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by Tim F|  November 16, 20076:28 pm| 33 Comments

This post is in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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Buzzy and Cookie Krongard will have plenty to talk about over Thanksgiving dinner.

Our genius president really knows how to pick ’em.

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  1. 1.

    Dreggas

    November 16, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Look at the Bush Family, nuff said.

  2. 2.

    Silver Owl

    November 16, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    The only talent Bush has is picking losers. lol

  3. 3.

    Dennis-SGMM

    November 16, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    Buzzy? Cookie? Scooter? Then there are the nicknames that Bush hangs on everyone. I used to think that these guys were just stupid and venal but now I realize that they just never grew up.

  4. 4.

    r€nato

    November 16, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    I used to think that these guys were just stupid and venal but now I realize that they just never grew up.

    Have you heard the one about this guy Mitt and his son Tagg?

  5. 5.

    r€nato

    November 16, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    Our genius president really knows how to pick ‘em.

    yeah but Bill Clinton told a non-material lie about consensual sex while being deposed in regards to a lawsuit which was eventually dismissed, so really, both sides do it.

  6. 6.

    r€nato

    November 16, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    Our genius president really knows how to pick ‘em.

    Or… let me tell you the one about how the Coalition Provisional Authority was staffed not with experts in reconstruction of civilian infrastructure or other experienced technocrats, but rather young, inexperienced grads of Liberty University whose chief qualification was loyalty to Bush and the GOP.

  7. 7.

    KCinDC

    November 16, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    A reminder for anyone who might have forgotten that Cookie’s family issues aren’t limited to his relationship with his brother. It’s hard to keep all these sociopaths straight.

  8. 8.

    Cinderella Ferret

    November 16, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    … the Coalition Provisional Authority was staffed not with experts in reconstruction of civilian infrastructure or other experienced technocrats, but rather young, inexperienced grads of Liberty University whose chief qualification was loyalty to Bush and the GOP.

    Everyone of them eligible for military service in a war they clearly supported. But, once a REMF, always a REMF.

  9. 9.

    r€nato

    November 16, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    Everyone of them eligible for military service in a war they clearly supported. But, once a REMF, always a REMF.

    silly liberal! Fighting wars is for the proles!

  10. 10.

    Delia

    November 16, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    A reminder for anyone who might have forgotten that Cookie’s family issues aren’t limited to his relationship with his brother. It’s hard to keep all these sociopaths straight.

    Whoa! Good find. Of course, if I were so unfortunate as to be Cookie’s offspring and receiving intimidating emails from him in the context of a nasty lawsuit, I’d be afraid he was going to send Lord Vader over to shoot the place up. Or maybe some Blackwater goons if Dick’s too drunk.

  11. 11.

    r€nato

    November 16, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    Completely off-topic and apropos of absolutely nothing other than my complete lack of a life on Friday evening…

    Disgusting Delicacies

    (frankly, what amazed me more than any of those ‘delicacies’ was, how the hell did those goats get up in those trees???)

  12. 12.

    Delia

    November 16, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    Buzzy? Cookie? Scooter? Then there are the nicknames that Bush hangs on everyone. I used to think that these guys were just stupid and venal but now I realize that they just never grew up.

    I think Buzzy and Cookie are mobbed up. Especially with the Blackwater connection and that story about harassing his son. Mitt and Tagg are just dorky. They’re stuck in some 1950s space-time continuum. But Buzzy and Cookie are definitely part of the Bush crime family.

  13. 13.

    Xenos

    November 16, 2007 at 9:08 pm

    Mobbed up? These are all Princetonians from the early 1960s. All so plugged into the business and political power structure they have no idea what sort of rules and ethics apply in the real world. In short, type-specimens of the species Homo Bushiensis Arselickiei.

  14. 14.

    Dennis-SGMM

    November 16, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    silly liberal! Fighting wars is for the proles!

    College Republican Jason Mattera on Hardball:

    MATTHEWS: No, I‘m just asking a particular question. Would you like to enlist in this war?

    MATTERA: No, because I‘m fighting a separate battle. I‘m fighting—we‘re fighting the culture war here, but I‘m also supporting the battle that‘s raging in Iraq.

