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If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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  4. 4.

    Dreggas

    Listening to him spit and sputter about this stuff is just too rich. He can’t recall nor can he remember anything apparently. I think he needs waterboarding to jog his memory.

  6. 6.

    Third Eye Open

    one of the joys of being paid to sit in front of the computer for 8 hours a day si comparing the spin between FOX and MSNBC, CNN, AP etc. with regards to the thrust of the testimony…this isn’t news, I know, but it never ceases to amaze me at how apparent the news is “massaged” when you venture off into the FAUX

  8. 8.

    John D.

    I’m beginning to think that an elementary memory test should be required for governmental employ. It’s amazing how few of these clowns can remember anything.

  9. 9.

    28 Percent

    This is so typical no matter what the President does wrong all Democrats do is attack but do they fix the problem? No! They have no ideas all DemonocRats can do is say what they would not do and that is not a positive message. It is too bad for DemocRats that all they can do is accues because it just shows how petty they are. Who would vote for such a downer? Get some LOVE of JESUS in your HEARTS and you will see that DOING is BETTER! :-)

  10. 10.

    Moll Slanders

    I’m beginning to think that an elementary memory test should be required for governmental employ. It’s amazing how few of these clowns can remember anything.

    Oh, they remember, they just don’t WANT to.

  11. 11.

    ThymeZone

    WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wrongly stated he was not involved in discussions about the firings of federal prosecutors, his former chief of staff told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

    “I don’t think the attorney general’s statement that he was not involved in any discussions of U.S. attorney removals was accurate,” testified Kyle Sampson, who quit this month as Gonzales’ top aide. “I remember discussing with him this process of asking certain U.S. attorneys to resign.”

    Gone-Zo.

    Adios.

    Hasta la vista.

    Alberto is going to have to come back from his pedophile roundup and clean out his desk.

    So long, motherfucker.

  12. 12.

    machine

    Countdown to Goodling, Sampson, et. al. being whisked out of the country via extraordinary rendition for a little heart-to-heart.

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    This Sampson guy was expertly coached at what to say, what to “forget”, what to stress, and what to dismiss. It’s clear he’s an expert lawyer, and knows WTF he’s doing up there.

    That said, there’s just so much paperwork discrediting his bullshit that he can only obfuscate just so much malfeasance….I think the WH comes out of this looking cleaner than before (although not completely clean), while…wow…Gonzo is Gone-zo.

  14. 14.

    Dreggas

    Senate Republicans just used senate rules to object to the hearing and it’s been placed in recess as a result.

    What a bunch of Horseshit.

  15. 15.

    Moll Slanders

    Senate Republicans just used senate rules to object to the hearing and it’s been placed in recess as a result.

    This is just a carnival, and the ride malfunctioned.

  16. 16.

    mrmobi

    They have no ideas all DemonocRats can do is say what they would not do and that is not a positive message. It is too bad for DemocRats that all they can do is accues because it just shows how petty they are. Who would vote for such a downer? Get some LOVE of JESUS in your HEARTS and you will see that DOING is BETTER!

    Your work is showing dramatic improvement. Is a DemonocRat a cross between a Demon, someone with mononucleosis and a rat? Just curious.

    Something just occurred to me. You spell accuse interestingly, do you use Firefox as your browser?
    You’ve got to work more on the punctuation, and when you use exclamation marks, use three or four in a row.

    signed, tEh dAmned!!!!666

  17. 17.

    kchiker

    Do all GOP power players buy the same eyeglass frames?

    Not to mention the ‘see-no-evil’ lenses.

  18. 18.

    Fruitbat Jones

    Senate Republicans just used senate rules to object to the hearing and it’s been placed in recess as a result.

    Only the guilty clam up. This will play VERY badly for Republicans.

    Think about it–how do you spin “shutting down the hearings”? Either you don’t want the truth, you don’t want the truth to come out, or you’re not believing Sampson’s testimony. None of that bodes well for these jokers.

  19. 19.

    Dreggas

    Fruitbat Jones Says:

    Senate Republicans just used senate rules to object to the hearing and it’s been placed in recess as a result.

