And, no, I don’t mean it that way. I mean, who is going to be indicted in the Abramoff/Cunningham matter? Vanity Fair looks into it. Here’s a teaser:
Tens of thousands of pages of congressional documents going as far back as 1997 have been demanded by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego. The C.I.A., Pentagon, I.R.S., and F.B.I. are conducting investigations, and at least three congressional committees are cooperating in hopelessly tardy fashion. “We are scrubbing” is how a staffer on the intelligence committee puts it. Washington is unraveling.
“What these revelations provide is a window into Babylon or the last stages of Rome,” explains a source with knowledge of the multiple ongoing investigations. “Many felonies went undetected because in the Defense Department a lot goes on in secret, and these crimes grew in the shadow of both 9/11 and one-party rule—with little scrutiny. So what you’re looking at is a world where money, secrecy, sex, and indulgence were all in play. Where everyone is guilty of something.”
Wouldn’t it be lovely if the dirty hands Ms. Harris went down…and became one of those felons that can’t vote in her home state? Awww gee – it would break my heart – not!
I wonder if she tainted the governor while she was at it and how much money went her way before the current stuff? Say back in 2000?
Great article!
because I can’t stop laughing about the photo. I know money buys many things in this country, but Duke Cunningham the stud puppy…….I just can’t seem to get my bitty brain to conjure that up……even when he is surrounded by the Trim Spa girls. He just looks like a dried up decrepit ornery old bastard to me even at the pinnacle of his glory.
I guess that photo really was a “teaser.”
Did their shoulder pads on those “football uniforms” slip forward or something, LOL?
Heh. Maybe Rove wasn’t indicted because he cut a deal to testify in all these scandals in which he most likely played a big part & needs to distance the Prez from the much more publicly (and media) juicy scandals to come. I mean, outting a CIA officer, that’s not hot.
Just a thought of course.
Super Article — and just the tip of the iceberg! We need VERY DEEP investigations that go back decades in order to truly and fully remove the cancerous rot that has permeated our body politic.
The part that scares me is that if Duke ran for his seat again, he just might win.
And talk about synchronicity!!!
Over at My Left Wing?
This quote in a thread about the American historian/philosopher Will Durant
Yup.
Time’s a’comin’.
Bet on it.
Only thing in play now?
Do we collapse before we are able to reform?
Stay tuned.
News at 11.
All false.
AG
The collapse may be the only trigger that results in true reform. One can make the case the Gilded Age didn’t really end until the Depression; it only hit some speed bumps along its path.
The amazing thing looking at the arc of empires is how they manage to keep on keepin’ on, with duct tape and bailing wire, until suddenly “whoomph.” The collapse of the (Western) Roman Empire, the British Empire, the USSR all can be plotted out in retrospect as inevitable, but at the time it was just a case of things gradually getting worse, then a short period of better times, then a little worse again, until that one final breakdown. Sounds familiar, eh?
During the several generations leading up to the fall of Rome, every time there’d be a temporary uptick, the government would issue coins (the official medium of propaganda to the masses in the day) with the slogan “Felix Tempus Reparatio” on them, which roughly translates as (as we’d say today) “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
Don’t bet on it.
Oh please – let it be Ralph Reed. We have moved out of the frying pan of Katherine Harris’ Congressional district to the fire of Crazy Ralph running for lieutenant gov. in Georgia.
When I was very young I made a carnival ride stop and let me off because I was getting sick. That feeling is back now.
That’s not a fever, it’s just global warming. 😉
True to form with this administration, if everyone is guilty of something, then NO ONE will be charged with anything. . .too big, too messy, just takes too much time. After all the congress only meets for 45 days out of the year. . .just not enough time for investigations and scrutiny.
And. . .if everyone is guilty of something, then it must be time to change all those bothersome laws, eh?