Manny brings up Fitzmas

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025126884

Oh my.

You know, we didn't celebrate Fitzmas this year (it took place on May 12, 2006)--not that everyone forgot, but that conservativecave was down.

<<<never forgets Fitzmas.

MannyGoldstein (27,296 posts)    Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:07 PM

The return of Fitzmas.

There is talk of Governor's Walker and Christie being prosecuted. I think that's pretty unlikely. Perhaps you've noticed that top-tier Republicans are (like bankers) a protected class in today's DOJ, and among law enforcement in general. They get the "look forward, not backward" treatment.
 
I hope I'm wrong.

montanacowboy (3,520 posts)    Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:18 PM

2. Unfortunate but so true

we can all remember Fitzmas and what happened there

I am not holding my breath

Just take a look around and see what's on the news channels - war criminals anyone? still out there and still being given credibility

FiveGoodMen (14,620 posts)    Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:55 PM

3. First thing I though of as well

Crossing fingers ... not holding breath.

riverwalker (7,257 posts)       Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:18 PM

4. we all got a lump of coal on Fitzmas

deutsey (18,017 posts)    Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:22 PM

5. I'd love to see these two go down in flames

but you're right: Republicans are immune to justice.

Isn't Fitzmas already over, for Scott Walker?

[thundley4]

The courts have ordered the release of some of the documents in the witch hunt against Walker.  The DUmmies think there is proof of his guilt, but it highlights the illegal methods used to pursue Walker.

[GOBUCKS]

Not a word from the alcoholic Pitt on this Fitzmas thead.

Too bad. He had a unique perspective.

Probably already passed out drunk this afternoon.

He's never had a job, but I'm sure he celebrates TGIF.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Not a word from the alcoholic Pitt on this Fitzmas thead.

Too bad. He had a unique perspective.

Probably already passed out drunk this afternoon.

He's never had a job, but I'm sure he celebrates TGIF.

Any day that ends in "y" works for Pitt.

[franksolich]

In case one's forgotten, or never knew:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1186820

WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 01:42 PM
Original message

I just got off the phone with Jason Leopold

who clarified something for me that is pretty damned important. In his article, he said:

"During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning."

In point of fact, those 24 hours are "business hours," i.e. starting on Monday.

"Jeez, Jason," I said, "we might want to put that into the essay. Half the planet thought 24 hours was 24 hours. They thought the deal would go down today."

To be fair, a dozen eyes looked at that article yesterday before we published it, mine included, and none of us caught that. The word "business" has been inserted into the story after "hours" where it belongs:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306W.shtml

So. Monday at the very earliest, but more like Tuesday or Wednesday.

I'm going to go take a nap and then go get drunk with some friends tonight. Dan's brother Ken, the airline pilot and all-around wild-man, is in town for the weekend. Gonna be the Linwood Cafe, and their Mojo from the nitrogen tap, and then around again to our usual gathering spot.

I'd repeat everything I've said about Jason's multiple independent sources, about how the MSMs failure to pick this up sounds more like more of the same old shit than anything ominous, about how no hard paper or announcements or anything will come until, at a minimum, the government re-opens for business on Monday...but I've written it all already.

The truth will out. It always does.

Later, gators.

malaise (1000+ posts)  Sun May-14-06 01:47 PM
Response to Original message

8. I've been drinking champagne

since your first post on the indictments. I'll pop some more when MSM plays catch up.

RagAss (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 02:02 PM
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40. Thanks Will...let me be the first to apologize for my expressions of doubt

...this makes sense and I look forward to Tuesday.

WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 02:03 PM
Response to Reply #40

42. Absolutely no apologies necessary.

Doubt is good.

alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 04:00 PM
Response to Original message

76. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing....

WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Sun May-14-06 06:00 PM
Response to Reply #76

103. You seem to have

an awful lot invested in the idea that this story is wrong.

[ScubaGuy]

The courts have ordered the release of some of the documents in the witch hunt against Walker.  The DUmmies think there is proof of his guilt, but it highlights the illegal methods used to pursue Walker.

Just say the drive crashed and the documents are gone.  What's the big deal?

[franksolich]

I'll never forget that day, Friday, May 12, 2006.

Drunken Bill had promised the primitives earlier in that week that it was all coming down on May 12, and the primitives got all agog and excited about it.

I was of course concerned, and so early in that day, Friday, I set the computer on the Drudge Report, to constantly "refresh" the page so I'd be one of the first to know when Karl Rove was indicted, and I could carry the scoop to freerepublic.

I sat at the computer for ten hours, constantly pushing the "refresh" button.

By noon, the mouse on the computer had worn out from overuse, and I had to hurriedly install a new one (I always keep spare mice on hand).

Even by 6:00 p.m. central time, which was 7:00 p.m. eastern time, nothing had happened.

<<<has distrusted drunken Bill ever since.