Holy. Freaking. Crap.

*inhale*

OK, let me see if I've got this straight...Goss fired basically out of the clear blue sky, no reason (more time with family, health, abducted by aliens and viciously probed, etc.) offered in any way, said bombshell story steps ALL OVER the Kennedy car crash/rehab story which promised to dominate the day's news, and you gotta agree with TPM that these Bush folk would rather light their genitals on fire than get in the way of a perfectly good Kennedy story, so this wasn't in any way choreographed, which makes you wonder if Tony Snow has fully grabbed the reins, and if so, how he feels after screwing up so spectacularly the handling of the first big story of his tenure...

*exhale*

*inhale*

...and then we go next level, which is Foggo the procurement puke being swept up in the Duke Cunningham cash-and-prostitutes extravaganzas at the Watergate, and by the way, if you're not thrilled that the word "Watergate" has been reborn into our current context, you don't have a pulse, but regardless it seems crystal-clear the Duke is flapping his lips, cooperating his indicted ass off, as probably are the others who have been swept up in this thing, and some say Goss has been canned for bringing in the Fog Man in the first place...

*exhale*

*inhale*

...but you gotta wonder, considering the switfness with which the axe was dropped today, if maybe Goss isn't also a target of the Cunningham catastrophe, since it was a defense contractor looking to bribe his way into selling their wares to the intelligence community who provided the hookers and cash and those, ahem, poker parties, and Goss was chair of the Inteligence Committee before hopping into his now-concluded stint as chief spook, and maybe he is in this thing as deeply as Cunningham, because who better to offer a bribe to regarding contractor work for the intel community than the chair of the intel committee...

*exhale*

Yeah. Break's over.

... the english teacher from Massachusetts is cringing at the "Your back ...."

My 4th grade nun/teacher would be chasing you around the classroom with the Peter Pointer this very moment, while the other kids pick their noses and watch quietly, glad it is you this time, and not them.

You are back - You're back

'Your Back' .... Literally: his back .....

Hey - I'm just the substitute teacher today ... Will will be back after a short sabbatical.

Oh yeah .... Hey Will ....

:hi:

I do that a lot and it gets under my skin, being once an AP English student. For this, I will join Skinner in whipping myself with a wet noodle. Ten lashes or twenty.... ? :P

is that paperbag smiley when you need it?

Oh, to be a fly on certain walls...

welcome back, btw...

Not only did they throw him overboard, they fired him from a cannon! There's something that's about to break. My guess is by Sunday - when does the latest Harper's come out?:shrug:

...corruption scandal! Bwahahahaha!

Love your inhale/exhale bit. So much is going on I can't keep pace.

fuck yeah!

chuckles...

?
*exhale*

Goss played second fiddle.

He'll disappear from the radar before the weekend is out, but this Goss thing will continue ad nauseam...speculation over his departure + debate over his replacement + potential Duke-esqe bricks getting dropped.

Seatbelts, folks.

The network suits are probably saying, "Kennedy..or..sex...or....Kennedy....or.....prostitutes.....or...Kennedy.....or SEX. Yup, guys I believe sex may attract a few more viewers."

especially since he has admitted to now entering rehab. No story here. Hard to beat a dead horse.

to pick on a guy who's seeking treatment for depression. Even the MSM isn't going to take that one too far.

He actually looked strong, taking responsibility and being as candid as he was today. No making excuses, no blaming somebody else like the Repubs usually resort to first.

the police angle.

evening news programs to see if they led with Goss or Kennedy, and NBC led with Goss -- and stayed on Goss for quite awhile. I flipped over immediately to CBS and then ABC, and both of them led with Kennedy, so I went back to NBC for more of the Goss story. Was surprised, and even more surprised that they used (I think) the entire first segment before first commercial on Goss.

Tickled me to see the Kennedy story pretty much wrapping up anyway, with Patrick's wise decision to announce a new trip to rehab right away instead of letting the "scandal" get bigger while he tarried. Not only wise, but he did it in a dignified, courageous way. I was actually quite proud of him ... seemed he was demonstrating for all the Repugs caught up in their own scandals how a respectable person should handle such a turn of events!

And surely we would have heard the Kennedy incident dominating the airwaves for many more days at the very least -- IF Goss hadn't been ejected so unceremoniously! You got it right, Will, the Goss drama totally stepped all over the Kennedy story! And I'm sure many salivating Repugs were very sorry to see THAT happen.