    MATTHEWS: Well, what kind of people should fight in this war, if not you?

    MATTERA: Those who want to, those who want—who feel the desire, who have the passion to go over to Iraq. I have many friends who are in Iraq myself, people from my church, people who I graduated with.

    *If the above doesn’t define “chickenshit” then nothing does. Every one of these bastards deserves to have an American flag lapel pin driven into each of their tiny testicles.

  15. 15.

    jake

    November 16, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    Cookie.

    In an Administration that tells us Teh AmeriKweers are only slightly less harmful to life, liberty and the American way than Teh IslamoTerrists, there is a highly placed MALE official who blatantly bears the nick-name COOKIE.

    Does Dobson know about this?

    And why is his brother called Buzzy? Since this is the GOP we’re talking about, until I hear definitive proof to the contrary, I’m going to assume it is because of his fine collection of battery powered sex toys.

    Update: Just got off the phone with Cookie Krongard’s spokeswoman, Diane Quest.

    I wonder if her nick-name is Pony.

  16. 16.

    r€nato

    November 16, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    MATTERA: No, because I‘m fighting a separate battle. I‘m fighting—we‘re fighting the culture war here

    how dare you mock young master Mattera! It’s hell out there. Why, you can get blisters on your fingers from warblogging! And have you ever tried to get Cheeto dust out of a keyboard?

  17. 17.

    jake

    November 16, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    *If the above doesn’t define “chickenshit” then nothing does. Every one of these bastards deserves to have an American flag lapel pin driven into each of their tiny testicles.

    Shhh! You’ll scare Pattirico!

  18. 18.

    Delia

    November 16, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    r€nato Says:

    MATTERA: No, because I‘m fighting a separate battle. I‘m fighting—we‘re fighting the culture war here

    how dare you mock young master Mattera! It’s hell out there. Why, you can get blisters on your fingers from warblogging! And have you ever tried to get Cheeto dust out of a keyboard?

    To say nothing of the humiliation of learning that people having been making fun of you over at Balloon Juice. He may have to go into deep programming with the Lords of the Neocons to overcome the damage to his self-esteem.

  19. 19.

    Delia

    November 16, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Cookie.

    In an Administration that tells us Teh AmeriKweers are only slightly less harmful to life, liberty and the American way than Teh IslamoTerrists, there is a highly placed MALE official who blatantly bears the nick-name COOKIE.

    I still think Cookie sounds like one of Tony Soprano’s cronies. Like Big Pussy or Patsy. Cookie and Buzzy, with their connections in the armaments industry and the Justice Department. Just what Tony needs.

  20. 20.

    KCinDC

    November 16, 2007 at 11:34 pm

    There was a Cookie on The Sopranos. She was one of Paulie’s mother’s friends (who wasn’t actually that friendly) in the retirement home.

  21. 21.

    Tax Analyst

    November 16, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    jake Says:

    Shhh! You’ll scare Pattirico!

    All you have to say now is “Junk” and that schmuck’s flying feet-first into a bunker.

    But it’s turned out to be pretty good comedy material. I think just about everybody here is pretty much amazed that Pattirico considered, and apparently still considers, John’s remark in a serious vein. What, does he picture a marching column of Balloon Juice commenter’s coming up his driveway with steel-toed junk-kickers on their feet? If so he is seriously over-estiimating his significance in the scheme of things.

    Still, I must take this opportunity to hypothetically ask, “John, do I have to abide by the two-kick limit?”

  22. 22.

    KCinDC

    November 16, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    Maybe he thinks John’s going to pull a Malkin and post Patterico’s phone number and address so we can all call to verify he exists and then stop by to check out his countertops. After all, isn’t that normal behavior for a blogger as far as Wingnuttia is concerned?

  23. 23.

    jake

    November 16, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    I think just about everybody here is pretty much amazed that Pattirico considered, and apparently still considers, John’s remark in a serious vein.

    See, I think he was following GOP SOP: Make up a threat so you have something to scream about. And as a resident of The Right Wing Republic of Blahgistan, I suspect he thought stomping into a fairly well-visited blog and throwing a tantrum is a good way to increase traffic to his site.

