Arkansas Blog

Hmmm. The Salon article noted that the fired U.S. attorneys "had received positive job reviews before they were dismissed and some . . . are viewed by colleagues and law enforcement officials as exceptional leaders." So maybe it is performance-based: They were too competent to hold office in the Bu$h Adminstration.

Future historians are going to so look back and laugh at us. Bush-Cheney's last 7 years reads like a road map. In all directions since the first day they have put in their favorite people no matter if they had any experience or could do the job.

Look at Katrina...a dog show judge screws up the aftermath.....is that really a surprise? Look at Iraq....Paul Bremer loses 8 billion dollars right off the bat. Scores of supervisors got their job by being a Bush backer, not because they knew the first thing about oversight or construction or management. A report came out last year showing they were asked about their voting records and votes, not could they run a construction operation.

As Huckabee rewarded himself, Bush-Cheney has governed by rewards for 7 years and people have suffered and died and billions of dollars have been wasted or stolen. This is a government of pay backs and pay offs.

And along comes Griffin....his turn at the trough, and out goes Cummins. Well Bud....do you understand now how much your Republican devotion is worth? Who you gonna vote for in '08?

Yeah....those future historians are gonna double over laughing assuming we make it to the future. We've had 7 years of everything being done wrong. If we see the future, at least we now have a benchmark to measure administrations....too bad a million people had to die to set a new record low for the USA. It's time to take to the streets or take a nap and forget the whole thing.

I'm right in the middle of reading "It Can Happen Here" by Joe Conason. A MUST READ.

Also if you haven't read the Sinclair Lewis novel "It Can't Happen Here" I cannot recommend it enough.

The Griffin appointment is significant because this jurisdiction will see a lot of traffic in the 08 campaign. Griffin could delve into Hillary's Arkansas past again, or even go after Wesley Clark if he gets active again. If Bill Clinton were to, say, run for Senate in New York, opp reserach will begin here. But I think Griffin's first task will likely be to pull the plug on the Huck's nuisance campaign, which has little support in the Rove camp. There are many targets of opportunity in the venality of the Huckabees, and any attention paid to them by Griffin's office will be damaging in the extreme.

Plenty of good points all around...

I, for one, am ready for someone other than a Clinton or a Bush in the Oval Office.

I know, I know...lots of Hillary lovers out there. And I will support her if she wins the nomination.

But I have a real problem with her lack of accountability on her Iraq War vote...and I don't want to hear that "knowing what I know now" crap. She buckled just like many other Dems because she was scared she'd look weak.

Tim Griffin will work tirelessly in his efforts to embarrass the Clintons. That's what he's good at. That's the primary area of his expertise. We all know the administration won't bother appointing someone to replace him, so we can all get ready for the swift boat smearing to start...

"Future historians are going to so look back and laugh at us."

Amen, DBI! Hell, I already look back at the last six years and can't believe what's occurred. Of course there's all the monkeyboy crap...but the American public sure hasn't distinguished itself since 9/11. I remember well how most of the country fell on their knees in Bush worship and begged him to take anything he wanted to save their scared asses. For the first time I REALLY understood how McCarthy, internment camps and witch burning occurred. (Sure I'd understood in the abstract...but 9/ll put a tangible reality to the stuff.) For being such a law-abiding, brave and kick-butt crew, we sure wasted no time in handing over that Constitution and tossing out justice while we indefinitely imprisoned people in non-American Guantanamo.

I agree Rosso...I'll support anyone who's not a monkeyboy clone/enabler and who'll get us out of this immoral war the FASTEST. But one president per family should be the rule.