There's still one or two liburals in there. They're hiding in the attic, trying to keep quite, while scribbling in a diary.

Orrin Hatch has always been a first-class douchebag.

has a partisan political agenda against Ted Stevens (R-notatruck)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!! This is the criminalization of corruption!!!

DAMN LIBS!!

EvilEgg: There's still one or two liburals in there. They're hiding in the attic, trying to keep quite, while scribbling in a diary.


lulz

/aisle seat please

This reminds me of all of the global warming deniers somehow claiming that scientists fudged their global warming data to show anthropogenic causes-- in order to get grants from the Bush White House.

That reminds me -- we haven't heard Tom Delay chime in yet. He's a good one for persecution complex blather.

In some ways, it's a testament to how much of a crooked douchebag Stevens is that even THIS justice department is going after him.

what_now: has a partisan political agenda against Ted Stevens (R-notatruck)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!! This is the criminalization of corruption!!!

DAMN LIBS!!

When I heard him spout this garbage on NPR this morning I had a nice chuckle - these people, are they really that stupid?

Anyone who puts in their own "funny" words like (R-etarded) remind me of Michael Savage and make me all stabby.

dhudd: When I heard him spout this garbage on NPR this morning I had a nice chuckle - these people, are they really that stupid?

Yes, they are. They are obviously even to stupid to turn their shiat around in the face of destruction. The Republican party is done.

Criminalization of not reporting gifts from contractors in return for steering huge contracts to said contractors.

Criminalization of bribery. Nothing to see here.

Heroic Poser: Anyone who puts in their own "funny" words like (R-etarded) remind me of Michael Savage and make me all stabby.

You know who else liked to put in their own "funny" words?

/Got nothing
//zip, zilch, nada

I did not get the hear the segment - Did the NPR reporter get to ask Hatch if he was insane?

didn't you all get the memo? Republicans are alway innocent, and Democrats are poopy-heads.

monoski: Did the NPR reporter get to ask Hatch if he was insane?

No, that damned liberal media outlet didn't call him on that statement.

The GOP are thankful that no ghey sex was involved.

PascalsGhost: dhudd: When I heard him spout this garbage on NPR this morning I had a nice chuckle - these people, are they really that stupid?

Yes, they are. They are obviously even to stupid to turn their shiat around in the face of destruction. The Republican party is done.

They've really lost their touch, haven't they? Where's the raw Machiavellianism? Stevens might be the very definition of "senior" but seniority only matters WITHIN ONE'S OWN PARTY. And for Alaska's position at the trough. NOT to the relative power of the Republican minority within the Senate. Which leads to one conclusion: Orrin's catchin' feelings, son! Dude's getting all emotional about his boy Ted Stevens catchin' a case!

McCain could throw Stevens under a bus and get some real love from the press and the "independent voters," but he's too much of a pussy to do it! Republicans actin like Ted's the second coming of Suge farkin' Knight. Please.

Did anyone else notice that map on the side? I think that's the most amusing part...

Heroic Poser: Anyone who puts in their own "funny" words like (R-etarded) remind me of Michael Savage and make me all stabby.

Makes sense, tho. I mean, the level of political discourse seems like 5-year-olds arguing on the playground, anyway.

Heroic Poser: Anyone who puts in their own "funny" words like (R-etarded) remind me of Michael Savage and make me all stabby.

Calling Hatch a retard after that comment is an insult to retards, and a compliment to Hatch. He insults my intelligence by saying this kind of thing in the first place so I have no problem with people who choose to insult him back.

Trent Lott may join Stevens in the soap on a rope motel

Link (So Many Republicans, so little time left)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:30:01 GMT
Lawyer suggests Scruggs got witness help from Lott

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) An insurance company's attorney suggested during a sworn deposition that former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott urged witnesses to give false information in a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit, according to court records.

The implication was made last week during a deposition with Lott's nephew, Zach Scruggs, who represented the former Mississippi Republican senator after his Pascagoula home was destroyed by the 2005 storm. Zach Scruggs is the son and law partner of disgraced former attorney Richard 'Dickie' Scruggs, Lott's brother-in-law.

'Has it been your custom and habit in prosecuting litigation to have Senator Lott contact and encourage witnesses to give false information?' State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. attorney Jim Robie asked, according to a transcript of the deposition.

