Evidence Mounts Of White House Ties To New Hampshire Phone Jamming Scheme
Evidence Mounts Of White House Ties To New Hampshire Phone Jamming Scheme
On the morning of election day 2002, repeated hang-up calls assaulted six phone lines tied to the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Three Republican operatives, including consultant Allen Raymond, eventually ended up in jail for their involvement in the phone jamming scheme. A fourth, former RNC offical James Tobin, will begin a second trial in February.
In his new book, Raymond alleges that the scandal goes “to the top of the Republican Party” because “the Bush White House had complete control of the RNC” and there was no way such a risky tactic wouldn’t have been “vetted by” Tobin’s “high-ups”:
“The Bush White House had complete control of the RNC, and there was no way someone like Tobin was going to try what he was proposing without first getting it vetted by his high-ups,” Raymond wrote in How To Rig an Election, a book set for publication next month. “That’s if Tobin, rather than one of his bosses, had even thought of the ploy himself - which seemed unlikely.”
Phone records obtained in a civil suit brought against the NH GOP by the NH Democratic Party show that “Tobin made 22 calls to the White House political office in the 24 hours before and after the jamming” while the Republican National Committee has paid over $6 million in legal fees for Tobin.
Yesterday, McClatchy reported that “senior Justice Department officials” delayed prosecuting Tobin “until after the 2004 election” as part of an effort to protect the GOP “from the scandal until the voting was over“:
However, the official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, told McClatchy that senior Justice Department officials slowed the inquiry. The official didn’t know whether top department officials ordered the delays or what motivated those decisions.
The official said that Terry O’Donnell, a former Pentagon general counsel who was representing Tobin, was in contact with senior department officials before Tobin was indicted.
Marcy Wheeler notes that Tobin’s lawyer, Terry O’Donnell, is also “Dick Cheney’s long-time personal attorney.”
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey today, requesting documents and answers about the case.
Paul Kiel has more here.
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December 20th, 2007 at 7:37 pmEven if it can be proven that the Bush admin had something to do with it, nothing will be done about it, period!
December 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pmO/T, but definitely BREAKING!:
judge kennedy’s clerk has just
cleared — for security — the
filings for tomorrow’s torture
tape destruction hearing. . .
very few redactions in the
first set — and i have the full-
text up! click this to see ‘em.
i’ll be posting the exhibits to
the pleadings, later this evening,
but this is going to be very explosive,
tomorrow. take a look at the assertion
that more tapes likely exist, even now,
at gitmo! yeowza!
we now return you to dick-lawyers’ jammin’. . .
p e a c e
December 20th, 2007 at 7:45 pmTPM has more on this.
It’s pretty pathetic.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pmwhat an unsavory stew of fecal matter and republican politics.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pmI wouldn’t be too sure about that, beltman. A Democratic president’s Justice department will still be able to investigate various cases of election fraud which have taken place over the last 6 years. These are federal crimes, many of which come with prison terms. For example, the reason Karl Rove quickly resigned a couple of months ago was probably related to this and the situation in Alabama. We know from congressional testimony that repubs associated with this administration have been involved with voter “caging” which is a federal crime. We know Karl Rove was involved with the very strange vote switch which happened in the middle of the night in Alabama in 2002. I expect to see Rove relentlessly dogged by a Democratic Justice Department for federal crimes related to election fraud, tampering with the judiciary and turning federal prosecutor offices into political operatives. These are federal crimes and a different justice department should have no problem finding evidence and bringing indictments.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pmComment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper: So I have this straight–GOP hack Ann Coulter committed “voter fraud” and Rove and Tobin committed “election fraud.” This may lead one to believe Republicans have NOTHING for America to such an extent that they need to cheat to win elections.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:54 pmwe know Rove, Cheney and Bush are behind this corruption. what i want to know is why write a book? why not tell it to the (democratic) judge?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:05 pmSeven years and counting of a criminal conspiracy and coup d’etat
December 20th, 2007 at 8:11 pmWill someone please inform Bob Woodward? Oh, and please explain to him what phone jamming is.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:14 pmFor example, the reason Karl Rove quickly resigned a couple of months ago was probably related to this and the situation in Alabama. We know from congressional testimony that repubs associated with this administration have been involved with voter “caging†which is a federal crime.
