Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

The revolution will be supervised.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Come on, man.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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This could be bad news for the Enron execs:

In a reversal that transforms the criminal case against Enron’s former top officers, the company’s former chief accounting officer has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to violating federal law during his employment there, people briefed on the decision said yesterday.

The former accounting officer, Richard A. Causey, had been viewed by lawyers in the case as likely to strike a plea deal with prosecutors and possibly serve as a witness for the government in the coming trial of two former chief executives of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling.

While Mr. Causey’s name is not widely known to those who have not been paying close attention to the Enron case, he has long been considered potentially one of the most important witnesses in the fraud cases against Mr. Lay and Mr. Skilling. The three men had been scheduled to go on trial together, facing charges of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and other crimes, beginning Jan. 17.

Good. These folks need to pay.

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  1. 1.

    soxfirst

    It’s definitely a plus for the prosecution. But given the timing, so close to the trial of Lay and Skilling, it does raise questions about the strength of the prosecution’s case, legally speaking. For more, read here

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    SeesThroughIt

    All of the money Lay and Skilling have should be given to the people they ripped off. That would actually be a “tough on crime” stance and would hopefully scare the crap out of other crooked CEOs. It would never happen, of course, but it would be nice.

  5. 5.

    Make7

    SeesThroughIt wrote:
    All of the money Lay and Skilling have should be given to the people they ripped off.

    I would go further than that. All future money that they make, after paying taxes, above the federal poverty line should be put into a compensation fund for the victims of their crimes, until such time that full compensation has been made.

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