2008

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December 2008

1. 31 DecVicki Iseman: Blanket Defamation
2. 31 DecFitzgerald Makes His Move for More Time; Blago Agrees!
3. 31 DecBlagojevich’s Next Move
4. 30 DecGM, TARP and Traveling Down the Road
5. 30 DecTurnabout Would Be Fair Play: US Seeks 147 Year Torture Sentence
6. 29 DecFitzgerald: You Can’t Have Witnesses, But You Can Have 4 Conversations
7. 28 DecThe Squabble over Subpoenas in Springfield
8. 28 DecThe Gray Lady Calls for a Gas Tax
9. 28 DecTrash Talk – Getaway Week
10. 27 DecBob Corker’s “Screw the Seniors” Plan
11. 27 DecHot Rails To Hades
12. 26 DecDid McCain/Palin Obstruct Justice in the Johnston Case?
13. 25 DecBest Gifts Ever?
14. 25 DecHappy Holidays And Thanks!
15. 25 DecWe Are All Banks Now
16. 25 DecShorter Blagojevich:
17. 24 DecGeorge Bush Spent $4 Billion to Kill Chrysler–on Obama’s Watch
18. 24 DecDick’s Talking Points, Two
19. 24 DecCheney’s FBI Report
20. 23 DecBlagojevich Report Timeline
21. 23 DecThe Blagojevich Contacts: Only 5-6 Contacts with Rahm on the Senate Seat, But the Report Does Not Cover Rahm’s Seat
22. 23 DecThe Cerberus Mysteries Deepen
23. 23 DecIs Cheney Relying on Gonzales’ Retroactive Notes?
24. 23 DecFBI Whistleblower Plugs Toobz Stevens Prosecution
25. 22 DecGUILTY – The Fort Dix Five Convicted
26. 22 DecJesse Jackson Jr’s Fundraiser Wants Immunity
27. 22 DecDoes Bob Nardelli Work for Cerberus or Chrysler?
28. 22 DecThe No-Fail Business Model Fails
29. 21 DecCerberus Still Seeking to Privatize Profit, Pass on Risk?
30. 20 Dec“And while you’re indicting Alberto Gonzales for lying to Congress…”
31. 20 DecTrash Talk – Prime Time Edition
32. 19 DecRahm and “that 5th CD Thing”
33. 19 DecRepublican Bad Faith Negotiation, Again
34. 19 DecBlagojevich Presser Live-Blog
35. 19 DecDon’t Be So Fast to Refer to Palin’s “Son-in-Law”
36. 19 DecPresident Bush: Employees of American Companies Must Get Paid Less than Employees of Foreign Companies!
37. 19 DecLiveblog of the Dan Quayle Bailout
38. 19 DecRick Warren and Invoking Teh Inauguration
39. 18 DecBaseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet
40. 18 DecBill Ford v. Larry King: Village Idiocy about the Auto Industry
41. 17 DecChrysler Closes ALL Its Plants
42. 17 DecThe Holder Delay, the OLC Delay, the SJC Delay
43. 17 DecCriminalizing Politics? Or Reading a Complaint?
44. 17 DecGold Bars Luskin: Turdblossom Is Wearing Nothing But a Fig Leaf
45. 16 DecJesse Jackson Jr’s Cooperation with Fitz
46. 16 DecRahm’s 21 Conversations with Blagojevich and Friends?
47. 16 DecMore Narcissistic “Auto” “Reporting” from David Sanger
48. 16 DecWaPo: Labor, Transportation Not “Major” Issues
49. 16 DecKilling GM in the Guise of Saving It
50. 15 DecShelby’s Claims To Be Anti-Bailout Always DID Smell Rather Fishy
51. 15 DecFitz to Obama: Twas a Week before Fitzmas
52. 15 DecIL Starts Blagojevich Impeachment Proceedings
53. 15 DecThe Thomas Tamm Legal Defense Fund
54. 15 DecBob Corker’s Chumps in the Senate
55. 14 DecThomas Tamm to Vaughn Walker: They Knew It Was Illegal
56. 14 DecIs Rahm Still Running for Speaker of the House?
57. 14 DecWhy Wasn’t the Guy Whose Daddy Wanted to “Cut His Nuts Off” Acceptable to Obama?
58. 14 DecTrash Talk – The Axe Starts To Fall Edition
59. 14 DecBREAKING: Rove To Lead The Good Fight Against Holder
60. 13 DecAfter Tennessee and Alabama Refuse, Canada Agrees to Help US Automakers
61. 13 DecDelaying the Return of the Rule of Law
62. 13 DecOkay, Okay, Invade Michigan. But You Can’t Have the Coaches Back.
63. 12 DecRahm Spoke to His Bleeping Bleep Twin
64. 12 DecShorter Governor Granholm
65. 12 DecSHUTDOWN!!!
66. 12 DecIt’s Your Local Car Dealer’s Fault that a Congressional Auto Bill Failed
67. 12 DecMI’s Gov and Lt Gov on Congress’ Failure to Support a Loan
68. 12 DecThe Reason Behind the Jacksons’ Narrow Denials?
69. 12 DecFools On Hill Put Bullet In The Heartbeat Of America; World Markets Tank
70. 12 DecRepublicans Ask Workers to Give, but Not Small Businessmen or Bond-Holders
71. 12 DecNo Auto Bridge Loan
72. 11 DecWho Killed the Combustion Car?
73. 11 DecJesse Jackson Jr’s Dad Gets a Lawyer, Too
74. 11 DecWithdrawing Jarrett’s Candidacy as an F-U to Blagojevich
75. 11 DecJesse Jackson Jr. Met Blagojevich in the Latter’s Office: Were They Taped?
76. 11 DecThe First Jesse Jackson Jr-Related Blagojevich Contact Was Before October 31
77. 11 DecBlagojevich’s SEIU Contact NOT Andy Stern
78. 10 DecWeeds, For Mark Ambinder
79. 10 DecJesse Jackson Jr. Press Conference
80. 10 DecNext Blagojevich Shoe to Drop: the Deputy Governor
81. 10 DecWill Having the Name “Jesse Jackson” Associated with Blagojevich…
82. 10 DecWhat Fitzgerald Is Hiding in His Blagojevich Complaint
83. 10 DecThe Wrestling Match over the Auto Bailout
84. 9 DecAxelrod: Obama Wouldn’t Even TALK to that Corrupt Guy
85. 9 DecRahm Almost Certainly Didn’t Bust Blagojevich
86. 9 DecStatement from SEIU Suggests Fitz Talked with SEIU
87. 9 DecDid Tribune Employees Tip Zell about the Wiretaps?
88. 9 DecPress Conference of Fitz Blago Liveblog
89. 9 DecHysteria over a $15 Billion Loan, But Not $285 Billion in Takeovers?
90. 8 DecThe (Draft) Auto Bridge Loan Plan
91. 8 DecDrowning Duck Begs for Life Preserver
92. 8 DecImagine
93. 7 DecDan Quayle and Cerberus Holding American Economy Hostage
94. 7 DecShinseki: No Trial Balloons
95. 7 DecThree Auto State Senators “Said in a Statement”
96. 7 DecTrash Talk II – Waiting For The Sunday Games
97. 6 DecTrash Talk – Recession/Depression Era Edition
98. 6 DecThe Giant Pissing Contest over the Auto Bridge
99. 5 DecBreaking News! MI Legislators’ Constituents Donate to Those Legislators!
100. 5 DecAuto Hearings, House Version
101. 5 DecThe New Poll Porn: Automotive Sales Aren’t What You Think They Are
102. 4 DecIt’s Not Alberto Gonzales’ Fault that Rachel Paulose Is an Authoritarian Nut, Really
103. 4 DecDid Bob Corker Just Cause GM to Lose 10% of Its Value on Inaccurate Information?
104. 4 DecHold Lifted on Barofsky Nomination
105. 4 DecSenate Auto Hearing: “Russian Roulette with the Economy”
106. 4 DecSupplier Shock: Explained in Simple Terms for Matt Yglesias
107. 4 DecWould George Bush Consider a PatFitzPack of Pardons?
108. 3 DecGM Financed 50% of Car Purchases Last Year; Can Only Finance 6% Now
109. 3 DecGM’s Beg: The Waiting Is Making It Worse
110. 3 DecShorter Terwilliger: Don’t Extend the Investigation Past January 20
111. 3 DecChrysler: DIPs versus Begs
112. 3 DecFredo’s Fredo and Ford
113. 3 DecFord to Richard Shelby: Suck. On. This.
114. 3 DecThe Begs: Ford’s Political Requests
115. 2 DecRobert Ficano to Richard Shelby: Suck. On. This.
116. 2 DecGood Question
117. 1 DecTwo and a Half Paths Diverged in the Woods
118. 1 DecSoft Power
119. 1 DecAcorns
120. 1 DecRIP Tanta