I've been watching them for a while on this point. David Gregory and some of the others are pretty good.

also spent 36 minutes of air time on Michael Jackson in 2005, while only spending 2 total minutes on Darfur.

F them.

Avoid making the Goss/Cunningham/Hookergate connection. Go figure.

Welcome back, brother. Bad week to stop sniffing glue.

:)

why Else would the chimpperor rush Goss out? They also have to get Rove on the back burner before he is indicted too.

... your hair is going to stay like that! Err, wait... that's making faces. Nevermind! Carry on!
:evilgrin:

Cheney's remarks regarding Russia were stunning to say the least. I can't believe, with the neocons trying to do the same to us, he has the nerve to attack another country. Where is the outrage for these hypocritical remarks?




Moscow -- Vice President Dick Cheney delivered the Bush administration's strongest rebuke of Russia to date on Thursday, saying the Russian government "unfairly and improperly restricted" people's rights and suggesting that it sought to undermine its neighbors and to use the country's vast resources of oil and gas as "tools of intimidation or blackmail."

"In many areas of civil society -- from religion and the news media, to advocacy groups and political parties -- the government has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people," Cheney said in a speech to European leaders in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius. "Other actions by the Russian government have been counterproductive and could begin to affect relations with other countries."

More @ <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/05/MNGSDILE2K1.DTL>

Can't you just get a visual of Tweety with some hooker? Or Timmy Russet? Or O'Liely?
or Sweating Piggie Boy Rove?

No I can't visualize Scottie ---- LOL

again.:bounce:

Albeit the idea of Negroponte being the sole voice of sort of sanity in the current regime is a little scary in and of itself.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050106B.shtml

In a replay of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction charade, neoconservative supporters of George W. Bush are pushing the U.S. intelligence community to take a more alarmist view about Iran's nuclear program-only this time, the nation's top spy John Negroponte is resisting the pressure unlike former CIA chief George Tenet.

Tenet joined in Bush's hyping of the WMD evidence about Iraq-famously telling the President that the case was a "slam dunk." But Negroponte is defying hardliners who want a worst-case scenario on Iran's capabilities. Instead, he is citing Iran's limited progress in refining uranium and their use of a cascade of only 164 centrifuges.

"According to the experts that I consult, achieving-getting 164 centrifuges to work is still a long way from having the capacity to manufacture sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon," Negroponte said in an interview with NBC News on April 20.

"Our assessment is that the prospects of an Iranian weapon are still a number of years off, and probably into the next decade," said Negroponte, who was appointed last year as the Director of National Intelligence, a new post that supplanted the traditional primacy of the CIA director as the head of the U.S. intelligence community.

Nice to see you, Mr. Pitt.

about Goss resigning was: Dukester is flappin his mouth big time...

I wonder who else will crash and burn in Watergate II...

to guess at anymore! I think we're all jsut going to have to sit back, and watch closely as everything unfolds!

BTW, I agree..something bigger is about to break SOON! Maybe even over the weekend!

are the ones who've suffered and are suffering for all their foibles for the past few years. That's something to chew on.

You were missed my friend.

suspicious.



I'm getting a chubby just thinking about it.

According to Harper's last week, and several other articles, and Ed Rollins on CHarlie Rose, this case is going to be big, engulfing many on Capitol Hill and according to most of those articles members of the CIA and intelligence community

Harper's even mentioned Porter Goss last week and told us to 'stay tuned'. I think they have a more in-depth article coming out this week. Maybe the WH got an advance copy?

Duke Cunnningham is already convicted and in jail, so unless they are willing to shorten his jailtime, I'm not sure he is talking now. Isn't he supposed to have been at the parties?

Then there's the limo Company, with a manager with a bad criminal record, who also has a big contract from Homeland Security.

Not to mention the Prostitutes (were they both male and female?) who may have already talked and given names.

And we thought that when the Duke went to jail, that would be the end of that story. I read that he had ties to Abramoff also ~

And we still don't know who let Jeff Gannon into the WH, and who gave a man with a fake name and no journalistic creds a WH press pass?

Maybe the Feds shoult talk to him again. His profile was geared towards military worshippers. And these people were all so pro-war!! War profiteers spending the spoils of war at the Watergate Hotel!

Maybe THIS scandal will finally do it!! It has SEX! That was the missing ingredient from all the others!

His plea and deal depends on him having told all that he knows. If he witheld information, he goes back to the chopping block. As this stuff is coming out elsewhere, he may be scrambling to remember stuff now.

