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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush has commuted the prison term of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, facing 30 months in prison after a federal court convicted him of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
This is why you give these people no quarter, because they get idiots and their buddies into office and pull this shit. It’s actually quite good news because I’m sure his polling will plummet even further and fundraising among Dems should run even stronger than it is.
Full Story... →President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was just too harsh.
Full Story... →Tomorrow at 11am Cliff Arnebeck will hold a press conference in which he’ll put the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and Bill Todd (Big Head Todd to us) and his monsters on notice. From the release:
COLUMBUS ? Ohio public interest attorney Cliff Arnebeck will hold a press conference, at 11 a.m. on Thursday June 21, 2007 at his law office at 1000 East Main St., Suite 102, Columbus, Ohio 43205.
Arnebeck will release and discuss a document to formally put the Ohio Chamber of Commerce on notice to maintain all records related to Ohio Supreme Court campaigns and related [...]
Full Story... →(ht Dave at PO)
The Dispatch has the headline: “Armbruster abused office, ethics probe finds: Ex-senator should face criminal charges, report says”
According to documents released by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Armbruster, a North Ridgeville Republican, met in his Statehouse office with bureau officials and also had phone conversations in early 2006, pushing to get rates lowered for his company.
Armbruster, who then was vice chairman of a committee that dealt with most bureau-related legislation, eventually got an 88 percent rate reduction for his gas stations.
Another first given to us by corrupt Republicans:
For the [...]
Full Story... →Bill Kristol is having a fit – he feels that Libby should be pardoned immediately by President Bush.
Will Bush pardon Libby? Apparently not–even if it means a man who worked closely with him and sought tirelessly to do what was right for the country goes to prison. Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino, noting that the appeals process was underway, said, “Given that and in keeping with what we have said in the past, the president has not intervened so far in any other criminal matter and he is going to decline to do so now.”
So much for loyalty, [...]
Full Story... →Jerid has a post up today about the final parting shot of the Culture of Corruption in the ousted statewides. You won’t see it on any “conservative” blogs because…well, you can figure that much out. Moral relativism and intellectual dishonesty abounds!
…the disgraced administration of Gov. Bob Taft left office last year not with a sober flush of humility but with a final flash of gold-plated entitlement, soaking taxpayers for more than $75,000 to help dozens of outgoing political appointees polish their resumes and find new jobs.
$25 below the threshold to go before the controlling board. Heh. These [...]
Full Story... →You know? I sometimes feel the CoC (Culture of Corruption – the prevailing political climate in Ohio and beyond due to GOP control) label gets a bit tired. I know my friends on the right wish it would just go away. But they make it so easy sometimes! Latest is John Boehner, minority leader in the house. John is covering for a corrupt official, Ken Calvert, who replaced some other corrupt official on the Appropriations Committee. They just cycle ‘em around once the dirty laundry hits the air. Think Progress has the scoop.
So why is John Boehner supporting [...]
Full Story... →No, not steamed rice, or fried rice, but Condi Rice. That’s right, Condi Rice’s total incompetence expands beyond her performance as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor – she was also incompetent in overseeing Chevron policy that should have prevented the company from sending kickbacks to Saddam Hussein as a part of the UN Oil-for-Food program.
Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators.
The admission is [...]
Full Story... →The CoC is alive and well here in this red county. Our Sheriff Al Myers – A Republican elected in 1992 to the post – plead guilty to 2 misdemeanors in a plea deal that avoided a felony charges. Al’s a real winner. First he’s embroiled in a discrimination suit in 2005 for wrongful termination of a pregnant deputy who had requested light duty. That one zinged us taxpayers for $150k.
Next he takes a Lexus seized by the county in a drug bust and trades it in at a dealership for a new Trailblazer – for his [...]
Full Story... →(CNN) Leahy with the rimshot:
“You can’t erase e-mails, not today,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont. “They’ve gone through too many servers. They can’t say they’ve been lost. That’s like saying, ‘The dog ate my homework.’ “
OK, so that’s funny. Time for the not funny – no, sorry, it’s all pretty funny. In a “this is my country?” kinda way.
Full Story... →If you still can’t grasp the importance of the US Attorney scandal, I present to you current US Attorney, and former Bush “opposition research” man, Tim Griffin:
One film scene of the debate-night frenzy captures the prevalent attitude in national politics. As he directs the investigation of Gore’s statements in real time, Griffin, standing next to a sign that reads ON MY COMMAND?UNLEASH HELL (ON AL), pauses for a moment to reflect on his role. “We think of ourselves as the creators of the ammunition in a war,” he says. “We make the bullets.”
Mr. Griffin was Full Story... →
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