaya rabota, tovarich Al!

Brooks,
It was a Democratic State Senator.
Something about County Courthouses and steering contracts, slush funds, etc.
Search for Joe Monahan's New Mexico Politics blog, he's the one that broke Iglesias' Political Fragging Story.

Thanks Matt!

So, this guy refuses to do his job (apparently for partisan reasons) and gets canned. That's good government you liberal morons.

So, this guy refuses to do his job (apparently for partisan reasons) and gets canned. That's good government you liberal morons.
Posted by: Rock

The 29% deadenders are just delusional.

Brooks

If the Democrat did the crime he ought to go to jail, but Iglasias was absolutely right in not bringing an indictment before he had all the evidence, and that is what Wilson and Domenici were demanding. They wanted a premature indictment to help Wilson's politicial campaign.

The more I think about it, it is clear that David Iglasias was fired for job performance issues. He was operating under the mistaken notion that he worked for the United States of America. His supervisor Alberto knew better. He was supposed to be working for the Republican party.

Cato the Elder,

As to the two handed set shot, damn Hank Luisetti and later Paul Arizin. Ah, to the days of the peach basket and Naismith.

"So, this guy refuses to do his job (apparently for partisan reasons) and gets canned. That's good government you liberal morons."

And "doing his job" consists of...what? Abusing the authority of his office for the electoral benefit of the Republican Party?

Rock, the only moron on this thread is looking back at you in the mirror. No, I take it back. There are a few others.

Rock, explicated:

The guy was fucking hired to advance republican interests, refused to do it, and got canned. Deserves what he gets.

"They wanted a premature indictment to help Wilson's political campaign"

Geez, sounds like $hrub's minions throwing their weight around in London last year demanding that the Brits arrest "terrorists", thus hampering an ongoing investigation by the British government. Hmmm, what was supposed to happen in November following all of those arrests?

Rock on March 2, 2007 at 10:58 AM:

So, this guy refuses to do his job (apparently for partisan reasons)

A U.S. Attorney's job is to rush an indictment to suit a campaign schedule?...I guess it is, in the Bush administration.

That's good government you liberal morons.

I have a feeling that you wouldn't know good government if it knocked you down and took a dump in your face, Rock.

The guy was fucking hired to advance republican interests, refused to do it, and got canned.

Not a very cunning plan on their part, eh, Baldrick?

The results of the Baker Hamilton Iraq commission were withheld pending the Nov. elections, Why?
The results of the investgation about the WTC were withheld before 2004 elections, any criticism was kept secret because of some election.

Unless there is proof that the AG had all the evidence before the election you are just guessing.

Rock, you and your friends are hopelessly stupid.

Can anyone name people on this thread that could not make it past the first question on, Are you smarter than a fifth grader.My first is AL.

Hey Rock.

I'm hiring for a job. I need someone to stand at the end of my walkway and hold up a lantern. I think you'd find it fairly stimulating work.

Wanna fill out an application?

Well, I think it's fair to say that in the Bush adminstration, failure to work to achieve partisan ends really is a "performance issue".

In fact, isn't it the ONLY "performance issue"?

Al, in this administration, if you're incompetent, you get a medal.

The partisan conversion of the US attorneys into re-election enforcers for the Repukeliscum is amazing in its scope and audacity.

It's just like the Soviet Union, where everything EVERYTHING was subject to the decisions from the Political Commissar.

Stupid screw-ups.

All they needed to do was another "heckuva job" this time for Davy, and good ReThug that he was, he would have gone gently into the night.

However, they had to say that there were "performance problems" and that irked the guy into squealing.