    If so he is seriously over-estimating his significance in the scheme of things the chances anyone would want to have contact with his vestigial testicles.

    Fixed.

  24. 24.

    Anne Laurie

    November 17, 2007 at 4:04 am

    how the hell did those goats get up in those trees?

    Goats are surprisingly agile at scrambling into scrubby, desert-environment thorn trees. Especially when trying to get out of range of Mickey Kaus.

  25. 25.

    Ugh

    November 17, 2007 at 9:10 am

    The NYTimes has a story explaining the origin of the two nicknames. Also presenting a more complicated picture than one might think.

    Note that Buzzy joined the CIA during the Clinton administration (albeit not in an appointed position). He also apparently resigned from the Blackwater board yesterday. Folks in the know also think it’s entirely possible that he set his brother up.

  26. 26.

    ATS

    November 17, 2007 at 10:06 am

    The Buzz in GTWN is that Cookie and Buzz had ties to the CACI crowd, who were involved in the Black Scorpion “training” of the bumpkin guards at Abu Ghraib.

    Another (less solid) tidbit say that the their sister, Margot Lion (!), was a Kabbalah Komeradin of Denise Rich, Marc Rich’s wife.

    Early accounts of links to Jack Abramoff are not considered credible.

  27. 27.

    Leisureguy

    November 17, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    Maybe now Buzzy can ask Cookie for a job.

  28. 28.

    DougJ

    November 17, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Cookie Krongard blew the house down at the Oslo Jazz Festival in July. You’ve got to give him that much. The cat can blow his horn.

  29. 29.

    Bob In Pacifica

    November 17, 2007 at 3:38 pm

    How about this:

    [url] http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html [/url]

    “FTW – October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades — which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed — the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

    “Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.

    “Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year [2001]. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks…”

  30. 30.

    Bob In Pacifica

    November 17, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    While I was poking around the net about the Krongard family I found this about another Blackwater exec, Joseph Schmitz, at Wiki:

    “Joseph Edward Schmitz is the son of the John G. Schmitz, former California State Senator, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Presidential candidate (1972). Schmitz attended Catholic schools as a child and Georgetown Preparatory School while his father served in Congress. He holds a B.S. (1978) from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and a J.D. (1986) from Stanford University. He was on the wrestling team at the Naval Academy. His siblings include Mary Kay Letourneau and John Patrick Schmitz.[1]

    “Upon graduation from the Naval Academy, Schmitz served in the U.S. Navy for approximately four years, including a stint as an exchange officer with the German Navy. Schmitz left active duty and was in the Naval Reserve until 2001. After leaving active duty, Schmitz attended law school. He clerked with James L. Buckley, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese III during the Reagan Administration. Schmitz entered the private sector in 1987, eventually joining the Washington DC firm of Patton Boggs LLP.[2] He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University in the 1990s.

    “He is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[3]

    “[edit] Inspector General of the Department of Defense
    Schmitz was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Defense Department Inspector General on June 18, 2001. His nomination was held up in the Senate Armed Services Committee for unknown reasons until March 21, 2002, when he was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote.

    “[edit] Resignation
    Schmitz resigned as Defense Department Inspector General on September 9, 2005 in order to take a position with the Prince Group, a holding company for Blackwater USA, which provides security services and training to the U.S. military in Iraq and elsewhere. In a letter dated June 15, 2005, and posted on the Inspector General’s website on September 2, 2005, Schmitz recused himself from investigating all matters related to Blackwater.”

    How about that? Four years in the German Navy, a member of the Knights of Malta, son of John Schmitz (who used to play German marching music and have his kids march around the house) and brother of Mary Kay Letourneau! These are the kind of quality people who we need to run Blackwater and our CIA.

    You think they’re so funny, wait until they’ve got you running to the night rally.

  31. 31.

    Bob In Pacifica

    November 17, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    Go here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/09/27/GR2007092700092.html

    for copies of threatening emails that one of the Krongards sent his son. Wow. It must be the holiday season. And I thought my girlfriend’s family had issues.

  32. 32.

    Delia

    November 17, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    Hell, these people make Tony Soprano’s guys look civilized.

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