This Is Huge! ... Siegalman Released On Appeal!

At some point today, Karl Rove's shirt collar must have, inexplicably, tightened up on him.

Late today, perhaps the first whisps of justice finally seeped into the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegalman;

"Thursday’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta said Mr. Siegelman’s larger appeal had raised “substantial questions,” and so the former governor should be released from the federal prison where he has already served nine months of a seven-year sentence.

Well, that, pretty much, makes mincemeat out of the joke-of-a-trial-judge, Judge Mark E. Fuller.

Fuller, among other things during the trial, refused to grant Governor Siegalman bond, so he could be out of prison for his appeal (not to mention whisking him immediately to jail right from the courtroom, not giving the Governor the typical month, or so, to report to prison)

It's far from over, however, it loosens up a few bricks in that wet dream, one-party rule that railroaded Siegalman, with brick dust leaving a trail that goes all the way back to the Bush Grindhouse.

Here's some links to check out - and stay tuned to this, it could end up being a blockbuster that shreds any possible legacy of the thugs of the Bush Regime


The Raw Story: Siegelman released from jail, pending appeal

Larisa Alexandrovna: Siegelman out on appeal bond...

The Birmingham News: UPDATE: Siegelman to be released from prison Friday

Brad Blog: ALABAMA'S FORMER DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR FREED FROM PRISON PENDING APPEAL

Ben Smith: A victory for the blogosphere

Paul Kiel/TPM: House Panel to Seek Hearing with Jailed Alabama Ex-Gov


The Garlic has highlighted this case a few times and here's some links to help you get the back story

Larisa Alexandrovna has been all over what's going on in Alabama and you can catch up on the Siegelman Case here

So has Scott Horton, over at Harpers

And for the primer ...

The Permanent Republican Majority Part I

The Permanent Republican Majority Part II

The Permanent Republican Majority Part III

A Further Embellishment On The Appropriately Named CREEP

Boy, we all know what Nixon was, and the people around him ...

But man, it is a little jarring, thanks to some old, archived film, to realize just how much of the cream of the scum they had ...

Joan Walsh of Salon has a doozy ...

Young Karl Rove

And to see the full report, from the CBS Evening News of January 18th, 1972, you can check out Karl Rove, GOP College Director of the Republican National Committee, third pillar of the Nixon Campaign tripod (the other two being the White House and the Campaign for Re-Election of the President).

Rove-Nixon

To twist an old adage, the apple, with the razor blades in it, doesn't fall far from the tree

Or, as Joan writes;

"Yes, it reminded me why (many readers are too young to remember) the Committee to Re-elect the President was routinely referred to as "CREEP."

Bonus Links

The Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)

The Watergate Story

Watergate Plumber Chief Passes Away; E. Howard Hunt, Watergate Figure, Dead At 88; Nixon's Chief of Dirty Tricks Was Ex-CIA; Hand In Everything From Guatemala To Bay of Pigs













What lessons do you think the Young Karl Rove learned while working for Nixon's CREEP? How to turn out the vote, or how to run a scandal?

Karl Rove ... How Do I Push Thee? ... Let Me Count The Ways

Rumors, theories, speculation and just plain, juicy dirt abound across the regions of the World Wide Web ...

Of the many, many heads popping up to weigh in on Rove, one of them that stuck out above others was Joe Wilson, checking in to remind the MSM on Rove's involvement in the outing of a covert CIA agent ...

Rove resigns ... Explosion of news coverage, from cable-to-print-to-the-blogs ...

Hmmm ... What is that the Bush Grindhouse wants to get off the front pages?

• The motives of bamboozling the Democrats in passing the Bush Grindhouse's "No Oversight" FISA Law?
• The continued snow job on "the encouraging news from both Afghanistan and Iraq"?
• That the surge is working?
• That the other Vacation Man, Nuri al-Maliki, has called for an "crisis summit"?
• A video of Darth Vader, from about 10-years, or so, ago, extolling on how bad an idea it would be to invade and occupy Iraq?
• The unfolding U.S. Credit Market scandal, that may play out making Ponzi looking like a Quick-Change Artist?
• And what's just around the corner? ... The 3rd Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and the Bush Grindhouse's abandonment of an American City

Now, haven't we seen this movie before?

Doesn't this Bush Grindhouse have an unyielding tenacity to cover bad news attached to the Grindhouse with a "new" and "urgent" terror threat?

We can argue the terror value of Karl Rove, but it hasn't been that often that they've thrown a real human being, a staffer, under the al Qaeda-filled-Dirty Bomb-laden bus ... Former Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld got the boot a few days after the 2006 Mid-Term elections, to change the conversation away from the miserable thumping the GOP received - courtesy of the new, Rovian 'The Math".

And what followed Rumsfeld's melted snowflakes, just a handful of weeks after his carcass was left on the doorstep?

The Surge!

Rove walks away the second week of August, and what's coming down the pipeline in September?

The Golden Boy, the man with the plan - General David Petraeus and his tablets from the mountain, the much-heralded status report on ...

The Surge!

How Do I Push Thee ... Let Me Count The Ways

Now, in the parlance of the Grindhouse, these "dead enders" who just want to throw mud on Rove, and build up the stature of the White House Chief of Staff ... Give him a big (and in Rove's case, that's literal, not figurative) scalp to hang on his wall.

