In the coming weeks/months we're going to have a special election here in California's 50th Congressional District for someone to replace convicted felon Randy "Brother can you spare a Rolls Royce" Cunningham. Some of the more ignorant on the left end of the political spectrum believe that this is an excellent chance for Democrats to […]
Apparently someone hit him with a tire iron and knocked some sense into him. WASHINGTON - Sen. Arlen Specter backed off a threat to have a Senate subcommittee investigate whether the NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles violated antitrust laws in their handling of Terrell Owens. Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said yesterday that […]
When politicians in Washington decided that it was time to get themselves on the evening news a few months ago, they decided to call a bunch of baseball players before their committee and question them about steroids. Well, they got themselves on TV, and earned the general public's disgust with their grandstanding. Not content to […]
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty today in federal court to tax evasion, wire and mail fraud and conspiring to accept bribes. As evidence of the sometimes unevenness of this business, the San Diego Union-Tribune first broke the story about Cunningham's windfall house sale which in turn prompted the federal investigation. Cunningham will rightly be […]
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby today on five counts related to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name. You can read the indictment here. [PDF document] Libby faces charges of one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements. Here's a few […]
There's supposed to be indictment(s) handed down today in Nadagate -- more commonly known as the "Plame Affair." (That sounds like a title for a Robert Ludlum novel.) The New York Times is reporting that I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, will be indicted for allegedly making false statements to the […]
That's how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi likes to describe the Republicans in Congress, but let's not forget the Democrats in St. Louis or Washington State.
Tom Delay turned himself in earlier today on Travis County (Texas) prosecutor Ronnie Earle's bogus campaign finance charges and had his mug shot taken. DeLay doesn't look the least bit worried, because it's very likely that the case is going to be laughed out of court. So, write a caption in the comments, show your […]
Travis County prosecutor Ronnie Earle has revealed that he doesn't have the smoking gun list of candidates and money amounts that are at the heart of his indictment of Republican Tom DeLay. Travis County prosecutors admitted Friday they lack physical proof of a list of Republican candidates that is at the heart of money-laundering indictments […]
Former House Majority leader Tom DeLay was indicted again today, apparently after DeLay's lawyers pointed out that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle shouldn't be practicing law -- or at least should be practicing a whole lot more because he sure doesn't have it down. Travis County prosecutors rushed Monday to fix problems with an […]