Comments on: This Is Huge http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:54:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » Why We’re Not Parasites http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-199707 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:26:54 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-199707 [...] As Glenn says, there’s nothing in this editorial that hasn’t been well known for weeks, even months. Josh Marshall has been blogging about it since December 2006. I wrote a month ago, after one of the document dumps, As has been widely noted in the recent past, the pattern suggests that the White House and the Republican Party generally have been using the Justice Department as part of their election campaign process. In other words, Karl and Co. have been turning our criminal justice system into a Republican Party machine. [...] […] As Glenn says, there’s nothing in this editorial that hasn’t been well known for weeks, even months. Josh Marshall has been blogging about it since December 2006. I wrote a month ago, after one of the document dumps, As has been widely noted in the recent past, the pattern suggests that the White House and the Republican Party generally have been using the Justice Department as part of their election campaign process. In other words, Karl and Co. have been turning our criminal justice system into a Republican Party machine. […]

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-154497 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:23:49 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-154497 The picture of Abu Gonzales at ThinkProgress is quite amusing. He has this silly grin on his face like he just sat on whoopee cushion. Josh Marshall was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. To merciless, Domenici appears to have tried to intimidate Igleasias to go after a particular Dem running against some other Repug. The picture of Abu Gonzales at ThinkProgress is quite amusing. He has this silly grin on his face like he just sat on whoopee cushion.

Josh Marshall was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

To merciless, Domenici appears to have tried to intimidate Igleasias to go after a particular Dem running against some other Repug.

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153703 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:15:46 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153703 First I'd like to say I take full responsibility for this comment. Being a commenter I can't know all the comments that will be made by commenter's throughout the entire blogosphere. As you all know, we all comment at the Mahablog at the pleasure of Maha. That being said, I think Gonzales is on the ropes.His weaseling style is comparable to an HTML loop tag/attribute. Aware as I am of my commenting responsibility and accepting that charge to honor and serve the commenting public with forthright and quality comments. Gonzales's press conference seemed a little abrupt and had an air about it that appeared rotary with a top dead center that was a flat point of accepting responsibility for actions that were not within his realm of responsibility. Unlike me who is fully cognizant of my responsibility in commenting and the realization that I could be twit filtered for any reason at anytime at the discretion of Maha. I got a kick out of Domenici's Chief of Staff being happy as a clam over the U.S. attorney's firing.. is being happy as a clam happier than Sam Brownback's happy embryos? First I’d like to say I take full responsibility for this comment. Being a commenter I can’t know all the comments that will be made by commenter’s throughout the entire blogosphere. As you all know, we all comment at the Mahablog at the pleasure of Maha. That being said, I think Gonzales is on the ropes.His weaseling style is comparable to an HTML loop tag/attribute. Aware as I am of my commenting responsibility and accepting that charge to honor and serve the commenting public with forthright and quality comments.
Gonzales’s press conference seemed a little abrupt and had an air about it that appeared rotary with a top dead center that was a flat point of accepting responsibility for actions that were not within his realm of responsibility. Unlike me who is fully cognizant of my responsibility in commenting and the realization that I could be twit filtered for any reason at anytime at the discretion of Maha.

I got a kick out of Domenici’s Chief of Staff being happy as a clam over the U.S. attorney’s firing.. is being happy as a clam happier than Sam Brownback’s happy embryos?

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153655 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:39:39 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153655 Steve M: Yes, Evoking Bill Clinton is Stage 4 of the <a href="http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/five-stages/">Five Stages of Rightie Reaction to a Republican Scandal</a>. Steve M: Yes, Evoking Bill Clinton is Stage 4 of the Five Stages of Rightie Reaction to a Republican Scandal.

]]> by: biggerbox http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153644 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:24:49 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153644 I think there needs to be more looking into that Utah appointment. Sampson, the one with presumably the inside track, didn't get the job, and the staffer from the Judiciary Committee did. Was that appointment 'bought' by, say, slipping the now-controversial provision involving US Attorney appointments into the bill? Just what did Tolman or Hatch offer Gonzo that convinced him to give Tolman the job over his own stooge? I think there needs to be more looking into that Utah appointment. Sampson, the one with presumably the inside track, didn’t get the job, and the staffer from the Judiciary Committee did. Was that appointment ‘bought’ by, say, slipping the now-controversial provision involving US Attorney appointments into the bill? Just what did Tolman or Hatch offer Gonzo that convinced him to give Tolman the job over his own stooge?

]]> by: joanr16 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153555 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:13:01 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153555 Did Alberto Gonzales and Arlen Specter hire their aides from the same service? Speak-No-Evil, Inc.? Mutes 'R' Us? Or is it a case of Hear-No-Evil on the part of the clueless bosses? Jeez. Did Alberto Gonzales and Arlen Specter hire their aides from the same service? Speak-No-Evil, Inc.? Mutes ‘R’ Us? Or is it a case of Hear-No-Evil on the part of the clueless bosses? Jeez.

]]> by: Steve M. http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153537 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:01:51 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153537 Oops, never mind -- see the paragraph after the second big block quote <a HREF="http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2007/03/13/ny-times-and-wapo-stuck-on-stupid-us-prosecutors-serve-at-the-pleasure-of-the-president/" rel="nofollow">here.</a> Oops, never mind — see the paragraph after the second big block quote here.

]]> by: Steve M. http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153532 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:59:04 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153532 When do the righties start playing What Clinton Did Was Worse? When do the righties start playing What Clinton Did Was Worse?

]]> by: The Non-Bloodthirsty Brian http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153510 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:41:46 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153510 "This really is huge." Yes. John Dean has been using the phrase "worse than Watergate" for years now. Two or three weeks ago, he appeared on Countdown and said that he's ready to describe the situation now as much, much worse than Watergate. To John Dean, it's huge. To you, it's huge. To me, it's huge. To a majority of the population, is it considered huge, or just another reason to shrug and say, "politics is a dirty business" and "both sides do the same thing anyway." At least the Washington Post is reporting the story. Had this story broke three or four years ago, I doubt it would have been deemed "newsworthy" by mainstream media. “This really is huge.”

Yes. John Dean has been using the phrase “worse than Watergate” for years now. Two or three weeks ago, he appeared on Countdown and said that he’s ready to describe the situation now as much, much worse than Watergate.

To John Dean, it’s huge. To you, it’s huge. To me, it’s huge. To a majority of the population, is it considered huge, or just another reason to shrug and say, “politics is a dirty business” and “both sides do the same thing anyway.”

At least the Washington Post is reporting the story. Had this story broke three or four years ago, I doubt it would have been deemed “newsworthy” by mainstream media.

]]> by: merciless http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153454 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:02:40 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/03/13/this-is-huge/#comment-153454 barb, help me out on this one. Both you and Josh Marshall have noted that Pete Domenici is "busted." As much as I would like to believe that, I can't see that he did anything actually illegal. Complaining to Iglesias was despicable, and crowing over his defeat was cruel, but I can't see Domenici's role as anything but a conduit for republican whining and incompetence here in the Land of Enchantment. What am I missing? barb, help me out on this one. Both you and Josh Marshall have noted that Pete Domenici is “busted.” As much as I would like to believe that, I can’t see that he did anything actually illegal. Complaining to Iglesias was despicable, and crowing over his defeat was cruel, but I can’t see Domenici’s role as anything but a conduit for republican whining and incompetence here in the Land of Enchantment.

What am I missing?

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