What is also coming out now about Rove is his involvement in the politically motivated prosecution of Don Siegelman, Alabama’s former Governor.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:14 pmAnother criminal scandal that will amount to nothing at the end of the day. These guys are made of Teflon.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:19 pmHouse Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey today, requesting documents and answers about the case.
When are they going to stop writing letters to people who would implicate themselves by giving them the information? Show up with guns, badges and some mean looking dogs and step on their heads while you take the damn documents…
December 20th, 2007 at 8:19 pmAbove the clouds: It’s not just that the Republicans have nothing to offer, they haven’t got the votes even if they did. I know media and the general population seem to believe the parties are fifty but they are not.
72 million registered Democrats
55 million registered Republicans
42 million registered independents.
We need 13 million independents and not one Republican. THEY need THIRTY MILLION independents. What are their chances IF WE COUNT THE VOTES?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:20 pmLest we forget the Bush-GOP election theft in November, 2004, three short years ago, and how the Dems just rolled over and played dead…
Berkeley Daily Planet
Another Stolen Election: By JAMES K. SAYRE
COMMENTARY (11-09-04)
The exit polls that showed a sweeping victory for Sen. Kerry on Nov. 2 were right. Unfortunately, the 2004 presidential election was cleanly stolen by Bush & Co. How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. We have entrusted the most important election task, that of actually counting and tabulating the vote totals to extremist organizations with secret proprietary vote-counting computer software with no auditable paper trail for hand recounts. How very convenient, how very clean, how very slick and with all the evidence of election rigging is buried deep on their computer hard drives.
Sen. Kerry won a landslide victory by between two million and five million votes. The pre-election public opinion polls pointed to a large and growing Kerry election day majority and the election day exit polls also indicated a Kerry victory. Unfortunately, theocratic extremely right-wing computer election machine manufacturing corporations were in charge of “counting†the votes of millions and millions of Americans. Some how, a few million Kerry votes didn’t get counted and a few million bogus Bush votes showed up in the final election tallies and voila, a Bush “victory.â€
Democracy in 21st century America has been kidnapped and destroyed by extreme right-wing control of the new secret computerized electronic vote counting systems. Verifiable hand-counted paper ballots are the only way to restore legitimate elections in America…
The 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were both stolen by Bush & Co. The 2008 and 2012 presidential elections will suffer the same fate unless we institute a complete and total return to traditional, verifiable hand-counted paper election ballots.
The Republican Party will never lose another presidential election as long as we allow their corporate buddies to “count†our votes in secret
end of letter.
P. S. this letter was posted on several right wing blogs and they sneered and smirked and said, oh, just another crazy Berkeley hippie, but unfortunately, details revealed over the past three years have shown that my original assertions were right on target.
Cheers
December 20th, 2007 at 8:21 pmMaybe the fourteen calls to the White House switchboard were all prank calls.
Maybe Tobin would call, then ask whoever answered if they “had Prince Albert in a can”. Then when they said no, he’d still answer “Well, you better let him out”, giggle then hang up.
I’m told James Tobin doesn’t quite “get” the whole prank call thing.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:26 pm“This is just a witch hunt!”
December 20th, 2007 at 8:41 pm~chl/jas
Here’s a list BARTLEBEE.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:01 pmComment by BARTLEBEE — December 20, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
Your sarcasm detector is broken.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:05 pmAt some point the teflon has got to wear off. There is an overload point, where they can and will investigate, indict, and convict. I guess the question is will it be before or after Jan 20th 2009?
December 20th, 2007 at 9:19 pmThese guys are made of Teflon.
Comment by JPV — December 20, 2007 @ 8:19 pm
Even John Gotti eventually went to prison.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:38 pmCan someone please put together a compendium please?
