This changes everything:
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who quietly advanced the conservative ideology of the Supreme Court under his leadership, died Saturday evening. He was 80.
The justice, diagnosed with thyroid cancer, had a tracheotomy and received chemotherapy and radiation as part of his treatment.
Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Rehnquist had “continued to perform his duties on the Court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.”
After being absent on the stage throughout the hurricane disaster, Vice President Cheney was photographed at the White House today standing next to Karl Rove in the Rose Garden just prior to President Bush’s live radio broadcast.
Mr. Cheney was reported to be on vacation in Wyoming until now, and there have been reports that he is ill.
MSNBC just announced that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco has hired former FEMA Director James Lee Witt to serve as the state’s liaison with federal disaster efforts.
Witt is a native of Arkansas, and was selected in 1988 by then-Governor Bill Clinton to head the Arkansas Office of Emergency Services, and Witt moved with Clinton to Washington to head FEMA, which at the same time was elevated to cabinet-level. Clinton used FEMA more than any other president, declaring disasters 348 times. Witt heads a disaster consulting firm, James Lee Witt Associates, LLC.
Silly liberals – how could you even suggest that conservatives would rig an election?
Two Cuyahoga County elections officials were indicted Tuesday on charges of not handling ballots correctly during the recount of the 2004 presidential election.
Kathleen Dreamer, manager of the board’s ballot department, and the assistant manager, Rosie Grier, were each charged with six counts of failing to follow Ohio laws that spell out how ballots are selected and reviewed during a recount.
The most serious charges carry a maximum of 18 months in prison…
The charges stem from a complaint first raised last December by Toledo lawyer Richard Kerger, who … charged that elections officials failed to randomly select precincts that were supposed to be counted by hand and compared against ballots tabulated by a machine; conduct test-runs before witnesses; and investigate discrepancies between vote totals.
Baxter would not offer details of his investigation but said he examined allegations that officials took “measures in order to all but assure that there would not be a countywide hand count.”
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) tried to distance himself from his published statements that the ruined city of New Orleans should be “bulldozed,” now saying he supports rebuilding the city its levees are repaired:
Hastert was still reeling from reaction to his comments earlier this week about the storm-ravaged city. “It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed,” he said in an interview with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill. Asked whether it made sense to spend billions of dollars rebuilding a city that lies below sea level, he told the paper, “I don’t know. That doesn’t make sense to me.”
Hastert later issued a statement saying he was not “advocating that the city be abandoned or relocated.” But Louisiana Democrats were incensed. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco demanded an apology. “To kick us when we’re down and destroy hope, when hope is the only thing we have left,” she said, “is absolutely unthinkable for a leader in his position.”
Hastert also found himself making excuses for not showing up in Washington to shepherd a bill through the House of Representatives that provided $10.5 billion in disaster relief for hurricane victims. Instead, he attended a campaign fundraising event for a colleague and a charity event, which he said benefited disaster relief efforts.
There’s no word on whether the Republican House Speaker also went shoe shopping or played golf while thousands of Americans were sick and dying in the streets.
To hear Trump talk, he’s the only one
Who’s ever stood trial for crimes he’s done.
But instead of courtroom drama,
We get Trump in his pajamas,
That’s how he earned his new nickname: Don Snoreleone.
