Bush Crime Family Member Monica Goodling Refuses To Speak To House Judiciary Committee

    Monica Goodling's lawyers have said that this crook will not testify in public nor in private about the prosecutor's who were fired for political reasons.

    Remember that she has stated that she would use her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid the hearings that the Congress has been conducting.

   Once upon a time in never, never land, when things were going the Bush way, this woman was the senior counsel to Alberto Gonzales. You remember him, do you not?  He's the United States Attorney General who is charge of the Justice Department in this country. That is, when he is not George Bush's personal attorney, which is all of the time.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers panel spokesman, wrote in a statement, "It is unfortunate that Mr. Dowd has injected such bizarre and overheated rhetoric into a good faith exchange about whether Ms. Goodling would voluntarily agree to be interviewed behind closed doors by the committee."   This was after lawyers for  Goodling ( John Dowd and Jeffrey King ) wrote that,

 "recent suggestions to the contrary are unfortunately reminiscent of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who infamously labeled those who asserted their constitutional right to remain silent before his committee 'Fifth Amendment Communists.'"

   If the shoe fits. Once again, if this woman has nothing to hide about her activities and those for whom she worked, why not testify and say what you know. This is supposed to be the Republican Family Values and Christian group, after all.

   Conyers' spokesman also said, "It is also disappointing, in light of earlier pledges of cooperation, that the Justice Department stands idly by while a staff member, still on its payroll, refuses to cooperate with Congress."

   So Goodling's lawyers are telling the investigative committee that there is no point in calling her to speak since she is going to plead the Fifth.

  I tend to believe differently. Let the public see and hear her plead to the Fifth Amendment so the we will all know that she is hiding all of those goodies inside her head just to keep Gonzales and Bush out of the storm.

  To bad that she cannot be charged with contempt.

 

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John McCain Doesn't Know When To Quit

   While the old war horse John McCain trudges on, there are a few who think that maybe the old mare should be lead out to pasture as he has gotten to old and worn out.

"I was a strong backer of McCain last time," said George Carlisle, a retired corporate executive from Portsmouth. "The guy was magical. I don't think he's the man he was seven years ago. He's done. Stick a fork in him, he's done."

"Compared to a year ago, he's not doing so well," said Dick Bennett, a New Hampshire-based pollster. "He's lost support. It isn't like it was eight years ago. He's holding his own, but it isn't anything like it was."

"He's trying too hard to appeal to all parts of the Republican Party. Appealing to all parts of the party is a death knell," Carlisle said. "He looks old and tired. He is old and tired."

"I like McCain," said Tracey Tucker of Portsmouth, a project manager for a nonprofit organization. "But he doesn't have that spark anymore. I don't think he's a maverick anymore."

"It's not a safe place to be. You scratch the surface of the conservative base, and find they're pretty disgusted with Bush too. It isn't working for him. It could be, but at the moment, it isn't."

   Throw the has-been some hay and then let him go out to graze. John McCain is not the man he used to be and he will never be again. He hasn't learned that the public ( except the 28% who view Fox News )  has actually seen the light and that his flip-flops are wore out.

   All disrespect fully intended

 

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