Can you imagine a case you would have declined to accept? If yes, what factors would you have weighed to arrive at your conclusion?

Once having been retained, can you imagine learning of a fact set that might've compelled you to recuse (is that the right word? resign?) yourself?

Not trying to bait you or set a trap here. Knowing that you tend to argue from core principles (in our adversarial system of justice, everyone is entitled to a vigorous defense) I'm curious as to whether this matter is absolutely black/white for you.

I think many (myself included) have trouble not only with the nature of the client, but what appear to be the likely motivations for accepting the case. You come across as similar to the ACLU lawyers - willing to defend "hate speech" as a matter of "free speech" principle. Or accused terrorists, on the basis of the fact that they might not be guilty. (Yes, I'm aware Chiquita might not have been guilty).

Holder, OTOH, does seem to have collected a big paycheck in order to help BigCorp, obtain a slap on the wrist for some heinous isn't a strong enough word, activity.

You don't detect even a whiff of taint?

And please (as if you need my permission) ignore this if the personal questions are "too" personal.

I just sent an email to your Salon addie that you might find "interesting".

Daschle tapped for HHS

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/19/122138/78/523/663588

or click sig for linky

OS is goin' all "we need Universal Healthcare" supposedly.

Good one! I laughed out loud at that one, bro'. Thanks!

Buth once they were shipped to Guantanamo,

Glenn, did you see my email yesterday. (Forwarded from MSNBC?)

The release order today resulted from the habeas corpus right which the Military Commissions Act purpoted

Hillary gets SOS, I hear.

David Shuster (subbing for KO) did a bit last night about Obama's [paraphrasing]neocon, pro-War, appointments so far, and how the Admin. is shaping up.

I'm fairly certain the majority of Corp. Media isn't connecting those dots on-air.

...on the 1-10 GIHIS*.

Maybe I can safely continue reading!

*Greenwald Immediate Headache Induction Scale

RE: The GIHIS*

I'm thinking it's a logarithmic scale. And today's post, unlike this one

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/18/bipartisanship/

didn't "make me go all Mukasey and [stuff]".

It's my understanding that Mukasey was arguing against the "criminalization of policy differences" (prosecution of War Criminals) in front of the Federalist Society when he was stricken. This, the same day Judge Leon issued his Order in Boumediene at al v. Bush et al.

It is not hyperbole to posit that the Bush admin is peopled with War Criminals. They are mass murderers. Apologists for, nay, advocates of, TORTURE. The lot ought to be tried in The Hague.

I would, with some degree of satisfaction, see them hanged.

USA! USA! USA!...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/385427/left_out?rel=hpbox

or click sig

(It's a very short blog post from The Nation)

Sounds nice, but most pertinently, that idea is not mainstream.

from the Nation linky (italics mine)

There's tons of things the left is right about that aren't even close to mainstream (taking a hatchet to the national security state and ending the prison industrial complex to name just two), but hopefully we're moving there.

My comment about your comment about the P-I-complex should've used snark tags, I guess.

So, no, I do not reject the media matters thesis.

I'm becoming more "leftist" (anarchist?) by the minute. And in true Broderian fashion, I'm sure the majority of real true Americans feel just as I do.

BTW, that is one helluva linky

http://mediamatters.org/progmaj/report

I saved it. Everybody should read it.

Effectively destroys all that "center right" b.s.

He'll always be SLOTEO to me...

Accountability NOW!

Maybe I shouldn't admit to my LOL moment when I read this.

It's weirder still for someone who claims to be an adherent to the Obama movement rather than those irrelevant, obsolete blogs to spend so much time at the latter proclaiming adherence to the former.

out the Overton window.

Appy polly logies. Couldn't resist.

defenestrated = thrown out of a window

appy... = apologies (see A Clockwork Orange)

I read that piece earlier today, and I thought to myself, "Man, Glenn and Jane must talk/email/commiserate a lot. If I didn't know any better, I'd almost think..."

8')

Glenn I disagree somewhat with one of your major theses here.

Andrew is articulating here a common refrain -- one could say the predominant mindset -- among many Obama supporters: namely, that we have now entered an era where pragmatism and competence trumps all considerations and old "ideological" disputes are thereby rendered obsolete.

What really hacks me off is, I believe an addendum is needed, to whit -

...we have now entered an era where pragmatism and competence trumps all considerations and old "ideological" disputes are thereby rendered obsolete inasmuch as OS has such a will of steel, and an unwavering, clear-eyed vision, that the past predilections of his closest advisors don't matter one iota.

But maybe that's just a topic for a different post.

Heard that. It's a local case hereabouts. Complete and total hosejob, from what little I know.

Glenn, do you ever get that "canary in the coal mine" feeling?

As, I recall, they generally didn't come to a good end.