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To: LLCF who wrote (45968)	2/7/2006 12:57:41 AM
From: regli	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 116555

"... a few posts earlier someone posted something by Arlene Spector (R) calling the program illegal. " We will see. I expect the protests including Specter's to die down and then the process of monitoring will likely continue unabated. p.s. It isn't Arlene... <g>

To: LLCF who wrote (45968)	2/7/2006 1:55:30 AM
From: NOW	Respond to of 116555

you clearly didnt listen to the hearing today...no evidence in sight that the leadership intends to make this a serious issue. indeed, the fauilure to swear the AG in says it all.

To: LLCF who wrote (45968)	2/7/2006 2:02:31 AM
From: NOW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"The GOP playbook for these hearings is becoming a bit threadbare. Once again everyone is supposed to get their hopes up because, as Digby notes, Goober Graham picks the hayseeds from between his teeth and sets himself up as "Republican with a conscience," asking a few questions that seem to indicate he's got some concerns about All Of This. He thereby positions himself as the centrist moral authority, only to use this to give the Administration a free pass in the end. It's crap. It's a schtick he runs every time they have one of these things. The second shell game they're running is the pearl-clutching woman. This time around it was Deborah Burlingame, sister of pilot of the flight that crashed into the Pentagon. Teed up by Jeff Sessions, she assures us -- dripping with righteous victimhood -- that the President must engage in willful and deliberate violations of the law in order to protect the babies from the boogeymen, as Digby likes to say. The media focus will now be taken away from Senators grilling Abu Gonzales with complex questions he flat out refuses to answer because that's a fucking Kodak moment, that one. Oh and then there is the obligatory Jeff Gannon question thrown out at the press conference, this time by one of the Power Tools who pitches an adolescent temper tantrum when Dick Durbin calls him on open shillery and belittles his "Pajamaline" credentials. "I bet Dan Rather has heard of us!!!" harumphs the Third Tool like a twelve year-old slamming his bedroom door on parents who Just Don't Take Him Seriously. These are the simple tricks that the con artists in some medicine show would repeat endlessly as they traveled from town to town selling a bunch of useless crap. We may be tired of being on the receiving end of such cheap come-ons but the sloppy drunken roundheels of the press (and our very own LLCF I may add) seem to fall for it every time."http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/