And oh, Jeff Gannon -- how could he not be part of this? I can't wait to see him drawn in. Was he coyly waiting in one of those limos?:bounce:

--IMM

talking also. And I imagine they have records ~ as for Jeff Gannon? He came to DC in 2000 out of the blue, it seems from all we know so far, from a pretty ordinary life, and suddenly he's a male prostitute and a fake journalist in the WH press corps!! He must have had some really powerful friends ~ there's a lot about him that has yet to be learned, I think!

I wouldn't be surprised if was part of this story ~ :-)

:toast: :hug:

It's one thing to say BushCo is fucking us over. But to have actual pictures of these bastards selling out our men and women in uniform while cutting crooked deals with defense contractors over sloppy seconds at the Watergate hotel...

YEEEOOOWZZZA! We hit the jackpot!

for one of the all time classic names.

or Spiro Agnew if you prefer!

Little Metro joke for the DC folks. ;-)

The right wing rumor mill says he quit to run for Senate in Florida! They say he is so popular there a scandal won't stop him!!

Any Floridians know anything about this???

I think that if she's not challenged by May 12, Katherine Harris gets the nomination. If the Senate was his plan, Bush would have given him a boost, not a drop kick.

--IMM

They are saying Bense's people were packing up their offices and today were told to put their stuff back. Crap this sounds real.

He said, according to some reports, he would say something today.:shrug:

--IMM

:popcorn: :rofl: It will certainly be an interesting weekend to say the least!

:-)

Welcome back from vacation. I so looking forward to reading your forthcoming commentaries on the ongoing slow motion implosion of the Republican Incomptence Express.

This bombshell will probably bring back a lot of folks on break. :hi:

...me is in what way Negroponte is going to seize on the opportunity to wield even more power at the agency. He's got an axe to grind going back 20 years, and he's PNAC (and not old-school CIA). Paranoid? Yes, but can you blame me?

Yeah, what a treat! Republicans eating their own always makes me crave beer and pretzels like any other fine sporting event. So much for all that morality talk.

It's about @#$%^&*!!! time we had some GOOD news!

*inhale* :party: *choke*

:toast:

:popcorn:


:woohoo:





heh


Yes, good things come to those who wait. We may not have been all that patient, but certainly deserving!

learn he was abducted by aliens and viciously probed?

They so wanted to keep that secret. I appreciate that you are going along with what will be their cover story...the money and hookers and all, but you let out the alien probe secret. That was classified!

:)

Breaks are good.

Or even one of my naps. :P

Here's what you missed while you were gone:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060501/tutpnis_a...

King Tut's Penis Rediscovered
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

May 3, 2006 — King Tutankhamun's rediscovered penis could make the pharaoh stand out in the shrunken world of male mummies, according to a close look into old pictures of the 3,300-year-old mummified king.

- snip - (ouch)

Photographed intact by Harry Burton (1879-1940) during Howard Carter's excavation of Tut's tomb in 1922, the royal penis was reported missing in 1968, when British scientist Ronald Harrison took a series of X-rays of the mummy.

Speculation abounded that the penis had been stolen and sold.

"Instead, it has always been there. I found it during the CT scan last year, when the mummy was lifted. It lay loose in the sand around the king's body. It was mummified," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News

heh, funny line from that story...

You make a post saying you "might need a break" and all of a sudden "Will Pitt Has Left DU!!!11111!!!"

"heh-heh-heh. genitals."

Um, ummmm, Tourette's acting up a bit :D

Great Balls A Fire!

-Hoot

That would be the end of the universe if Colbert's balls were on fire!!

:rofl:

Mr. Pitt
:kick:
Not that your threads generally need help but damn....
Do those deep breathing exercises help?
I'll try it if they do....

A. Watergate. Scandal. Sweet Jesus, it's either the Matrix or the Twlight zone, I haven't decided which.

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

... that ferried folks to the parties, is getting himself all lawyered up. There's his business attorney, a personal criminal attorney and now - my favorite - attorney Michael York to handle all media inquiries. This guy is the lawyer who represented Phillip Morris against ABC, the one where Peter Jennings and Diane Sawyer went on the air and apologized for a tobacco story.

info thanks to: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000572.php
who's been onto this Cunningham/Watergate II mess and is a very interesting read.

link to the ABC/Phillip Morris story
http://archives.cjr.org/year/95/6/smoking.asp

:loveya:

I hope the country air was refreshing

:popcorn:

it's the same crap that brought you here in the first place

this isn't a game, we have to take our country back

can we persuade them to actually do that ? :evilgrin:

eh.

