March 2009

Didn’t expect this:

Former White House political adviser Karl Rove and counsel Harriet Miers have agreed to face questions from Congress about allegations of improper political influence in the Justice Department, the House Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday.

Both will give depositions to investigators from the committee, and claims of privilege will be "significantly limited," according to a statement from the committee.

Rove and Miers had been resisting congressional subpoenas about the matter since the House Judiciary Committee began trying to force Miers to testify in 2006. The Bush White House resisted, claiming she could not be compelled to appear. But a federal judge in Washington ruled that the former Bush administration officials had no grounds to invoke executive privilege in the case.

The committee, led by Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, has been investigating claims that Rove and his White House allies fired U.S. attorneys for political reasons and prosecuted officials whom they saw as opponents. Conyers called the agreement "a victory for the separation of powers and congressional oversight."

I can only guess they got some legal advice that made them decide it’s time to follow the law.

Check out this latest Rasmussen headline:

Just 11% of Republicans Say Limbaugh Is Their Party’s Leader

Now check out the wording:

“he says jump and they say how high”. What poll in history can you remember phrasing a question like that, let alone flat out calling him the “leader of the party”.

When you look at this crappy attempt to push poll by Rasmussen, then see that 11% of Republicans and almost 1/3 of the total respondents still agree then there is no doubt – Rush Limbaugh is running the Republican party.

I wake up and turn on the TV. There is Morning Joe and Chuck Todd going on about Michael Steele. Todd says that Steele has to be careful or he will risk being as ineffective a party leader as Howard Dean.

What?

Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy is highly attributed to massive wins by Democrats in 2006 and 2008. I bet Steele would just love to have both cycles under his tenure become pickups for his party.

I still don’t know why so many people, especially some lefty bloggers, act like Todd is some great political mind. He is a total hack and this isn’t the first time I pointed that out.

Such cute fuckers. Take Robert Stacy McCain. Here’s a main that goes out of his way to avoid the work fuck:

Hell, no! Why the f--- should I lay off a reporter when that g--d--- piece of s--- David Brooks is collecting $300,000 a year to produce two columns of nothingness a week? You can fire me if you want to, or I'll just quit right here and now, because I'll be g--d----d if I'll lay off one more reporter as long as that useless motherf----r David Brook is on the payroll!

But yet he doesn’t mind having things like this on his blog:

And this isn’t an ad. It’s something he actually added. One can only guess that this epitome of right wing blogs sits there looking at this picture and thinking “wow I would just love to f___ her all night. She knows she wants my g_d c_ck.”. Now I wonder if he says that quote literally, or does he fill in the blanks?

Oh – and why does Malkin send people to this guys blog showing that picture? I guess this is part of the whole “family values” thing they push so hard. She does warn them about the profanity (err – blanks), but not about the half naked lady on his site. Maybe Malkin is also saying that same quote that McCain is.