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 20, 2007 @ 8:44 pm
Indeed, perhaps that in and of itself is the ultimate GOOPer strategy…
… the greatest “Smash and Grab” moment in the history of the country.
“Now, if we ALL just go completely ape-sh*t crooked at once and break every single, solitary, last law we can possibly break, all at the same time, perhaps they’ll just be so stunned and overwhelmed, they won’t know what to do… ”
Sounds funny at first, but when you think about it, ya start to wonder… is this what they planned deliberately to do, because it appears that this is what they did.
I’ve NEVER seen anything like it, and hope to God I never do again.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:44 pmPhone jamming scandal
Main article: 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal
A Democratic analysis of phone records introduced at the 2005 criminal trial of James Tobin, the Northeast political director for the RNC in 2002, show that he made 115 outgoing calls - mostly to the same number in the White House office of political affairs - between September 17 and November 22, 2002. At the time, the office of political affairs was headed by Ken Mehlman. Two dozen of the calls were made from 9:28 a.m. the day before the election through 2:17 a.m. the night after the voting, a three-day period during which the criminal phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out, and then abruptly shut down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Ken_Mehlman#Phone_jamming_scandal
December 20th, 2007 at 9:46 pmCheating is a compassionate, moral majority, value voter quality in effort to bring honesty and integrity back to Casa Blanca.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:48 pmShocked and Awed.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:49 pmJesus was alot like Bill Clinton. They both, ironically, are the reason for the Republicans non-stop sinning.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:58 pmGood
Ol’
Perpetrators
bring on the RICO prosecution - the 1 thing that would be better than impeachment.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:05 pmbring on the RICO prosecution - the 1 thing that would be better than impeachment.
Comment by tombaker — December 20, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
I believe I was the original RICO on this site… I was calling for it months ago… I used to do THIS all the time! :-D!!!
RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO!
December 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pmANOTHER DAY = ANOTHER BUSH SCANDAL
IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY NOW! THIS DEMOCRACY CANNOT SUSTAIN THE FORTHCOMING DAILY SCANDALS OF THIS GANG OF CORRUPT THUGS.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:18 pmSo the three Repubs involved who did jail time will have their day in court and indict the White House totally. Guess that means jail time for Rove, Bush & Cheney now as well.
What’s good for the goose (and they’ve paid their price) is good for the gander (Rove, Bush, Cheney). I hope someone is planning an appropriate Xmas gift for the three of them: ORANGE JUMPSUITS.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:20 pmMaybe we can all chip in so they can have the jumpsuits in advance of their prosecution? Sort of like “trying it out for size”….
December 20th, 2007 at 10:21 pmI was wondering how the righties manage to win fair and square, and how everyone gets to be such sore losers…
December 20th, 2007 at 10:55 pmman, that guy’s face screams “Evil weasel”. Tobin.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:58 pmComment by BARTLEBEE — December 20, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
Your sarcasm detector is broken.
Comment by Dr. Matt — December 20, 2007 @ 9:05 pm
At least my troll imitation is up to par.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:59 pmAll the proof in the world means less than nothing when there’s no opposition party to hold the ruling party accountable. So you’ll get rid of the Republicans and elect …. who? Hillary? Good luck on changing anything.
Bin Laden won on 9/11. The Declaration of Defeat was signed when the Orwellian-titled Patriot Act was signed and that stroll into Iraq officially sealed the deal.
It’s time to stick a fork in the once-great US of A.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:59 pmComment by Veritas — December 20, 2007 @ 10:20 pm
I can’t escape the image of Bush/Rove/Cheney reenacting the opening scene from “Oh Brother! Where art thou”. If you are unfamiliar with the movie, it begins with the protagonists, shackled together, running across a field to escape a “chain gang”. I can’t imagine anything more fitting than these criminals living out their lives breaking rocks or, at the very least, under assumed names.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:32 pmI honestly must say I can no longer keep up with the voluminous crimes, […] public lies, etc, of this Bush White House.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 20, 2007 @ 8:44 pm
I stopped trying a while ago. Keeping up was becoming a full time job. Now I just focus on the biggest, most egregious ones, and assume that the rest of the stuff they try to push is either illegal or a lie.
