Arkansas Blog

Tim "Waaaaaaaaaaaaah" Griffin.

Griffin chose a most curious phone call to return... one would think that someone as supposedly astute as he, about "hardball politics", especially when played in the legal/judicial field would not talk to a reporter who had authored a book (along with Jill Abramson) delegitimizing Clarence Thomas and excoriating the Senate DEMs who failed to derail him.

backchannel message by US Attorney 'Backwards'?

"PLEH, PLEH"

I had forgotten Mark Pryor broke Democratic ranks (again) to vote for the sleazy Alberto. Now he whines about the guy lying to him. Who says there's no justice at Justice?

Mark doesn't seem to learn very fast though, if his votes on Iraq etc. are any indication.

A pity, that.

Mark needs to remember that Mike Huckabee ALWAYS will be more attractive to the right wing than he will be. Huck ALWAYS will be a better Republican-oriented candidate than he. To differentiate himself, Mark needs to be a good DEMOCRAT, in my opinion. He can rave against the war, against privatizing, against the unfair tax cuts, against the deficit, against trying to mess with Social Security, things that actually mean something to Arkansans. I suppose he'd feel it necessary to give the nod to gay bashing and aborion hysteria but there's lots of other stuff he could vote right on without offending the mean-spirited sensibilities that reside in all to many Arkansans.

The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year, according to e-mails and internal documents that the administration will provide to Congress today.

The dismissals took place after President Bush told Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in October that he had received complaints that some prosecutors had not energetically pursued voter-fraud investigations, according to a White House spokeswoman.
The Washington Post Mar. 13, 07
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"He said that the implication that he had run an operation to suppress African-American voters, which could be a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was "false and close to libelous." (News accounts suggest that one reason that some of the purged U.S. Attorneys were fired is that Republican officials had complained to the Administration that they weren't energetic enough about investigating "voter fraud"-political shorthand, critics say, for delegitimatizing minority votes.)
He [Griffin] said that the implication that he had run an operation to suppress African-American voters, which could be a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was "false and close to libelous." (News accounts suggest that one reason that some of the purged U.S. Attorneys were fired is that Republican officials had complained to the Administration that they weren't energetic enough about investigating "voter fraud"-political shorthand, critics say, for delegitimatizing minority votes.)
The New Yorker , Mar 26th Ed.

White House covering up voter suppression. Pretty simple. Go get'em Mark.
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Public humiliation and zero credibility are small prices to pay for a man that truly deserves to be serve prison time for his voter suppression antics. With any luck, jail or at least a scorching case of herpes will be in his immediate future.

tpm muckraker has a new email from Roehrkasse to McNulty expressing Gonzo's "displeasure"..

more at link/name

fyi... per WSJ from friday...

GONZALES QUIETLY FILLED two long-vacant jobs.

With no public announcement, the attorney general named permanent chiefs last week for the Public Integrity Section, which prosecutes government corruption cases and oversees Abramoff-related investigations, and for the Fraud Section. Bill Welch, deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section, moves up, as does Steve Tyrrell, acting chief of the Fraud Section.

Both posts were vacant for more than a year. A Justice spokesman says the delay was because of interviewing multiple candidates. "It's not something that can be done overnight," he says.

"I had forgotten Mark Pryor broke Democratic ranks (again) to vote for the sleazy Alberto. Now he whines about the guy lying to him. Who says there's no justice at Justice?

Mark doesn't seem to learn very fast though, if his votes on Iraq etc. are any indication."

Mark, you incompetent boob.

"I worked in a campaign, like a lot of people," he said. "But now my job is not partisan, so I am not partisan."

"We think of ourselves as the creators of the ammunition in a war. . . . We make the bullets."

"Unleash Hell on Al"

...hey...c'mon...this guy is clearly qualified and "not partisan"...jeez.

What a fine shining example of a Bushman...loyal, loyal and gosh darn it, super smart too...vroom vroom!