MSNBC says Judith Miller has been released from jail.
Update: Miller, according to MSNBC, was released at approximately 4:00 PM EDT today.
The source Miller was protecting allegedly gave Miller a full release; the release frees Miller from having to keep her source confidential.
As you know, Roy Blunt (R-MO) assumed the role of House Majority Leader upon Mr. Delay’s (R-TX) sudden resignation. Congressman Blunt has an interesting resume background.
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FEMA fired, or moved Brownie to another position (medal of freedom is next). Chertoff managed the events. Two admirals have been put in charge, and President Bush has made seven photo-op trips to the areas damaged by Katrina and Rita.
They still can’t get it right.
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The Republicans are on a criminal roll. Former Illinois governor George H. Ryan (R) illegally steered business to his friends and cash to his family for more than a decade, a federal prosecutor charged Wednesday.
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Last night, on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Tom DeLay (R-TX) denied any guilt associated with his indictment by a Texas grand jury for criminal conspiracy. Instead, DeLay accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of leading a conspiracy to have Delay indicted.
My interpretation of DeLay’s statement is he accused Pelosi of a criminal act(s).
MSNBC has not published the transcript from the show yet, therefore I cannot provide a reference to the statement at this point. When the transcript is published, I will provide the appropriate reference.
Late Update: Excerpt of conversation between Matthews and DeLay. The transcript is here.
MATTHEWS: Here‘s your toughest charge. Mr. Leader, your toughest charge tonight—and everybody is still going to keep calling you Mr. Leader, I‘m sure.
The toughest charge, they coordinated an attack on you. Who did the prosecutor, Ronnie Earle, coordinate with to nail you today in that grand jury?
DELAY: Oh, Democrat leaders.
MATTHEWS: In the state or up here?
DELAY: Both.
MATTHEWS: Who is involved up here?
DELAY: You need—you need—you need to ask him that question.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: No, but you have said that there‘s a coordinated attack on you involving the leadership of the House on the Democratic side now. Is Pelosi involved?
(CROSSTALK)
DELAY: Yes.
MATTHEWS: What‘s her role in this?
DELAY: I don‘t know. Ask her.
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How many of us thought, better still vociferated, in 2000 and again in 2004, “How can people be so blind and stupid?”
[T]he White House is grappling with a criminal investigation into whether anyone leaked the name of a C.I.A. operative, an inquiry that has brought both Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s top political adviser, and I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, before a grand jury.
And the administration is struggling to steady itself after the slow response to Hurricane Katrina and defend itself against sweeping accusations of incompetence and cronyism in domestic security.
Joe Gaylord, a longtime Republican consultant and an adviser to Newt Gingrich when he was House speaker, said, “When you couple Iraq, Katrina, DeLay in the House, Frist in the Senate,” and other ethical flaps, “it looks like 10 years is a long time for a party to be in power.”
“And when you add to that gas prices and home-heating prices that are going through the ceiling this winter, it shouldn’t give much comfort to the Republicans,” Mr. Gaylord said.
A friend from Sydney, after reading the above, emails me with, “You bloody yanks really aren’t a bunch of wankers are you?” There is a point to my quoting his email; it’s not just levity. Internationally, we are not recognized as Democrats or Republicans; we’re seen wholly as Americans and what resides in Washington is reflective of the rest of the country.
I guess they’re pretty much right and justified in their jibes. “We” put these goof balls in office, the environment surrounding each elected person was blatantly obvious at election time, so what else can we expect? You get what you pay for.
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If Bill Krystol sees things like this:
"Even though DeLay has nothing to do with Frist, and Frist has nothing to do with Abramoff, how does it look? Not good."
Then there are a few folks weary of some striped sunshine in the future and a few houses tumbling down, not due to high winds and rising tides.
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