This "Thor" character seems to be everywhere, too. Popping up as a convenient fake voters' rights activist, fake witness for Republicans, etc...he's all over the place, like horseshit!

Wow, this one just about sums it up for the right-wing:

Rampant campaign finance abuse, ties to organized crime, election rigging, and political expediency over principle.

Its hard to imagine how the rush-ites will try to spin this favorably. Presumably, they'll just try to bury it.

I hope Rep. Doolittle is sweating, too.

When two scandals collide...Plamegate and the Abramoff/DeLay mess..what happens..? Big Bang..? Shouldn't be to many left standing if these investigations, indictments and (hopefully) prosecutions, get all the people involved....a damn good chance to purge the government of all crooks, including any Dems....we don't want them, we don't need that kind of government....Curious, even though the Plamegate scandal seems to be including just about every one in the WHIG..even Cheney..there is an assumption that Bush and Rice will be untouched...(some are mentioning Rice as a possible replacement, rightfully I guess, for Cheney..yet she was also "in" on the WHIG..so do we get a few out and leave the others in? I don't think thats a fair trade, at all.

Oh, here, for example, re: Doolittle.

Bob Ney should also be recognized for stalling in his House Administration Committee the Rush Holt bill that would have outlawed unauditable voting machines.

Also, he (along with DeLay and Safavian) took that golf trip to Scotland that Jack Abramoff financed....

Ah, good ol' Ney. He's had his dirty little fingers in things for a while, hasn't he? Y'know, I can't help but wonder, what with the Florida connection and all, what kind of links to Feeney might be found?

I have a sneaking suspicision that the Republicans just don't care about governing any more.

It occurs to me that perhaps they know that their time is about up and all they want to do now is to cut benefits (Medicaid, Basic Food, farmers' subsidies, etc.), lower taxes for the richest, and gouge the public (e.g. gasoline, energy and health insurance premiums, etc.) as much as they can in their waning days left.

Regrettably, they still have over a year to do this....

This is an edited scene from Monty Python's 'Holy Grail' movie.

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-13.htm

The Knights of Ney

[spooky music]
[music stops]
HEAD KNIGHT OF NEY:
Ney!
KNIGHTS OF NEY:
Ney! Ney! Ney! Ney! Ney!
ARTHUR:
Who are you?
HEAD KNIGHT:
We are the [Ohio] Knights Who Say... 'Ney'!
RANDOM:
Ney!
ARTHUR:
No! Not the [Ohio] Knights Who Say 'Ney'!
HEAD KNIGHT:
The same!
BEDEVERE:
Who are they?
HEAD KNIGHT:
We are the keepers of the sacred words: 'Ney', 'Peng', and 'Neee-wom'!
RANDOM:
Neee-wom!
ARTHUR:
Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale.
HEAD KNIGHT:
The Knights Who Say 'Ney' demand a sacrifice.
ARTHUR:
Knights of Ney, we are but simple travellers who seek the enchanter who lives beyond these woods.
HEAD KNIGHT:
Ney!
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Ney! Ney! Ney! Ney! Ney!...
ARTHUR:
Ow! Ow! Ow! Agh!
HEAD KNIGHT:
We shall say 'ney' again to you if you do not appease us.
ARTHUR:
Well, what is it you want?
HEAD KNIGHT:
We want... a [White House ] shrubbery!
[dramatic chord]
ARTHUR:
A what?
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Ney! Ney! Ney! Ney!
ARTHUR and PARTY:
Ow! Oh!
ARTHUR:
Please! Please! No more! We will find you a [White House] shrubbery.
HEAD KNIGHT:
You must return here with a [White House] shrubbery, or else, you will never pass through this [Ohio] wood... alive.
ARTHUR:
O Knights of Ney, you are just and fair, and we will return from [Washington, D.C.] with a shrubbery.
HEAD KNIGHT:
One that looks nice.
ARTHUR:
Of course.
HEAD KNIGHT:
And not too expensive.
ARTHUR:
Yes.
HEAD KNIGHT:
Now... go!

I've always known politicians are crooks, 99% are, but these slime buckets are just not too bright, are they? The numbers grow every week lately.

I sure hope we can get a fair election this time and I sure hope the American public studies the PEOPLE running for office, not just the PARTY. Both sides have evil. We'll be a lot better educated from now on, come that November morning, believe me.

Why do all these Republican fucks look like humans morphing into lizards. I wouldn't buy a used car from this guy let alone vote for him, if I had to go by appearances alone.

All of the commentors seem to believe this will make some difference to people who voted for Bush in the last election. I don't think it will, those people don't pay attention to anything unless it is Sunday morning. They are destined to vote right wing for the rest of thier lives. Unfortunately more of them than us vote.

