Contempt for professional government

[maddezmom]

Contempt for professional government


WASHINGTON — Still think the U.S. attorneys scandal is just partisan froth whipped up by disingenuous Democrats? Still think Alberto Gonzales is in any way, shape or form qualified to serve as attorney general? Still think the name Monica brings to mind a stain (so to speak) on the Democratic Party but suggests nothing about Republican malfeasance and hubris? Then you must be a Republican member of the House of Representatives.

Everyone else who was listening last Wednesday had to be flabbergasted as Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee — apparently having been struck deaf and blind — lobbed softball after softball at witness Monica Goodling. This was after Goodling had already fessed up to applying a political litmus test for career Justice employees. I repeat: career employees, not political appointees. Only loyal Republicans should bother to apply.

The deaf and blind Republicans on the committee apparently missed that part of her opening statement. They also missed the part when she accused Gonzales' former deputy, Paul McNulty, of telling untruths to Congress — and, in the process, hanging Goodling out to dry. Those dogged GOP interrogators did, however, manage to elicit from Goodling the startling disclosure that she believes she is a good person, and also the revelation that while she might have broken a few laws, she didn't set out to do anything illegal.

All she did, in the influential Justice position that was inexplicably given her, was what Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush wanted her to do — place loyalty to the president above all else in decisions on hiring and firing.

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[izzie]

1. Maybe it goes on more than we hear so that is why Congress

takes it so well? They just think it is normal. That the GOP were so mad that any one was looking into it was most interesting. Some one can look this up but I believe I read the GOP set aside some thing like 40 million when Newt ran the House to look into Dem. and Clinton. I swear I can re-call reading that years ago.

[sam sarrha]

2. they totally missed her "Voter Caging" statement.. will they follow up on that.. she admitted

knowledge of and the presence of Election Fraud that put the wrong candidate in the White House and in the Congress and in the senate and elected positions in manny state governments and in the Courts.

AND THEY MISSED IT..!!

[EST]

3. They didn't miss it: not all of them.

There have been numerous comments, some involving leaders in the HDC, in reference to this fact. But, you are right, some of them obviously had no idea and still have no idea as to what "voter caging" means.

What I found especially interesting, from a personality rather than a legal point of view, was the several occasions where Monica was apparently charming the pants off the male members of the HDC and one of the female members stepped in on their turn, with no-nonsense voices of steel and started nailing the poor, helpless waif to the cross again.

I rarely find humor in the serious goings on surrounding the destruction of our country and it never seems like a game to me, but these occasions-I think there were two-brought a snort from even me.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Missed it? Politicians who live and die by...

the vote missed that? People whose very existence depends on undestanding how votes can be manipulated missed that?

I doubt it. More likely they shit their pants when she dropped that one and they refuse to bring it back up hoping everyone will forget.

[Berry Cool]

5. Let's not forget how the Republicans managed to drag out of her an agreement

to certain questions to the effect of this:

"Isn't this the exact same thing Bill Clinton did?"

"Um, well, I don't know if you could say th--"

"I REPEAT: ISN'T THIS THE EXACT SAME THING BILL CLINTON DID?"

"Well, sort of, but not qu--

"PERHAPS YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND MY QUESTION, YOUNG LADY. IS THIS NOT THE EXACT SAME THING BILL CLINTON DID?"

"Um, uh, yeah, I guess, if you don't count--"

"THANK YOU!"