November 2008

1. 30 NovTrash Talk: Wherein the Champs Shoot Themselves in The Foot Thigh
2. 30 NovFold The Holder Nomination
3. 29 NovThe Big 2.5 on Main Street
4. 29 NovJames Jones versus Hillary in the Middle East
5. 29 NovGirlz Out Loud
6. 28 NovStill in Turkey Coma Open Thread
7. 27 NovObama’s Success: Must Have Been The Shoes Before Him
8. 27 NovPisco Sours: As Easy as Falling Off a Bike the Wagon
9. 27 NovTrash Talk – Thanksgiving Stuff Yer Face Edition
10. 26 NovIn Defense of Turkey
11. 26 NovObama and the Guvs
12. 26 NovThe Hatfill Search
13. 26 NovGM the “Failed Business Model” Pays Its Retiree Pensions; Exxon Doesn’t
14. 25 NovSCOTUS A Go Go
15. 25 NovPragmatism v. Ideology: International Relations
16. 25 NovUncle Toobz? Are You Obstructing Oversight of TARP?
17. 24 NovAbout that Hillary as Secretary of State Thing
18. 24 NovBreaking the Consumption Addiction
19. 24 NovSaving Citi But Not GM
20. 23 NovRichard Shelby Wants To Place US Government In Bankruptcy And Eliminate Military Pensions And Benefits
21. 22 NovForty Five Years
22. 22 NovTrash Talk – Clash Of The Titans Edition
23. 22 NovHomework Assignment for the Big Two and a Half: Solve Retirement and Health Care
24. 21 NovA Gas Tax Instead of CAFE
25. 21 NovPrepackaged Bankruptcy: Be Careful of What You Wish For
26. 21 NovWell, This Should Make the President-Elect More Anxious to Overturn Domestic Spying
27. 21 NovThe Difference between GM and Toyota: The Health Care
28. 21 NovEyes On The Spies: What Obama Can Do About Illegal Surveillance
29. 20 NovThe Boogeyman versus the New Bretton Woods
30. 20 NovKucinich or Cummings for Oversight
31. 20 NovBoumediene Wins Again!
32. 20 NovNapolitano To DHS; Skeletor To Be Buried
33. 19 NovPlaying Chess with the Chinese
34. 19 NovShorter Mitt: Let the Auto Retirees Starve!!!
35. 19 NovObama’s Long Arm/Short Arm Stiff Of The Netroots
36. 18 NovLive Blog of Auto Hearings: Senate Banking Committee
37. 18 NovPowerline Blog Leads SJC’s Republicans Trolling through Parks, Public-Assistance Agencies, and Liquor Stores
38. 18 NovMitch McConnell’s Undisclosed Location
39. 18 NovThe Auto Bridge Plan
40. 17 NovWe Get to See the Hatfill Warrant
41. 17 NovThe Auto Bailout: Who Is In Favor of What
42. 17 NovT. Boone or not T. Boone
43. 17 NovProposed Funds to the Auto Industry
44. 16 NovWe Are All Flint, MI Now
45. 16 NovGreg Craig as White House Counsel
46. 16 NovNo Girlz Aloud
47. 15 NovWhat the AP Left Out about the UAW
48. 15 Nov“I Told You So”
49. 15 NovTrash Talk – Post Throwdown Action
50. 15 NovClinton to State? Is Mid-East Peace Back On The Table?
51. 14 NovReid to McConnell: Don’t Be a Scrooge! Pass Auto Stimulus
52. 14 NovPutin Logic
53. 14 NovHow’s that Bankruptcy Bill Working Out for You, Chase?
54. 14 NovNo Wonder the Siegelman Prosecutor Didn’t Want an Investigation of the Juror Emails
55. 13 NovJoe and Dick: Looks Like Everything Went Swimmingly
56. 13 NovSpeaking of that Man-Sized Safe…
57. 13 NovTrash Talk – Thursday Throw Down Special Edition
58. 13 NovThe Ideological Battle Over the Auto Overhaul Heats Up
59. 13 NovHelen Wants Her Money Back
60. 13 NovBush to Declare “Economic Mission Accomplished” to G20
61. 12 NovGeorge Bush’s 69 for Scooter Libby
62. 12 NovDick Invites Joe to See the Man-Sized Safe and Industrial Shredding Machine
63. 12 NovAnother Appeal for a White House Garden
64. 12 NovBlack Man Wins Back Reagan Democrats
65. 11 NovPalin Suggests She Doesn’t Want Uncle Toobz’ Seat
66. 11 NovA New Obama-Rahm Leak Policy?
67. 10 NovSurprise Surprise: “Laptop of Death” a Possible Forgery
68. 10 NovUpdate on the Underwear Audit
69. 10 NovThe New Landscape in Alaska for the Wasilla Wonder
70. 10 NovPelosi and Reid Back an Auto Bailout
71. 10 NovKids Grow Up Fast These Days; 8 Yr. Old Boy Charged As Adult With Murder
72. 9 NovSteve Schmidt Doesn’t Blame Palin
73. 8 NovTrash Talk – Raider Nation Edition
74. 7 NovThe Dying Auto Industry: Should We Save It?
75. 7 NovMore on Joementum
76. 7 NovSanctimonious Joe in the Crossfire
77. 6 NovRNC to Audit Palin’s Panty Drawer
78. 6 NovPalin’s Concession Speech
79. 6 NovThe Waxman Challenge to Dingell
80. 6 NovChalabi’s Lobbyist Was Sarah Palin’s Spy
81. 6 NovWhy Janet Napolitano Is Right For Attorney General
82. 5 NovPalin and the Presidential
83. 5 NovSpeaking as the Owner of a Perfect Storm Cap
84. 5 NovSchadenfreude 2006, the Sequel
85. 5 NovSchadenfreude Four
86. 5 NovSchadenfreude Three
87. 5 NovSchadenfreude One and Schadenfreude Two
88. 4 NovThey Got Out Their First Time Voters
89. 4 NovObama’s Closing Argument
90. 4 NovThe Lay Of The Land
91. 4 NovObama’s Acceptance Speech
92. 4 NovWassup 2008
93. 4 NovObama’s “A More Perfect Union”
94. 4 NovYes We Can
95. 4 NovObama Announces His Presidential Bid
96. 4 NovAin’t No Line Too Damn Long
97. 4 NovObama’s 2004 DNC Keynote
98. 4 NovIf You’ll Be My Dixville Chicken, I’ll Be Your Tennessee Lamb!
99. 4 NovGovernor-Appointed Panel Clears Governor of Wrong-Doing
100. 3 NovThe Real Contest Tomorrow: Bradley v. Cell Phone v. Ground
101. 3 NovMcCain Was The Most Reprehensible Of The Keating Five And He Hasn’t Changed
102. 3 NovNegative Advertising … Epic Fail
103. 2 NovGetting Out the Democratic Vote–at the Birthplace of the Republican Party
104. 2 NovRonald Reagan Endorses Obama, McCain Still Fraudulently Glomming Off Of Goldwater
105. 1 NovGOTV: It Makes a Difference
106. 1 NovMcCain’s Nostalgia for Victory and Relevance Tour
107. 1 NovTrash Talk – Election Weekend Special Edition
108. 1 NovStuds Terkel, RIP
109. 1 NovLet’s Do The Time Warp Again!

October 2008

1. 31 OctWho Knew Ken Duberstein Was Black?
2. 31 OctGet Them Elected!
3. 31 OctIt Must Be Something in the (Melting) Icebergs
4. 31 OctObama Campaign’s Take: We’re Doing What We Need To
5. 31 OctAdvertisements Can’t Hold Hands
6. 31 OctRahm-ors
7. 30 OctIt’s Called Justice
8. 30 OctMcCain’s Foxy Insta-Republicans
9. 30 OctClinton-Gore ’08
10. 30 OctDon’t You Hate When Your Plumber Is a No-Show on Your Appointment?
11. 30 OctFukuyama Endorses Obama; Slams McPrickly, Dick & Bush
12. 30 OctDefeat Mormon Hate: Defeat Prop 8
13. 29 OctThe Palin Industry
14. 29 OctSenate Tea Leaves
15. 29 OctMcCain, Don’t You Think A Surge Might Have Been Better BEFORE People Voted?
16. 28 OctDid I Mention Bush Is Preparing His Pardon Pen?
17. 28 OctBREAKING NEWS: Arizona Officially Within Two Points!
18. 28 OctMcCain Only Wants to Sit with the Cool Kids on the Bus
19. 28 OctYes, County Clerks Do Make House Campus Calls
20. 28 OctWill McCain Declare His Gambling Winnings or Follow Stevens Down the Toobz?
21. 28 OctWhy Barack Obama Needs To Come To Arizona
22. 27 OctSarah Sends Uncle Toobz to His Room without Any Dinner
23. 27 OctDown Goes Toobz! Down Goes Toobz!
24. 27 OctGOP Civil War: WardrobeGate Edition
25. 27 OctBush Prepares His Pardon Pen
26. 27 OctFBI: Yes We Still Have Our Anthrax Shiny Object
27. 26 OctEW’s Trash Talk – JoePa Is Washed Up; Long Live JoePa!
28. 26 OctArizona 407
29. 26 OctBREAKING!!! Hillary to Deliver Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
30. 25 OctPalin Family Values: No Relationship of Trust with Her Family?!?!?
31. 25 OctThey Don’t Make Ratfuckers Like They Used To
32. 25 OctWhen “Mavericks” Clash
33. 25 OctCompare and Contrast: Two Allegations of Campaign Violence
34. 24 OctErratic McCain Chicanery On “Victory” Party
35. 24 OctEverybody’s Nailin Palin: LA Times Exposes Cronyism
36. 24 OctNo One Could Have Imagined an IG Report on Warrantless Wiretapping Would Suck
37. 23 OctThe Goldwaters Endorse Obama
38. 23 OctAnother Defeat for Voter Suppression
39. 23 OctObama on Pollan
40. 23 OctDid McCain KNOW the RNC Bought Palin the Shopping Spree?
41. 22 OctDraper’s Silent Narrative of Resentment
42. 22 OctSaks Fifth Socialism
43. 22 OctShaddegg Sends Jethro Bodine To Spy On Dems
44. 21 OctThe Palins Meet Mrs. McCain
45. 21 OctPalin v. the Polar Bears
46. 21 OctPrison Is the Bank?
47. 21 OctLet the Governance Begin
48. 21 OctThe Rule Of Law: Excising The Local NeoCon Rot
49. 21 OctOH Secretary of State’s Website Hacked
50. 21 OctFox News Prepares to Go into Opposition by Hiring Judy Judy Judy
51. 20 OctConyers Notices the Similarities to US Attorney Purge, Too
52. 20 OctGreene County, OH Young Republican Lays Out Plan to Commit Vote Fraud
53. 20 OctMI Republicans Admit to Illegal Foreclosure Scheme, “Surrender” to Democrats
54. 20 OctA Second Ohio Prosecutor Threatens to Criminalize Voting
55. 19 OctThe Powell Endorsement
56. 18 OctTrash Talk – All You Kneed To Know About Tom
57. 18 OctColin Powell to Denounce the Lynch Mobs
58. 18 OctObama’s Firewall: Commie, Unpatriotic, “Fake” Virginia
59. 18 OctMcCain Campaign Whines that NYT Paid Heed to Their Letter
60. 18 OctBig Time Newspaper Endorsements
61. 18 OctAnother 16 Words: Boumediene Bites Bush Again
62. 17 OctObama Counsel to Mukasey: Sic Your Special Prosecutor on the Republicans
63. 17 OctHow about DC’s Suburbs?
64. 17 OctSugar Momma? Did You Buy John a Lead on Intrade?
65. 17 OctSCOTUS Sides with Secretary of State Brunner
66. 17 OctWhat about McCain’s Terrorist Sympathizer Pals?
67. 17 OctTwo Years to Indict Tan Nguyen
68. 16 OctThe Secret Service Eliminates Violent Racism!!!
69. 16 OctThe Iseman Cometh
70. 16 OctMcCain to Embrace ANOTHER Unqualified Nut Tied to Scandal
71. 16 OctDNC Targets Legislative Races
72. 15 OctThe Illegal Wiretappers in John McCain’s Backyard
73. 15 OctDebate Prediction: Schieffer Raises Ayers
74. 15 OctTodd Wormtongue
75. 15 OctPutin Invades Alaska
76. 15 OctWho Signed the Explicit Authorization to Torture?
77. 14 OctMcCain’s One Consistent Stance: Admitting the Danger of Erratic Behavior
78. 14 OctTom Davis Supports Waxman’s Demand for Cheney’s Interview Materials
79. 14 OctMcCain’s Impotence, Lynch Mob Edition
80. 14 OctMore to Come in Alaska
81. 13 OctYes
82. 13 OctJohn McCain The Narcissistic Carpetbagger
83. 13 OctBetter Targeting?!?!?
84. 13 OctDid McCain Reverse Course on His New Economic Plan to Wait for Obama’s New Plan?
85. 13 OctOkay, It Was 55% of the Campaigners
86. 12 OctFrom Pollan to the President
87. 12 OctPalin 2012
88. 11 OctDeceit In The Desert: Arizona GOP Stoops To New Low
89. 11 OctTrash Talk – Sooners & (Free)Patriots Edition
90. 11 OctWhat Does TrooperGate Mean for November 4?
91. 11 OctSarah Palin Unlawfully Abused Her Power
92. 10 OctTrooperGate Tidbits, While We Wait
93. 10 OctBipartisan Concern about the Dangers of McPalin’s Hate-Mongering
94. 10 OctMcCain Sez: the Guy with the Erratic Behavior Is a Menace
95. 10 OctEither Todd Palin or Walt Monegan Didn’t Tell the Truth
96. 9 OctJohn McCain’s Secrets
97. 9 OctAn New Kind of Intimidation
98. 9 OctTrooperGate Tomorrow
99. 9 OctMeet the Bloggers: Pitchforks and Congressional Hearings
100. 9 OctMake Them Own Any Post-Election Violence
101. 9 OctTodd’s 52-Page Affidavit
102. 8 OctVote-Caging by Division of Labor
103. 8 OctTreasury Dept. Books AIG’s Flight To Carnival!
104. 8 OctMcCain’s Housing Surge
105. 7 OctBrand New McCain
106. 7 OctIs Our Children Reading?
107. 7 OctThe Problem Isn’t So Much that She’s a Tax Cheat…
108. 6 OctMiers And Bolten Can Kicked Down The Road
109. 6 OctMcCain’s Lawyer Shell Game
110. 6 OctAnd If His Contrition about Keating Is Fake, then So Is His Sincerity about Reform
111. 6 OctDebate Prep
112. 6 OctNew Proof On Longtime McCain Lie About Threatening Official
113. 6 OctStampede to Come Clean in Alaska
114. 5 OctTrash Talk – Mrs. O’Leary’s Bovine Edition
115. 4 OctFourth Branch Sarah
116. 3 OctMich-Again
117. 3 OctMichi-Gone (But Not Forgotten)
118. 3 OctGlenn Fine Visits HJC
119. 3 OctThe Wink
120. 3 OctCourt Greenlights Troopergate Investigation; Slaps Down McCain Campaign
121. 2 OctVP Debate: Shredding the Constitution v. Duck [sic] Hunting
122. 2 OctMichi-Gone
123. 2 OctProsecution Tanks In Toobz Stevens Trial
124. 2 OctLBJ Strikes Again
125. 1 OctThe Governor of Alaska Approves of Exxon v. Baker
126. 1 OctVetting
127. 1 OctDavid Addington?
128. 1 OctThe Gaffe Governor and the Ground Game
129. 1 OctThe YouTube Nielsens
130. 1 Oct60 Days
131. 1 OctI Guess You Shouldn’t Have Fired Bitney, Huh?
132. 1 OctCIA & Foggo: It’s Hard On Spy Pimps Out There

