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so long, loser!

oh and dont let the state hit in you in the ass on the way out.

"I will miss them dearly."

Oh, boo hoo.

Tim Griffin will continue to have a dark cloud over his head until the allegations of voter "caging" in the last two presidential elections is resolved. He has had a rough go and needs to be cleared of these vicious rumors. This smart young man should not have to go through life with everyone questioning his dealings while employed by the RNC and Rove. Just like the fired US attorneys, he deserves to get his reputation back. Call Pryor and Lincoln and insist this be investigated immediately.

Pryor
501-324-6336
202-224-2353
Lincoln
501-375-2993
202-224-4843

I sure hope people are checking EVERYTHING he did while in office to make sure he hasn't screwed something up.

I must second Peri Winkle. No one needs the deep cloud of suspicion hanging over their heads. Think of the bright future that awaits Timothy once he has been thoroughly investigated.
I must imagine the family embarrassment that could be avoided with a 6 month investigation.
Just do it. It's the right thing to do.

He said he'd accomplished much in nearly six months on the job"

Shouldn't your website actually examine and publish what he accomplished? The Future deserves it.
I recall you earlier saying he has always padded his resume`.

In any stretch of the imagination could prison be called a part of the private sector? Gosh, I hope so.

I find it hard to sleep at night thinking of just what Rove and Griffin managed to accomplish in nearly 6 months. The only way we'll know is with lots and lots of Congressional hearings. Let's have em!

Remember there are 80-some Bush appointed US Attorneys out there hard at work doing Rove's bidding. Sure it's great that Griffin is going away, but by no means are we anywhere near out of the woods yet.

Look at the crap we know about 8 or 9 Bushies that weren't Bush enough.....what do we not know about the rest? Goodling crossing the line X 85.....and still going on as I type!

We're at the very beginning, not the end. This is like December 8th, 1941. Griffin is just one Zero shot down over Hawaii.

"They welcomed me, taught me, inspired me, served shoulder-to-shoulder with me and have been an absolute joy with which to work..."

"with whom to work" is correct. Sheesh.

""with whom to work" is correct. Sheesh."

I'm reminded of Monica Goodling's recent claims of legal ignorance/confusion. Now why would any of us expect our top justice positions to be filled by lawyers who know the law they are charged with enforcing or how to communicate well.

I think Thomson/Griffin will be a perfectly entertaining match...an actor and a puppet.

You're wrong. This is a loss for the people of Arkansas. Tim Griffin was an Iraq veteran, Oxford-educated, experienced attorney.

You don't like him, because he had the audacity to be conservative. Frankly, that says more about you, than it does about him.

I just saw your comment, "zelda" and frankly, you don't know what you are talking about.

Griffin is a Tulane and Oxford-educated attorney; he has served in the White House, on the front lines in Iraq, a Judge Advocate General, a private practice attorney at a firm, numerous positions within the Dept. of Justice. That's just a beginning.

It would be interesting to see how that compares to your resume, zelda.

Perhaps, you have some commentary on what Coach Pelphrey needs to do for the team. Must be nice to sit in the cheap seats.

I just saw your comment, "zelda" and frankly, you don't know what you are talking about.

Griffin is a Tulane and Oxford-educated attorney; he has served in the White House, on the front lines in Iraq, a Judge Advocate General, a private practice attorney at a firm, numerous positions within the Dept. of Justice. That's just a beginning.

It would be interesting to see how that compares to your resume, zelda.

Perhaps, you have some commentary on what Coach Pelphrey needs to do for the team. Must be nice to sit in the cheap seats.

re: "They welcomed me, taught me, inspired me, served shoulder-to-shoulder with me and have been an absolute joy with which to work. I will miss them dearly."

I bet that's the EXACT same closing that he had when he said goodbye to his fellow cagers.

RBF:
Did you think your post would be any more enlightening by posting it twice? Or are you just as incompetent techologically as you are intellectually?
A degree from Tulane and Oxford means nothing if you have no values or character. That's the kind of person who denies people of color the right to vote.
Working in this White House is and should be a badge of shame. The most incompetent government/leadership we have ever had. Thanks Tim, for helping to make it so.
On the front lines in Iraq??? As part of the "brain trust" that gave us de-Bathification, no security and stopping publication of Shiite newspapers. We are still reaping the "benefits" of those great decisions.
Private practice attorney's are a dime a dozen. The good ones rise to the top in their profession; they don't go bottom feeding in the Republican Party.
Oh, and you saved the best for last - Timmy's "service" in the DOJ. And what a stellar performance it has been. Crooks, sharlatans, belief-based law, and incompetence.
My god man, have you no shame? Have you no values? Have you no respect for the institutions of your country? Have you no respect for yourself?

Oh but Razorback....you're leaving off Tim Griffin's fine work at illegally cutting people off from voting. We only know the tip of that iceberg and man...does it smell already.

I don't like him because he has the audacity to be crooked as a dog's hind leg. He's an important part of the stealth takeover of our government.

And furthermore, if zelda and I had just finished our lunch out of a smelly trash can, what would that have to do with Griffin and Rove's criminal activities? Would it make them less guilty? Will it reduce their prison sentence?