I am correct most of the time.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:45 pmwho? Hillary? Good luck on changing anything.
Comment by Abby — December 20, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
Thats why I am voting for Dennis Kucinich. If Kucinich drops out of the race or something, then I’ll vote for Dodd. And actually a Kucinich/Dodd or a Dodd/Kucinich ticket would be well worth viting for.
Hell with the “media darlings” that can’t even be bothered to show up to do their jobs. =|
The way the media is deliberately manipulating the election so far is nothing less than nauseating to me.
I am going to start demanding something be done about the obvious favoritism by the media, manipulating elections, excluding some candidates now at the earliest stages of the election before a single primary vote has been cast. Each and every candidate deserves to be heard, and it is our right to be able to hear what each one has to say, in order to insure a free and far democratic election.
This is manipulation of the election in a manner that if it is not illegal, it damn sure should be. I am going to be searching Thomas ( Library of Congress ) and find out.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:01 amIts been real hard to get into, real busy lately though. I suspect alot of people are searching overtime right now.
My hatred of organized criminals known quaintly as ‘republicans’ grows exponentially with each new scandal brought with each passing day.
Overthrow the bastards. Clean the fu*king house. Let’s see some *real* family values.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:02 amBah That should have been “free and fair” not far =P
December 21st, 2007 at 12:03 am“Now, if we ALL just go completely ape-sh*t crooked at once and break every single, solitary, last law we can possibly break, all at the same time, perhaps they’ll just be so stunned and overwhelmed, they won’t know what to do… â€
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — December 20, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
I think you may have something there.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:10 amThe way its falling apart right now, that looks like exactly how well all this crap was planned. For sure, for sure.
Why is there a picture of Charles Nelson Reilly on the cover of this thread?
Comment by BARTLEBEE
Isn’t that Napier?
December 21st, 2007 at 12:17 amOr Frank “the bunny” M. maybe?
December 21st, 2007 at 12:18 amman, that guy’s face screams “Evil weaselâ€. Tobin.
Comment by evil_framers_of_the_constitution — December 20, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
Ya know, it is kinda weird and more than just a little unnerving that so many of the GOOPer/rightiecreeps do all look so similar - Rove, Glenda Beck, this guy, Bar Scholzman, Jonah Goldberg, Von Spakovsky, Hugh Hewitt… pudgy, pasty faced, angry white men. Kinda creepy.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:23 amWhy is there a picture of Charles Nelson Reilly on the cover of this thread?
Comment by BARTLEBEE
Isn’t that Napier?
Comment by evil_framers_of_the_constitution — December 21, 2007 @ 12:17 am
Hmm, he shaved his sideburn and got glasses
December 21st, 2007 at 12:24 amHeh
Kinda creepy.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — December 21, 2007 @ 12:23 am
Yeah, makes you wonder if these guys keep pet rats in a shoebox. Dead ones.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:26 amFor sure, for sure.
Comment by Wayne — December 21, 2007 @ 12:10 am
Ya know Wayne, I thought I was being funny at first, and then I started to think about it… I don’t know how else to explain the last 7 years. It seemd like the entire GOOP just went simultaneoulsy bat-sh*t crazy at once and tried to steal everything they could and wreck everything they couldn’t, on purpose. I’m SOOOO f’in’ p*ssed at these guys for the mess they’ve made.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:27 amI had just kind of skimmed the article before, but I just read it completely.
Jesus H Tap-dancing Christ. Whattabunchoffockingcrooks.
Unbelieveable. I guess when you can’t do anything right, you might as well be really good at doing something wrong.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:34 amI’m SOOOO f’in’ p*ssed at these guys for the mess they’ve made.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — December 21, 2007 @ 12:27 am
I am right there with you.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:36 amI thought it was just me, but they all do kinda share that Heinrich Himmler\Herman Goering like appearance.