September 2008

1. 30 SepPalin: No, I Can’t Name a Newspaper I Read
2. 30 SepDid They REALLY Want to Make Age Jokes Fair Game?
3. 30 SepHas Todd Noticed that McCain’s Still Leering at Sarah?
4. 30 SepAre There ANY Adults Left in the Republican Party?
5. 29 SepBarney Promises to Be Really Nice to the Poor Little Republicans
6. 29 SepThe Bush Economy
7. 29 SepTweety Blames McCain
8. 29 SepMcCain Says He’s Responsible
9. 29 SepBailout Fails: Where Do We Go From Here?
10. 29 SepMcCain Campaign So Concerned about Palin, They’ve Forgotten about Joe
11. 29 SepFoggo Gets a Plea Deal
12. 29 SepThe IG Report–Working Thread
13. 29 SepThe Klan Was in the Audience
14. 29 SepMcPalin Campaign on TrooperGate: Shut Up! Shut Up! Shut Up! Shut Up!
15. 28 SepThe USA Purge: DOJ’s IG Punts
16. 28 SepTrash Talk, Failed Pundit Edition
17. 28 SepPlaying Pakistan
18. 27 SepRationalizing the Hospital Visit
19. 27 SepThe Debate
20. 27 SepEmptywheel’s Trash Talk – Debate With The Dishonorable Geezer Edition
21. 26 SepGonzo Sings! Justice In The Department At Last?
22. 26 SepThe March 10, 2004 Hospital Confrontation, A Timeline
23. 26 SepTime to Revisit McCain’s Love of Craps
24. 26 SepI Guess Keeping Haley Barbour Happy…
25. 25 SepMcCain Out-Hoovers Hoover
26. 25 SepWhy the Bankruptcy Change is Important
27. 25 SepCharlie Keating Helps Sarah Palin With Couric’s Tough Questions
28. 25 SepBush’s Speech Fails with Most Important Audience
29. 24 SepDid McCain Blow Off Letterman to Pre-Empt Sarah and Katie?
30. 24 SepBush Failure > Obama Leadership > McCain Stunt
31. 24 SepBreaking!
32. 24 SepOperation “The Surge Is a Success–Bury the Afghanistan NIE”
33. 24 SepWe’re Asking the Wrong Guys Trying to Solve the Economic Crisis
34. 24 SepConyers Cranky Over Oil Fraud; Drills DOJ With Letter
35. 23 SepBush Mouthpiece Admits: They’ve Been Sitting on this Plan
36. 23 SepWho Told the TrooperGate Witnesses to Ignore the Subpoenas?
37. 23 SepWell, I Guess We Knew There’d Be Demands…
38. 22 SepSarah Palin: Gibberish We Can Believe In?
39. 22 SepOh, THAT Kind of Financial Incentive
40. 22 SepDid John McCain Almost Bankrupt Arizona With His Electric Cars?
41. 21 SepTrash Talk: 0-3 Week
42. 20 SepNo
43. 20 SepObama’s Getting Into McCain’s Contemptuous Head
44. 20 SepTwo Tidbits on TrooperGate
45. 19 Sep“The Exponential Growth” of Show Trials
46. 19 SepNo, McCain, You ALREADY Fired the FEC Chair
47. 19 SepThe Picture McCain Doesn’t Want You to See
48. 19 SepThe First Dude Refuses to Testify
49. 18 SepThe Sarah Palin Show Cancels Its West Coast Tour
50. 18 SepMcCain’s Still Fighting the Mexican Revolution
51. 18 SepWhat You and I Bought Sarah Palin
52. 18 SepTrooperGate: Count the Conflicts of Interest
53. 17 SepMore on the TrooperGate Cover-Up
54. 17 SepFBI Still Using Shiny Objects to Distract from Their Flimsy Anthrax Case
55. 17 SepRobert Mueller Visits Senate Judiciary Committee
56. 17 SepMcCain Campaign Ad: Wanted, Economic Surrogate
57. 16 SepMichigan Dems and the Obama Campaign Sue for Foreclosure-Related Vote-Caging
58. 16 SepSarah Palin’s Evolving Excuses for Firing Walt Monegan
59. 16 SepRobert Mueller Visits House Judiciary Committee
60. 16 SepA Republican from Wasilla
61. 15 SepWill the McPalin Campaign Ask Carly Fiorina to Give Her $42 Million Back?
62. 15 SepJohn McCain Still Living The Keating Five Lush Highlife
63. 15 SepThe Fundamentals of the Economy Are Strong?!?!? A New Twist McCain and “Psychology”
64. 15 SepJohn McCain and Sarah Palin Wallowing in Oil
65. 14 SepBruce Ivins Rips the FBI’s Anthrax Case to Shreds in His Will
66. 13 SepWhat Did the TrooperGate Investigator Mean When He Said “Financial Incentive”?
67. 13 SepWhen McCain Says “Victory” in Iraq, Is He Lying About THAT, Too?
68. 13 Sep$2 Million to Kill Polar Bears, for the Sake of Ignorance
69. 13 SepEW’s Trash Talk – The Big Games Start
70. 12 SepThe Meddling Husband May Get A Subpoena
71. 12 SepPalin’s Advisor Makes the Comparison to the US Attorney Purge Explicit
72. 11 SepMcCain Makes the Case that Energy State Governors Are Great on National Security
73. 11 SepNow! All New!! One Third the Campaigners
74. 11 SepWhat ELSE Mukasey Declines to Prosecute: Sexual Assault of a Subordinate
75. 10 SepWhat Republicans REALLY Mean When They Say Drill! Baby! Drill!
76. 10 SepAs the Lies Pile Up, McCain’s Former Fans Increasingly Repulsed by the Cynicism
77. 10 SepMcCain, Bush and Palin – The Freeloading Riches Of The GOP
78. 10 SepAnimal Farm: The Response to McCain’s Piggy Lipstick Stunt
79. 10 SepIf You Had Any Doubts the “Attacks” on Palin Were Manufactured Bullshit …
80. 9 SepSarah Palin Has Failed in Her Primary Role as Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard
81. 9 SepSecessionist Sarah and Her Stay-at-Home Subsidies
82. 8 Sep19
83. 8 SepNar.Ra.Tive
84. 8 SepBush and Cheney Responsible for Five Suspected Terrorists Going Free
85. 8 SepOil Wars
86. 8 SepRick Davis and AT&T Shacking Up
87. 7 SepMcCain is MIA; Believed Hidden Behind Palin’s Skirt
88. 7 SepTurns Out It’s Not Moose Burgers…
89. 7 SepRather than Vetting Palin, McCain Will Orchestrate a Cover-Up of Her Abuse of Power
90. 7 SepThe Devil Went Down To Georgia
91. 6 SepAnthrax: Nobody Buys the FBI Story
92. 6 SepThe Gray Lady’s Lizard-Brain Logic
93. 6 SepThe Politics of Resentment
94. 6 SepJohn Bush’s Son’s Bank Just Failed
95. 5 SepDid Three Million People Not Turn Off Their TV Quickly Enough?
96. 5 SepTrooperGate Investigation Timing
97. 5 Sep“Uneaten potato chips, rigatoni, and a McCain cake”
98. 5 Sep“Holed Up”
99. 5 SepWhat SHOULD Happen to Public Officials Who Lie
100. 4 SepTrash Talk Is BACK!!!
101. 4 SepCommunity Organizer
102. 3 Sep“Crossed the Line”
103. 3 SepEliza Doolittle, Neocon
104. 3 SepKarma: McCain’s Veep Announcement Timing Backfires
105. 2 SepI’m a Resident of Flyover Country and a Citizen of Stopover Country
106. 2 SepThe Contents of Alberto Gonzales’ Safe Briefcase
107. 2 SepGonzales Resigned 17 Days After This IG Investigation Began
108. 2 SepNotice What’s Missing from this Thorough List of Vetting Discovery?
109. 2 SepIs THIS Why Congress Folded on FISA?!?!?
110. 2 SepPeople Bearing Glass Wombs Should Not Throw Policy Stones
111. 1 SepWolfson Van Winkle