If I was you I'd switch to talking about Griffin being a fine looking young man and let it go at that. Your Oxford-educated loser just lost...big time.

Perhaps Peri Winkle and I have it wrong. It's best Timothy forgo any investigation until he begins work for Senator Thompson. Then once his Tulane and Oxford "professional' research skills are being applied he can appear before two Judiciary Committees and be given the opportunity to clear his name.

Have to love DBI and his penchant for not letting facts get in the way of his missives.

Where has it been determined that anything Tim Griffin did was illegal?

Exactly. It's just zelda's fantasy.

I feel sorry for the whole bunch of you; you believe anything Kos tells you and have lost the ability to think for yourself.

Denial of votes? That ridiculous accusation has been proven wrong so many times it's almost comical that you bring it up.

Please.

And the old Raz easily forgets..the way Tim the cagey vote Grifter fudged on his resume re JAG duties..

There was no fudging. Perhaps, it makes you feel better to attack the reputations of war veterans anonymously on blogs.

Now, go back to worrying about the black helicopters with alien pilots. Freak.

Oh please yourself, Razorbackwhatever...I never said Griffin did anything illegal and my resume is immaterial (though it's damn good) 'cause I'm not one of the Justice Department lawyers who's using incorrect English or who's confused about the law. But now that you brought it up...Griffin's Florida shenanigans wouldn't hold up to casual scrutiny much less the kind that comes with Senate confirmation; and given Goodling's background I can understand her legal confusion (but I bet she'd ace the religious zealotry exam).

And, given that monkeyboy has birthed the biggest, most expensive government in our history I'd hardly call citizen seats cheap.

"There was no fudging. Perhaps, it makes you feel better to attack the reputations of war veterans anonymously on blogs."

Oh yes there was...and just how did it make you Republicans feel when you attacked war veteran John Kerry or disabled war veteran Max Cleland?

...nothing but a party of hypocrites.

Republicans didn't attack John Kerry's service record. The people who served in the Navy alongside John Kerry did.

That's something that gets overlooked.

I'm sure it didn't help him, when Kerry said that he thought all American soldiers were butchers and war criminals.

"Republicans didn't attack John Kerry's service record..."

LOL...who said Republicans don't have a sense of humor.

Mr. Griffin needs to answer questions under oath regarding those "caging" questions, or those issues will always follow him around. That is the only way he can clear his name and save his reputation. If he did nothing wrong, so be it! But right now, there is an increasing stench that will not go away just because he resigned, or just because he says he did nothing wrong.

Oh who among the Republican sheep will be taking cigarettes and clean socks to Timmy Griffin in prison? That will be the first true sign that there really is such a thing as a compassionate conservative.

By Christmas either the Bush administration will be in prison or the population of the US will understand it was too little, too late and we are all in servitude under the Bush junta. At the moment the investigations are still churning, it's too early to call.

Red and Razorback may wind up being the overseers for Western Arkansas and then I'll be sorry I made fun of them. If they win, my nose may become Griffin's fleshy rectal thermometer.....it's just the price I may have to pay for speaking out against an invading force.

I have one closet filled with balloons should my side win, now I better start stocking up on Kleenex.

RazorbacksFan says, "I'm sure it didn't help him, when Kerry said that he thought all American soldiers were butchers and war criminals."

And I ask him, can you document that? 'Cause it sounds like a lie to me.

Put up or shut up, bud.

Dahlia Lithwick, writing in Slate, has some interesting comments about Mr. Griffin....
"From the point of view of the ongoing DoJ scandal, perhaps what's most urgent about the vote-caging claims is that they go a long, long way toward explaining why Karl Rove and Harriet Miers were so determined to get Griffin seated in the Arkansas U.S. Attorney's office, and to do so without a confirmation hearing. If, as the Justice Department has continued to insist, Griffin was eminently qualified for the position, why did he need to be spared the hearing at all costs? And once it became clear that he would undergo a hearing, why did Griffin sideline himself with the colorful observation that undergoing Senate confirmation would be "like volunteering to stand in front of a firing squad in the middle of a three-ring circus?" Griffin-who is now in job talks with the Fred Thompson campaign-sure looks like a guy hiding something, and if vote caging is that something, it becomes even more interesting that the White House was pushing him forward."
http://www.slate.com/id/2167284

Arkansas Red: You say Tim Griffin served on the front lines in Iraq. I have two questions: (1) Where are the front lines in Iraq? (2) Did Maj. Griffin engage in combat? That is, did he meet the enemy in a gut-to-gut battle requiring his use of a weapon for an offensive or defensive maneuver?

Maj. Griffin is a JAG lawyer. Those guys do go out occasionally to jot things down on a clipboard and then scurry back to the Green Zone to write a memo.

Perhaps Maj. Griffin is a combat veteran. If so, he deserves honor and praise. I'm just asking.

Wanda:

When did I say that?

DBI and Zelda are husband and wife...or...maby the same person...do ya think?

I think we're right...Barrett...regardless of our sexual preferences.

I have something nice to say about Time Griffin.

I was pleasantly surprised that he actually resigned instead of hanging on until the Bush end as he could have done and I suspected his 'rabbi' planned.