Enjoy! Tom is holding his press conf. now (8am PT)
Update [2005-10-21 12:4:41 by susanhu]: Oh, for pete’s sake, not another “suspicious package.” See CNN. So these two men park their car and then tell the police that there’s a bomb in the car? Huh? (I hope my scarcasm is warranted.)
ATinNM reports that, via FireDogLake, the car is parked close to the GJ building. And Susan T in Michigan just e-mailed me — cracked me up — “Maybe it’s Rove and Libby. After all, desperate times require desperate measures.” ATinNM also thinks this is a “nutcase.” That fits too. This has now MORPHED into an OPEN THREAD.
Update [2005-10-21 13:13:57 by susanhu]: HOLD YOUR BREATH! The police will “disrupt” the device in minutes!
Delayed because of a democrat judge.
This is flipping rich! They’re trying to get the judge recused because he’s a Democrat who contributed to MoveOn? Yet, it’s okay to appoint Supreme Court judges who are clearly Republicans? What a bunch of hypocrites.
Frankly, if they get some other judge on the case and he/she is a Republican, let’s hope it’s one who is fed up with Bushco and DeLay. This motion may not be the safe bet DeLay and his lawyers think it is.
And if the judge were a Republican, they wouldn’t have complained … bastards.
Sorry i put this up late / I was sleeeeeeeeping in.
P.S. HIT ME at Daily Kos. It’s for a good cause.
P.P.S. Is that the same wife Delay has always had? Or is this a trophy wife?
You slept in?? 🙂
I’m sure you needed the sleep.
If that was his “trophy” wife…well…
Are you suggesting she wasn’t much of a prize? 🙂
Have you any link to her? I would be interested to know his and her background inot their marriage and when it occurred and such. Seems to me that many moons ago, I read she is a trophy wife and not his first one either. Cant remember where I read that one.
If he’s still married to Christine, it seems they were high school sweethearts.
More from the same (About.com) link:
Here’s a link to DeLay’s site. It says they’ve been married 37 years.
(Wash you hands and your eyes after you’ve visited his site.)
who went duck hunting with DeLay!
I am listening and seeing a lot of politics being played out here. It is tommy boy who is running scared right now. This is laughable. Every lawyer is getting their two cents worth in…ha ha ha…they look rediculous to say the least. I can not stand to listen to this group of funny ppl. My how they can lie!!!!!!!!!!
To move the court to someplace else is just a stall. The longer they stall, the longer they get to do their bad things, like mouth off and humilate others. This is all they are good for.
He’s clearly trying everything he possibly can to weasel his way out of this. All of these side shots at the judge, Ronnie Earle and anyone else who steps in his way just make it look like DeLay doesn’t have much of a defense to mount.
The real reason he wants to move it somewhere else is because he knows the residents of Austin hate him for “redistricting” Austin to try to get rid of Lloyd Doggett (It didn’t work, thank goodness).
And…DeLay’s own attorney, Dick Deguerin, has contributed to Dems many times in the past. Maybe he should recuse himself as DeLay’s lawyer because obviously he can’t give Tom a fair defense.
That’s the fall back if he’s convicted. He can get a new lawyer who appeals on the basis of his first lawyer being a partisan Democrat and therefore losing his case on purpose.
NO one in Texas would buy that for one second. Not with DeGuerin, no way. They would get laughed out of the state.
Bugman speaketh: This is just a politically motivated campaign to punish me for fising the gerrymandering that had been done by Democrats, so that more Republicans could be elected…yada yada. “A fair trial with an impartial jusry will look at the facts and see that I have comitted no wrongdoing…I look forward to my inevitable exoneration.”
Exscuse the typos, please. (fising=fixing, etc.)
Where? C-Span?
I saw it on CNN but Crooks and Liars should have the video up soon.
Judge elected in good faith by the people of Austin… party affliation does not affect the quality of justice.
No, I got that wrong. “Party affliation does not determine the quality of justice.”