August 2008

1. 31 AugThis Is What Happens When You Use Terrorism Laws to Investigate Hippies
2. 30 AugBush Re-Ups War, Obstructs Accountability As Nation Twitters Over Palin
3. 30 AugMy Thoughts on Palin
4. 29 AugIt’s Palin! Because They Couldn’t Get Geraldine Ferraro…
5. 29 AugWow
6. 28 AugRacing Into The Wind
7. 28 AugChecking in from Mile High
8. 28 AugJohn McCain Proves Cactus Is Not The Biggest Prick In The Desert
9. 28 AugRichardson Bumped to Prime Time
10. 28 AugYup, Novak’s Still Up to His Old Ways
11. 28 AugIf You Had Any Doubts Obama Would Be Dominant in this Partnership…
12. 28 AugBill’s Speech
13. 28 AugLike Teddy, Novak Couldn’t Stay Away
14. 27 AugTorture At The Democratic National Convention
15. 27 AugTed Kennedy with Brain Cancer, on (Probably) Morphine, and in Excruciating Pain Can STILL Read a Teleprompter Better than McCain
16. 26 AugAnnette Taddeo on the State of Her Race
17. 26 AugDenied! Bates Refuses to Stay Order in Miers/Bolten Suit
18. 26 AugEnhanced Surveillance Techniques and The Police State
19. 25 AugSenator Leahy Is Not Satisfied with the Anthrax Investigation
20. 25 AugWe Have Met The WMD Terrorists, And They Are US
21. 24 AugSo, Why Were The US Attorneys Fired?
22. 24 AugWhat Would You Do with 50,000 Tickets to the Acceptance Speech?
23. 24 AugWhen The Levee Breaks
24. 23 AugRoad Trip: Arrival in Denver
25. 22 AugMalevolence In Mississippi
26. 21 AugThe Strange Case of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul (Part 2)
27. 21 AugFISA Redux Again: The Slippery Slope Leads Down A Rabbit Hole
28. 21 AugRolls Royce And The Incomparable Imperialists
29. 20 AugSprinting To Teh Finish: Missing Email Edition
30. 19 AugThe Gitmo Shrinks Find Their Super Ego And Cowboy Up
31. 18 AugThe Strange Case of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul (Part 1)
32. 17 AugThe Bates Decision: A Question Unasked And Unanswered
33. 16 AugFISA Redux: The Slippery Slope Becomes A Mine Shaft
34. 15 AugSticky Fingers McCain Does It Again
35. 15 AugRoad Trip: Democratic National Convention Edition
36. 14 AugMaher Arar Gets A(nother) Day in Court
37. 14 AugShorter WaPo: The Anthrax Case Sux
38. 13 AugDid Karl Rove Chat to Saakashvili about South Ossetia Too?
39. 13 AugNo One Could Have Predicted, Republic of Georgia, the Follow-Up
40. 13 AugOnce Again, the Federal Government Uses Valerie to Screw Joe
41. 13 AugHard Qweschins: What the TradMedia Will Never Ask McCain, But Should
42. 12 AugI Hate to Say I Told You So…
43. 12 Aug“No One Could Have Predicted,” Republic of Georgia Edition
44. 11 AugOkay, the Cookies Were Stupid and Silly, But Plagiarizing Your Foreign Policy Too?
45. 11 AugJohn Yoo: “It Sucks to Have Judges Protecting the Constitution”
46. 11 AugThe Fight against Poverty Was a Lie, Too
47. 11 AugBush’s Cover-Up
48. 11 AugHabbush’s Freedom Fries Forgeries
49. 10 AugKill Game: The Path Of Destruction From The Amerithrax Investigation
50. 9 AugGoogle Maps Says Maybe, Maybe Not
51. 9 AugRelease Ivins’ Lie Detector Test
52. 8 AugIf the Questions Are So “Novel” Then How Can You Argue the Privilege Exists?!?!?
53. 8 AugCheney and Your 3 Ounce Shampoo Bottles
54. 8 AugYour Expensive Commute Has Gone To Line Maliki’s Pocket
55. 8 AugChina Exhibits Very Bad Judgement in Whom to Intimidate
56. 8 AugNot a Question of If, But Who, Forged the Letter
57. 8 AugWhat Would Scott McClellan Say…
58. 7 AugNative Tears
59. 7 AugBioterrorism on a Grassy Knoll
60. 7 AugAnthrax Timeline, Two
61. 6 Aug“It Was Ivins, With a Flask, 200 Miles from the Site of the Crime”
62. 6 AugThe Case Against Ivins, Search Warrant One
63. 6 AugThe Anthrax Prosecutor: The Daughter of the Defense Attorney for BushCo’s “Germ Boy”
64. 6 AugDOJ Wants to Have Its Culprit and Withhold Some Materials, Too
65. 5 AugTenet and the “Creamy White House Stationery”
66. 5 AugDisestablishmentarianism, CIFA Version
67. 5 AugOnce Again, Forgeries?
68. 5 AugAnthrax Timeline
69. 4 AugMichael Isikoff’s Chat with Cheney’s Lawyer
70. 3 AugJane Mayer, the CIA Inspector General’s Report, and the Torture Tapes
71. 2 AugIvins and the Anthrax Investigation
72. 1 AugWho First Spread the Iraqi Anthrax Claim?
73. 1 AugConyers to Luskin: We Told You So
74. 1 AugWhitehouse and Feingold Strike Back at Pixie Dust
75. 1 AugScott McClellan Dismantles Cheney’s Plame Firewall
76. 1 AugThe Count of Monte Cristo Was Not Fiction
77. 1 AugSuspect Anthrax Terrorist Apparently Kills Self
78. 1 Aug“For your convenience, I attach a copy of the court’s opinion”

