My personal judgement is that Michael Mukasey heard the phrase “The law is an ass” at a very impressionable age, and took it deeply to heart. So when he became Attorney General, he felt obliged to uphold that dictum in everything that he did (or didn’t do).
Yesterday, he delivered an appropriately asinine speech to […]
Once upon a time there were two loyal courtiers, Buttercheeks and LaCondi. (Or maybe one of them was a courtesan?) They served at the pleasure of the emperor. And the emperor was lustily mightily pleasured by them both. Which was, of course, an unending source of pleasure to the twain.
For long […]
Ancient Native American legend that I just made up in celebration of the news from Spokane: when it thunders without rain, that’s the poetic justice gods rolling in the aisles with uncontrollable laughter.
The U.S. Inspector General may recommend criminal prosecution of departed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the conclusion of an investigation, possibly as early […]
Funny how circumstances are conspiring to shine the spotlight on the State Department this week. They may not have been the villains of the piece in the Blackwater USA saga, but they managed to make themselves look pretty foolish anyway. Today they look a little worse than that.
In June, I wrote about allegations […]
Funny how Buttercheeks’ last day on the job is officially Sunday. It isn’t exactly normal to resign with effect from the close of business on Sunday.
No one else seems to be talking about it. And there’s really no point asking Alberto “I don’t recall” Gonzales, is there?
Adios, douchebag:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
Let me be as clear as I can: No replacement gets confirmed until Congress gets every last document they requested […]
The Bush administration has decided that we’re not executed prisoners fast enough. Presumably, too many were surviving till DNA testing — or other new evidence — proved their innocence. And then you have the whole big mess of having to release them, which not only causes loss-of-face to the system and the people […]
I really couldn’t choose between “Accountability” and “Sanity”, so feel free to pick the one you like.
Georgie Bush was asked a great question at his press conference yesterday. What followed was, even by Georgie’s standards, unbelievable:
Q Mr. President, I wanted to ask you about accountability. You’re a big believer in it, you’ve talked about […]
Man, those Republicans really suck, don’t they?
Mitt Polygomney has given a whole new dimension to the concept of service to the country:
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended his five sons’ decisions not to enlist in the military, saying they’re showing their support for the country by “helping me get elected.”
I’m wondering, of course, […]
The NYT is reporting that the dramatic hospital-bed drama in 2004 starring John Ashcroft, Jim Comey and Buttercheeks was about the data-mining component of the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program rather than the warrantless wiretapping component.
Mr. Gonzales insisted before the Senate this week that the 2004 dispute did not involve the Terrorist Surveillance Program “confirmed” by […]