Arry #3

Matsui is my district, wish I could vote against that idiot Doolittle though!

Can't believe he is still trying push the Auburn Dam! That thing would make me have to move to about 1200' elevation or learn to swim real fast!

Love the website (#5)

Of course my current elevation of 52' isn't going to stand up to the melting of the Greenland and Antartic ice caps which cover their respective land masses.

Ney seems to have his finger in just about every rotten pie there is.

Can't wait for the whole bunch to go down!

Maybe we could ask Ney and Abramoff who does their murdering for them. Maybe we could all chip in and have them pay their employers a visit.

Bailiff: Please state your name for the court.

Witness: Ney.

Bailiff: You must state your name.

Witness: I told you, Ney.

Bailiff: Does that mean "no?"

Witness: I'm not Noe, I'm Ney.

Judge: "Ney" and "Noe" mean the same thing.

Ney: No.

Judge: Noe is our next witness. Never mind him.

Ney: Yea.

Judge: This isn't something to cheer about, Mr. Ney.

Ney: No.

Judge: You're in contempt of court.

Ney: Oh.

chimera #7
feeney to jeb then reopen Lemme investigation, that would be interesting

Half Empty:

That's bullshit I say. Know why? Bush's horrid approval ratings and that of the republicans are down to 30%!!!

Approval down to 30%!!!!

Nearly nobody trusts these fools anymore except the racist freaks who were always republicans. I think that makes a big difference, wouldn't you? AND the convictions aren't even OVER yet!!!

Doug E.

Doug:

His approval ratings are very low, but approval ratings are a passive measure. People call you to aks what you think. You don't have to get out and vote which is what every good hearted christian does now because the religious supremacists have done an execellent job of linking themselves with Jesus. If don't vote republican God will hate you. That is the clear message here in the buckle of the Bible Belt. I wish I was wrong, but it just ain't so. Maybe the rest of the country is not so stupid, but it sure doesn't look that way from here.

#13 --- Bluebear2 --- Here's to hoping he gets dragged down with the rest, along with his little California empire. He's right in there with Abramoff, DeLay, and gang methinks.

(How long has he been pushing that Auburn Dam, anyway? Somebody stands to profit.)

It was immediately obvious right after the election, from his behavior, that Ney not only knew about the stolen election but was one of its architects. Look at the code of ethics of Mafioso in the Godfather--Don Corleone's moral code is way above these thugs.

WaPo infuriates me with their schizy behavior--running actual journalism sporadically and then intermixing it with crap like Dana Milbanks' slam piece of the Conyers hearings. But today they're back in the plus column with this piece. But the real heroes are the guys from the Toledo Blade who have been relentlessly chipping away at this. Those guys are real patriots. When the smoke has cleared from the razing and raping of America by the NeoCons, and fingers are finally pointed at the media for letting America down, I hope President Gore gives the brave reporters at The Blade medals.

The bible belt is falling apart...

They are full of pure racists and idealogues, a tiny minority, compared to all 70% of the rest of us...

Doug E.

Arry # 21

In April 1976, the Association of Engineering Geologists, Seismic Hazards Committee, issued a report stating that a moderate earthquake like the 1975 event near Oroville would cause the proposed dam at Auburn to fail. Concerns about dam safety were further heightened in June 1976, when the Teton Dam in Idaho failed.

More here - scroll down the first page to find "Plan"

RLM #17... hahahahahahaha! Great wordplay! Oh, BTW, who's on Frist?

Bob Ney is from the district just south of where I live.
Remember Bob was the fearless leader from the House who made the House restaurant change the name of french fries to freedom fries.

Thanks, Unirealist. "Who's on Frist?" "Watt's in the Interior Department."

The second day in court went like this:

Bailiff: Your Honor, Thomas and Bernadette Noe have both failed to appear in court.

Judge: No Noes.

Bailiff: I'd agree, Your Honor. Big no-nos.

Judge: Send the sheriff out. Noes might have blown.

Bailiff: I have a handkerchief, Your Honor.

Judge: No, No. Did we find Blackwell?

Bailiff: Right. No Noe, and we found Black in perfect health, Your Honor.

Judge: And the Noes...blown?

Bailiff: You'd have to ask him, sir.

Judge: What's new with Ney?

Bailiff: Nothing new with Ney or Noe, as far as I know.

Judge: Can't we bring them nigh?

Bailiff: Nay, I don't think so.

etc. etc. etc.

We need a new WMD search. Remember all the weapons Ollie sent to Iran during Iran-Contra?

