‘It’s open warfare over there’ - Democratic Underground

babylonsister

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:11 PM
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‘It’s open warfare over there’

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10340.html

‘It’s open warfare over there’
Posted 11:12 am

About two weeks ago, we started hearing about the panic and paralysis that had taken over the Justice Department in the wake of the prosecutor purge scandal. “You have no idea,” said one Justice official, “how bad it is here.”

How’s the nation’s federal law-enforcement agency doing now? Apparently, it’s getting worse — the New York Daily News reports that “Gonzales’ closest advisers turned on one another.”

“It’s unreal - it’s open warfare over there,” a former Justice official with close ties to Gonzales’ team told the Daily News.

The AG’s ex-chief of staff Kyle Sampson will testify in the Senate tomorrow, and Gonzales’ ex-counsel Monica Goodling pleaded the fifth and refused to talk. Gonzales has blamed Sampson for mistakes in how the firings were handled.

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, who privately blames Goodling for misleading him on the matter, may also be jockeying to take over if Gonzales resigns, sources said.

In fact, it seems part of the administration’s problem with this fiasco is an inability to find a convenient scapegoat. Gonzales blames Sampson, McNulty blames Goodling, the White House blames McNulty, Republicans on the Hill blame Gonzales, and no one on the right has figured out a way to blame Dems, the media, or MoveOn.org. It’s a wild west, every-man-for-himself environment … and these guys are yet to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Obviously, with so much finger-pointing, chances are these officials are going to contradict one another, making the whole bunch look worse. But just as importantly, it’s also more likely that at least one of these guys, motivated purely by self-interest, will cut some kind of deal and rat his or her colleagues out to save his or her skin.

Someone practically invented popcorn for a situation like this.

:) :popcorn:

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Blue_In_AK

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:13 PM
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1. That sucks...

No scapegoats?? How horrible for them.

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Vincardog

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:16 PM
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2. Do you mean to tell me that they have not found out how to blame Clenis?

It sure sucks to be a bushbot today.

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Jai4WKC08

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:28 PM
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4. Sure they have

According to the "defend the president no matter what he does" wing-nuts, the whole thing is a non-issue -- just another case of "the Democrat party and the libr'ul media" going after this administration over nothing -- because Clinton fired 93 attorneys and Bush only fired 8.

I have what may be a stupid question: Can someone explain to me how come all the US attorneys that were fired are Republicans if Bush didn't fire Clinton's appointees?

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Dhalgren

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:38 PM
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6. He did fire them all. Every currently serving USA (including the 8 or 9

that were fired for political graft) were appointed by the little Dictator or someone in his regime...

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kimmylavin

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:26 PM
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3. Ha!

"Someone practically invented popcorn for a situation like this."
Love it! Gotta go get me some... :)

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Ganja Ninja

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:38 PM
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5. We're in the last throes of a failed administration.

I'm guessing that the Justice Department is not the only part of it to be in chaos.

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bemildred

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:42 PM
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8. When will the last Bushite be evacuated from the Justice Department?

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damntexdem

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Wed Mar-28-07 01:39 PM
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7. If it's open warfare in the Justice Department then ...

that would be the only part of the Administration where it's open at all. ;-)

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TlalocW

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Wed Mar-28-07 02:08 PM
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9. Good. The more they concentrate on fighting each other

The less time they have to continue to harm the country.

TlalocW

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louis-t

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Wed Mar-28-07 02:16 PM
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10. Goodling pleads 5th, spun as "she's afraid Dems will persecute her."

Actually, she's afraid bushco will throw her under the bus.

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KansDem

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Wed Mar-28-07 04:15 PM
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11. Quick, Cokie! Another "charm offensive" report about the BushBaby!!!

You know, like the ones you told during Campaign2000; the "Bush is charming, oh so charming! He'll use his 'charm offensive' to get things done in DC!" stories.

Oh, and the "nicknaming reports;" how he likes to give everyone nicknames.

There you have it: get Cokie and NPR to do "charm offensive" and "nicknaming" reports. That'll save him and his administration!

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gratuitous

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Wed Mar-28-07 05:24 PM
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12. I wonder how the troops feel about that?

A bunch of lawyers in an office comparing their situation, bad as it might be, with "open warfare"? I wonder if any of them on either side would like to swap places?

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