No great loss.

and think about how many levels of irony that has right now.

B-)

Cmon, Will, has your break addled your memory? Duke wore a wire fer chrissakes.

I'm expecting many more curiouser and curiouser events.

-Hoot

:-)

I'm also thinking that the we will never know what they actually have on the Goss players because of the behind-the-scenes deals that are being made to keep a lid on this shit. The CIA professionals have the real goods on all the players and some of this is blow-back for Plame and the blame game over 9/11 and Iraq. this shit is only going to get bigger because there is no way that they can keep a lid on everything and only the die-hard ditto heads will be drinking the kool-aid.

bricks'a comin' their way. Glad break's over. Welcome to Watergate 2.0

How's that for shorthand?

...and Will Pitt, it's nice to have you around again.

:party:

This is making me hyperventilate a little, myself. The waiting is driving me crazy. Let's indict rove, take the House back, and start IMPEACHMENT proceedings already!!!!

You go away and things happen. Umm, you have anywhere else to go? :P

Kidding.

These next few months might be a little bit interesting I must say.

These two-bit stories about Goss, Foggo and Cunningham are attempts by the LIBERAL MEDIA to sidetrack voters away from important issues. Did you see the scratches on Patrick Kennedy`s car? Did you? There are DOZENS of them and they are DEEP! Also, THE LIBERALS refused to let Republicans give us our $100 gas check. I don`t know the exact story, but somehow THE LIBERALS took over Congress for a day and voted against me getting my gas check. Consumer rebates are very important during a time of war because our soldiers in Iraq can`t go shopping here right now which means the true patriots have to spend extra money. These are the issues we should be talking about, not some made-up stories about Mr. Foggo or President Bush`s low poll numbers.

and baste me at 350 for 20.

Duke is a stinker, and things are going to pop.

I just love the tag Watergate 2.0, the irony, the everything...this is gonna be fun.

Will, my hockey team just got knocked out the playoffs, should I root for Buffalo or Edmonton?

That town needs a championship like the desert needs the rain.

18 secs into overtime.

It was really nice.

but edmonton plays that old style, tougher than anything hockey. Nice to see a real defensive team get in other than this "new" hockey "talent" game. ;)

I haven't lived there in 18 years, and the thought of that still makes me sad.

This resignation knocking the Kennedy story off the front page. How delicious.

Weird thing is I was 12 when Watergate 1.0 happened and it really got me interested in politics

Now I have a blog, I'm politically active, and my kids (17 and 15) are going to see why that word will just not leave our political lexicon

I swear, if they ever try to tear down that building I'll sign any petition to save it

The Watergate

The building that just keeps on giving and giving:)

to never ever go near that place for ANYTHING !!


:evilgrin:

The Beeb is giving the story quite a bit of coverage!

Enough is enough.

Welcome home my friend.

I'm hyperventilating.

I'm so glad that you've returned to DU. I agree with your analysis in the final paragraph. Goss was indeed in a very tempting position to accept bribes, being the chair of the intelligence committee. Something else is going on, and my bet is Cunningham.

Was he at all connected with Plamegate?

I thought that B* didn't fire him; why is everyone stating that as fact now? Is it mere conjecture? If he knew that he was going to be implicated in the Cunningham debacle, or in neuveaux Watergate, wouldn't he have resigned rather than B* firing him?

BUSH is the target. Victor.Ashe.Former.Mayor.of.Nashvile.TN

I'd love to hear from the "entertainment." How much, Specifics about what happened.

Dare I say we need some Bimbo Eruptions. Big Time. Heh, heh... heh heh huh huh heh huh huh ha HAW HAW!

Just a hunch.

In the name of justice, after all. Now if only someone can provide me with a hotel suite, an unlimited amount of drugs and alcohol, a personal limousine, a case of Trojans, and a whole lotta cash, the mission to find the exact right hooker should not take any longer than a few months at most.

:)

From the London Telegraph, May 6, 2006:







On edit: TIME: Disgraced Congressman 'Wore a Wire', January 6, 2006

Oh, Snap! Yeah, now that you mention it, I did read that somewhere the other day. Yee-kaa!!!

Its hard to keep-up with all the scandals. Shew.

