‘Law & Order’ And Lobbying
During that special election to fill the Tennessee seat vacated by Al Gore’s ascendance to the vice presidency, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), Thompson’s opponent, had blasted him as “a Gucci-wearing, Lincoln-driving, Perrier-drinking, Grey Poupon-spreading millionaire Washington special interest lobbyist.”
But Republican Thompson crushed Cooper, 61 to 39 percent. That, however, was in […]

Spending of surplus plan approved, goes to governor
The House and Senate sent identical versions of legislation detailing how the state’s anticipated $919 million revenue surplus will be spent to the governor Monday as the legislative session cruised toward an end.
Passage of Senate Bill 833 and House Bill 2501 all but finished the last major work […]

Gonzales the Cipher
The explanations come and the explanations go. Gonzales was in a meeting. Gonzales was in the meeting but not paying attention. He was in the loop. He was out of the loop. The federal prosecutors were fired for performance reasons, for political reasons, for good political reasons, for acceptable political reasons — then […]

Bush and Gonzales: Dancing the Liars two-step
Sadly, Gonzales has even failed to grasp the art of targeted deflection - he is all over the place, tossing blame on his underlings and then on his busy schedule - and we get that now tired classic, the Libby lie, “I had so much to do and think […]