And does Bush ever learn that you can’t trust Democrats? Apparently not because he put former Clinton HHS Secretary Donna Shalala on the committee investigating conditions at Walter Reed. What could go wrong? D’Oh!

I had lunch at The Hardrock with my sister in law. (I know this because I keep a calendar on my blackberry. Guess this high falutin’ technology hasn’t gotten to the White House yet, huh?)

honora on March 8, 2007 at 10:02 AM

Yeah honora, because everyone in the White House with a blackberry has a full time stenographer taking down the details of each of the dozens if not hundreds of conversations everyone they talk to. And to be clear, you don’t “remember”, you have a record. If Libby had a “record” of his conversations, he might not have trouble remembering a few specific and at the time insignificant brief conversations months down the line. Keep in mind that those who testified had the same memory problems (most notably, the supposedly biggest witness Russert who told conflicting accounts to the FBI and the Grand Jury). Great you’re keeping a digital paper trail on yourself, but you’re the exception not the rule. Don’t play like your record keeping invalidates the valid point you know I was making.

Everyone – What did you have for lunch last Wednesday? If you don’t rememer exactly, you’re facing 25 years in jail.

RightWinged on March 7, 2007 at 7:05 PM

I had lunch at The Hardrock with my sister in law. (I know this because I keep a calendar on my blackberry. Guess this high falutin’ technology hasn’t gotten to the White House yet, huh?)

But Scooter Libby is facing real prison time for forgetting who told him about some bozo’s wife.

Vintage Ann. A superb article.

On Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes” Tuesday night, super-lawyer David Boies said Fitzgerald never should have prosecuted Libby because there was no underlying criminal violation. Boies scoffed at Fitzgerald’s contention that Libby had obstructed him from exposing criminal activity. Boies, who represented Al Gore in the 2000 election dispute, is hardly a Bush sympathizer. But neither is he a Democratic partisan trying to milk this obscure scandal.

George W. Bush lost control of this issue when he permitted a special prosecutor to make decisions that, unlike going after a drug dealer or mafia kingpin, turned out to be inherently political. It would have taken courage for the president to have aborted this process. It would require even more courage for him to pardon Scooter Libby now, not while he is walking out of the White House in January 2009.

Jen the Neocon on March 7, 2007 at 10:28 PM

I didn’t really think it out that far. I am just sooooo sick of all the crapola, and there isn’t much I can do about Libby. I am just getting so sick of stupid conservatives. They sit around on their high horses waiting for God to reward them and change all the liberals into people with souls.

But who really cares? I don’t. Live by politicing, die by politicing.

He’ll eventually be exonerated (somehow) and he’ll do a book. It’s all good.

Democrats – $84M
Republicans – $34M

Donations received from TV/Music/Movie industry in 2006:

Democrats – $14M
Republicans – $8M

The media and the justice system is run by Democrats. Sorry Libby, the deck was stacked, better luck next time. By that I mean answer “I don’t remember” to every damn question you are asked, and never let the FBI interview you without recording the interview. Lessons for the week.

The U.S. used to have just about the fairest judicial system in the world … Jen the Neocon on March 7, 2007 at 7:33 PM

That was back when Common Sense was still legal.

I long for the good old days when Lying was OK….

Everyone I know is apparently facing multiple life sentences.

You hang out with a rough crowd.

Seriously, though, I’m not sure saying “I don’t remember” would have helped Libby at all. Fitz wanted a conviction, and he got one.

Maybe it’s time to resurrect an old Clinton-era question: how much is this investigation, with one conviction on a charge not related to the original investigation, costing us?

Glad I’m not the only one who’s feeling like this lately. I’m almost tempted to say our side should take on the role as the new “I hate America crowd”. Not because we hate the history, etc. But because we hate what it’s become. We’ve been handed one example after another for the past few years of reasons to dislike this country. I know, that’s not right for our side to say.. but we aren’t headed anywhere good right now…RightWinged on March 7, 2007 at 4:44 PM

Don’t give up. That’s what they’re hoping for. Just like the Islamists hope to beat us into submission. Our side doesn’t hate America. We are it’s only hope. We hate that liberalism has caused the retardation and ignorance of 2/3 of a generation…maybe more.

Yesterday I made the point that even with little things in my family, at least once a week someone will bring something up in conversation and say “well you told me xyz”, and the other person will say “no I didn’t, I’ve never eve heard that before, I couldn’t have” or “no I didn’t, you are the one who told me”, etc. etc. With any number of similar variations. And I think that’s rather ordinary. Hell, just today my cousin was shopping around for an affordable framing shop to fram his new Michael Jordan “Wings” poster… I remembered a couple years ago being with someone who bought one, and I was about to suggest that it was another cousin and he was like “no, that was me.. but that one got beat up because I never framed it”. Everyone I know is apparently facing multiple life sentences.

Defense (and likewise prosecution) have a limited amount of jurors that they can decline.

There were members of moveon.org, things like that, and the defense declined them.

When they got to this jerk journalist, their number of picks had run out.

And that’s how you stack a jury.

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Thanks for the tip.

I’d give you a web address for the Friar’s Bakehouse here in town, but they have no website. They don’t even allow cell phones in the restaurant.

Which is awesome.

You get my point anyway right?

Absolutely. I think what bothers me most is that suddenly, perjury is a bad thing again.

Chili and cornbread from a restaurant run by a couple of monks.

Woo hoo! No jail for me!

Of course, that’s what I eat almost every Wednesday for lunch, since it’s chili and cornbread day.

Slublog on March 7, 2007 at 7:57 PM

Haha, I suspected there are a few people who have a certain regular schedule for meals on a given day of the week… for a while I ate Peking Duck (best Chinese ever) every Friday night… Sweet and Sour Chicken and Pork Fried Rice… outside of that, even though I only eat a handful of different things, once 3 or 4 days have gone by, I generally don’t remember what I ate on exactly which day. I could guess and be pretty close probably, but a day off and stir fry gets confused with PB&J. You get my point anyway right?

Everyone – What did you have for lunch last Wednesday? If you don’t rememer exactly, you’re facing 25 years in jail.

Chili and cornbread from a restaurant run by a couple of monks.

Woo hoo! No jail for me!

Of course, that’s what I eat almost every Wednesday for lunch, since it’s chili and cornbread day.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

LIBBY JUROR: PARDON HIM
Wed Mar 07 2007 19:21:48 ET

MSNBC host Chris Matthews spoke with Libby juror Ann Redington on HARDBALL. Juror [#10] says she would support a Bush pardon for Libby.

Transcript:

Chris: You’re for a pardon out of sympathy for the defendant.

Ann: Yeah, I think in the big picture, um, it kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.

Chris: Which is the leaking of a CIA agents name.

Ann: Exactly.

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