    Only the guilty clam up. This will play VERY badly for Republicans.

    Think about it—how do you spin “shutting down the hearings”? Either you don’t want the truth, you don’t want the truth to come out, or you’re not believing Sampson’s testimony. None of that bodes well for these jokers

    looks like they are back in session Leahy must have slapped em. Seriously I wouldn’t want to piss him off.

  20. 20.

    Mr Furious

    Phrase of the day? Sampson’s response to an untold number of questions regarding statement by AG AG:

    “No, I don’t think that’s accurate.”

  21. 21.

    Mr Furious

    Specter was surprisingly hard on him. I particularly liked his dismissive comment when Sampson sat there with a straight face and said there was “no connection” between Lam serving warrants and his “We have a problem with Lam” memo.

    Specter: “No connection? It was just a coincidence?”

  22. 22.

    Mr Furious

    Cornyn ried to be a good GOP soldier, but even he revealed some dismay at this whole fiasco. Orrin Hack was the worst that I saw.

    Feinstein’s Border Patrol letter is pretty damaging.

  24. 24.

    Dreggas

    Mr Furious Says:

    Cornyn ried to be a good GOP soldier, but even he revealed some dismay at this whole fiasco. Orrin Hack was the worst that I saw.

    Hatch has both his front and rear hatch opened for this administration and they use it frequently.

    Feinstein’s Border Patrol letter is pretty damaging

    Yeah I heard that and my eyes were bugging over it. That was damning as hell.

  27. 27.

    Dreggas

    Face Says:

    Interesting discussion going on here. Always thought that people are just too effin’ protective nowadays.

    No suprise I live in So Cal and it seems every other day you hear about some sort of “attempted child abduction” on the local news. So Cal news is just as dramatic as Hollywood with regard to how they hype EVERYTHING.

    Weather calls for drizzle and it is immediately cast as “Storm Watch 2007!”.

  28. 28.

    Dreggas

    Heh Sampson can’t even get his story straight. I wish I could see the little prick, I bet he is sweatin his ass off right now.

  29. 29.

    jg

    I’m waiting for the spoofs and Darrells to spin how Sampson saying he didn’t think Gonzo’s statements were accurate isn’t the same as Gonzo lying.

  30. 30.

    mrmobi

    …Leahy must have slapped em. Seriously I wouldn’t want to piss him off.

    Sounds like Patrick is feeling his oats. It’s so good to see actual oversight take place again.

  31. 31.

    Dreggas

    jg Says:

    I’m waiting for the spoofs and Darrells to spin how Sampson saying he didn’t think Gonzo’s statements were accurate isn’t the same as Gonzo lying.

    Looks like they won’t have to, this one senator is pretty much trying to reverse the momentum and spin.

  33. 33.

    Zifnab

    Now they are discussing the political/performance criteria being an artificial distinction. Sampson says they were singled out because there were questions about them raised, and some of those factors might be considered political. Was Iglesias asked to resign because of performance? Sampson says yes. Hatch now walking through the GOP talking points of what the meaning of Performance Issues and Political are.

    Firedoglake

    Oh man, how does he talk around all that cock in his mouth? Are they even allowed to show this before 9:00 on weekdays?

  34. 34.

    Jake

    Specter is spanking this little prick HARD!

    Who’s taking bets on whether Spectre will get spooked when he has to question someone still employed by the Admin?

    Nice to see Orrin “Down The” Hatch is still a nucking futter. I bet he misses ManDog Santorum.

  35. 35.

    Zifnab

    Who’s taking bets on whether Spectre will get spooked when he has to question someone still employed by the Admin?

    I’m betting he’ll begin the interview with a stirring rendition of “Hail to the Chief” then explain how he adamently disapproves of Bush’s handling of the issue.

  36. 36.

    Darrell, D'Souza, Delay and Strauss

    Oh figures, it’s Hatch asking stupid ass questions he should just change his name to Ben D Over

    “The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.”

    Y’all wouldn’t recognize a Medal of Freedom performance if it was right in front of you.

  38. 38.

