Looks like we’ll just have to keep waiting for the first verdict of the Abramoff scandal. They’re having some juror trouble in the David Safavian trial.
Mark Schmitt on Rove. Needs to take stock of his life post-Plame. Prioritize which crimes are most important to commit. Etc.
Lewis investigation player Jeffrey Shockey makes a cameo in Jack Abramoff’s capitalist paradise.
If it ain’t Texas, it all looks the same to him: Tom DeLay slips, tells legions of Virginia voters he has re-registered in “Northern California.” This and more news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
The latest muck on Jeffrey Shockey, the staffer-then-lobbyist-then-staffer of the scandal surrounding Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) – an analysis by Roll Call shows that the fees from Shockey’s former clients jumped almost across the board the year after he left the firm. (Remember, Shockey had a special arrangement where he got to keep drawing that money even after he was back on Rep. Lewis’s staff.) That meant more money for Shockey, who ultimately pocketed $1.96 million.
Sound fishy to you?
Sen. Coburn (R-OK) against Net Neutrality; Sen. Feingold (D-WI) apparently for it.
Dennis Hastert (R-IL) shows everybody how easy it is to make a mint on real estate when you’re Speaker of the House.
I just noticed on Atrios’ site that not only is Joe Lieberman not willing to pledge to support the winner of the Democratic primary in Connecticut, apparently Chuck Schumer (my senator here in NY and head of the Dems’ senate campaign committee) isn’t either.
Now, I’m just sort of hanging back and watching this. Not taking any sides. Just an observer. But doesn’t Schumer have some sort of obligation to at least nominally support the winner of the primary? I don’t mean this rhetorically. I’m genuinely curious. It’s well understood that in practice the campaign committee isn’t neutral in a contest like this. But usually there’s a pretty high bar in place for abandoning the winner of the primary. The David Duke situation down in Louisiana under the first President Bush comes to mind. But I’m not sure I can think of another example.
Some notable defections from the Congressional Black Caucus’ stand on Rep. William Jefferson’s (D-LA) committee membership.