July 2008

1. 31 JulNixon Sez: Karl Rove Must Testify
2. 31 JulBREAKING: Judge Bates Rules for the House
3. 31 JulWhy the House Is Waiting to Hold Rove in Contempt
4. 30 JulNo Consequences for the Wholesale Politicization of Justice
5. 30 JulDNI McConnell to Intelligence Analysts: Go Talk to Juan Cole
6. 30 JulRove’s Contempt: For All the Reasons We’ve Been Talking About
7. 30 JulThe Logic Behind the Script “The Removal of Clothing Is Not Nudity”
8. 29 JulDown the Toobz: Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Counts
9. 29 JulAnother Spooked-Up BushCo Crony Dabbling in Kurdistan
10. 29 JulThe Smearmongers Who Took Down Chiara and Hagen Got Promoted to Main Justice
11. 28 JulMonica Discriminated against Margaret Chiara’s Purported Lover, Too
12. 28 JulBush’s Idea of Worthwhile Candidates to Be Immigration Judges
13. 28 JulMonica’s Job History
14. 28 JulMonica Goodling Helped the Terrorists Win
15. 28 JulThe Monica Goodling Report
16. 26 JulBob Novak Is One Key to Libby’s Aspen Letter
17. 26 JulThey’ve Compartmentalized Mukasey from the Corruption
18. 25 JulThe Off the Record Club Now On the Record, Still Desperate for Positive Press for McCain
19. 24 JulPelosi Appoints Dusty Foggo and Jose Rodriguez’ Buddy to Ethics Committee
20. 24 JulWhen Did the US Postal Inspectors Replace Our Courts?
21. 23 JulSanchez v. Mukasey on “Executive Privilege”
22. 23 JulA Timeline of Lamar Smith’s Pathetic Attempt to Save Karl Rove
23. 23 JulRove All-But Confirms He DID Talk to Non-DOJ People About Siegelman
24. 23 JulHJC Testimony: Michael Mukasey, Three
25. 23 JulHJC Testimony: Michael Mukasey, Two
26. 23 JulHJC Testimony: Michael Mukasey
27. 23 JulChurch Committee, The Bush II Version?
28. 22 JulOnce a Predictable Tool, Always a Predictable Tool
29. 22 JulThose Who Forget Never Knew the Past…
30. 22 JulDavid Iglesias Doesn’t Think Those Were Karl Rove’s “Official Duties,” Either
31. 22 JulThe Judy Miller Standard
32. 22 JulFord Discovers the Fiesta
33. 22 JulTortured Confession Evidence Tossed In First Day Of Hamdan Trial
34. 22 JulPardon Watch: The Betting Pool
35. 21 JulHow Could It POSSIBLY Be Part of Karl Rove’s “Official Duties” to Hijack DOJ?
36. 21 JulComments on Mukasey’s Call for an Election-Season Showdown
37. 21 JulMukasey Asks Congress to Resolve Boumediene Issues Instead of Courts
38. 21 JulCaretaker for the Regime
39. 21 JulLet The Sun Shine In
40. 20 JulPresident Haney Loads Up And Fixes To Move Back to Hooterville
41. 19 JulMcCain: Is He Addled And Confused Or A Dishonorable Man?
42. 19 JulTo Favre Or Not To Favre, That Is the EW Trash Talk Question
43. 18 JulMeet the Bloggers and SendKarlRoveToJail.com
44. 18 JulIsn’t It Time to Chat with Kyle Sampson Again?
45. 17 JulFitzgerald Learned Rove Was Trying to Fire Him in 2005–While Rove Was Still Under Investigation
46. 17 JulDOJ Doesn’t Want to Say Whether It Agrees that Karl’s “Official Duties” Include Witch Hunts
47. 17 JulMeet the Bloggers Tomorrow at 1ET
48. 16 JulBush Doesn’t Want to Be Forbidden to Torture, Even If You Don’t Tell the Terrorists
49. 16 JulWaxman’s Investigation
50. 16 JulWilson Statement on Bush’s Invocation of Executive Privilege to Protect Cheney
51. 16 JulBush Invokes Executive Privilege to Shield Cheney’s Role in Outing Valerie Plame
52. 16 Jul“Library” Rhymes with “Bribery,” Ted Stevens Edition
53. 15 JulTurdblossom’s Still a Lying Sack; AP Journalists Are Still Suck-Ups
54. 15 JulDougie Feith Visits HJC
55. 15 JulHelgerson and Cheney
56. 14 JulWaxman Notes: “Bribery” Rhymes with “Library”
57. 14 JulSenator Levin to Do Live Chat on Ongoing Senate Investigation into Detainee Abuse at 11 ET Tuesday
58. 14 JulFive Years Later–and the Attorney General Still Maintains the Cover-Up
59. 13 JulFannie and Freddie’s Turn at that Taxpayer’s Trough
60. 13 JulDoes Ray Hunt Do This Kind of Fund-Raising, Too?
61. 12 JulDid Bush Claim Executive Privilege for Rove Last Year?
62. 12 JulThe FISA Loss: Recommendations for the Future
63. 11 JulDOJ Apparently Doesn’t Know Whether It Told Fielding that Rove’s “Official Duties” Include Witch Hunts
64. 11 JulThe Significance of the “Official Duties” Claim
65. 11 JulWhy Absolute Immunity Is So Audacious
66. 11 JulThe Post FISA Amendment Act Action Begins: ACLU Fires The First Salvo – A Working Thread
67. 10 JulBush Did NOT Invoke Executive Privilege for Rove
68. 10 JulWhite House Confirms: Rove’s “Official Duties” Included Witchhunts of Democrats
69. 10 JulYeah, What ABOUT that Anthrax Terrorist?
70. 10 JulMukasey Flip Flops on Pixie Dust
71. 9 JulThe Attorney General Thinks It’s Okay for the Vice President to Have Ordered the Outing of a Spy
72. 9 JulMukasey to SJC: Investigation of Rove’s Involvement in Siegelman Should Take Place … Somewhere Else
73. 9 JulSJC Liveblog
74. 9 JulOmnibus Liveblog
75. 9 JulJohn McCain Battles the Veterans
76. 8 JulFISA Liveblog: Chris “Not only do I dress better than Kit Bond, I defend the Constitution, too!” Dodd
77. 8 JulFISA Liveblog: Kit “I think red ties look great with pink shirts” Bond
78. 8 JulWaxman, Fitzgerald, and Mukasey
79. 7 JulMaybe He Was Helping Banana Republicans Fund Terrorists? Or Back at Gitmo, Overseeing Torture?
80. 7 JulCREW Goes After Elston and McDonald’s Bar Memberships
81. 7 JulShorter Mike and Mike: No, We Don’t Want Immunity Contingent on Actually Finishing the IG Report
82. 7 JulJohn McCain Says: Want to Fix the Economy? Elect a Democrat
83. 6 JulMake Bush Invoke Executive Privilege for Rove
84. 5 JulMark Schauer: Happy Birthday America
85. 5 JulJohn McCain, George Bush’s Bagman
86. 4 JulFighting for our Country on the Fourth
87. 3 JulI Don’t Think “Accountability” Means What Obama Thinks It Does
88. 3 Jul“She May Switch To An American Designer”
89. 3 JulDean and Bush and Pardons
90. 3 JulThe al-Haramain Decision
91. 3 JulGitmo Will Be this Year’s Campaign Issue
92. 2 JulWhy Is the State Department “Hunting” for Deals for Bush’s Oil Buddy?
93. 2 JulDavid Ignatius: Cheney Can’t Even Get Potentially Illegal Covert Ops Right
94. 2 JulBanana Republicans: $1.7 Million to Right Wing Death Squads, $2 Million to McCain
95. 2 JulI Don’t Think “FISA” and “Expire” Mean What Obama Thinks They Do
96. 1 JulWebb and McCain’s Attacks and the GI Bill
97. 1 JulCounter-Intelligence and Secret Service Officers as Inspectors General
98. 1 JulDoes Jerry Doe Know Anything about Merlin?
99. 1 JulJerry Doe “Proved Fucking Right”
100. 1 JulPentagon Charges the Third Detainee Who Was Water-Boarded

June 2008

1. 30 JunDOJ’s Attempt to Shield Obstruction of Justice
2. 30 JunFitzgerald’s Successful Argument to Keep the Bush and Cheney Reports Out of Discovery
3. 30 JunThose Democratic Committee Chairs Aren’t COORDINATING, Are They?
4. 30 JunWhat Is Michael Mukasey Helping Dick Cheney to Cover Up?
5. 30 JunDonate to Darcy Burner
6. 30 JunThe Obama & Olbermann Master Plan For Criminal FISA Prosecutions
7. 29 JunBut What about Congressional Oversight?
8. 29 JunThe Barnacle Branch Still Evading Oversight
9. 29 JunAre Cheney and Bush in a Lover’s Quarrel?
10. 27 Jun$5.8 Million for Hatfill. $0 for Valerie Wilson.
11. 27 JunMukasey’s Subpoena
12. 27 JunDavid Addington and The Barnacle Branch Exhibits
13. 26 JunConfirmed: Final FISA Votes on July 8
14. 26 JunHJC Testimony: Mr. Unitary Executive and Mr. Yoo, Two
15. 26 JunHJC Testimony: Mr. Unitary Executive and Mr. Yoo
16. 25 JunImmunity Provision Invites Phone Companies to Cooperate with Illegal Government Programs
17. 25 JunWhy Does Senator Ensign Hate Foreclosed Homeowners … and Veterans … and Seniors … and Telecoms?
18. 25 JunAbout Reid’s Potential Delay
19. 25 JunTrading our Constitution Away Based on the Word of Alberto Gonzales
20. 24 JunMcCain: The Presidency Is All in My Head
21. 24 JunFirst DOJ IG Report on Politicization
22. 24 JunWhat Should We Call the Telecoms?
23. 23 JunIs Mark Schauer a Better Cook than Cindy McCain?
24. 23 JunThe Ghorbanifar Timeline, Two
25. 22 JunMourning The Loss Of A Giant Recently Passed – Sunset Musings II
26. 21 JunThe Ghorbanifar Meetings Timeline
27. 21 JunThe Sun Always Rises
28. 21 JunDon’t Tell Your Momma, Tell Obama
29. 20 JunObama Replied
30. 20 JunScott McClellan Testimony: Rove Is a Liar and Cheney an Oil-Hungry War-Monger
31. 20 JunHJC: Scott McClellan Testimony
32. 20 JunA Letter to the Next President of the United States
33. 20 JunIt’s Not Just that Levin Was Ousted–It’s Bradbury’s Trial Run on Torture
34. 19 JunThe FISA Bill
35. 19 JunDetails on the FISA “Compromise”
36. 19 JunThe FISA Shaft Is Underway
37. 19 JunSteny’s Discharge
38. 18 JunLamberth Doesn’t Seem to Think the Boumediene Sky Is Falling
39. 18 JunThe Removal of Clothing Does Not Lead to Nudity
40. 17 JunBut … But … What about Oversight?
41. 17 JunSenate Armed Services Torture Hearing, Four (Haynes)
42. 17 JunSenate Armed Services Torture Hearing, Three
43. 17 JunSenate Armed Services Torture Hearing, Two
44. 17 JunSenate Armed Services Torture Hearing
45. 16 JunWaxman Subpoenas the Bush and Cheney Transcripts
46. 16 JunWhy Might Schlozman Have Been Referred to a Grand Jury
47. 16 JunObama in Flint, MI
48. 15 JunHow to Get the Transcripts
49. 14 JunA Response to Dean: The Failure, So Far, Has Been Congress’
50. 14 Jun$225,000 in Credit Card Debt
51. 14 JunAt the Risk of Being Churlish
52. 13 JunRevenge of Article III
53. 13 JunMatt Apuzzo Pushes Back
54. 12 JunThe Rule of Law Prevailed
55. 12 JunHappy Habeas Day
56. 11 JunWhat Databases Are You Using? We Won’t Tell…
57. 11 JunScottie and Condi and the Niger Intelligence
58. 11 JunThe Missing Emails and the OVP Coverup
59. 10 JunThe FISA Fix and Obama’s Profile In Courage Leadership Moment
60. 10 JunFour News Outlets and the Libby Exoneration
61. 10 JunKeith O and Scottie McC and Chairman John C
62. 10 JunScottie McC’s Chronology: October 4
63. 9 JunScottie’s Briefing
64. 9 JunCondi’s Sunday Shows
65. 9 JunScottie to Conyers: It’s a Date!!
66. 9 JunScottie McC’s Chronology: September 29
67. 9 JunScottie McC’s Chronology: September 27
68. 9 JunIs Fred Fielding Reading emptywheel?
69. 8 Jun“Trivial Policy Ideas”
70. 7 JunCan’t Gitmo Dirty – The Penultimate Straw
71. 7 JunEW’s Trash Talk – Agony In Defeat Edition
72. 7 JunWhat Happened to the Other Half Million?
73. 6 JunIt’s Not about the DNC–It’s about the GOP
74. 6 JunMukasey’s Whack-a-Mole Mortgage Fraud Approach
75. 5 JunKSM Refuses Lawyer Because of All the Legal Same Sex Marriage in the US
76. 5 JunThe DHS Report on Maher Arar
77. 5 JunWhitehouse: Bush’s Lies “Rot the Very Fiber of Democracy”
78. 5 JunPhase II Report Working Thread
79. 5 JunFitzgerald to Conyers: “Okay, Now I’m Ready to Talk”
80. 5 JunThe JAG Dismisses the Unitary Executive
81. 4 JunDOD Contract Goes to Known Money-Launderer
82. 4 JunGoldwater and Kennedy, or Lincoln and Douglas?
83. 4 JunBush’s DOJ: Okay, Maybe We Won’t Imprison Siegelman for 30 Years
84. 4 JunJohn Yoo v. Alice Fisher and Michael Chertoff
85. 3 JunDid Condi Speak with Bush about Rove’s So-Called Innocence? Or about the NIE?
86. 3 JunWaxman Closing in on Dick Cheney for Outing Valerie Wilson
87. 3 JunFieger Acquitted of all Charges
88. 2 JunNovak, That’s Because the Trial Wasn’t about YOUR Leak
89. 1 JunA Recap of the RBC Meeting

