What a disgusting pic.

Didn’t I read somewhere that someone in DOJ who has a say in this is a friend of Goebbels-lite?

Turdblossom throws the dice once more…and comes up craps.

Not that I’d have first-hand knowledge but I’m fairly certain that fig leaf is waaaay too big.

I don’t think you need worry as to whether Luskin screwed the pooch on this one.

It’s pretty clear TB isn’t going to the Hill until a federal marshal has in hand a warrant for his arrest – from which point Karl will start talking about some “misunderstanding”, how he’s always been willing to go “voluntarily”, you know, some time, maybe, if they really think they need him, of course under the right circumstances, you know, if the proper arrangements get made.

I think Luskin here has made the only move open to TB at this point. He’s saying to Craig:

Look – Bush very effectively carved out a little piece of what I suggest for a POTUS is a very useful piece of immunity, something your boss over time is going to appreciate, for someone like, say, Aftergood. The Bush I and Clinton experiences may well have proved the impossibility of a first-term POTUS running the executive branch without also running for re-election, and the ‘prudence’ of Bush’s WH counsel doing all he could to create a Cone of Silence for his WH political officer. Now it’s up to you to decide whether it’s prudent to throw that away – and for what? To placate a bunch of DFHs who want to see this fat spent carcass with an apple in his mouth basting away in an oven? Fat lot of threat he proved to be to your boss. Plus your boss has already shown how he thinks noisy fat winger partisans are to be dealt with. Letting Congress go after Karl is giving Congress a weapon it’s going to use to go after you: look at what happened to Clinton – and for what!

Luskin figgers 3 things: it’s not likely Obama will resist drawing a line somewhere; it’s not at all easy to draw a line when one’s on interests are put potentially at risk; and lastly it doesn’t really matter where the Obama line gets drawn – once a line is drawn it gives Luskin something to work with.

I keep saying Luskin’s Letter: The Finger [now it’s also Rove’s “January 16th” reiteration – whatever] can’t possibly be saying anything new or definitive or at all helpful to TB in any way that would make sense in any public arena. As you Ms E Wheel yourself have posted and hosted, and the inimitable freep has captured, it can’t be executive privilege, because that strikes at the heart of politics and forces even fence-sitting Dems and MAYBE EVEN R-thoritarians into committing themselves to steps that inevitably threaten to put a former POTUS in the pokey. And as Judge Bates has shown, and you agree [I put more stock in the latter.], as a legal conception A.I. is B.S., and nothing more.

So, I like Matt Cooper, and I’m sure he’s got a source for this; but where’s the downside in Luskin going to Craig at this point? And if not at this point, then when? Okay, supposed this particular card is best played when it must be played – but Karl’s under a pressing deadline, and if I’m right on what this all means, now’s the time to play it.

Amy Goodman…old clips of Iglesias too! Great interview

“SCOTT HORTON: I think it’s quite problematic for him to involve himself in this, given that relationship, so probably other lawyers in the President’s staff should be addressing this.

But I think the threshold issue is very clear, and that is whether or not the White House is going to say, “No, you don’t even have to answer this subpoena.” We have a district court judge saying that was an absurd position. Indeed, I’d say that’s pretty much the uniform position in the legal community. It was an absurd position. So he will have to respond to the subpoena. He will have to sit in the hearings, and he’ll have to respond to questions.

That still leaves open the issue of whether or not he can invoke the privilege with respect to specific questions. And, you know, the implication of the privilege suggests—it implies very strongly, because the privilege covers his communications with the President—it suggests that Karl Rove had discussions about these matters, the US attorney firing and also the prosecution of Governor Siegelman, with President Bush directly. And if so, there’s no doubt but that these things, all these things, would have been improper, potentially even criminal.”

Don Siegelman on Democracy Now

“But what—this is more important than my case. As you well know, this effort of bringing Karl Rove before the Judiciary Committee is just a start to get at the truth, the truth of not only about who hijacked the Department of Justice and used it as a political tool to win elections, but it’s also a start to find out why we got into the war in Iraq. Was it for oil, or was it for weapons of mass destruction? Who authorized torture? Who authorized the wiretaps? Who was involved in stealing elections? But this is far more important than my case or Karl Rove. This is about restoring justice and preserving our democracy. And, you know, Dennis Kucinich is talking about a truth and reconciliation commission, but we need an accountability and a responsibility commission, as well. We need to make sure that those people who were involved in these nefarious activities are held accountable and are punished, so that these things are less likely to happen again in the future.”

DAMN RIGHT DON!

there is nothing under that fig leaf.
looks more like an aspidistra, anyhow.
but golly, what could possibly be difficult about bringing this garden-variety slug before a nice, civilized committee…one way or another?