They threw George "Macaca" Allen under the bus.....
It was Missouri they were worried about.
2006 Missouri's election was ground zero for GOP
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Accusations about voter fraud seemed to fly from every direction in Missouri before last fall's elections. State and national Republicans leaders fretted that dead people might vote or that some live people might vote more than once.
The threat to the integrity of the election was seen as so grave that Bradley Schlozman, the acting chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and later the U.S. attorney in Kansas City, twice wielded the power of the federal government to try to protect the balloting. The Republican-controlled Missouri General Assembly also stepped into action.
Now, six months after freshman Missouri Sen. Jim Talent's defeat handed Democrats control of the U.S. Senate, disclosures in the wake of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys show that that Republican campaign to protect the balloting was not as it appeared. No significant voter fraud was ever proved.
A concerted effort to keep a D from winning, and yet Ms McCaskill did?
Good job ma'am.
Things are only getting better...
Tomorrow, May 3rd, 9:30a EST on Cspan 3.
James Comey testifies to the Judiciary Committee.
Who is he you ask?
One of the fascinating dynamics in the Justice Department for going on 4 years now has been the tension between the Bush loyalists and those loyal Republicans who still have a shred of decency left.
The poster child for the latter category has been James Comey, the deputy attorney general for part of John Ashcroft's tenure, who appointed his old friend Patrick Fitzgerald as special prosecutor to investigate the Plame affair.
Comey was also the guy who refused to reauthorize the NSA warrant less wiretapping program, forcing the White House to get Ashcroft to sign off on it from his hospital bed. Bush, as is his way, nicknamed Comey "Cuomo."
Mmmmm, I smell barbecued elephant.
Cross posted in bits at Cliff Schecter