May 2008

1. 31 MaySome Thoughts
2. 31 MayRBC, the Early Evening Edition
3. 31 MayA Little Civility, Please, Lanny
4. 31 MayWhen You Break for Lunch at 3PM…
5. 31 MayThe MI Challenge
6. 31 MayMore from the RBC Meeting
7. 31 MayHoward, This Is Not About You, This Is About Your Country
8. 31 MayThe Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting, a Primer
9. 31 MayWhy Did Harriet Know of Rove’s Involvement?
10. 30 MayPick Which WH Press Secretary Is Lying
11. 30 MayScottie Doesn’t Deny Bush Authorized the Plame Leak
12. 30 MayThe Chinese Turned Out My Lights (Maybe)
13. 30 May“The Waterboard”
14. 29 MaySecond Working Thread on DOJ OIG Torture Report
15. 29 MayOn the Serendipity of Mis-Readings
16. 29 MayGeorge Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie Wilson’s Identity
17. 28 MayDid MI’s April 19 District Conventions Just Become a Clusterf^#k Too?
18. 28 MayWill McCain Turn Over Requested Documents to the Renzi Prosecutors?
19. 28 MayThe CIA OIG Made Five Criminal Referrals During Its Investigation of CIA Interrogation Techniques
20. 28 MayNow This IS Interesting Scottie McClellan News
21. 26 MayWorking Thread: DOJ IG Report on Torture
22. 26 MayMukasey’s Troubling Historical Argument
23. 25 MayRove Once Again Saying Things on Teevee He Claims He Can’t Say to Congress
24. 25 MayA Return to Zapruder in the Live-Stream World
25. 23 MayThe BAE Bribes Funded Covert Ops
26. 23 MayHow Is Rick Renzi Like a Gitmo Detainee?
27. 23 MayOh, That’s Why McCain Can’t Keep Shiite and Sunni Straight
28. 23 MayCheck Out ACLU’s Relaunched Blog
29. 22 MayRove’s Subpoena
30. 22 MayGOP: If You Can’t Disenfranchise Brown People at the FEC, Disenfranchise Them by Vote-Caging
31. 22 MayWhy Is the DNC Ignoring MI’s Citizens’ Legal Complaints about the Cluster$%@#?
32. 22 MayFoggo’s New Charges
33. 21 MayIn Minneapolis, Vegan = Terrorist
34. 21 MayEnergy Policy? Check. Foreign Policy? Check.
35. 21 MayThe Yoo “Exclusivity” Opinion: More Outrageous Hackery
36. 21 MayWhy Is McCain’s Former Campaign Chair Stumping for Obama?
37. 20 MayFISA Update (And Why Is John Boehner Crying Again?)
38. 20 MayDid George Bush Break the Clean Air Act?
39. 20 MayCIA Once Again Buries Information on Abu Zubaydah’s Torture
40. 20 MayDOD and Torture Declassification Timing
41. 20 MayOut of Scope: The DOJ IG Report
42. 19 MayMain Core
43. 19 MayYou Can’t Clean the Stench Out of the Straight Talk for Lobbyists Express
44. 18 MayVirginia and Tom Davis’ Plan to Save the GOP Brand
45. 17 MayJohn McCain’s “Green” Credentials Were Developed by an ACTIVE Energy Lobbyist
46. 17 MayThe 9/11 Detainees Want Hartmann Disqualified, Too
47. 17 MayDuke Cunningham Bribery Ring: Two Down, Two to Go
48. 16 MayHappy Friday Night News Dump
49. 16 MayOne Very Special Disclosure Survey
50. 16 MayAre We Giving Saudi Arabia Nukes?
51. 16 MayThe Brilliance of the Edwards Endorsement
52. 15 MayAnd Since We’ve Been Talking about Contracting, Secrecy, and Spying…
53. 15 MayGrandson of Nazi Enabler Decries Talking to Nazis
54. 15 MayPreview: Book Salon on Spies for Hire
55. 15 MayClement’s Departure
56. 14 MayIt’s Not Just McCain’s Advisors with Financial Ties to Evil Dictators; It’s His Wife
57. 14 MayConyers to Rove: No, It’s Not an Open Book Test…
58. 14 MayBerlusconi to Testify in Abu Omar Trial
59. 14 MayBush: There’s No Better Way to Stay in Touch than through E-Mail
60. 13 MayYoo Issued an Opinion on 9/11 about Scrambling Planes
61. 13 MayJohn Yoo’s Non-Ephemeral Writings
62. 13 MayIf They Cut Off Your Rent-A-Generals, Just Buy-An-Advisor
63. 13 MayWhy Drop Charges Against Al-Qahtani?
64. 12 MayUpdate on Michigan
65. 12 MayFitz on Firing
66. 12 MayJust Making It Up on Classification
67. 11 MayPoliticizing Show Trials at the Same Time as Politicizing DOJ
68. 10 MayI Don’t Think “Exclusivity” Means What John Yoo Thinks It Does
69. 10 MayPublicizing Pixie Dust
70. 9 MayBloch: Making Some Sense
71. 8 MayBloch: Stop Making Sense
72. 8 MayThe Commission on Warrantless Wiretapping and FISA Compromise
73. 8 MayDoes McCain Support the Poisoning of MI’s Voters?
74. 7 MayEFF Bags A Big Win On NSLs
75. 7 MayThe Flying Fur At OSC
76. 7 MayA Big Day for BIFFO?
77. 6 MayBloching Justice Or Obstructing Justice?
78. 6 MayBurma Shave – Bush Busts Out A Compassion Beard
79. 5 MaySunset Musings
80. 2 MayFISA: The Coming Battle
81. 1 MayThe Uncounted Wiretaps
82. 1 MayJello Jay And Hoyer Slither Back Into The FISA Limelight
83. 1 MayTwo Days, Two Resignations

April 2008

1. 30 AprReggie Steps To The Plate And Stirs The Drink
2. 30 AprThe “Blue Ribbon” MI Compromise
3. 30 AprOne Day, One Resignation
4. 29 AprWherein emptywheel Gets Shrill
5. 29 AprJohn “Century” McCain Reduces the RNC to Babbling
6. 28 AprIs Isikoff Laundering Information for Karl Rove Again?
7. 27 AprSyriana
8. 27 Apr“It’s Not that Yoo Engaged in Really Bad Lawyering, Really It’s Not”
9. 27 AprMore Informative than Ari, Scottie, Tony, and “Pig Missile” Have Ever Been
10. 27 AprKyl Agrees to IG Reform–but Sustains DOJ Lawyer’s Protection
11. 27 AprThe Sugar Momma Express
12. 26 AprEW’s Famous Football Trash Talk* – What The Puck Edition
13. 26 AprThe Rent-A-Generals Attempt to Head Skelton Off at the Pass
14. 25 AprSolomon’s Baby
15. 25 AprIf You Keep Getting Stopped at Airports, That’s Not a Secret
16. 24 AprWhich Master Do These Rent-A-Generals Serve?
17. 24 AprDean: Is McCain a Puppet … or a Racist?
18. 24 AprElliott Abrams Gave the Israelis a Hall Pass
19. 24 AprArticle I v. State Secrets
20. 24 AprCIA And Bushco Have A Rather Large Criminal Obstruction Problem: The Torture Tapes Come Home To Roost
21. 23 AprFitz v. Rove, Part VI
22. 23 AprTorture Tape Investigation in HPSCI
23. 23 AprHow Did They Find Mr. Kadish?
24. 23 AprApples and Oranges
25. 23 AprApparently McCain Will Not Be on the Ballot in November
26. 22 AprHillary’s Iran Comments
27. 22 AprDanA to TurdB: Yes, I Recognize Cheap Parsing When I See It
28. 21 AprCondi’s Pissing Contest with Moqtada al-Sadr
29. 21 AprDid Cheney Rent One of Rummy’s Rent-A-Generals to Try to Refute Joe Wilson?
30. 20 AprThe Pentagon’s Media Analyst Domestic Psy-Ops Program: Is It Legal?
31. 20 AprMcCain Announces He Will Follow Christopher Ward’s Finance Methods
32. 20 AprThe NYT Does Penance?
33. 19 AprTurdblossom Writes Letters
34. 18 AprBack to the Question of ABC’s Sources
35. 18 AprConyers Calls Luskin’s Bluff on Rove Testimony
36. 18 AprA Peek into the Torture Tape Investigation
37. 17 AprSome Perspective on the Bush Administration Fight Against Terrorism
38. 17 AprNovak’s Shield
39. 17 AprConyers to Turdblossom: If You’ll Talk to GQ and Fox, Why Not HJC?
40. 17 AprThe ABC Debate: An Opportunity?
41. 17 AprLyglenson Lemorin and the Liberty Seven
42. 16 AprFamily Recipes
43. 16 AprAnalogies for Yoo: The Merck Scandal
44. 15 AprDOJ: Give Us More Powers Because We F*** Up So Often
45. 15 AprConyers to Mukasey: So You Did Spin Shamelessly, Didn’t You?
46. 14 AprBush: The Country Is at War, Therefore We Do Not Torture
47. 13 AprThe WaPo Did Not Scoop This Story in 2005
48. 13 AprA Tough Job Market for Discredited Bush Lawyers
49. 12 AprDoes the Former Holy Inquisitor Refuse to Eat with Torturers?
50. 12 AprBush OKs Torture. Media Yawns.
51. 11 AprBush to Raddatz: “So?”
52. 11 Apr“The Game Is Over”
53. 11 AprYoo and Academic Freedom
54. 11 AprThe First Time
55. 10 AprWho “We” Included in the Torture Briefings
56. 10 AprTorture Telltale Timing
57. 10 AprRemember the Torture Tapes?
58. 9 AprOkay, Lamont Didn’t Crash the Servers. But What Did Lieberman Do with His $387,000 Slush Fund?
59. 9 AprFor What?
60. 8 AprMark Schauer Condemns Bush’s and Walberg’s Fear-Mongering
61. 8 AprDog N Pony Too
62. 8 AprConyers to Yoo: If You’ll Talk to Esquire, Come Talk to Me
63. 8 AprDog N Pony
64. 8 Apr“We Don’t Have Time to Respond to Congressional Requests…”
65. 8 AprHaynes, Armed Services, Perjury?
66. 8 AprHaul Karl’s Ass into Congress
67. 7 AprCheney’s Lawyer Now Defending Haynes
68. 7 AprA Trollop and a C$#T
69. 7 AprAP Calls BushCo on Its Spin
70. 7 AprBush: Let Colombia Kill Union Organizers–Or Hugo Chavez Wins
71. 6 AprTorquemadas in Single Needle Suits
72. 5 AprThe Banality of Enhanced Interrogation
73. 5 AprThe Uninvited Guest
74. 5 AprWarrantless Wiretap Memos Timeline
75. 4 AprEntangling Alliances
76. 4 AprWas the October 23, 2001 OLC Opinion the Basis for the Illegal Wiretap Program?
77. 4 AprThe Joint Inquiry and Mukasey’s Call
78. 3 AprAnother Possibility with Mukasey’s 9/11 Story
79. 3 AprSnowball
80. 3 AprSurely They’ll Resort to Pixie Dust on This
81. 3 AprEmbarrassment-Free Show Trials
82. 2 AprChertoff Keeps Waiving Laws
83. 2 Apr“You can play that game when it doesn’t matter.”
84. 2 AprThe “John Yoo, Let’s Pretend We’re Lawyers” Game
85. 2 AprPentagon “Closing” CIFA
86. 1 AprActing Counsels and Torture
87. 1 AprJane Harman v. Jello Jay: Compare and Contrast
88. 1 AprIt Turns Out There Was No Wolf
89. 1 AprThe DNI Is Well-Meaning. Really. Except with Those He Claims Want No IC.
90. 1 AprCell Phone Remittances

