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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:11 PM
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TPM: GOP positioning to can Fitzgerald
Late this evening I got emails from a few readers who told me about a news story on Chicago's Channel 9, WGN-TV which pointed out that Patrick Fitzgerald's term as US Attorney in Chicago is coming up in October and that pressure is building to deny him a reappointment.

As it was described to me, the news segment featured an interview with former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R)(no relation), who suggested that Denny Hastert might be pushing to turn Fitzgerald out of his job.

More: http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/27/232930/764
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BurgherHoldtheLies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:13 PM
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1. "Fired for doing his job" should be the mantra on this one. nt
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:30 PM
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16. the WH is cooperating, the WH is cooperating, bah--you're fired
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:13 PM
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2. He'll have indictments by then.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:15 PM
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5. This would
not have any effect on the Plame case. It's two separate things.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:17 PM
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8. Why, then, do you think they are moving in this direction?
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:18 PM
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10. revenge
There doesn't need to be a rational explaination.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:19 PM
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12. To punish him
for doing what he is doing on the Plame case. It isn't going to be a problem. They can only injure themselves right now.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:15 PM
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6. I certainly hope so
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:41 PM
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19. Question...
Will handing down indictments automatically necessitate his, at least temporary, reinstatement?

Or will he need to make his case to stay in office?
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:51 PM
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21. He better; I think he started this in 2003
he better get moving fast
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:13 PM
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3. GOP
They do eat their own dont they
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:14 PM
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4. Bingo!!! Several days ago, I pointed out the media's
sudden interest in Figerald's biographical information as being curious. The guy has been doing his job for quite a while now. My note was dismissed as part of the normal development of a news story by a lazy media. SOMEONE put that out there. All the media started addressing it at the same time within the same news cycle. In *world, this happens for a reason.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:18 PM
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11. I think the fact that the Repugs want to launch an investigation
of him is a sign they want to get rid of him.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:17 PM
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7. Am confident Larry Johnson and all the Company men have thought about
the probablilty of it coming down. Am confident they have worked out the moves so ahead of the GOP Rubber Stamp Congress that their heads will keep spinning.

Rove is not an idiot, nor is Cheney. But there are more brains among the itel folks who have every reason to play the long game and win.

It would be annoying, but porbably more damaging if they can him than if they STFU and go with the flow. All stonewalling does is create more damage when the dam breaks, and it always does.
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:18 PM
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9. God, I hope they try it.
I love watching these morons destroy themselves. So predictable.
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long_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:42 PM
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24. You and me both
It would make a nice parallel with Watergate.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:22 PM
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13. ain`t going to happen unless
the illinois democrats and republicans along with the national republicans decide to oust him. october is the start of the trial of jim ryan in illinois. nothing is going to happen to fitz
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:26 PM
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14. "Saturday Night Massacre" anyone? Oh please, I dare them.
Between repeating Watergate type shenanigans and pissing off the CIA, this administration has a serious "invincibility" complex.

It's like the Roman Empire being redone as a spaghetti western.

:popcorn:
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JAbuchan08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:32 PM
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17. LOL
spaghetti western, how appropriate, given that the Bushies are cowboys like Italy is Texas...
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:46 PM
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20. ROTFLMAOAPM!!!
(and peeing myself)

:rofl:

Beautiful... I'll remember that one.
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JAbuchan08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:53 PM
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25. Thanks, we shoud call them "spaghetti westerners"
"pay no attention to the man behind the olive trees, er, or the olive trees for that matter"
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:40 PM
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18. Can we come up with anything as catchy as
Impeach the Coxsacker?
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:58 PM
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22. heh, heh...that was a once-in-a-lifetime priceless one. -eom
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:27 PM
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23. I understand your point
but the atmosphere in the country is so different now from Nixon's time. That became a true scandal. I fear now it would read for a day or two or three in the news and disappear. Bush would perhaps put in a new prosecutor and then it would take a year for the new one to get up to speed and it would be prolonged for so long it would die itself without a whimper.
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 12:29 PM
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15. His boss (and best friend) is *resigning* before Labor Day.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ohs/Press/04-20-05.htm
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