Rove: Perjury? or Lying to the FBI?

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday July 02, 2005 · 6:54 PM PDT

2005/07/02 · 18:54

Seems to me we've already got the evidence for the same rap on Rove that sent Martha Stewart to the slammer. Here's what we have from TAP about what Rove told the Feds:

Rove also adamantly insisted to the FBI that he was not the administration official who leaked the information that Plame was a covert CIA operative to conservative columnist Robert Novak last July. Rather, Rove insisted, he had only circulated information about Plame after it had appeared in Novak's column.

DrBB

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 23, 2005 · 8:41 PM PDT

2005/06/23 · 20:41

Per Atrios: "Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman, speaking in Puerto Rico, said there was no need to apologize because "what Karl Rove said is true."
link

See? See how it's done, Richard Daley you putz? Lieberman? The rest of you Wurlitzer-whipped wusses? If OUR guys would respond this way across the board to things like the Durbin comment, people might start to believe we have some fucking SPINE.

Judicial nixing: the Dems started it, yes?

DrBB

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday May 20, 2005 · 5:13 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 05:13

According to the chart that ran in the NYT yesterday, the business of the Senate nixing a significant percentage of the POTUS's appointees really starts with the Dems doing it to Bush I. Up to that point, the confirm percentages are in the 90s; with Bush I they drop into the 70s. If the current imbroglio is a case of tit for tat, it's pretty clear that the Dems are responsible for the original tit, so to speak, and what the GOP was doing under Clinton was indeed, tat.

To the extent this issue revolves around the traditions of the Senate and its rules--informal or otherwise--for achieving "comity" in order to get things done, isn't the case pretty clear that the initial breach was on Dems' side? Anyone want to speak up in defense of what certainly appears to be a Democratic rupture of Senate tradition in these matters? Were Bush I's appointees so egregious compared to Reagan's? Well, ok, Thomas. But were they all that bad? What was the justification for what was clearly a deliberate policy of the Senate Democrats, to deny Bush I more of his appointments by a wide margin than had been customary before?

The MacFly Faction

DrBB

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday February 18, 2005 · 6:04 AM PST

2005/02/18 · 06:04

Simple question to "on the one hander" nitwits like Kristof who say the Dems should put forward an alternative plan:

Alternative to WHAT? W steadfastly refuses to propose a plan, and it's obviously the kind of positioning strategy he's used his whole political career. As long as he doesn't say what his plan is, then his plan is whatever happens. Now the game is to engage the Dems in creating "his" plan for him. A bipartisan triumph, woo hoo. For a "problem" that didn't exist. With a "solution" that will inevitably mean the demise of the program, however covertly it does that.

This inane pretence that there's some sincere wish to solve a genuine problem here is greater evidence of the stupidity of the left than anything the Freepers have ever adduced. Read More

Where's Digby?

DrBB

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday January 26, 2005 · 5:02 AM PST

2005/01/26 · 05:02

I've never posted a diary before, but I'm genuinely concerned and this seems like a way to get the word out to an appropriate audience. To wit: Where's Digby???

Over the last six months or so Digby's Hullabaloo has become one of my prime stopping points in blog surfing. Suddenly he hasn't posted anything for over a week--nearly ten days in fact. A number of people have been posting comments on his blog, trying to get a response. Nada.

Seems to me it's time to rouse the blogosphere a little on this. If I've just missed a major thread on this somewhere, I'd be happy to be shot down about it. But I hate having someone I'd come to think of as a friend and kindred soul just vanish like this without comment or reaction. and I have yet to see any of the major bloggers--many of whom have linked to his blog over the last months--take note of his absence or say anything about it. It's NOT OK for him to go dark and have no one express their concern. Does anyone know his real identity or how to contact him? Has someone else posted something on this and I've just missed it?

RSS

Rove: Perjury? or Lying to the FBI?

Mehlman shows us how it's done

Judicial nixing: the Dems started it, yes?

The MacFly Faction

Where's Digby?