March 2008

1. 31 MarThe Taliban and the Towers
2. 31 MarThe Thaw that Started Five Months Ago
3. 31 MarThe Rhetoric of More of the Same
4. 30 MarNot Even John Yoo Approved of the Illegal Wiretap Program
5. 30 MarNetworks or Newspapers; Dewey or Lippmann?
6. 30 MarThe DNC Email Ruling
7. 29 MarQuestions
8. 29 MarWhat’s Wrong With This Picture? Wilkes Sprung From Slammer!
9. 29 MarWheel Squirrels Stumble Into Bear Nuts – An Economic Update and Forum
10. 28 MarListening To You – Mukasey Plays The Emotion Card
11. 28 MarBushco Rolled Out A Parade Of Liars To Squelch Lichtblau, Risen & NYT
12. 27 MarMr. Siegelman Goes To Washington
13. 27 MarThe New Colombian Gold and What the FARC Is Up With Weapons Dealers?
14. 26 MarSometimes You Eat The Bear, Sometimes The Bear Eats You – Stearns Thoughts
15. 26 MarCrewsing For A Bruising: The NSA Responds To EOP
16. 25 MarWhat To Get Teh Woman Who Knows Everything
17. 25 MarWho Let The Dogs Out? The Hounds Of Hatfill and the Federal Rules of Evidence
18. 25 MarFeith Based Initiative At The Pentgon
19. 23 MarOf Easter Eggs, Spitzer and Stones In Glass Houses
20. 22 MarHard Drives To Hell
21. 21 MarMarch Madness – Bracketology and Other Chides of March Trash Talk
22. 21 MarWiFi Turkey
23. 21 MarThe Breach: McCain Dates, Not Obama Dates?
24. 20 MarWaxman Attempts to Plug Truck-Sized Loophole for Theft
25. 20 MarOne Corrupt Lawyer Disbarred
26. 20 MarTom Reynolds Won’t Seek Re-Election
27. 19 MarJudge “Naughty” In Trouble with the Circuit Court
28. 19 MarMcCain Fails Test to Be Legislator, Much Less President
29. 18 Mar“They’re Not Businesspeople … They Won’t Spend a Dime on Management”
30. 18 MarFighting about Fuck
31. 17 MarNacchio Gets a New Trial
32. 17 MarChiquita Exec: Our Support for Terrorism Doesn’t Kill People
33. 17 MarWorst Since World War II
34. 16 MarCredit Crises
35. 15 MarSteven Hatfill’s Lawyer Asks Some Questions
36. 15 MarConsequences
37. 14 MarMore Blue Dogs Come Home
38. 14 MarThe Blue Dogs (Some of Them, at Least) Come Home
39. 14 MarFISA: FBI Overrides Constitutional Objections
40. 14 MarAnother Stupid Idea to Exacerbate the Clusterfuck
41. 13 MarNRCC Catalogs the Damage
42. 13 MarHouse to Go Into Secret Session
43. 13 MarA Failure of Legal Scholarship
44. 13 MarGold Standard Gate, an Update
45. 13 MarHJC Calls Bull on SSCI’s Conclusions
46. 12 MarSpitzer Resigns
47. 12 MarThink Outside the Box
48. 11 MarRepublicans Uncork A Fine Whine Spitzer
49. 11 MarDo They Think Cheney Makes a Better Supplicant Than Bush?
50. 11 MarSSCI Leaks
51. 10 MarSpitzer Springs A Leak
52. 10 MarPhase II: Four Years Later
53. 9 MarAna Marie Cox: I Let McCain’s Crankiness Go Because I Think His Ribs Are Delicious
54. 9 MarAnyone in LA/Pasdena?
55. 9 MarDougie’s Rant
56. 8 MarTruck-Sized Loophole for Theft
57. 8 Mar“Or His Designee”
58. 7 Mar“Dude, that’s what they want.”
59. 7 MarThe Quantico Circuit
60. 7 MarAnd So the US Economy Picks Up Where It Left Off in the 1970s
61. 7 MarMy Version of Pelosi’s Statement on Exclusivity
62. 6 MarKBR’s Cayman Island Scam
63. 6 MarViktor Bout Arrested
64. 5 MarWho Is Carl Truscott and Why Did Bush’s DOJ Protect Him?
65. 5 MarThe Government’s Unclear Demands for Emails
66. 4 MarWill Dick Finally Get Busted for His Leaks?
67. 4 MarDroning Cell Phone Calls
68. 4 MarYet More Straight Talk to Lobbyists
69. 4 MarIran-Contra 2.0
70. 3 MarHelp Me Stave Off Dick Cheney’s Michigan Invasion!
71. 3 MarShorter Google:
72. 3 MarMixed Telecom Signals
73. 1 MarBush Administration Tries to Reverse A1 Cut-Out Declassification
74. 1 MarThe Incredible Disappearing PFIAB

February 2008

1. 29 FebMukasey Wasn’t Bluffing
2. 29 FebRove Looking for an Underground Railroad, Again
3. 28 FebMore on the Show Trials
4. 28 FebPelosi to Mukasey: Tag. You’re It.
5. 28 FebIt’s All About $$$
6. 28 FebGeorge Will Sums Up McCain’s “Unattractive Righteousness”
7. 28 FebMeet Our New Sovereign Wealth Fund Overlord
8. 27 FebJanuary 23, 2006
9. 27 FebSIS has “filled in” the blanks
10. 27 FebEnron Accounting at the NRCC
11. 27 FebMcCain Hearts Renzi
12. 27 FebWhat They Didn’t Want McDevitt To Talk About…
13. 26 FebFitzgerald Testifies Before HJC
14. 26 FebNo Wonder Fitzgerald Never Officially Closed His Investigation
15. 26 FebWaxman Hearing on White House Emails
16. 26 FebGitmo Fixer Resigns
17. 26 FebBullying CBS Didn’t Work Out So Well This Time, Did It Turdblossom?
18. 25 FebMonday Cheney Games
19. 25 FebTaliban Cells and Cables
20. 25 FebMitch McConnell, Hans Von Spakovsky, Mitt’s Re-Emergence, and McCain’s FEC Money Woes
21. 25 Feb60 Minutes Goes Black–Who Does It Protect?
22. 24 FebThe First Stage Is Denial
23. 24 FebVicki Iseman’s Lobbying Career
24. 23 FebMcCain’s Favors for Iseman Involved Helping Far Right-Wing Families to Sustain their Shell Companies
25. 23 FebPaxson Refreshes McCain’s Memory
26. 22 FebWhat Got Added to the Renzi Indictment Since October 2006?
27. 22 FebWhy McCain Got a Criminal Defense Lawyer to Manage His NYT Push-Back
28. 22 FebRick Renzi Indicted
29. 22 FebMcCain Would Be the SECOND Lobbyist President
30. 21 FebOPR Endorses Pixie Dust
31. 21 FebRepublican No Shows on FISA Negotiation
32. 21 FebDid Iseman and McCain Enable Conrad Black to Commit Fraud with CanWest?
33. 21 FebDid Vicki Iseman “Steal Honor” in THREE Presidential Elections?
34. 21 FebMcCain’s “Favors” for One Special Lobbyist: The Bob Bennett Angle
35. 20 FebWhat Do Chris Christie and John Ashcroft Have to Hide?
36. 20 FebDemocracy in Action
37. 20 FebThe Hunt for Private Sovereignty
38. 20 FebThe Pointy End of a Dull Spear
39. 20 FebOr Maybe Those Cables WERE Cut
40. 19 FebThe OTHER Sources for the Hatfill Stories
41. 19 FebCongratulations to TPMM
42. 19 FebSCOTUS Says “No Thanks” to ACLU Suit–Will It Change the FISA Debate?
43. 19 FebShorter WSJ: George Bush Is Irrelevant and So Is McCain
44. 19 FebMusharraf’s Party Projected to Lose–Badly
45. 19 FebDon’t Cry For The Telcos – Bush & Cheney Are The Only Ones That Are Dying For Immunity
46. 18 FebStill Trying to Read Poppy Bush’s Lips
47. 18 FebGOP Poisoning Swing State Voters to Win Elections
48. 18 FebFISA and the Warrantless Wiretap Briefings
49. 17 FebTechnical Glitches and Minimization
50. 16 FebA $40 Million “Comedic Gold” Pissing Contest with the Chinese
51. 16 FebTime to Throw the Payday Moneylenders out of the Christian Conservative Temples
52. 16 FebAJ Rossmiller: Why Bloggers Are Better Informed than Condi Rice
53. 15 FebMore Charges for Dusty Foggo?
54. 15 FebBandar Bush Kicks the Poodle
55. 15 FebOde to Donna Edwards’ Wheaties
56. 15 FebCondi Ignores Doubts on the 16 Words
57. 14 FebJohn Yarmuth (D-KY): 2006 Was About the Rule of Law
58. 14 FebTwo-Fronted War in Defense of the Constitution in the House
59. 14 FebConyers Has Gotten Cranky
60. 13 FebWill The House Honor Their Oath To Office, Or Follow The Senate’s Lead And Cave To Fear?
61. 13 FebHouse Oversight Committee Liveblog – Rocket’s Red Glare
62. 13 FebObama Heads to (?!?!?) Michigan
63. 13 FebRoll Call–Then and Now
64. 12 FebFISA: On to the House
65. 12 FebFISA Liveblog And Trash Talk Thread Tuesday 2/12/08
66. 12 FebDefinition of a Caucus
67. 12 FebGeorge Bush’s “Perfect Crime”
68. 11 FebFISA Liveblog And Trash Talk Thread Monday 2/11/08
69. 11 FebDon’t Gag Ma Bell
70. 10 FebIs Dem Turnout So High Because They Like Us … Or Because We’re Spending Money?
71. 8 FebWhy Bush Is So Desperate to Get Bradbury Approved
72. 8 FebThe NRCC Meltdown: An Introduction
73. 7 FebFISA Debate and Votes
74. 7 FebWorking Extra Hours Is Extra-Constitutional
75. 7 FebMukasey Oversight: HJC Edition, Part Two
76. 7 FebMukasey Refuses to Say Whether He Was Instructed Not to Enforce Subpoenas
77. 7 FebMukasey Oversight: HJC Edition
78. 7 FebArlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter Enumerates Bush’s Law-Breaking
79. 7 FebIs This Why Rosenberg Recused?
80. 6 FebFeingold Slaps Down Bond’s, Mukasey’s, and McConnell’s “Tired Accusations”
81. 6 FebFirst Abu Ghraib, and Now Siegelman
82. 6 FebFISA Debate Liveblog
83. 6 FebMcConnell and Mukasey Tell Half Truths
84. 5 FebWhite House Writes Pre-Emptive Signing Statement on Exclusivity
85. 5 FebMore FISA Debate
86. 5 FebFISA Debate Liveblog
87. 5 FebDoesn’t Hillary Have Anything Better to Do?
88. 5 FebJello Jay Advocates Illegal Spying on Americans
89. 5 FebMore Cable News
90. 5 FebRuss Feingold: We Need to Protect Americans from John Bolton
91. 5 FebOn What Terms Will this Administration Spy on Americans?
92. 4 FebFISA Liveblog
93. 4 FebFISA Fight Reconvenes at 2
94. 4 FebDick’s Big Stick and the Democratic Alpha Male
95. 4 FebThe Next Mujahadeen?
96. 4 FebCable News
97. 3 FebGround Game
98. 2 FebDon’t Worry, Isikoff Says, DC Is Not Corrupt and Dishonest
99. 2 FebThe Watchdog’s Watchdog
100. 2 FebDoolittle’s Payoff
101. 2 FebAll the News That’s Not Fit to Print
102. 1 FebRichard Clarke to Bush: Stop Fear-Monger to Take Away Civil Liberties
103. 1 FebFISA Update
104. 1 FebEmptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk* Super Bowl XLII Edition

