Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1957 Editor's Choice: 19
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Repeat request
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Monica Goodling is pleading the 5th not because she might incriminate herself, but because she says the committee might already think she has been incriminated. Ergo, they say she doesn't testify, subpoena or no.
What is to stop Rove from saying the committee thinks badly of him so 5th amendment he doesn't need to testify?
Read her statement, she is not arguing that her own testimony might incriminate her. She is arguing that the committee investigation is partisan, and therefore a puts her in jeopardy. And, she is citing the Libby verdict as to how dangerous it is to testify if you are a member of the Administration, and that she therefore has a 5th amendment right not to talk.
Where this Committee, its Chairman, and prominent members have already reached conclusions about the matter under investigation and the veracity of the Department's testimony, and where the forum is politically charged and lacks fundamental fairness as questioned by the Ranking Member, and most importantly, where a senior Department official is making accusations about our client, we have advised Ms. Goodling (and she has decided) to invoke her Constitutional right not to answer any questions. We have enclosed an affidavit from Ms. Goodling to that effect.
What's to stop this novel technique from getting the entire administration out of ever testifying before a committee run by the other party on grounds that it "lacks fundamental fairness", and never testifying before Congress again unless they want to?
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Actually, Rumpole...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Us assholes asked for clean government, no war in Iraq, government officials who told the truth, disaster management that didn't kill off major American cities, and an attempt to balance a budget once in a while.
The Bush administration is what you asked for, little one, not us.
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I know it's a different part of Africa, but...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Charlaine Hunter-Gault reported on NPR several months ago about a similar problem in Southern Africa. The way it was solved there was that a group of mothers formed, and patrolled the schools. It worked.
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They are getting ready to propose new front runners
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The media doesn't like real contests. They like 2-way contests that appear to be vicious and unpredictable enough to draw an audience, while they themselves know what the result will be. This makes sure that "pundits" who have little knowledge other than what the man on the street does these days, will be able to look intelligent and worthy of their salaries when the big day comes.
There was an internal (maybe not too internal) straw poll within grassroots supporters of the Democratic Party. The results were that Obama was the front runner, with Edwards a close second, and the rest of the pack lagging. That doesn't correspond either to what they are reporting, the way the money is being bet (by campaign contributors), or the outcome they are betting on for the primary.
So they need to dump Obama and bring on Edwards, while making sure that their choice of front runners (Clinton), stays viable. The way to do that, given that you only want to have 2 front runners at any given time, is to dump their choice of runner up, Obama, replace him with Edwards, and then go back to disparaging the runner up, so that eventually they can call all the candidates, except their chosen one, "unelectable".
Edwards will be easy to deal with when the time comes, they'll climb all over his wife's condition, the way they climbed all over Paul Tsongas. They only need to get the sympathy thing out of the way, which they are doing right now. "The bubble-headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye..."
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Does it matter who you read at Politico?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn,
Does the bias and fluff only have to do with campaign coverage at Politico? The following article seems to be somewhat more substantive.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3287.html
It's about how the USA scandal behavior was precipitated by 2004 election politicking, especially using "voter fraud" to work elections at the state level. The author is Jeanne Cummings.
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Second that thought darin
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I concur with LBS. Your post is important. Important to connect rumblings of partial investigations with a case that is happening. I can only hope your local media smartens up, the people perpetrating these investigations did so hoping locals couldn't.
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I look forward to the day...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]when they no longer call the fools that spout less than substance on television "pundits". Pundit comes from the Sanskrit word pandit, meaning an intellectual or wise person. I don't find what the TV crowd do to be either intellectual or wise.
Oh, BTW, Minuteman comes from the militias in the towns around Boston in the 1770's, so called because they were supposed to be able to assemble in a minute, upon hearing the bell in the belfry toll. You had the Lexington Minutemen, the Concord Minutemen, the Acton Minutemen, etc., etc. Those Minutemen fought the British at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. (That date was known as Patriot's Day long before September 11 got a similar name.)
The rest of them are a bunch of imposters.
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More History Being Dumped
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unlike the panderers (thanks, KarenM), I think the DOJ scandal and the oversight it is creating is a piece of history.
Anyone who thinks the same, and collects historical artifacts, they are dumping more emails, WaPo has links to download the latest document dump, hot off the presses, as it were.