After all, it was widely reported how Bo Boy bellowed out his Labor Day edict of you're either with us or against us, and Rove cowered, choosing to slink out the door.

Can't really buy into that one ... For however proficient Bo Boy is, he definitely doesn't have the balls, let alone the power, to push Rove out the door.

If there was a hint out there today, it may have come from The New York Times, ever so the cheerleader of the Bush Grindhouse and its' Rovian spin, whether it was Judy Miller in the past, or Michael Gordon in the present, today, blaming the Turd Blossom for the weak display in the Iowa Straw Poll, and spelling out doom for the GOP ...

Now where would that line of thought come from?

Perhaps from a former RNC Chairman ... Someone who was very much at the crime scene during the theft of the 2000 election ... Someone who just came aboard, to replace another person who was leaving to spend more time with his family ...

Ed Gillespie.

"As structured under Bush and Bartlett, the position of White House counselor has been a free-ranging adviser with broad authority over communications, as well as a hand in policy and almost everything else that comes across the president's desk. Both Bolten and Gillespie suggested that model will continue, though officials said it is unlikely that Gillespie will be able to fully replace Bartlett, who worked with Bush for almost 14 years and enjoyed an unusual rapport with him."

The GOP has to know the retaining the Oval Office is a pipe dream.

Thanks to the dead weight of Bush, and his insistence on staying in Iraq, the Dems could trot out the cadaver from "Weekend at Bernie's" and walk away with the 2008 election.

It's downstream that they have there eyes on ... Go for retaking the Congress, or, at minimum, cut the majority down to tie-up efforts of the incoming Dem Pres.

And after the drubbing they took in November 2006, me thinks the RNC had to be squawking - loudly - that they were going back to their old multiplication tables, having no stomach for more of that Rovian 'The Math".

In sum, the base, the rank-and-file, don't think of endearing images when they hear the words "Turd Blossom".

"Always the dollars. Always the fucking dollars."

With the Bush Brain Boy staring at multiple investigations, and his lantern empty of any new Genies, there's going to be a run on Geiger Counters in those flaming Red States.

It will come in whispers, blind items, "a former staffer on the Hill" ... Rove did this ... Rove did that ... That was Rove's fault ... Nothing will come out of the Grindhouse, at least not attributable, but it will come ...

Rove blew the 2006 election ... The Bush Policy Legacy?... And that big, dominating, GOP dynasty? ... Karl Rove failed and the crowd he runs with can, and will be, very unforgiving.

It's like in Casino, with Joe Pesci lamenting about the bosses, that it's "Always the dollars. Always the fucking dollars."

Karl Rove has been cashed out.

He's not an earner any longer.

Bonus RovePalooza Links

The Mahablog: Filed under: Bush Administration

Martin Lewis: Give Karl Rove The Ultimate Gift!

Arianna Huffington: Rove Exits with his Usual M.O.: Delusional, Fanatical, and Deceptive

Think Progress: Karl Rove’s Record Of Failed Predictions

Jane Hamsher: Why Don’t Journalists Just Tell Us What They Know?

R.J. Eskow: Finding True Rove -- And That 'Book-Reading' Contest With the President




















I Sing the Body Electric

Perp Walk Delayed ... Rove Deep-Sixes Himself!

No Friday night dump for this felon ... Er, fellow ...

No siree-bob, the Blossom Turd gets, not just one, but two banner blow jobs from the Wall Street Journal.

The well-worn "time with my family" mantra is the overriding reason Rove is taking it on the arches at the end of the month. Bo Boy, Chief of Staff Josh Bolten also threw a snit, barking at the Grindhouse staff that you can take the life raft now, but if you stay past Labor Day, you're going down with the ship.

Quite the Office Pool dilemma today ...

Does The Decider guy get all choked up and misty in today's scheduled announcement on the South Lawn, before The Vacation Guy heads down to Crawford?

Or, how many times does The Commander Guy reference, and/or tie-in, al Qaeda in Iraq to Rove's resignation?

Wonder if Nancy Pelosi will pass up her tanning day on Stinson Beach to check on where the investigations are at, and what this announcement does to them.

Maybe Rove "did The Math", and sees that there's an even a bigger shit train coming in these last 17-months, one that may, doubtful, but possibly, get Rove out of the history books as being the "Architect" of the worst U.S. Presidency of all-time.

Maybe it was just "Bush Fatigue".

They don't call'em the "Dog Days of August" for nothing.

There'll be more on this ... Oh yeah, much more ...

Bonus Links

TalkLeft: Court Reissues PlameGate Opinion Adding Karl Rove's Name

Truthout-The Free Press: Are Rove's Missing Emails the Smoking Guns of the Stolen 2004 Election?

Oxymoron of the Day: Karl Rove at an Idea Festival

White House In Crises, As Rove Takes Credit For North Korean Nuke Test; Sources Say ‘Bush’s Brain” Weary From Sinking Polls, Fundraising; Too Tired To Come Up With New October Surprise













Two Peas In A Pod ... A Secret Pod ... An Executive Privileged, Classified Pod ...