Maddow tries to cure crank-“expert” and “former homosexual” Richard Cohen of his belief that he can “cure” homosexuality.
You know it’s bad when the second thing Alberto Gonzales says in an interview with Esquire is given an asterisk that directs you to more complete rendering of the facts the former attorney general is asserting.
But despite his pathological deceptiveness, Gonzales manages to be unintentionally very revealing about the U.S. attorney firings scandal which ultimately cost him his job as head of the most politicized Justice Department since at least the Nixon Administration. The mistake, you see, wasn’t that he let politics intrude on the the functioning of DOJ, it was that he and the White House didn’t pay enough attention to politics:
We should have abandoned the idea of removing the U. S. attorneys once the Democrats took the Senate. Because at that point we could really not count on Republicans to cut off investigations or help us at all with investigations. We didn’t see that at the Department of Justice. Nor did the White House see that. Karl didn’t see it. If we could do something over again, that would be it.
Repentant? Not so much.
The cost of the climate change proposals being debated at Copenhagen are small relative to the size of the world economy. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Clarence Thomas takes “swipe” at Sonia Sotomayor’s first Supreme Court opinion.
Missouri GOP pol in S&M/assault scandal fought to keep gay sex illegal.
Who to believe on climate change mystery: scientists or conservative pundits? Any thoughts?
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) likes the buy-in compromise. But that’s not entirely surprising to me. He’s a Schumer protege and it’s probably Schumer’s deal. More striking to me is that Bernie Sanders says the new deal may well be better than the watered-down Public Option that was on offer. And Howard Dean gives it the thumbs up too.
Harkin doesn’t like it; but he says he’ll support it.
Joe Lieberman not biting on the compromise deal in the Senate for health care reform.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) busts the White-House-ACORN conspiracy wide open.