PlameGate: Now taking all bets.

[esskreemr]

Considering the US Politicos' penchant for distracting the public eye from less-than-pleasant political news (Dems use this tactic frequently as well). What will the smokescreen be to divert the public's eye when the indictments have been released?

I would make this a poll, but that would be too limiting.

I say Monday or Tuesday of next week at the latest:

1) Raise the terror alert claiming that credible information is pointing to a terrorist attack on a major urban center.

2) Appoint the most radically right, morally conservative nominee that they can find for the Supreme Court.

3) Invade Syria in a quick, limited ground-force strike.

4) Declare Patrick Fitzgerald an 'enemy combatant' to be indefinitely detained at Gitmo.

5) Declare martial law because of the impending Avian Bird Flu pandemic.

[Epee_Pox]

Appoint a "Language Czar" to investigate, prosecute and prevent the lazy news-media-created abuses of language. (E.g., most New York Post headlines, the combining of celebrity couples' names into a single word, or the naming of a scandal du jour with "gate" tacked on the end.)

Scandal will erupt when William Safire is passed over for the nomination. The media will dub it "Gate-gate."

[esskreemr]

2) Appoint the most radically right, morally conservative nominee that they can find for the Supreme Court.

Ok, that's one. Dems counter by closing Senate session and demanding that the Intelligence Committee completes the long promised phase II.

Next...

[MHS Fencer]

Now, now, Alito's not that radical, I mean marriage is a property contract - the husband owns the wife. If the wife wants to have an abortion, quite clearly she needs her husband's permission to do away with a part of his property!

That said, I think you're a bit too cynical - I mean, we'll see where the line in the sand is drawn, but it seems like they picked a partisan candidate to have a slugfest, but not somebody who's so far out as to have no chance.

Oh, and they'll do their best to have Libby take the fall, but don't worry, in the end they always take care of their boys, so even if he spends time in jail, he'll have a nice cushy job when he comes out (unlike say, all the past drug offenders who aren't even eligible for gov't assitance from Katrina).

[Fencing Jesus]

Appoint a "Language Czar" to investigate, prosecute and prevent the lazy news-media-created abuses of language. (E.g., most New York Post headlines, the combining of celebrity couples' names into a single word, or the naming of a scandal du jour with "gate" tacked on the end.)

Scandal will erupt when William Safire is passed over for the nomination. The media will dub it "Gate-gate."

They have one of these in Iceland.

Every couple years they purge the language of foreign based words.

[esskreemr]

Patric Fitzgerald on the Libby indictments:

''I would have wanted nothing better," he said, ''that when the subpoenas were issued in August of 2004, witnesses testified then, and we would have been here in October of 2004 instead of October of 2005."

Ahhh... if we only know then what we know now. Which actually, is practically nothing.

[Have At You]

Well, of course he's referring to the completely unnecessary delay between the time witnesses were subpoenaed last year, and when they actually got around to testifying (or testilying, as the case may be). Just a huge waste of time, money and other resources that would have been avoided if the witnesses just showed up when they were supposed to.

[Have At You]

Appoint a "Language Czar" to investigate, prosecute and prevent the lazy news-media-created abuses of language. (E.g., most New York Post headlines, the combining of celebrity couples' names into a single word, or the naming of a scandal du jour with "gate" tacked on the end.)

Scandal will erupt when William Safire is passed over for the nomination. The media will dub it "Gate-gate."

Beautiful.

[esskreemr]

Well, of course he's referring to the completely unnecessary delay between the time witnesses were subpoenaed last year, and when they actually got around to testifying (or testilying, as the case may be). Just a huge waste of time, money and other resources that would have been avoided if the witnesses just showed up when they were supposed to.

Yes, that's called obstructing justice. One of the charges in the indictments.

[Maeve_Mari]

Now, now, Alito's not that radical, I mean marriage is a property contract - the husband owns the wife. If the wife wants to have an abortion, quite clearly she needs her husband's permission to do away with a part of his property!

Husbands don't own wives. I expect that you will remain single for a long time to come.

[Have At You]

Yes, that's called obstructing justice. One of the charges in the indictments.

Good. I think obstruction of justice, perjury, and related crimes against the justice system itself ought to be prosecuted and punished far more severely than they are.

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Husbands don't own wives. I expect that you will remain single for a long time to come.

Hell, even I caught the irony intended in that one! BTW, there are women for that kind of man also - just look around at marriages around you.


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[davesaint]

Hi!




Hell, even I caught the irony intended in that one! BTW, there are women for that kind of man also - just look around at marriages around you.


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

Your right. They usually come via mail order.

[pigeonmeister]

6) Get a pompous British future king (I can't wait) and his horsey looking wife to come visit for drinks and a lecture on climate control.

I think Clinton used to throw a few cruise missiles at 'terrorist camps' when the going go tough, that might work.

Out of interest what do you Yanks make of our King in waiting?

[Fencing Jesus]

I'm offended that you thing I'm an American.

It's bad enuff that I am forsed to live here.

[Have At You]

Out of interest what do you Yanks make of our King in waiting?

Well, he's only just out of school, but the teen magazines love him so he must be good.

[Inquartata]

I'm offended that you thing I'm an American.

It's bad enuff that I am forsed to live here.

"Here"? Your bio says "Location: Heaven". So you must think America is Heaven...or that Heaven is in America. And yet you don't want to be there?

You messiahs are so inscrutable.

[Slim]

Out of interest what do you Yanks make of our King in waiting?

Who cares. He's a powerless figurehead.

[Slim]

I'm offended that you thing I'm an American.

It's bad enuff that I am forsed to live here.

Then get back in your low rider and head back across the border, homes.

[achilleus]

I'm offended that you thing I'm an American.

It's bad enuff that I am forsed to live here.

I'm not the real Jesus, you silly. I'm just a Mexican guy named Jesus

And just where do you think Mexico is located?