Week in Review: Jailbird Miller and We Are All Londoners

Newsie’s Week in Reviewsies: Jailbird Miller and We Are All Londoners

Democratic Officeholder(s): Blue Ribbons, Runners-Up, and Penalty Box
Congress is off, so not many contenders this week.
Blue Ribbon(s)

(Hotline) “State Sen. Marc Dann (D) sued Gov. Bob Taft (R) 7/6 and asked the OH Supreme Court to order Taft to release records “that could help explain investment losses” at the OH Bureau of Workers Comp.”
Moe on Dann suing Taft from Pounder

Runner(s)-Up
* NJ Acting Governor Codey rips Cruise over comments on antidepression drugs

Pinocchio Politicians…Phony, Weak, Useless, Incompetent, Hypocritical, Radical, Petulant, Regressive, Corrupt & Power Hungry Right Wing “Worse Than Nixon” Republican “Do As I Say, Not as I Do” Coward Watch!

From around the blogosphere. Items from various sources or compiled by me; some commentary is mine.

Overshadowed News & Outrage(s) of the Week

Thune Banking Scandal Starting to Bubble Up And he’s only been in office for a few short months.
Empty Suit Thursday: Smilin’ Norm Coleman gets paid!, by jimdscott
KY GOP corruption: Governor Ernie Fletcher’s deputy CoS and two other staffers were indicted on misdemeanor political discrimination and criminal conspiracy charges.
Republicans harass scientists when data is politically inconvenient
Republican governor Ehrlich holds fundraiser at racist club and apparently, he doesn’t think it is his business.
Dean fights culture of corruption–without much help Totally, unacceptable.
Pataki’s son looking for a deferment.

Bush Embarrasses America

Because it’s not like the media overseas is going to let him or his cronies get away with the bullshit the US media lets them get away with here.
VIDEO: If you want to subject yourself to it, here you go.

SCOTUS-related

Blogs seen as powerful new tool in SCOTUS fight.
“Unpopular Set of Policy Choices Through Judicial Activism” Polling shows the opposite.
Carpetbagger Report says that Alberto Gonzales is certainly looking like a candidate for SCOTUS. He’s been making the rounds.
Republicans try to hide the nuttery of the Christian right
Republican lies about Ginsburg confirmation
Swift Boat PR Team Reassembles to Market Bush Supreme Court Candidate, by e Pluribus Media
Activist Supreme Court justices It’s Clarence Thomas.
AUDIO: Fred Thompson interview at Think Progress

Cunningscam, Mitchell Wade, and All related Fishy Business
Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) has found himself in a pay-to-play scandal.

Target the Corrupt Republican Campaign: Duke Cunningham, by mole333
Cunningscum is a coward. He cancels all 4th of July events, but votes yea for a flag burning amendment.
Talkingpointsmemo.com has extensive coverage of this, as does The Stakeholder.

DeLay, Abramoff, Ney, etc.

Ney threatened radio talk show hosts after hosts criticized him and his ethical lapses.
Don’t Blow Off the Signatures Restaurant Story, by KagroX
Abramoff made sure DeLay and wife got free meals and other goodies. Complete with graphic.
DeLay bribes This is new stuff out this past week. Yes, he is that crooked that there’s new stuff like this popping up all the time.

Plame

Lewis Libby and the Valerie Plame investigation
Media Coverage Notes: Plame, Miller, Cooper coverage on ABCNews Related links linked at this post.
The Miller-Fitzgerald backstory
NYT had a ton of stuff on Miller going to jail. It was “woe is Miller” type of coverage. Nauseating, so no linkage.
Lawrence O’Donnell: One Very Good Reason Rove Might Be Indicted
Fitzgerald wants to know more about Rove’s chats with Cooper Juicy.

What a Bunch of Losers
This category is for things that are just too ridiculous to believe. In other words, it’s the stuff you should email to friends who are usually swing voters. It’s the stuff where you’ll go “These people are nuts!”

Katharine Harris believes in “Celestial Drops” Hat tip to Crooks & Liars.
(WakeupCall) Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R-MD) said that the membership of an all-white country club where he hosted a fundraiser was “not my business” (Baltimore Sun).
Fred Phelps: Thank God for the bombing of London’s subway on 7/705
Right-wing activists embrace hate group

More outrages & news:

Family Research Council Chickens Out, by Frederick Clarkson
The Republican candidate, Jean Schmidt, is under investigation for failing to report dinner and a Bengals game she received from contributors. This may help Hackett some, but we should all remember that this is a GOP-leaning district. Diary is from cova1.
All things Bolton at TWN.
Durbin Attack Ad Planned in IL, by thesill
Paul Harvey: Slavery and Genocide OK!, by Frederick Clarkson
Frist backs away from Stem Cell research All together now… FLIP FLOPPER!
Santorum book excerpts
More Santorum book excerpts
Rep. Peter King, Karl Rove, and me, by Cynicor
Team Bush paid election manipulator Sproul millions, by calistan
Cindy Sheehan: ‘Disgusting’ Private Meeting With Bush, by redtravelmaster
Ohio Coingate: The Third Frontier, by Pounder
(WakeupCall) Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) criticized the DoJ for having delayed the Tom Noe investigation until after Bush’s re-election (Toledo Blade).
Getting conservatives on the record about biology.

Republican(s) Off Message
* Could terrorism go from Bush’s strength to Bush’s weakness?

National Security/Foreign Policy/War/International Issues, News & People in the News

Note: London terror attacks got blanket coverage, so there’s less London coverage here.

Action Alert That Didn’t Get Enough Attention
Call/Email Sen. Pat Roberts, by Viceroy

Featured Diaries

Quote of the Week
From David Sirota

The idea that, because our troops are in Iraq, terrorists will only attack us there and not “in the streets of our own cities” is, first and foremost, an insult to our troops because it treats them as if their entire mission is to serve as bait for terrorists. That’s not what our troops – or America – was told this was all about.

War, Military