ook Who's Back
Manuel Miranda is still playing games.
You may remember Miranda as the former Republican aide at the center of “Memogate” -- last year's scandal that involved Republican staffers on the Judiciary Committee stealing and leaking Democratic strategy memos. Miranda resigned in the wake of that scandal, but he has all along shamelessly defended two-years-worth of Republican snooping though Democratic computer files. An on-going Justice Department criminal probe continues to focus on Miranda.
Meanwhile, Miranda has found the time to be the chair of something called the National Coalition to End Judicial Filibusters (NCEJF), which looks to be a GOP astroturf group cultivated just in time to help Miranda's former boss, Sen. Bill Frist, press forward with the “nuclear option” to end judicial filibusters.
Earlier this month, Miranda and NCEJF sent out a letter to Republican senators urging them to end judicial filibusters. With typical Republican subtlety, the letter compared recent Democratic use of the filibuster to the royal tyranny King George III wielded over the American colonies. (Of course, the competition among Republican demagogues is always fierce, and it looks like Frist is set to one-up his old employee at next week's Democrats-are-against-people-of-faith conference at a Kentucky megachurch.)
http://molinillo.blogspot.com/2005/04/look-whos-back.html