Ditto thanks to bmaz!
Regarding “spread so thin”: I think this is actually part of the Rove strategy: Throw so much sh*t around that we’re all running around looking like the Marx brother’s version of a Chinese fire drill trying to clean it all up, while the sh*t makers are in the back rooms doing yet more dirty work. Since Speaker Pelosi has given them all a free pass until 2009, what is there to constrain them? Congress won’t do what it is supposed to do, thanks to Pelosi, and the clock is being run out in the Courts.

I guess all we can hope for is that they will screw up so badly that even Congress and the Courts will finally wake up to their responsibilities. And hubris makes people do strange things…

Bob in HI

I had read what Professor Cole had to say on that subject. Is anyone surprised it was spun that way by the wingers?

But this really struck a chord:

Odds are the case will be thrown out or withdrawn before trial. But it will last long enough for Fisher to spew mud until well past the November election, making it just one variable in Karl’s math. When the next Attorney General withdraws the case for lack of merit, Rove & Company will screech about favoritism and politicizing a Department of Justice that they left pure as the driven snow.

Part of the ALA and the AALL (Am Assn Law Librarians) work the next few years is probably going to require better explaining to the public how dysfunctional the Bush DoJ has been. Given the enormous sums of $$ that legal work represents (within the ‘professional services’ sector), this is simply critical for the financial health of the legal professions, IMHO.

Why is anyone going to pony up big sums for legal work if the system of justice is viewed as so corrupt, dysfunctional, or inept that people move their intellectual property (patents, trademarks) to the EU and rely on overseas or international entities to protect their financial investments because the US legal system has been so sullied and debased that it’s not worth their time, money, and energy?

These DoJ people have no clue about the financial impacts on businesses, the US economy, and international trade. (And those are only a few of the reasons they’re reprehensible.)

http://www.npr.org/templates/r…..hp?prgId=3

Allegedly Iranian President Ahmadenijads words about Israel have been spun and misinterpreted by the radical right, at least according to Prof Juan Cole and a few others. But Hillary did say “obliterate” frightening!

http://www.juancole.com/2007/0…..mitic.html

As most of my readers know, Ahmadinejad did not use that phrase in Persian. He quoted an old saying of Ayatollah Khomeini calling for ‘this occupation regime over Jerusalem” to “vanish from the page of time.’ Calling for a regime to vanish is not the same as calling for people to be killed. Ahmadinejad has not to my knowledge called for anyone to be killed. (Wampum has more; as does the American Street).

Sure looks like it