(2007-03-30) — During seven hours of questioning before a senate panel yesterday D. Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, nearly suggested that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove almost did something that could, under the right series of circumstances, be perceived by marginally-informed outsiders as unethical.
The hearing seeks to determine whether the Bush administration fired eight political appointees for political reasons, and whether anyone in the administration talked to anyone else about the dismissals beforehand.
Mr. Sampson dropped the bombshell at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing under close scrutiny by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, who said that if further hearings can demonstrate involvement by President George Bush in Mr. Rove’s virtual misdeeds, the House of Representatives should immediately draw up articles of impeachment.
“In fact,” Mr. Schumer said, “if we can prove that Bush had a close association with Rove during the time when an infraction of this magnitude just about happened, that would provide more than enough evidence to impeach.”
“A president’s integrity must be beyond question,” said Sen. Schumer, “but as you heard here today, the senate has a lot of questions. That, in itself, is direct evidence that impeachment may be the only option.”
The senior senator from New York said the White House might be able to quell public unrest over the problems at the Justice Department by firing Mr. Gonzales and his entire leadership team, as well as Mr. Rove, Vice President Dick Cheney and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
“That won’t stop impeachment hearings,” Sen. Schumer said, “but it may help soften the questions the president will face when he’s on trial before the senate.”
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1 Scott Ott // Mar 30, 2007 at 6:02 am
Sampson Nearly Suggests Rove Almost Did Something…
by Scott Ott(2007-03-30) — During seven hours of questioning before a senate panel yesterday D. Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, nearly suggested that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove almost……
2 gafisher // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:05 am
Stentor Schemer is a lifelong supporter of the concept of Neolib(*) “fairness” in which one’s opponents are expected to fire (at least) one good employee for each bad employee who is released.
(*) Neolibs replace classical lassaiz faire liberalism with restrictive policies euphemistically defined as “social liberalism.”
3 camojack // Mar 30, 2007 at 7:41 am
“A president’s integrity must be beyond question,” said Sen. Schumer…”
HA!!! I realize this is satire, but there’ve been way too many Presidents with questionable integrity…long before our current POTUS was ever inaugurated.
4 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 8:02 am
A president’s integrity must be beyond question,” said Sen. Schumer…
That’s kind of difficult, Mr. Schumer, when you Donks impugn his integrity whether justified or not. Does the word “demonize” mean anything to you people? HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
5 Fred Sinclair // Mar 30, 2007 at 8:20 am
“A president’s integrity must be beyond question,” said Senator Charles Schumer.
A question, Sen. Schumer, is that “beyond question” as in ex-President William Jefferson Clinton, or perhaps as in presidential hopeful (at one time) Algore, or maybe as in presidential wannabe Mrs. Bill Clinton?
Or maybe, Sen. Schumer, integrity such as your own, wherein you stand totally committed to the defeat of The United States in our war in Iraq, with your “aid and comfort to the enemy” which you so dearly espouse?
Give us a break, Sen. Schumer, you should be hiding under your bed, begging God’s mercy, instead of daring to open your mouth with maggot infested garbage spewing forth.
Heirborn Ranger
6 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 8:25 am
Hmmmm, new tactic by the liberal lamestream media. Report Muslim on Muslim violence in Iraq on the day it happens. If no new Muslim on Muslim atrocities occur for several days keep repeating previous death toll like its new news. Then at the end of the weekly news cycle (Friday), recapitulate all the previous week’s stories to hammer home the fact innocent people are dying in Muslim sectarian fighting. Include a paragraph which subtly reminds the reader/listener America’s presence is making Muslim fanatics murder one another as they dispute how many virgins one gets when they die a martyr. Yep, fair and balanced.
If it bleeds it leads.
7 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 8:32 am
Fred, Fred, Fred. Didn’t you get the talking points? “Clinton lied but nobody died” … except those 76 Americans at Waco, American soldiers in Mog because they were denied armor support, and the thousands of innocent Bosnians and Serbs who died in Clinton’s Balkans War which he declared without any Joint Congressional Resolution or UN Resolution.
8 Fred Sinclair // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:19 am
Snopes can’t make up their mind on thes listing pro’s ans con’s finally listing it as neither true nor false, but “undetermined.”
nonthless still a worthy comment from a worthy man,
I LOVE IT !!!!
“In 144 years, it appears little has changed with the press: It appears we
have appointed our worst generals to command forces and our most gifted
and brilliant people to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading
newspapers that these editor geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects
from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.
Accordingly, I’m readily willing to yield my command to these obviously
superior intellects, and I’ll, in turn, do my best for the cause by
writing editorials — after the fact.”
Robert E. Lee, 1863
Heirborn Ranger
9 Anonymous // Mar 30, 2007 at 10:38 am
The daunting ailment that has plagued those in the service of the White House continued to take its toll on the President’s minions. Today, members of a congressional investigative committee continued their efforts to find the source of the ailment as it seems to be highly contagious. The most recent strains seem to be far more pervasive yet determining its origin continues to remain elusive. Senator Chuck Schumer closed his questioning by offering the hypothesis that the ailment was a virulent form of lying.
Many within the media stepped in to immediately offer the public a layman’s interpretation of the symptoms as well as analysis of the ongoing implications if a cure for the ailment could not be administered soon. The White House continued to downplay the seriousness of the ailment as it sought to allay the growing fears within the American public that the disease might soon decimate the bulk of their elected officials. A growing number of pundits continued to suggest that the President is in denial as to the severity of the ailment and what it might do to the Republican Party.
See a tongue-in-cheek visual spoofing an upcoming episode of Saturday Night Live featuring a guest appearance by “The President’s Prevaricators”…here:
www.thoughttheater.com
10 GnuCarSmell // Mar 30, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Just to make things interesting, Alberto Gonzalez should announce a criminal investigation into Schumer’s theft and publication of Michael Steele’s financial records. Steele, a black Republican, is the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and ran for Senator in 2006, which made him a target of Schumer’s smear machine.
Gonzalez should explain that the hearings currently underway have given him a renewed dedication to rooting out politically motivated crimes — especially those that exceed Schumer’s “almost” test.
11 Darthmeister // Mar 30, 2007 at 3:18 pm
From Der Spiegel:
The Germans have believed in many things in the course of their recent history. They’ve believed in colonies in Africa and in the Kaiser. They even believed in the Kaiser when he told them that there would be no more political parties, only soldiers on the front.
Not too long afterwards, they believed that Jews should be placed into ghettos and concentration camps because they were the enemies of the people. Then they believed in the autobahn and that the Third Reich would ultimately be victorious. A few years later, they believed in the Deutsche mark. They believed that the Berlin Wall would be there forever and that their pensions were safe. They believed in recycling as well as in cheap jet travel. They even believed in a German victory at the soccer World Cup.
Now they believe that the United States is a greater threat to world peace than Iran. This was the by-no-means-surprising result of a Forsa opinion poll commissioned by Stern magazine. Young Germans in particular — 57 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds, to be precise — said they considered the United States more dangerous than the religious regime in Iran.
I’m not surprised. Also, who cares what a bunch of Euroweenies, Muslim fundamentalists in their hellholes, the Chi-Coms, or failed Soviets, or machete wielding Africans think of America. Well, apparently neverthink cares.
12 antodav // Apr 2, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Now now now, don’t be too hard on Chucky Schumer, y’all…don’t forget, he’s a Democrat. He doesn’t unerstand the meaning of integrity in the first place.
Darth, thanks for that quote about the stupidity of the German people. A newly resurgent European Union with Germany at its core will be nothing less than a Fourth Reich-and probably a bigger danger to the world than China, Iran, and North Korea combined.
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