:|
Kind of like an evil Larry Mondello.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 12:33 am
Weren’t you the one, Bartles, who talked about Himmler and Cofer Black - THAT’s the one I wasn’t remembering - how mucth they looked alike?
And we all thought the Boys From Brazil was… just… a… movie…
December 21st, 2007 at 12:36 amI am right there with you.
Comment by Wayne — December 21, 2007 @ 12:36 am
I would dearly love to see every single member of Congress, w/ one or two exceptions, righteoulsy tossed outta there on their *sses, properly and legally, come their next election.
I gotta say, I’m so glad Dodd had the cojones to do what he did earlier in the week.
It’s gonna take the rest of us DECADES to clean this up, IF we can. In seven short years Brusch might have turned the US into a has been country. NO THING in this world is unbreakable.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:40 amhmmmmmmm
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 12:41 am
Indeed, Herr Brusch…
Don’t forget Prescott… fruit of the poisoned tree.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:43 amIt’s gonna take the rest of us DECADES to clean this up, IF we can. In seven short years Brusch might have turned the US into a has been country. NO THING in this world is unbreakable.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — December 21, 2007 @ 12:40 am
Bush has acted like a petty tin horn dictator in the finest Banana Republic tradition. And Banana Republic is about what he has turned the reputation of this Country into in the eyes of the rest of the World.
Yeah, it will take many years, if not decades to clean this freakin’ mess up.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:48 amOk, if Gregory Peck shows up I’m outta here.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 12:40 am
LMAO
December 21st, 2007 at 12:50 am“Now, if we ALL just go completely ape-sh*t crooked at once and break every single, solitary, last law we can possibly break, all at the same time, perhaps they’ll just be so stunned and overwhelmed, they won’t know what to do… â€
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — December 20, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
Very astute observation. I’m in public relations and the scandals of the Bush/Cheney crime family provide a remarkable study in crisis communications.
Normally, there is a process involved in a crisis situation, but this administration is rewriting the book. Scandal after scandal continue to develop, overlapping others as they continue to mount.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a method to this madness, and we may well spend the next 10 years sorting this all out.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:00 amYeah, it will take many years, if not decades to clean this freakin’ mess up.
Comment by Wayne — December 21, 2007 @ 12:48 am
IF IF IF it can be done. The little sh*t heel from hell has run up such a staggering debt in just 7 year. If he was the CEO of a real corp, the BoD would have removed his sorry ass yrs ago. All the GOOP tries to do is pretend the delusional dry drunk can walk on water. Disgusting and terrifying at the same time.
Factor in how much of our debt the Chinese now own, and that both the Chinese and the Russians have been arming up like crazy, and the dollar keeps dropping, this is very, very, very, very, very BAD.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:10 amI sincerely hope yer right, Bartles.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:10 amExcept for Bush.
He’s more like a really dumb version of Eddie Haskell.
:\
And Cheney is “Lumpyâ€.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 12:35 am
I always thought of them as Pinky and the Brain
December 21st, 2007 at 1:10 amComment by rockwilder — December 21, 2007 @ 1:00 am
More like 20, or even 30, IF we can.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:12 amI always thought of them as Pinky and the Brain
Comment by Wayne — December 21, 2007 @ 1:10 am
Twiddle Dumb and Twiddle Dumber?
December 21st, 2007 at 1:12 amAll the GOOP tries to do is pretend the delusional dry drunk can walk on water. Disgusting and terrifying at the same time.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — December 21, 2007 @ 1:10 am
I am not so sure he is dry
December 21st, 2007 at 1:13 amFrom that last link I posted:
December 21st, 2007 at 1:16 amI am not so sure he is dry
Comment by Wayne — December 21, 2007 @ 1:13 am
Right… I agree. I’m just used to the phrase. I’ve seen clips of him talking in the last yr where it’s almost impossible to NOT think he’s freakin’ loaded.
The slurred words, the bizarre gestures, the slouching posture, that stunned, deer-caught-in-the-headlights look in his eyes.