'I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights in response to that question,' Zach Scruggs responded.

Bret Boyles, with Lott's lobbying firm, the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, said Wednesday the former senator was unavailable for comment.

State Farm accused Richard Scruggs during a separate deposition last week of orchestrating an elaborate ploy after Hurricane Katrina to make it appear that the company was covering up fraud in its handling of homeowners' claims.

Both Richard and Zach Scruggs, who report to federal prison next month on charges stemming from an unrelated bribery case, invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on every question.

Richard Scruggs' attorneys had wanted to keep the depositions secret. They said public knowledge that he refused to answer the questions could undermine 'the presumption of innocence' if he faceod to subpoena the documents as part of a criminal investigation.

'General Hood subpoenaed the document, State Farm couldn't produce it, and you were able to report to the press that they were shredding or deep sixing or destroying evidence that you knew they didn't have; isn't that a fact?' State Farm attorney Jim Robie asked during the deposition.

'I respectfully decline to answer based on my Fifth Amendment privilege,' Scruggs replied.

State Farm has accused Hood of using the threat of criminal charges to pressure the Bloomington, Ill.-based insurer to settle civil claims with attorneys like Scruggs, who donated heavily to Hood's campaigns. Hood did not immediately respond to a message Wednesday. He has denied the allegations in the past.

Scruggs negotiated a multimillion dollar settlement with State Farm, but that eventually led to his downfall when he and other lawyers began fighting over the money. Scruggs was indicted in November along with his son and several associates and accused of conspiring to bribe the judge $50,000 for a favorable ruling in the bitter legal battle over how to split the money. Scruggs pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years. Zach Scruggs got 14 months for knowing about the crime and not reporting it.

Obdicut: This reminds me of all of the global warming deniers somehow claiming that scientists fudged their global warming data to show anthropogenic causes-- in order to get grants from the Bush White House.

Uh, the executive branch awards grants? I guess the DoD does, but that's largely independent of the president. NSF and such are mandated by congress, I believe. And a good chunk is covered by private industry, too.

//And DoE for alternative fuels, I suppose. Technically a part of the executive branch, but there's little turnover between administrations and a lot of congressional oversight.

Jim_Callahan: Uh, the executive branch awards grants? I guess the DoD does, but that's largely independent of the president.

Hee hee hee... thanks for the chuckle, Jim!

When the Story of this Adminstration is written, I beleive the conseus of historians will believe that it's greatest flaw was that this time around the people in charge actually believed the BS that they feed to their "low information" voting base to get elected.

Thus the policy makers really thught the Iraq war would be cheap, easy and fun, and that we'd take out Syria and Iran just as soon as we sweep up the flowers and choclates thrown at us by greatful Iraqis


The people in the Pentagon rally believed that nonesense about laisse faire capitalism, and so everyone they hired to reconstruct Iraq was Ayn Rand Woshipping free-marketeer who was intent on watching the "invisible hand" put everything right in Iraq.

And we needn't even mention what happened domestically the CPSC OSHA MSHA, FDA, FEMA etc etc in the hands of the same kind of "business friendly" Idiots who really believed the government regulation is evil and companies always behave in the best possible way when left to their own devices.


Same thing here, When the Loyal bushies took over DOJ they made public corruption the #1 law-enforcement priority of the Department and the FBI. These poor self-deluded children really beieved that the majority of corrupt politicians in America were Democrats, not upstanding Law and Order, family values Republicans


And now? well the Phrase "Hoist on their own Petard" comes to mind....

Stevens is guilty BUT if you are going to rid yourself of the opposition don't you start with your own party?

Jim_Callahan: Uh, the executive branch awards grants? I guess the DoD does, but that's largely independent of the president. NSF and such are mandated by congress, I believe. And a good chunk is covered by private industry, too.

//And DoE for alternative fuels, I suppose. Technically a part of the executive branch, but there's little turnover between administrations and a lot of congressional oversight.

Department of the Interior, Department of Transportation, The Coast Guard, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, the Army, the Air and Space Administration, the EPA, FEMA, all issue scientific grants. All are funded by congress, which has oversight, but executed by the executive branch.

And previously to the democrats regaining a smidgen of control, the Republicans were in charge of congress too-- and the same allegation was made.

I heard that interview this morning. I LOL'd