Was there ever a list produced? I think bu$hit ought to get a list ... before he thinks invasion.

I mean Ollie and the other patriots might have sold Iran nukes ... gas ... viruses ... or other WMD thingies. They did that for Saadam, after all.

The righteous panel could include Ney, Rove, Libby, Scottie, and jeffie gannon.

They would be sure to get to the bottom of things.

Cave In

Raw Story is reporting that two Cheney aides are co-operating with the Plame outing investigation.

The rumor is that they have been given some or total immunity for testifying against Cheney, Libby, et. al.

This admin is toast when all they have to offer is cronyism, and it is rank cronyism that pisses all the wannabees off.

Ney, DeLay, Abramoff, Rove, Libby, and Cheney being gone, Bush must rely on his own prowess, "listen to God talk" more, and "stay the course" (be stubborn).

So, as his final pissoff he appoints Meir, knowing from private talks that she will vote to overturn Roe v Wade, will support his "enemy combatant" orders in upcoming cases, and will rule on the side of corporations.

Why are they pissed then? They can't trust him to know Meir ... he can't figure anything out on his own, so they want a Bork, Thomas, or the like who has a long judicial record. Right wing credentials.

In a world where all the cronies are going down cause the MSM is letting a little light shine thru (imagine what would happen if they let it all hang out), and its real bad in there.

In a short span of time we have gone from absurdly following the president to absurdly not following the president.

Our political structure is unstable.

What this blog has advocated for so long is balance. We welcome the words of republicans (but we dislike the disingenuous words of the neoCons). Reasonable give and take, and above all, intellectual honesty.

The Ney sayer, DeLay preyer, and that ilk have none of that. Ney, Delay, and that ilk have committed frauds and crimes against america.

Some of y'all here who persist in linking Southerners to racists need to understand that there are WAY more white Southerners who are NOT racist than who are. KKK, white militias, etc. are more often found in the North these days.

There are plenty of Bible-thumpin' Southern White folks who are not racists, but may appear to vote racist, when what they're really doing is voting pro-life. My family is like that. We certainly came from (what was normal then) racist background; if you wanna say that accepting what we were taught - that we were better/smarter/cleaner/etc. - and deserved to have "seperate but equal" facilities which were neither seperate nor equal, was racist.
But we would have never dreamed of being KKK or even using "the N word." If I used it I'd have had my mouth washed out with soap. My grandma would say, "The correct pronunciation is 'nigra', and they're people, too. They have to be respected. Nigras have their place."
I'm not saying that was right, but it was a far cry from the lynching, MLK killin' white folks that some Northerners depicted all of as as being. My Mama broke down and cried when she heard of MLKs death. Why? Because she doesn't believe in violence, and didn't believe that we all should be depicted as violent, when it was just the deranged few doing such dirty work. Mom's a Christian lady, and naively believes any politician who is pro-life is great.

Most White Southerners are more comfortable with Blacks than Northerners who wanna judge us, as we have lived and worked with Blacks (and lately Hispanics) our whole lives. I'm of the age that I grew up in schools with blacks for only part of my school career, and had my eyes completely opened by integration. It worked, like it was supposed to do.

Yet, in the first 70 years of the 20th century, what passed as just in the South clearly was not. And today there are definately some hold-outs in the white southern aristocracy and some in the poverty filled white areas (who still buy what the racists are selling), but most of us are not that way.
So, I'll thank any of y'all to get off the "White Southerners are all racists" implications.

peace out,
shw

Shannon,
I'm here in the South too. I don't think all white woutherners are racist. No, no. The racists here all joined the Republican party though. Just a bad break that the white Christian Evangelicals also joined the Republicans. Now they are in bed together, along with the Corps and the disgustingly greedy rich.

"Asst. House Counsel Carolyn Betz" defends Ney's actions in the Washington Post story.

This link to the Congressional Record

http://thomas.loc.gov/cg...:16:./temp/~r108F7ymj4::

Ney inserted a nice little laudatory speech into the Congressional Record 2 years ago praising Betz.

You have got it. The connection between Ney and the two to three million dollars appropriated by HAVA mandating the country chaange to electronic voting and the complete refusal to allow any kind of monitoring of the election voting process, no paper records, no auditing all blocked in the congress. How can we get this into papers like NYTimes or WAshingtonPost. This is a national scandal of huge proportions. Please reply.

You have got it. The connection between Ney and the two to three million dollars appropriated by HAVA mandating the country chaange to electronic voting and the complete refusal to allow any kind of monitoring of the election voting process, no paper records, no auditing all blocked in the congress. How can we get this into papers like NYTimes or WAshingtonPost. This is a national scandal of huge proportions. Please reply.