Anyone else get the feeling that we, as a nation, will have a synchronized dry heave when everything that has happened over the last 8-ish years is brought to light?

FTR, I hope you know that it will be bigger than even a month's worth of AFF articles can handle. You MAY need to write a book...

I'd buy a FearTheReaper book.

I doubt that this Administration will authorize any agency to bust down the doors to the EPA and bring out every EPA staff member with black hoods over their heads and ship them all off to different prisons and the only time they interact with people is their weekly interrogation with the Senate Committee...

...but that would be sweet.


mayhap the EPA will have an 'accidental fire' like the White House did a few months ago, destroying any evidence that would prove them all AFF's.

Maybe this is one of those "common language" things, but this

suggests to me it's not the EPA staff who are the problem, but the politically-appointed senior managers.

It doesn't seem like there's much to be done about Karl Rove. Especially since the Fifth Amendment gives him the right to stonewall Congress if he were to ever show up. Stupid Constitution...

I just hope that bush does not have the athority to pardon all these ass hats before he leaves office. If he does you know he will.

Well, they have to be convicted of something before he can pardon them, and I doubt you'll see any convictions before the elections are over.

my browser isnt that bright today; the reply button doesnt want to work.

anyway, according to a recent Slate article, "Generally speaking, once an act has been committed, the president can issue a pardon at any time_regardless of whether charges have even been filed."

so a lot of these assholes might actually get away with everything, which would be awesome.


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Fear the Reapers Politacl blogs always leave me thinking "Wow America is fucked" and makes me feel glad not to be there, I mean how can people just decide not to go and be questioned by authorities about possibly illegal activities, its just so fucking arogant

That's true. Ford pardoned Nixon, who hadn't actually been convicted or even formally charged with anything.

Accepting a pardon is, however, an admission of guilt, as established by Burdick v. United States.

And now Subrosa can come tell me how I got the law wrong.

Those of us who have been fighting these people since day one (and not the guilty douchebags who voted for Bush and are now trying to go back on their decision by claiming ignorance) have been letting this shit slide for far too long. We have what Bill Maher calls "fuckup fatigue," so that when news like this breaks, we just shrug our shoulders and say "what do you expect by now?"

It's too bad the Stevens indictment probably won't allow him to continue his work on behalf of our wonderful Series of Tubes.

That happens quite a bit.

As far as FTR's post, yeah, Ted Stevens is an asshole (look up "Bridge to Nowhere"), but I don't think corruption is just a Republican Problem. I seem to recall around 2007, that Nancy Pelosi was asking for a new Boeing 757. At a cost of $65 Million, that's a lot of money that could go to more nobler causes (like soldier's benefits, or fixing nation infrastructure or something). And let's not forget, our good friend,
William Jefferson.

Should we pull out Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and that whole mess? It came up tonight that there are new developments, and Abramoff is starting to name names.

I feel better now. I thought it was just me. I'm a little surprised it's working now.

I'm also surprised that there hasn't been anyone trying to defend Stevens or the GOP yet. This doesn't seem like the CE I remember.