rodeodance
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Fri Mar-30-07 04:08 AM
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Only the red felt on the witness table concealed the blood. |
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Republicans had, inadvertently, produced a fitting sequel to the prosecutor imbroglio. The Bush administration's mishandling of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys and the misinformation its Justice Department sent Congress turned an embarrassing story into a full scandal. Yesterday, the Senate Republicans' procedural mishap turned a modestly embarrassing hearing into a spectacle.
That's too bad for the GOP, because Sampson seemed content to fall on his sword rather than naming names when he was questioned about the prosecutor mess. Only the red felt on the witness table concealed the blood. "I could have and should have helped to prevent this," Sampson offered. "I let the attorney general and the department down. . . . I failed to organize a more effective response. . . . It was a failure on my part. . . . I will hold myself responsible. . . . I wish we could do it all over again."
The witness fessed up to an expanding list of sins. He admitted that the Justice Department was trying to circumvent the Senate confirmation process. He confessed that he proposed firing Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the Valerie Plame leak case. "I regretted it," he explained. "I knew that it was the wrong thing to do."
But the self-sacrificing witness still managed -- inadvertently, perhaps -- to implicate Gonzales and Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove. Sampson, who resigned from the Justice Department earlier this month, admitted that Gonzales "had received a complaint from Karl Rove about U.S. attorneys in three jurisdictions." Asked about the accuracy of Gonzales's claim of non-involvement, Sampson confessed: "I don't think it's entirely accurate what he said."
........... Taking One for the Team, When He Could Remember
By Dana Milbank Friday, March 30, 2007; Page A02
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sam sarrha
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Fri Mar-30-07 04:18 AM
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1. say we fanticize and dream an offer of pardon and a Corp board job for $500,000 yr if you just say |
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dont remember anything.. and you dont have to even show up for work for the rest of your life.. and they will throw in all the hookers you can....:dilemma: :headbang: :party:
and pat and gOD will forgive you anyway..
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Fri Mar-30-07 06:30 AM
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2. Bingo. The Bushafia always finds someone to take the rap for them. |
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They pay very well for your trouble.
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Fri Mar-30-07 07:59 AM
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3. Maybe they're planning on building a nice big dormitory on their land in Paraguay. |
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Somewhere all the loyal Bushies can go live when it's all finally over.
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cassiepriam
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Fri Mar-30-07 02:05 PM
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4. LOL Golden parachutes all around. |
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Fri Mar-30-07 03:40 PM
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5. * promises pardons they resigns and flees to Paraguay leaving the young Cristian's to be pimped |
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by libby in prison for cigarettes
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