Unless, of course, we are talking abut Harriet Miers…
I was hoping to see DeLay hop up on top of his SUV and do a little dance like Michael Jackson.
MSNBC has good interview wtih Dallas reporter on now.
On Democracy Now! today — where you can listen or watch (dial-up too):
Scott Ritter on the Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
We speak with Scott Ritter, the chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 about his new book: “Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein.” It details how the CIA manipulated and sabotaged the work of UN departments to achieve the foreign policy agenda of the United States in the Middle East.
Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter on Iraq, WMDs and the Role of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s
Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter on Iraq, WMDs and the Role of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s
Scott Ritter, the former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, and Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh discuss the role of the Democrats and the Clinton administration in Iraq during the 1990s.
the bomb threat! are we seeing yet another dog and pony show agan!!?? Times are getting tough in DC these days..:o) W need a distractor once again…time is getting short for indictments, now arent they? WOW!
PPPSSSSTTTT, 2 white males..not muslims, oh give me a break…terrorist are always muslims…haha according to W that is who they are, right???!!!
……..oh now we see it as a suspicious pkg! why the big bru ha ha on this? only acting out of caution! oh hell do they not show off the ignorance in the press of thier culpability in all of this!!??
saying on msnbc, just a precaution after 9/11.
Thank god for alternatives. I turned down the TV sound and turned on Air America … and i’m going to listen to the Scott Ritter interview with Amy again if I have to.
P.s. Tin foil stuff: Wodner if those two “white men” are undercover ops, or some insane white separatist militia types who got their strings yanked by an undercover op … who has them under control … and got them to create a “scene” when it was needed.
They have all the stealth of Mohammed Atta. NOT! Come on … what bomber or terrorist killer worth his salt would announce he had a bomb. He’d park the car, leave it, and detonate it remotely. This is so lame.
I take that back, partly. Some terrorist bombers do call in that they’ve planted a bomb. And that’s done, I’m guessing, to terrorize the public.
Only thing is, this public is so used to this crap that comes to nothing that we can barely lift our heads to look at the TV set, let alone be terrorized.
Brief blurb on CNN says one of the men is talking to the Capitol police department. This feels like a nutcase. Terrorists don’t have this M.O. They would park the car and walk away.
A post on Fire Dog Lake just said the location is close to where the Fitzgerald GJ is.
I am reminded of “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming”:
Alan Arkin (using Russian accent): “Emergency! Emergency! Everybody to get from street!!!”
Sounds like a classic Rove strategy to me. Next, we’ll learn that DeLay’s offices were bugged by… someone.
Just yesterday my son said he would lay odds there would be some sort of terroist attack/threat before Monday. We just got through loao on the phone. Do they really expect us to buy this staged crap? We are so on to them and they haven’t figured that out yet? I guess when something works for four years you keep using it. Too bad the f’ing media is so damn complicit!
to all these “Wolf” cries is that when a REAL terror threat comes along no one will respond appropriately.
Absolutely!!
Your son is kind of smart, isn’t he…. that acorn didn’t fall too far from the mama tree.
WOW! Thank you Susan!
what you get when you’re biting wit comes back to nip you, or is it the tissue buildup of 5 years of unbelieveable news?
And, like sjct just said, what if there really IS a terrorist threat? We’ll all be loao — and get blasted to smithereens.
Oh well.
The next time there’s a REAL threat, it’ll be like 1999 when a grandmother — mostly untrained in terrorist detection but trained as a customs officer — used her years of experience and her god-given good sense, and decided that that man seemed very nervous when she asked him routine questions as he arrived via the Coho ferry from Victoria, B.C. to Port Angeles.
Those are the people who find terrorists. Not those nitwits in D.C.
Being of Swedish Ancestory …
NEVER mess with Swedish grandmothers! Behind those rosemaled eyeglasses is a snake poised to strike.
says: Bill Clinton is partnering with Spongebob Squarepants to get kids eat healthier and get off the couch.
WTF?!
SpongeBill HappyPants?
