WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 - With a federal corruption case intensifying, prosecutors investigating Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, are examining whether he brokered lucrative jobs for Congressional aides at powerful lobbying firms in exchange for legislative favors, people involved in the case have said.
The attention paid to how the aides obtained jobs occurs as Mr. Abramoff is under mounting pressure to cooperate with prosecutors as they consider a case against lawmakers. Participants in the case, who insisted on anonymity because the investigation is secret, said he could try to reach a deal in the next six weeks.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Bodies
Man, if they flip Abramoff it'll be like a nuke hit Republican Washington.
Laughing at Falafel
A reader's reaction to O'Reilly (audio).
...nevermind. Server not happy. Will put up if I can manage to shrink the file.
...okay, try this one.
...nevermind. Server not happy. Will put up if I can manage to shrink the file.
...okay, try this one.
Getting Out
I heard Murtha on NPR earlier and the one thing that struck me as that he's apparently convinced that by the end of next year most US troops will be out of Iraq. He wasn't clear on exactly how we were going to get to that point.
"Cultural Discomfort"
Because what we really needed was a new nice sounding phrase for xenophobic racism.
Save The People Paper
I have no idea why some well meaning dogooders don't see a tremendous opportunity here...
Five Worst Offenders
Yes, we shouldn't let Judith Miller get all the credit.
Here's one:
(tip from RP)
Here's one:
Jim Hoagland, Washington Post: This is sort of the Post's version of Miller, only he gets more leeway because he's an op-ed columnist. A veritable Dr. Strangelove of the war, he carried on a bizarre one-way discourse with Saddam Hussein before it started, referring to the dictator as "old chum" and gleefully chiding him about his imminent destruction. At the heart of Hoagland's madness was Ahmad Chalabi, the huckster who ran the Iraqi National Congress and was used as a chief source by the Bush administration in the buildup to war. Hoagland, to his great detriment, forged a too-close, 30-year friendship with Chalabi. It obviously skewed the man's logic. In 2001, he criticized the L.A. Times for repeating claims that Chalabi, wanted on embezzlement charges in Jordan, was a "crook." Then he waxed poetic about how Chalabi sacrificed "most of his fortune so he can risk his life to fight Saddam." Too bad he forgot to report that the man and the INC were paid tens of millions of dollars by the Pentagon for Chalabi's often faulty — but oh so handy — "intelligence." If Hoagland had any left, he'd pull a Murtha.
(tip from RP)
Big Liar
Time reporter says Bush is full of shit.
Same Time reporter said Lieberman's either nuts or a liar.
I like this guy.
Same Time reporter said Lieberman's either nuts or a liar.
I like this guy.
Joe Should Go
Lieberman's certainly annoyed me about the Iraq war issue and because of plenty of Fox News Democrat moments, but actually where he annoyed me the most was when he was transparently full of shit about the Bankruptcy Bill. He voted against the final bill, but he was on the wrong side of the procedural vote which everyone knew was the only real way to stop the thing. He then proudly trumpeted his vote against it. That's the kind of thing Rick Santorum does.
If any credible primary challenger in Connectictut stepped forward they would get lots of support. Including, it seems, from Move On.
If any credible primary challenger in Connectictut stepped forward they would get lots of support. Including, it seems, from Move On.
Splitting the Baby
In the comments to the post below about abortion a few people chimed in with the predictable "well, yah, but if the man wants her to have an abortion and she doesn't have one he shouldn't have to pay child support !!!!"
This is inane. All it does it give men a magic "get out of paying child support" card. Yes, I understand how in fantasyland it sounds nice that if one partner doesn't want a baby and the other does they go their separate ways. But here in reality you don't get to force a woman to have an abortion and even if you try you still have legal obligations.
I'm sure there are men who justifably feel they've gotten screwed on child support/custody issues. As there are numerous more women who have gotten screwed on the same issues, if in a slightly different fashion. But, once again, biology just dictates that there isn't a middle ground here. It would be nice if men "had a say." It would be nice if the decision to carry a child to term was something to be negotiated between two responsible partners, and that's presumably something which happens quite frequently. But there's no way to put such a thing into law without in effect signing over the property rights of a woman's uterus. That's just the way it is.
That worried about having unwanted children and child support payments? Use birth control. Have sex with people you're on the same page with on these issues. Really worried? Go get a little snip job.
This is inane. All it does it give men a magic "get out of paying child support" card. Yes, I understand how in fantasyland it sounds nice that if one partner doesn't want a baby and the other does they go their separate ways. But here in reality you don't get to force a woman to have an abortion and even if you try you still have legal obligations.
I'm sure there are men who justifably feel they've gotten screwed on child support/custody issues. As there are numerous more women who have gotten screwed on the same issues, if in a slightly different fashion. But, once again, biology just dictates that there isn't a middle ground here. It would be nice if men "had a say." It would be nice if the decision to carry a child to term was something to be negotiated between two responsible partners, and that's presumably something which happens quite frequently. But there's no way to put such a thing into law without in effect signing over the property rights of a woman's uterus. That's just the way it is.
That worried about having unwanted children and child support payments? Use birth control. Have sex with people you're on the same page with on these issues. Really worried? Go get a little snip job.
Congratulations Ron Royhab
All of this great stuff from the Toledo Blade and I'd never made the connection. I knew his sons in college.
WASHINGTON -- Political columnist Jack Germond, Charles Osgood of CBS News and the Ohio editor whose paper broke the state's "coingate" scandal are among the winners of this year's National Press Foundation awards.
Ron Royhab, executive editor of The (Toledo) Blade, will receive the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award. Royhab oversaw a series of stories that showed gross mismanagement of a $50 million investment by the state into rare coins.
Open Thread
Leaving all the changes far from far behind. we relieve the tension only to find out the thread's name.
Open Thread
On the darkest night so painful do you hunger for thread midst the torture of being one?
Wanker
People certainly have the right to name their children whatever they want and it's not the kind of thing I usually criticize, but our wanker legally changed his son's name to:
Apparently he also named his daughter "E."
(thanks to animal)
Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles Jeremijenko-Conley
Apparently he also named his daughter "E."
(thanks to animal)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)