It’s terrifying… the most powerful man in the world is a lush…
December 21st, 2007 at 1:16 amDid he really say “Hispanically”?
December 21st, 2007 at 1:19 amOMG… he did…
1. hispanically
In the fashion of or similar to a mexican, puerto rican or other hispanic. Coined by George W. Bush in an address to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
“A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses — Hispanically owned or otherwise — pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.”
Hey, it just might be a perfectly cromulent word.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:23 amOh, yes, the wisdom of our President….
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.â€
~ George W. Bush
How the fcking hell did we get so many stupid people in the US, for them to comprise 51% of the vote in 2004?
December 21st, 2007 at 1:26 amSomething in the water?
Kinda like evidence mounting that Rudy had a heart attack and no one wants to cover it? Have you ever met a person who is pussy enough to check into the hospital for “Flu like symptoms”? If ya can’t handle a cold Rudy how ya gonna handle the terrorists? Since he used his prostate with the last Hillary battle,this is his only recourse..pathetic.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:29 amSomething in the water?
Comment by Wayne — December 21, 2007 @ 1:26 am
Don’t forget… there were so many peculiarites around the 2004 election in certain key states that it’s not far-fetched to suggest it was indeed stolen.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:31 amlol, well they certainly are a couple of rats.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 1:34 am
Must be related to that new species of giant rat they just discovered in Indonesia.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:36 amlol, well they certainly are a couple of rats.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 1:34 am
I’m a dad, so I have seen alot of that silly damned cartoon. LOL
December 21st, 2007 at 1:40 amThat was clearly a coup.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 1:41 am
Everytime I read about some of the exact details, like you describe above, I’m stunned at how blatant they were, and how easily they got away w/ it, and how willingly the “librul media” helped them by burying the news.
Just… F-in’ INFURIATING…
December 21st, 2007 at 1:47 amno matter WHAT they had to do to make that happen.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 1:47 am
Much to the country and the rest of the world’s detriment. Everytime you roll over a rock, you find out how yet ANOTHER JoD official was hindering an investigation, or the evidence got lost, or destroyed, or someoen can’t remember ANYTHING, even when there’s a transcript of their exact words, or it’s suddenly a state secret… RICO the whole F-in’ lot of them.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:51 amBasically, everything we thought they were doing, they were doing.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 1:52 am
Uh… yeah…
I remember the first time I saw Brusch on the campaign trail in 2000. I listened to just his tone of voice, looked at the expression in his eyes, and flinched. I remember hearing the words “Oh, dear God, please don’t let that man be the next President of the United States”.
He has been every bit as bad as I had feared, and the GOOP has gone completely insane. What a disaster for this country.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:56 am… something Bush did from ever happening again.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — December 21, 2007 @ 2:00 am
Isn’t that how Joe Kennedy became head of the SEC, that he had helped manipulate the stock market into the crash or 1929 and afterwards, the Feds put him charge because they thought he could make sure no one ever did it that way again?
I sure hope yer right, Bartlebee. I do see small signs that people are waking up. 2 or 3 yrs ago, the Krongard Borthers would not have resigned so quickly when their mutual involvement in a situation like Blackwater came out. They would have just p*ssed on anyone who complained. The Bruschies are showing signs of fear, finally.
Night all… talk to you later.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:12 amI’m affraid that all of these scandals surrounding Bush and his adminstration will eventually be forgotten, especially if Hillary is elected. Remember, as Bill Clinton was taking office in 1993, three important investigations were underway, all of which Clinton could have helped by ordering key documents declassified or giving other backing to the investigators. Iran-Contra, “Iraqgate”, and the “October Surprise” case were all swept under the rug.
In his 2004 memoirs, My Life, Clinton wrote; “Finally, President Bush had given decades of service to our country, and I thought we should allow him to retire in peace, leaving the matter between him and his conscience.”