    Dreggas

    Boy is Feinstein wiping the floor with this guy. I always thought she kinda looked like a bull dog now she is proving it WOOF!

  39. 39.

    RSA

    How is it possible for any human being without serious head trauma to say “I do not recall” with such frequency?

  41. 41.

    Dreggas

    RSA Says:

    How is it possible for any human being without serious head trauma to say “I do not recall” with such frequency?

    Well looking at him he looks to be damn near short bus special and was probably dropped on his face a lot as a child.

  43. 43.

    Moll Slanders

    Well looking at him he looks to be damn near short bus special and was probably dropped on his face a lot as a child.

    And this is who they depend on for testimony about the US AG? Ummm, we are so fucked!

  44. 44.

    chopper

    Your work is showing dramatic improvement. Is a DemonocRat a cross between a Demon, someone with mononucleosis and a rat? Just curious.

    not ‘mono’, ‘monocle’. it’s a demon rat that wears a monocle.

    see, the GOP all apparently wear the same eyeglass frames, but the dems set themselves apart with only one lens.

  45. 45.

    Dreggas

    Moll Slanders Says:

    And this is who they depend on for testimony about the US AG? Ummm, we are so fucked!

    Well look at the AG the more I see him the more he reminds me of “Tatu” from Fantasy Island.

    And let’s not forget Karl Rove acting like his not to distant ancestors last night at that dinner thing.

  46. 46.

    Paul L.

    Boy is Feinstein wiping the floor with this guy. I always thought she kinda looked like a bull dog now she is proving it WOOF!

    Maybe she will be a bull dog when she is investigated.
    So will Democrats investigate this?

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum’s ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

    As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband’s companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

  49. 49.

    Jake

    I don’t remember, I don’t recall.
    I got no memory of anything,
    anything at all.

    Let the record show the witness has smoked so much weed his brain is fried.

  51. 51.

    Dreggas

    Sampson – “I think the Atty General is a good man trying his best to do his best”.

    Sorry if you can’t complete sentences without sounding like a little kid then you either already pissed yourself or are nervous enough to do so. This guy is being hammered and he is painting himself into a corner.

  52. 52.

    Pb

    So will Democrats investigate this?

    Not when it’s only coming from World Nut Daily and the like–the real conflict would be if she didn’t resign… also:

    She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects

    Doing your job = junket? Why does that sound strangely familiar–did Dick Cheney write this crap too?

  53. 53.

    jg

    RSA Says:

    How is it possible for any human being without serious head trauma to say “I do not recall” with such frequency?

    Worked for Reagan. America loved Reagan.

  54. 54.

    t. jasper parnel

    The FBI agent who defended Lam and insisted that it was all political resigned, it seems. If this keeps up, Bush will look competent because anyone who can speak in full sentences will have left the building, Cheney speaks, so I understand, in cuss and buckshot.

  57. 57.

    Demdude

    Did you guys see MC Rove at the National Correspondents Dinner? ROTFLMAO!

    It should be against the law for any white guy over the age of 12 to rap. That whole performance just plain fucking creeped me out….

  58. 58.

    John S.

    It should be against the law for any white guy over the age of 12 to rap.

    If that were the case, then I would plead clemency for the Beastie Boys.

  59. 59.

    Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop

    So look at the bright side. You’ve realized by now that you’ll never get your long-dreamed Rove Frog March for Fitzmas… but you got this instead. Hope you enjoy it as much as Karl seemed to.

  61. 61.

    demimondian

    You’ve realized by now that you’ll never get your long-dreamed Rove Frog March for Fitzmas

    You’re right. We won’t get a Rove frog-march.

    We’re going to get a document dump of all the emails RNC Exchange server instead. That’s right up there with the release of the Stasi files…

  62. 62.

    eddie

    What I really fail to understand is how so many “bright” people have such bad memory? How does one get hired if one cannot remember what occurred a mere three or four months ago. Especially if that is the only thing that one does all day long. How does one graduate from any institute of higher education with such a bad memory?

    If I were in front of any person at my company and answered with such aplomb “I can’t remember”, I think that I would be tossed to the curb immediately.

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