January 2008

1. 31 JanDick’s Evolving Demands for Immunity
2. 31 JanAG Claims Clear Evidence of Legal Liability Does Not Constitute a Basis for Investigation
3. 31 JanDid Eric Edelman Lie to the Plame Grand Jury?
4. 31 JanYet More Communications Dirty Business: Karl Rove and Philip Zelikow
5. 30 JanSJC Mukasey Hearing, Four
6. 30 JanSJC Mukasey Hearing, Part Three
7. 30 JanSJC Mukasey Hearing, Part Two
8. 30 JanSJC Mukasey Hearing
9. 30 JanNot Just Immunity
10. 30 JanFor Fear Of Fear – Part One
11. 28 JanChuck Schumer: We Will Fix the Bankruptcy Bill
12. 28 JanReid Thanks Christy and McJoan on FISA
13. 28 JanThe Jeff Sessions-BushCo Mutual Protection Racket
14. 28 JanWas It Her Colleagues, or Her Constituents?
15. 27 JanBush Would Forgo New FISA Programs to Make Sure Dick Gets Immunity
16. 26 JanMukasey, Orwell, and Bradbury
17. 26 JanBush’s Secret Cyber Initiative
18. 26 JanHow to Lead: Chris Dodd Edition
19. 26 JanHillary, YOU Don’t Get to Decide to Seat Our Delegates
20. 25 JanReid on FISA: It’s Up to the President
21. 25 JanBye Week Trashtalk: The Mystery of Brady’s Boot
22. 25 JanThe Gazan Jail-Bust and Middle East Dynamics
23. 25 JanAnti-Immunity Porn
24. 25 JanHow to Establish an Empire without Congressional Approval
25. 25 JanReid: The President and the Republicans Want Failure
26. 24 JanWhat Ever Happened to “Upperdown Votes”?
27. 24 JanFieger Judge: Prosecution “Unusual;” Government Must Explain Recusal
28. 24 JanDid Bush Re-Nominate Bradbury to Control Mukasey?
29. 23 JanDick Wants His Immunity, and He Wants It Now
30. 23 Jan“The 9/11 Commission Wants Internal Emails”
31. 22 JanTwo Reminders: Not an Agency and Search Terms
32. 22 JanBrent Wilkes “The Leader of a Criminal Enterprise”
33. 22 JanMarket Fun
34. 22 JanStill Investigating Crimes Associated with the USA Purge
35. 21 JanPlame Investigation and Missing Emails: Analysis on Emails
36. 20 JanChampionship Trash Talk Part Deux – Go Pack Go!
37. 19 JanPlame Investigation and Missing Emails Timeline
38. 19 JanMissing Emails: Addington’s Search Terms
39. 18 Janemptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread* – Championship Sunday Edition
40. 18 JanHenry’s Dates: Two Data Points from the Plame Investigation
41. 18 JanHenry’s Dates: Medicare Part D
42. 18 JanTony Fratto Opens His Big Fat Mouth–and Waxman Responds
43. 17 JanGAO to White House: We Hate to Say We Told You So, But We Told You So
44. 17 JanJudge Hellerstein Calls the CIA on its BS
45. 17 JanDisappearing White House Emails Timeline
46. 17 Jan“It Smells Like a Cover-Up”
47. 17 JanShorter Rizzo to Rodriguez: Well, If You’re Not Going to Testify, I Will Screw You
48. 17 JanOff the Record on Filipino Monkey
49. 17 JanStephen Cambone Collects on His Handiwork with CIFA
50. 16 JanThe Dubious Timeline from Pincus’ Love Letter to Bob Bennett
51. 16 JanThe White House Response on Backup Tapes
52. 16 JanA Cheap Ploy to Avoid Giving Testimony, Jose Rodriguez
53. 16 JanYou Know It’s a Clusterfuck if emptywheel Agrees with PowerLine
54. 15 JanClusterfuck Vote #279
55. 15 JanFox Discovers Filipino Monkey
56. 15 JanThe Supplicant to Kings and “Entrepreneurs”
57. 15 JanNo Immunity, Yet, for Rodriguez
58. 14 JanInternational Republican Institute Endorses Accuracy of Exit Polls
59. 14 JanJohn Solomon’s Phone Records
60. 14 JanBush’s Empire: Making His Own Reality, NIE Edition
61. 14 JanClusterfuck Eve
62. 13 JanCIA Inspector General: We Never Had Any Torture Tapes!
63. 13 JanTrash Talk Too
64. 12 JanJournalists Name Former DC USA as Hatfill Leaker
65. 12 JanBack to War Against Eastasia…
66. 12 JanFilipino Monkey … Borat … Same Difference
67. 11 Janemptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread* – Division Playoff Edition
68. 11 JanBecause You’d All Be Sad without a “Borat Visits the Straits of Hormuz” Update
69. 11 JanFBI Tells Librarians: “Sssshhhhh!”
70. 11 JanTweety’s Angst
71. 11 JanBank of America Buys a Big Chunk of the Shitpile
72. 10 JanIs Dick Stealing from the US and Giving to His Friends, Again?
73. 10 JanPolling the Clusterfuck
74. 10 JanPentagon: Maybe that Borat Voice Came from a UFO
75. 10 JanDan Rather Gets Discovery
76. 10 JanThey Really Don’t Want Us Learning About the Torture Tapes, Do They?
77. 9 JanMichigan’s Clusterfuck: Prelude to a National Clusterfuck?
78. 9 JanAre We Faking It Again?
79. 9 JanMark Foley Falls into Pelosi’s Lap
80. 9 JanDickie Scruggs Timeline
81. 8 JanIt’s More than Just WHETHER the E-Mails Are On the Back-Ups
82. 8 JanTip Your Hat
83. 7 JanStupid DOJ Tricks: Don’t Watch this Bush Ad
84. 7 JanIs Dick Finally Going to Go After OBL?
85. 6 JanBoston’s Chief Judge: OPR Isn’t Doing Its Job
86. 5 JanMissing the Party
87. 5 JanJohn Yoo complains, “I am trapped on a plane in all of this bad weather”
88. 5 Janemptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk Thread – Wildcard Weekend Edition
89. 4 JanHow DOJ Put Off Confessing To Their Pixie Dust
90. 4 JanGet Caught in a Sting, Get Thrown Out of the USA, Get Gagged about It
91. 4 JanSteven Aftergood Takes on Pixie Dust
92. 4 Janemptywheel’s Quickie Analysis
93. 3 JanHelgerson’s Reports Will Remain Unchanged
94. 3 JanHarman’s Letter
95. 3 JanDurham’s Previous Run-In with Tribalism
96. 3 JanIs Pelosi Planning on Picking Bush’s Pocket?
97. 3 JanThe Sudden Change of Story on Iranian EFPs
98. 2 JanWhat Did Helgerson Do with the Torture Tapes?
99. 2 JanMukasey’s Statement
100. 2 JanDOJ Launches a Criminal Probe into Torture Tapes
101. 2 Jan2008, the Year of $100/Barrel Oil
102. 2 JanObama Still Running Third among Republicans?
103. 2 Jan9/11 Commission Decries Obstruction
104. 1 JanBhutto and State
105. 1 JanIs Dick Playing Games with Pakistan’s Election?