Jesus H. Christ on toast, how much more inanity can we produce?!
How many stained pants does Spongebob have in HIS closet?!
can find Bob a date as a side project, to get Dobson & Co. off the Sponger’s back for his questionable sexual orientation…
at dKos here
The GAO has issued a report on voting machines!!
Especially amusing is this part by the Congressman (man, do I love that guy!!)
emphasis mine….
LOLOLOLOL!
That is HILARIOUS! I heart John Conyers!
Gotta love the man. He is a dem that tells it like it is whether to the media, WH, fellow dems or blogs. God bless John Conyers. See there are a few dems in DC that are on it!
Conyers is smart enough to realize he’s dealing with authoritarians at the orange site. Undoubtedly much of the subsequent commentary worked hard to defuse the troublesome aspects of the GAO report, right? At least it will get a few more people to read it.
That guy has balls as big as Rhode Island. Yeah man, tell it to Kostradamos… give ’em some snarky hell.
Is it wrong that I’m turned on right now?
😉
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
OMG! That is incredible. Thanks, Brinnainne! I sent that to everybody 🙂
LMAO. Maybe Conyers would prefer green?
We have to ask him!!
I would love it if he posted here! I’ll go do it, if it is ok with you — I thought about it when I read the diary, but then I thought I’d better check with you first!
Just something along the lines of “Dear Congressman: If you would like to have a discussion about “hacked’ elections, there are many of your supporters here (link to BMT) who would be more than happy to have that discussion with you!”
😉
Perhaps if he got a couple of invitations via emails, he would take it into consideration 😉
John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
Must.Get.Back.2.Work.
Maybe I’ll gang up on the Boo to make him call Conyers’ office. Can I get some help? (Devious, oh so devious.)
Boo, consider yourself ganged up on.
Contact the man! He’d fit in perfectly over here! And I want to talk about hacking 🙂
Oh Yeah! Conyers seems to get the reality of many in the dKos community doesn’t. It comes down to a most basic theory in investigations:
“Where there is smoke, there fire.”
Plenty of smoke, and smokescreens, in the past 2 elections.
Do you think they will ban Conyers now? (LOL JK)
My god! They may have to ban the use of the Bi-partisan GAO as a reference for anything now?
Of course, I really should read Conyers diary before I say all of this. Fuck it, this ain’t dKos… I am sure many here are thinking the same already without Conyers having had to say anything? lol
From the New York Times today:
“Arch-enemy?” Are you fucking kidding me? What kind of journalism is that?
This is a criminal investigation not motivated by personal grudges, but by Tom DeLay’s lawbreaking. How in the world is it not spinning to call Earle the “arch-enemy?”
Further proof that the Grey Lady is on life support.
Further quotes from the same article:
I’m glad we have a press, in the US, capable of distinquishing ‘spin’ from ‘facts.’
(snark alert! snark alert! We are at condition Bovine Brown-Stuff!)
here
Fitz is by-passing the media! Hey, you guys wanna imply Imma over-zealous prosecutor going beyond my scope of inquiry — well, read the facts, mam, right here! I got the powwa!
Fromkin also notes that if you call the Bond Building phone number, it answers “Counterespionage Unit.”
They just put this up? WOW!
Um, you seem to have all the hot info…. can I tap into your brain waves?
Susan, you know you’re welcome to tap my brain any time you like!
Must warn you though, that today, I have just opened my second Heifenwiezen (I think I spelled that wrong, but that’s only ’cause it’s in a glass)!
😉
BTW, did they blow up the “suspicious package” yet?? Did they even check to see what it was first? I have not turned my TV on — it’s too beautiful out here on the deck!
Please. The term is “disrupt” the device.
I don’t know! I had my TV almost on mute and the next time I looked at it, they were talking about Wilma and now they’ve got Nancy Reagan on. Then Georgie Porgie and Laura may speak … they’re on the podium, no doubt dreaming of their memorials to come.
Did they “disrupt” it? Anyone?
