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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (27267)	4/1/2008 3:41:08 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 71588

We'll see, MK. There is always the man inside the suit...and so far, he isn't starting out well, past the first few nice sounding speeches that said nothing of content.

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (27267)	4/1/2008 1:08:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I am very unlikely to cheer for him, but I wouldn't boo him when he threw out a pitch at a baseball game. Maybe if I was at some speech of his (which is very unlikely) and he made some comment I thought was truly horrible, but I'm not much for booing anyway. And Bush wasn't making some political point by tossing the baseball. Booing him in that context is just rude.

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (27267)	4/1/2008 11:55:37 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

"I look forward to a lot of cheerleading for President Obama from this thread starting in 2009." Your optimism appears to be premature: Message 24460225 You can expect the same kind of loyalty for a democrat President from those that support President Bush 43 as people like you have demonstrated during his terms.

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (27267)	4/2/2008 11:45:05 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

Congressman Ordered to Pay in Wiretap Case Rep. Jim McDermott, left, may have to drain his campaign and defense funds to repay Rep. John A. Boehner after losing the wiretap case. (Ken Lambert - AP) By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 2, 2008; Page A04 A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) to pay nearly $1.2 million to House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), settling a legal dispute over McDermott's actions in leaking the contents of an intercepted 1996 conference call involving Boehner and other Republican leaders. Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in a ruling issued Monday evening, ordered McDermott to pay legal fees, interest and fines accrued by Boehner over the last 10 years. McDermott may pay the penalty with campaign funds and money from a defense fund he created in 2000. It will go to Boehner's campaign committee, which paid his legal bills throughout the case. Hogan had already levied a $60,000 civil fine against McDermott in 2004 for violating federal wiretapping statutes by receiving the intercepted audiotape of the conference call and releasing its contents to several members of the media. McDermott appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, which last year refused to hear the case. McDermott said he exercised his First Amendment rights to disclose the contents of the call because Boehner was discussing with other Republican leaders how to handle an ethics committee reprimand of former representative Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who was speaker at the time. Boehner was speaking on a cellphone in Florida, where his conversation was illegally recorded by a couple who heard it on a radio scanner. McDermott will be hard-pressed to pay the penalty quickly. At the end of 2007, his campaign had $612,000 in cash, according to the Federal Election Commission. The total penalty is roughly equal to the total he raised in the previous three years. McDermott's lawyers have also drained his defense fund and campaign of $573,000 through the end of 2007, according to records. From: jlallen 4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 24581