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You are here: Home / Politics / No One Showed Up

No One Showed Up

by John Cole|  July 23, 200510:17 am| 9 Comments

This post is in: Politics, Democratic Stupidity

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Via Digby, this Think Progress piece:

This morning the Wall Street Journal reported that Senate Democrats were planning “to grill Bush confidant Karen Hughes” about her involvement in the ever widening leak-case. But, Senate Democrats must have gotten lost on the way to the hearing. Not one showed up. Instead, according to the Associated Press:

“A scaled-back Senate Foreign Relations Committee showered praise Friday on Karen Hughes and put the former political adviser to President Bush on a fast track to confirmation as the State Department’s top public relations official.”

In all fairness, it is hard to mount a concerted opposition to EVERYTHING this administration does…

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  1. 1.

    John S.

    July 23, 2005 at 10:42 am

    It is nice to see that Liberals still feel free to criticize their party when they are dissatisfied, rather than being in lockstep with them – no matter what.

  2. 2.

    Emma Zahn

    July 23, 2005 at 11:09 am

    You’d think they would have had at least one show up — just as a token.

    Then again, maybe they all got the date and time wrong. I wonder how something like that could happen.

  3. 3.

    Demdude

    July 23, 2005 at 12:05 pm

    I think this comes under the James Carville quote, “when your enemy is drowning, throw the Son of a Bitch an anchor”.

    Let her be confirmed, (she would be anyhow) and if she is involved, she will be part of the Administration doing the perp walk.

    There are bigger fish to fry anyhow.

  4. 4.

    Rick

    July 23, 2005 at 12:12 pm

    In all fairness…

    John,

    Well, right away, you’re dismissing the leftwingers there.

    But keep that perp-walk dream alive, you nutters.

    Cordially…

  5. 5.

    Bob

    July 23, 2005 at 12:23 pm

    As I heard it the other day, Karen Hughes also was called in front of Fitzgerald. I’m not sure what she was questioned about, but, hey, if she’s going to get appointed anyway, she’ll be another potential co-conspirator in the administration.

    That could be the strategy. Or maybe not.

  6. 6.

    Mr.Ortiz

    July 23, 2005 at 12:37 pm

    Isn’t Karen Hughes the school-marmy one? Maybe Dems realized what asses they’d look like on TV attacking such a nice looking old lady.

  7. 7.

    Lord Locksley

    July 23, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    Well as a general rule of thumb, those who are called before a Federal grand jury are not the target of the investigation. Which begs the question- have Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame been called to testify?

  8. 8.

    Steve

    July 23, 2005 at 10:15 pm

    While I ponder the likelihood of Valerie Plame being convicted for revealing her own identity, perhaps you could consult this site.

  9. 9.

    war bird

    July 24, 2005 at 2:19 pm

    It must have been real gloomy there in demacratic HQ that this would happen how glomy was chapaquedic ted feeling?

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