Package by Capitol Exploded as Precaution
*grin*
http://www.tedkennedy.com/page/petition/miers
Got this today from Kennedy. They want to know what fuckign questions we have for Miers!!!!! Here’s my reply.
She shouldn’t be asked questions!!!! Don’t ask this person questions… toss her out. She’s a Bush pawn. Start asking the REAL questions… like why is Bush still not impeached? Why are we torturing people. Why are our children dying in Iraq and Afghanistan and now New Orleans.
To remain silent is to be tolerant of the attorcities.
Miers: She’s not *&^%ing qualified. PERIOD.
Can’t Democrats start acting like DEMOCRATS????
Get to work Dems and stop this NOW! Along with all the other issues you have remained SILENT on.
Signed,
Janet, a ticked off Liberal former Military Family Member who is sick and tired of spineless Dems. Get to work.
I’m afraid I think I disagree with you a bit.
It’s just such fun watching the Republicans fixate on this mess of a nomination that I’d hate to have the fun end and a far more able, but even intellectually more frightening, candidate be chosen.
My prayed-for scenario: This drags on a lot longer — Harriet makes a fool of herself in the hearings and it’s on all the TV and radio news — and Bush keeps defending her, making himself just look even more stupid.
Delaying tactics might work here. But I’m only an ill-informed amateur at politics. Just hoping they do.
I would relish the contiuing spectacle of Miers and the Chimperor flailing as much as anyone, so if it plays out the way you hope it does, I’m not going to whine.
But I think for a gang of Democrats who can’t get their collective shit together enough simply to vote as a bloc, using the hearings for something more devious than giving her a serious grilling and then voting is unlikely to work. And they actually would be “playing partisan politics” in a cynical way, not serving the country. Although again, if that’s how it actually goes down, then ok, I’m enough of a partisan that I can still gloat. (Although this week’s failure of the Coburn Amendment has me talking to local Green Party organizers again and wondering once more where it’s worth investing my volunteer time.)
Democrats blew it with Roberts by backing down on requests for information, wasting most of our question time on matters unrelated to the judiciary, and then voting randomly. Miers is an unqualified crony whose strongest qualification is bible-thumping. I want to see my Democratic Senators show that they know that by asking pointed questions, and then voting to send her back to fetch coffee for the Chimperor.
There is certainly a danger that Miers goes and is replaced by another Scalia. (Although Miers may already be that–how do we know?) But focusing on today’s task ought to mean voting no on a terrible candidate for the Supreme Court.
No games, just doing their jobs.
http://tinyurl.com/7tpgk…I think rummy’s plan really is to destroy the military so it can become fully privatized. Anyway this article is about fuckin reneging on 15,000 dollar bonus that were promised to Nat. Guard and Army Reserves for staying in instead of getting out when time was up. Not only has the Pentagon put stop order on all bonus payments but if I read article correctly they may be wanting money back already paid out to some troops….fuck fuck fuck and double fuck these piece of shit rat bastards.
I’ve also read that disabled troops are finding it harder/harder to get help and disability pay. Funding being cut for that and on top of it that they are trying to find ways to take back disability from many soldiers who already were approved.(if anyone wants link I’ll go look it up). Also read somewhere elese that military is saying now that 1 in 4 vets are returning with some sort of medical problem-mental or physical(or both)..but hey lets cut funding right-again.
I think that should be a strong theme for bring the troops home-make people aware of how fucken badly our troops are being screwed over-the ones that live anyway. How military is being destroyed and equipment depleted.
your link isn’t working…
But I did read in one of Oui’s links… about the dumbing down of the military…. let me go see if I can find it while I continue to burn my mouth on this damn soup.
http://tinyurl.com/7tpgk That should work…I hope. I keep collecting all these articles about how bushco is screwing the troops and I can’t think or post straight it seems.
Joe Conason is on with Al Franken now … talkin’ about Judy
airamericaradio.com
Very good show on C-SPAN right now … about coverage of Katrina and by the reporters who did it.