Archive for June 15th, 2007
Jun 15, 2007 at 11:19 PM by Political Chase
Paul Keil has obtained a copy of a letter from a Department of Justice employee (obviously an attorney) formally complaining to an Inspector General about systemic ethnic-gender cleansing within the DOJ Civil Rights Division. The target of the complaint is Bradley Schlozman, the controversial political appointee in the Civil Rights Division and former U.S. attorney for the western district of Missouri. Schlozman recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, going so far as to brag “about his success in hiring conservative Republican lawyers onto his staff that handled civil rights cases.” To say the least, the anonymous complaint confirms Schlozman’s vaporing testimony.
Bradley J. Schlozman is systematically attempting to purge all Civil Rights appellate attorneys hired under Democratic administrations. In the process he appears to be the targeting minority women lawyers. Schlozman told one recently hired attorney that it was his intention to drive these attorneys out of the Appellate Section so that he could replace them with “good Americans.”…Schlozman’s intent appears to be to replace these minority women attorneys with white, invariably Christian men.
(Emphasis added)
Keil has the details.
Jun 15, 2007 at 1:25 PM by Political Chase
Mission Impossible: Get Iraq Under Control. Shiites reduced to rubble a Sunni Arab mosque in retaliation for bombing the Samarra shrine’s minarets Wednesday.
I sure am glad all the surge-related troops have arrived. Now everything will be just fine in a couple of days.
Jun 15, 2007 at 12:32 PM by Political Chase
Lieberman: “If Kristol says what I’m doing is right, it must be right.”
This guy has lost control of his faculties.
Jun 15, 2007 at 12:15 PM by Political Chase
Mitt Romney is caught in yet another flip-flop, and according to Eric Kleefeld, Romney’s campaign is to blame.
Romney may be smart and successful, but the GOP will further demonstrate how stupid they are (e.g., George Bush nomination/election) if they make Romney the Republican Party nominee. There is more than enough evidence to confirm Romney will say anything to get elected.
I think we’ve had more than our share of trust issues since January 2001.
Jun 15, 2007 at 12:03 PM by Political Chase
The official statement:
Bush administration officials said Thursday that they had been discussing the idea of largely acquiescing in the takeover of Gaza by the militant Islamic group Hamas and trying instead to help the Fatah party of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, retain its stronghold in the West Bank.
Translation: We’re so deep in crap in Iraq we can’t do a thing about it.
Jun 15, 2007 at 11:59 AM by Political Chase
George Bush has not changed his decision nor come to a compromise.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made clear Thursday that the United States would not alter plans to deploy parts of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, despite an unexpected proposal by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to use a radar base in Azerbaijan instead.
Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, you can always count on him to maintain his position, and if challenged, he digs in deeper.
Jun 15, 2007 at 11:48 AM by Political Chase
Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed last night to return the immigration bill to the Senate floor for debate. Part of the agreement will allow approximately 20 amendments, split equally between parties, to be submitted.
Jun 15, 2007 at 11:25 AM by Political Chase
The scope of the U.S. attorney purge investigation will also include investigating whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tried to improperly influence the testimony of his aide, Monica Goodling. Goodling testified in March that Gonzales, in effect, tried to compare recollections so their testimonies would be consistent.
The investigation may prove Gonzales perjured himself, but I seriously doubt any witness tampering charges will come from the investigation. It is a he-said-she-said situation. Now, if Gonzales turns out to be a tad Nixonian, that’s a different story. Who knows, thus far every time a rock is turned over, something is there.