Some believe that Bill’s recent declaration that Hillary’s first act as President would be to send Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush on an around-the-world mission is an olive branch to the Bush administration that their crimes will be overlooked if Hillary becomes president.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:59 amNail these vote rigging Republicans.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:26 amhttp://ccoaler.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 12/ iraq-afghanistan-war-costs-top-vietnam.html
Bush cartoon: buget / Iraq war
December 21st, 2007 at 7:33 amHow come it’s only 8 in the morning, and I already feel the need for more rum in my nog after reading more on the bushbaby criminal family?
December 21st, 2007 at 8:37 amAs we approach the end of the year, I keep saying to myself well, we are closer to the end of the Most Corrupt Adminstration in the history of this great country. As we wrap gifts, celebrate holidays (Christmas, Chanukah, New Years, Kwanza etc) and “wrap” up another year and we say goodbye to 2007 :
let’s not say goodbye to America’s oldest experiment : Democracy.
I just finished reading Naomi Wolf’s “The End of America” and I cannot recommend this enough for last minute gifts. It’s a wake-up call to what is happening right here in America.
This very much hyped “war of terror” is stripping away our civil liberties on a daily basis. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will : but 19 Muslims with boxcutters taking down NY’s financial center is another conspiracy.
We must not be complacent. And I’m afraid Cynthia McKinney (The Green Party) has as much chance of winning the presidency as the Pope converting to Judiasm. She’s the only one talking about that Sunny Tuesday morning in September 6 years ago.
And I wonder what was detroyed in the White House fire 2 days ago.
We’ll probably never know.
Thanks for letting me rant and rave. I love my country but fear my gov’t.
-kay
December 21st, 2007 at 8:41 amWill someone please inform Bob Woodward? Oh, and please explain to him what phone jamming is.
Comment by Badmoodman — December 20, 2007 @ 8:14 pm
Tell him that it’s kinda like ratfu*king. He should know what that is - he wrote about it during the Watergate scandal.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:47 amAnd so what could the administration be using spying for? Political purposes? Sure seems that could be more than likely.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:52 amWould someone in the NSA please voluntarily hand over the complete contents of all 22 phone calls.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:55 amThanks.
Would someone in the NSA please voluntarily hand over the complete contents of all 22 phone calls.
Thanks.
Comment by RUCerious — December 21, 2007 @ 8:55 am
Hmmm… This phone jamming incident happened in 2002, the same year as the CIA interrogations on the tapes that were destroyed.
Coincidence???
December 21st, 2007 at 9:03 amAnyone notice that as soon as another “major” revelation breaks pertaining to the potential criminality of this Administration there seems to be a kind of troll black-out? This thread has been up since last night and is still virtually troll free. I guess they’re waiting for the “powers that be” to give them their marching orders. If any one of them could actually think for themselves and actually had an honest sense of conviction for their lame-assed arguements they would consistently be here defending their bosses. This seems to happen thread after thread. When a topic that has not been previously argued by our trolls suddenly appears, it takes a while for them all to “get their game on” and pollute the threads in their soory attempts to “win the hearts and minds” of us, the witch-hunting moonbat libruls. Fairly mute point anyway as it seems more and more as time passes that their is NO FUTURE for the GOP in this country!
December 21st, 2007 at 9:05 amComment by A Patriot Acting — December 21, 2007 @ 9:05 am
They haven’t heard Hannity’s or Limbaugh’s take on it. As soon as these blowhards find their angle the troops will be marching.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:51 amThe Republicans have definitely failed their shot at the bigtime.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:09 amFor godssakes Rep. Conyers, forget the useless letter writing. You are below the contempt of this administration. We all are. Do not pass Subpoena, Go directly to the Sgt. at Arms of the House. These people are common criminals. Treat them as such.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:18 amSome how, a few million Kerry votes didn’t get counted and a few million bogus Bush votes showed up in the final election tallies and voila, a Bush “victory.â€
Comment by Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre
For anyone interested, here is the original lawsuit filed in Ohio contesting the stolen election. It details the massive election fraud by the Republicans.
Lawsuit Before the Ohio Supreme Court
December 21st, 2007 at 1:22 pmThe Republican Party is a criminal organization. Pass the word.
December 24th, 2007 at 5:08 pm