<p>Awww, Laura - I always knew Driver was a she. You just don’t want to have to claim her as one of your clan! ;)</p>
<p>“that leaves handsome, huh?”</p>
<p>The important person in my life thinks so, but then again, I’m quite certain that she grades on a curve. ;)</p>
<p>Driver reminds me of Kate O’Beirn on the Capital Gang - more momlike than that screeching Anne Coulter. </p>
<p>And by the way, how come there’s no discussion of Rove and the CIA leak? CC is strangely silent on the subject.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone knows what to make of Plamegate, at this point. A true mystery. This guy (Tom Maguire) has pretty much owned the story since the beginning, but even he admits that the outcome is likely to be a huge surprise…including, possibly, a big fat nothing. This link posted just for fun: <a href=“http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/10/how_covert_was_.html[/url]”>http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/10/how_covert_was_.html</a></p>
<p>“I didn’t think a woman could possibly be that mean spirited and nasty.”</p>
<p>Mirrors, mirrors, (none on the wall?) who’s the …</p>
<p>Kluge, Laura,</p>
<p>I hear Edward R Morrow is back on top: What was he famous for saying?</p>
<p>um, ‘have you no…name?’ Something like that. Anyhow, I would have said “class”.</p>
<p>I just saw on TV that his staff/attorneys researched booking stations and found one in Howard County (if I’m recalling the county correctly) that has a nice new digital camera and doesn’t require profile shots or the numbers across the bottom. Didn’t want to give the Dems any campaign material.</p>
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Makes sense to me. Sounds like the kind of staff/attorney team that’s going to give Ronnie a richly-deserved pounding.</p>
<p>Driver, I’m a liberal, but I don’t take wingnuttery like the Maguire column seriously when it’s posted by guys on the left. Why would you be enamored of it just because he’s on “your side?” After his convoluted and real-world-oblivious exegesis about how a “spychaser”, upon reading Joe Wilson, a former ambassador, mentioning that he had done consulting work for the CIA, would then <strong>naturally</strong> go into a full-court-press investigation into Wilson - including, of course, checking out his <strong>wife</strong> to see is she’s a covert operative — why would anyone keep reading the rest of the pathetic wishful thinking? Helllooo - lots of people do consulting work for the CIA. I doubt even Microsoft could keep track of all of them, let alone do the gumshoe work on their wives, kids, siblings, veteranarians, etc. I read better paranoia in the Berkeley Barb back in the 60’s - and even then I didn’t take it seriously.</p>
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I didn’t say I was enamored of it–I said I was posting it “just for fun.” I’m not sure at all that Maguire is “on my side.” I just think that he has done the most relentless and obsessive job of covering Plamegate (outside of CC, that is.) Make of it what you will, none of us will actually know anything until Fitzgerald decides to sing. The essential question though–just how covert was Valerie Plame? is the central issue, and Maguire (and many others) have pointed out how questionable that issue has always been. Back to your latte.</p>
<p>The foam has faded on that latte joke. Move on.</p>
<p>and no merlot lines either. Get some new insult comic material, if that’s gonna be your shtick (and it didn’t used to be, so I gotta say I’m a little disappointed.)</p>
<p>Demanding a new judge because of Judge’s party affilation is a very dangerous precedent that could have implications that go far beyond Delay. For a Member of Congress, who makes law, this is not good for Delay, Congress, Nation, or Constitution.</p>
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Fine, no more latte. There were something like another hundred words from which to pick and choose in that post…perhaps one of you bored geniuses could attempt to respond with something other than predictable kneejerk triteness, yourselves. I can only do so much.</p>
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MoveOn.Org is more than a mere political party affiliation…a judge who contributes to such a group has demonstrated that s/he lacks judgement, whether you like what MO.O does or not. It’s not the same as giving to the DNC used to be (although these days it’s getting harder to tell the difference.)</p>
<p>Chicken Delay.</p>
<p>Wow, you parents are more mean to each other than the kids are. So unexcepting of views other than your own. Think about it…</p>
<p>driver I beg to differ, I think that anyone who did NOT contribute to MoveOn.Org lacked good judgement. MoveOn.org identified serious problems in the Bush presidency early on-- and now the rest of the country is catching up.</p>
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<a href=“http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_14_55/ai_105408299[/url]”>http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_14_55/ai_105408299</a></p>
<p>what about scalia’s hunting trip?</p>
<p>In some circles, giving to the RNC (or DNC) is deemed reactionary. In other circumstances giving money to religious organizations can be seen as subversive. </p>
<p>But who and what we give money too does not follow whether or not a judge will be fair. If this judge gave money to whatever cause does that make him biased in any case of law? If I bought GS cookies does that mean I’m against the Boys Scouts? </p>
<p>So exactly what does Delay want, a judge who gave money to the John Birch Society?</p>
<p>How about a jury of his peers, based on the existing rules that prevailed during the a time frame in question? Would he settle for that? Well he did that and I’m personally not proud that I belong to the same political party. So how about a jury of citizen peers; Apparently he thinks that Austin’s people are too democratic and will misinterpret the law therefore he believes that by going to a more conservative venue that these fine citizens will interpret the law in another way</p>
<p>In our society isn’t it true that there is presumption of innocense. If he is innocent then he should easily defeat the accusation and nothing to worry about. Why scream, find technicalities and other minutia to fault a system that benefits all of us. Delay may be a Member of Congress. but he is citizen and no better than any other citizen. </p>
<p>The more he screams, the guiltier he looks. I’d thought he had more backbone. </p>
<p>disappointed.</p>
<p>As for the latte. Apparently some of us have discovered that a fine wine is far cheaper than burnt coffee, subsidized sugar. and segretions from an oversexed cow. </p>
<p>I myself prefer the merlot grapes far better than the wine. If any of you have the fortunate occasion to sample wine grapes, then you will understand.</p>