:hi:

the military shut BushCo and the neocons down....

It is subtle...but effective and will preserve our "democracy" without uneeded public unrest. (which was coming)

Cheney was a loose cannon. Bush an incompetent boob. No military mind that has dedicated thier life to serve this country and constitution was going to let a puke like Bush ruin this nation.

We are a nation of the people protected by a very strong and principled military. Thoguh it may of appeared to not of been...it took some changes at the top of the military command. Like I said the right threats...the right prmises were made and we have a bloodless coup in the guise of a sex scandal.

think about it.....

if they appoint Gen. Hayden, Negroponte's aide, to the position. I'd be very afraid considering ex-felon, Negroponte apparently loves death squads!!!! It could be more like out of the frying pan and into the fire!!!!

Something tells me this is one trick that will work against them.

I refused to comment on the threads of you leaving. Good to see you and yes it was an...ahem...breath...interesting day.

I have spent most of the day trying to articulate (just in my own brain!) the way these events have unfolded today. There MUST be more hitting the fan then we know about for the scenario that has occured. Wouldn't you be curious to know what the dukester is sharing?! Hope your break was spiritually, mentally and emotionionally cleansing. I'm glad you are back, don't scare me like that again, I look forward to your posts. :woohoo:

Yeah. Deep, calming breaths, everyone. Try not to hyperventilate, althought it is tempting!

Now, we'll see if the MSM pays as much attention to a scandal involving sex for bribes as it did to a president getting a blowjob for nothing but his own personal satisfaction.

Stay tuned.

And by the way, big welcome back, Will.

I like that hotel.

Rove, Norquist, Cheney?

Any one of them could cause meltdown.
Now, imagine there are pictures of el presidente
en flagrante.

Goss goes down to stop the story. See, end of story. Except it won't be. A toxic fog is going to roll in, and roll on a lot of folks who felt almost secure a few short weeks ago. Maybe Goss does not want to go down alone-- maybe the list of potential presidential pardons is getting too long for believability. Maybe Foggo will turn out to be a tenor. They didn't even try to save Goss. That means something big and unacceptable is bubbling to the surface.

Wilcommen im bunker. Josh and Snowjob talking furiously sotto vocce in back corridors, to Rove who doubtless has both of them bugged like Kissinger anyway. Also like Henry, Rove believes he will walk out of this into private consultancy. Would Condi try to move Dubya toward as much reality as he can swallow, knowing that he is about to do something in Iran that is truly irreparable? Donald is completely delusional, so much so that if this were another country, he'd have been fragged by now -- he might just spill the beans when axed.

The saner, smarter guys in the bunker are hoarding the cyanide capsules and are looking for orange jumpsuits to escape in. One has even asked Cheney to shoot him in the face. Ah Cheney, the capo di tutti cappi. The president of the sovereign, no-bid state of Halliburton.

In short, these folks are so high on speed, graft, danger, and Straussian cultic ecstasy that any one of them getting within 5 yards of the football should be stopped for the good of mankind.

That's his trademark.

As Goss takes a big embarrassing hit, a la Cunningham, Rove will respond by replacing him with a "take no prisoners" tyrant to keep control of the growing rumblings among the masses, doing whatever it takes not to lose power and the prize.

It's going to be an "interesting" summer.

Glad you're back.

"Yeah. Break's over."

We've all been there, haven't we? Welcome back!

I didn't even think Republicans HAD genitals.

And they play poker?

news dump would bring you back will, but this could be huge!!!!

and how long did you last away from this place this time? ;)

I manage to stay away myself.

*stands up*

Hi, my name is Barbara and I'm a DU-holic. :) Welcome, Will...have some coffee and a donut. *snort*

Do you feel better?

Six days, but who's counting? Glad to have you back. I know that when you're away from here, you're still doing important, great stuff, but when you're gone, it feels like an important family member has gone AWOL. I know it's weird, and even unsupportable probably, but this place feels like family, the kind that's large, dysfunctional and amazingly wonderful.

Welcome back!

they don't even have real cream. Sheesh.

welcome back, Will.

are dropping faster than shit through a goose. Be careful of what you say and do. Didn't the bald warthog Ari say something like that? This takes Fitzgerald off the radar. Who will be the first to take the Hermann Goering exit?
Our President is a nut.
Rubber Stamp Republicans: Without them Bush's failed policies would still be a hair-brained agenda.
Thank Zeus I'm a Democrat:grr: