Capital Turns Cold for Bush

[babylonsister]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3155.html

Capital Turns Cold for Bush

By: Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen
March 15, 2007 08:39 AM EST


The subject line of the e-mail says, "A widening scandal," like a tabloid tease. It's from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (personally, according to the "From" line), urging supporters to endorse an online petition calling for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign.

At the same time that plea hit inboxes Wednesday morning, Republicans and Democrats alike were feasting on 144 pages of internal administration e-mail, as juicy as the contents of a divorce file. Sent to Capitol Hill and immediately posted on the Web by Democrats, the memos show that the reshuffling of the U.S. attorney roster was carried out in a baldly political fashion, complete with talk of "woodshedding" the recalcitrant and "following through once the pressure comes."

It's a fiasco that could not have happened four months ago. The furor over the replacement of eight federal prosecutors reveals how radically the Republican wipeout in November, coupled with a looming presidential election, have transformed Washington politics.

Three new dynamics have given the scandal its punch and foreshadow a brutal political season: Democratic presidential candidates eager to confront the administration; congressional Democrats whose requests are now demands; and GOP presidential hopefuls reluctant to associate with -- much less defend -- a wounded president.

Republicans are fretting, and Democrats are fantasizing, about what the debacle foretells for the next year and half.

"We've only had subpoena power for the last six weeks and every tree that we've barked up so far has had a cat in it," said a senior Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly. "Imagine where we'll be after six months."

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[terip64]

1. kick and recommend!

[hlthe2b]

2. Politico.com obviously has no editors...

It is "Capitol," idiots, not Capital... I thought politico was the brainchild of wapo hotshots....:shrug:

[babylonsister]

6. I think they're right; Capitol refers to the building. From dictionary.com:

That caught my eye, too.

—Usage note The noun capital refers to a city or town that is the seat of government; to a capital letter as opposed to a lowercase letter; and to wealth or resources. The noun Capitol refers primarily to the building in Washington, D.C., in which Congress sits or to similar buildings used by state legislatures.

[hlthe2b]

9. No.. they are saying the (Place) Capitol has turned cold

He may have no capital (referring to money, cache', clout), but the Capitol (Washington, DC =place) has turned cold

[babylonsister]

13. Except they use "Capitol" in the article, indicating to me they

know the difference. Whatever...

[hlthe2b]

16. no.. just means they didn't edit...

Their usage was clearly wrong-- as it appears in a formally posted article. These are big wig former WAPO "journalists" who are supposedly creating the "end-all" in political blogs-- not merely posting informal comments on another's blog, or in a live forum. As such, I DO expect them to be able to proof their own material at the level of a high school student. :shrug:


I don't quite understand why you draw a conclusion they may know the difference, since at one point in the article they use the correct form in a quite different context. Whether they know the difference or not is sort of immaterial, don't you think?

[TankLV]

18. Ain't English wonderful?!

and imagine, we could be taling about ISSUES instead of being school marms...

[hlthe2b]

19. So, you don't find it a bit galling that these hotshot WAPO

stenographers, er, eh, "journalists" can't even write an article using correct grammar, nor hire an editor to do so? This wasn't an informal posting...

And, yes, I talk about substative issues all day long, as I"m sure do YOU. However, I'd also like to think that our educational system and our systems of written media are not going the way of GW BUsh*

So, take your snide comments elsewhere, TankLV. :eyes:

[Divernan]

8. True, but maybe his (capital) donors have turned cold also.

Isn't he still pandering for $$$$ for his presidential liberry?

[hlthe2b]

11. He has no capital (i.e., cache, clout, $$), but the Capitol (DC)

has turned cold. And, yes, I certainly do hope he has lost all his "capital" i.e., donors as well.

[MissMarple]

14. Political capital?

As in he's used it all up. :shrug:

An editor may have placed the title, but a direct reference isn't in the article.

[hlthe2b]

15. Except for "political capital" .... runs cold?

doesn't make sense even assuming the loosest "slang" usage.

[gratuitous]

3. Every tree has had a cat in it

I don't quite know what to make about the characterization that Democrats are "fantasizing" about bringing a little accountability back to the government. And why in the world is all of this coming out only when Democrats finally took back the majority in Congress? Where have Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen been for the last five years that all of this corruption slipped under their journalistic noses? Or is it now popular and kewl for the kidz to actually, you know, report on what's going on around them?

Thanks for your stawart defense of the country, O snoozing sentries of the body politic in the Fourth Estate; the grown-ups will take it from here.

[babylonsister]

7. The rest of the article is pretty snarky; you can tell what viewpoint

politico.com writes from, especially Mike Allen. :eyes:

[Atman]

4. "Every tree has had a cat in it."

:rofl:

.

[demnan]

5. It's not enough

they should be investigating for impeaching these bastards, as far as I'm concerned, they've fallen down on the job.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Why would employees at the White House have email different then dept email?

Email

Are they trying to make it more difficult for law enforcement or Congress to obtain them?

[LiberalFighter]

12. This gets into the discussion about using non government email service

TPMuckraker: Rove Deputy Worked to Get Former Aide Spot

[TankLV]

17. Yes i "Imagine" what will happen after six months!

IMAGINE!