Ken Mehlman, what the heck is a "nimble" congress?

[madfloridian]

I just heard Ken Mehlman use the word "nimble" in referring to this congress.

Nimble: "moving quickly and lightly", "mentally quick", agile.

This sounds like another talking point to me. I heard this while listening to Howard Dean's interview with Charlie Rose last night, and Charlie referred to Mehlman's interview earlier in the week.

Poor Ken. I guess he has a lot on his mind. All kinds of things going on. For several months I have been posting about things being investigated that involve him. None of them go anywhere. Here you go.

Mehlman is being investigated for at least two events.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/490

"Whatever happened about Ken Mehlman and the New Hampshire phone-jamming case from 2002? I did a search in news at Google, and also a web search. I don't see anything since April of this year.

Here is what I wrote about it in April, when Howard Dean was on with Sam Seder talking about it and other things."

NH Phone Jamming getting wings, Mehlman may testify

"SAM SEDER: Now I got to ask you ...a couple of stories of the Republicans..I never cease to be amazed. This latest story, the New Hampshire phone jamming case, tell us a little about that. It has been going on for a couple of years, but they just started sending people to jail for this.

DEAN: And there may be a lot more that go. I think my counterpart, Ken Mehlman will end up in court over this...testifying at least. What happened was that the Republicans jammed the GOTV efforts on the phone. Tied it up, they broke the law. Couple of people have gone to jail. The RNC has paid all their legal bills which makes one think this was not just someone just acting on their own. And as often happens in these scandals, the net is getting wider and wider and wider.

Turns out there were many many many phone calls made to the White House political office on the day this stuff was going on and right before it. And the question is who did they talk to in the White House? And nobody will say of course...so it does remind a little bit of Watergate.

And there's more:

Looks like Ken Mehlman had someone fired in behalf of Abramoff.

"Abramoff, White House Tied to Firing of Official
By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer
6:35 PM PDT, October 14, 2006


Washington -- For five years, Allen Stayman wondered who ordered his removal from a U.S. State Department job negotiating agreements with tiny Pacific island nations -- even when his own bosses wanted him to stay.

Now he knows.

The ax fell after intervention by one of the highest officials at the White House: Ken Mehlman, who acted on behalf of one of the most influential lobbyists in town, Jack Abramoff.

E-mails recently made public disclose that Abramoff, whose client list included the Northern Mariana Islands, had long opposed Stayman's work advocating labor reforms in that U.S. commonwealth, and considered what his lobbying team called the "Stayman project" a high priority.

"Mehlman said he would get him fired," an Abramoff associate wrote after meeting with Mehlman, who was then White House political director"

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mehlman15oct15,0,1634103.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Now back to my question, Ken Mehlman. What the heck is a "nimble" congress?

[razors edge]

1. One that successfully avoids the pitchforks?

[madfloridian]

2. Good one.

:rofl:

[razors edge]

5. ...

we'll be here all week, don't forget your wait staff, thank you.

[Demeter]

14. And Indictments!

[jimshoes]

3. Like a pick pocket nimble?

Or more like safe cracker nimble?:evilgrin:

[Graybeard]

4. Playing leap-frog with the pages?.............n/t

[madfloridian]

8. What have I started? LOL

The segment is about 20 minutes in, on the interview with Dean. I laughed out loud when I heard it.

http://www.charlierose.com/

It is such a strange way to describe a congress, like he is testing a talking point.

[NOLADEM]

6. What he means by nimble is a Congress that can act on the whim of the president immediately without

bothering with the formalities of a consitution, judiciary, press or opposition party and hearings.

[Drum]

7. It's GOP for "rubber stamp," or "agreeable"

[southerncrone]

9. You know....one that doesn't give a

Jack :sarcasm:

[David__77]

10. Kloset Kase Ken

I sincerely hope he has an illegal immigrant boyfriend ready to come out of the woodwork who can regale us with tales about Satan worship and Bible-burning.

[drb]

11. You gotta be nimble when you're in prison,,,

... unless you want to walk bow-legged for the first couple of years.

[madfloridian]

12. Article brings up the Southern Strategy....what they are doing.

It starts out with the Ford ad in TN.

http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2006/10/southern-strategy-unfolds.asp

"The New York Times reported on Friday that Terry Nelson was hired by the Republican National Committee to oversee "independent expenditures" and that Nelson hired Howell to produce the Ford attack ad.
No Republicans wanted to take credit. When the identity of the producer, Scott Howell, emerged, Democrats quickly pounced on his history of bare-knuckled tactics and close relationship with Karl Rove as evidence of a familiar Republican approach"

"And the incident quickly set off a wave of denials and denunciations from Republican officials, including the national party chairman and Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has hired Terry Nelson, another consultant affiliated with the spot.

Mr. Howell, who once worked for Mr. Rove’s direct-mail business in Texas, was hired by Mr. Nelson, who was political director of the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004. Mr. Nelson was in turn hired by Ken Mehlman, the former Bush-Cheney campaign manager and White House political director who is now chairman of the Republican National Committee, to oversee the so-called independent expenditure operations."

Interesting article, read all of it.

[JNelson6563]

13. One that can get everyone to town

and legislation passed lickety split in order to exploit a braindead woman before she dies.

Now that's nimble!

Julie

[OKthatsIT]

15. Like nimble fairy folk?

~ my first thought.

~ Tip toe through the tulips, through the tulips, that's where I'll be...just tip toe through the tulips with meeeeeeeee.~

[trof]

16. Here ya go - "nimble fingered":

Adj. 1. nimble-fingered - having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets; "a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault".

[SteppingRazor]

17. Obviously, "nimble" is the new "robust"...

just as "robust" was the new "bold" :eyes:

[madfloridian]

18. Now that is funny.

I remember the "bold" meme. I thought I would scream everytime I heard it.

Poor Ken, he just can't help it.

:rofl:

[freethought]

19. One that jumps when Bush/Cheney Co. snaps their fingers. N/T