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KT
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Yeah but not for the reasons put forth by the cable networks. Quite a bit of it had to do with his behavior campaigning for McCain, but hardly any Cable News shows point out that he also campaigned for Coleman and Collins also. And the biggest outrage in the blogosphere is that he hasn't investigated anything as the chairman of HSC even though he campaigned on the pledge that he would investigate the heck out of the government response to katrina. Check out this clip of Nora Odonnell trying to get Markos to act like some kind of raving lunatic to play into the "crazy lefty blogger" meme and how dissappointed she seems when it doesn't work.
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I just disagree Dirks. You seem to feel that whole investigation into the politicization of the Justice Department was easy. It wasn't, and it's not over. And by any honest measure it sure wasn't "nothing".

Thanks for the clarification KT. 1994-2000 had split government. 2000-2006 had 4 years of one party rule and that was the current republican party which was lock step with president.
I guess time will tell over the next 4 years.

PNNTO
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You do have to admit though that it was pretty easy to offer up Gonzales as the sacrificial lamb especially considering the Congress never made him answer any tough questions that they asked him. It was just as easy as getting Rumsfield to resign 2 years ago. And I think the point Paul Dirks is making (hope I am not speaking out of turn) Is that both of those measures served to whet the public's appetite enough that many of them stopped watching the AG's office closely as they also stopped watching the actions in GITMO closely. It was like they felt that with those two gone everything was all good again. But as we have seen the AG's office is still crooked as hell and highly politicized and there is still torture going on at GITMO. Getting rid of Gonzales was truly the easiest thing Bush could have done to make people back off. But to his chagrin the purges from the AG's office story just won't go away. But its not because of the Congress thats for sure especially since they aren't even trying to enforce their subpoenas.

Paul-no not that one,

We're probably disagreeing less than we are talking past each other.
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When your dealing with an administration that has perfected stonewalling as an art form and feels no compunction whatsoever at thumbing its nose at subpeonas or any other notion that it answers to anyone but itself then any sort of investigation is exceedingluy difficult and certainly credit is due for what's been accomplished. But I still perceive AG the AG as being not only totally corrupt but incompetently so, that taking him out was significantly less difficult than the things that I see as equally important that I doubt will ever sucessfully be called into account.

Cliff: Actually, that is his old job. There's going to be a whole lot less investigating going on with Democrats controlling both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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There's a backlog.....

atrios likes to point out that they do stuff just to piss liberals off. The joyous "drill baby drill" chants. The purple heart bandaids. Rush specializes in this kind of mindless, contentless ridicule ("feminazi"). The ash tray is that kind of thing.

On the backlog, the real question is whether legitimate investigation into lawless behavior over the last 8 years (and there was plenty of it) will be treated as "political" by the Village.

I hear you Dirks. I will say that I HOPE that the new congress will be more effective.
The incredible volume of things to fix is really almost too much to comprehend.

DIdn't Atrios have a "Mustache of..." nickname for Friedman? The Mustache of Understanding?