Scooter will not be allowed to remain free until his appeal; he must go to jail now.
So,
At the White House Wednesday, Tony Snow said he wouldn't "speculate" as to whether a decision denying Libby's request to remain free pending appeal would affect the timing of any pardon decision. But there's a difference between a man facing a prison sentence and a man actually serving one, and that difference will increase the pressure the president faces -- from the base he's losing quickly -- to absolve Libby of his sins.
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Ahhh, good to see guys in jail who should be in jail. Warms the cockles of my heart.
Warms the cockles of my heart.
I read that as "Warms the cookies of my heart."
Mmm... warm cookies....
If my heart had cookies, they would be warm.
The Democrats and Republicans are having a grammar kerfuffle:
[GSA head Lurita Doan] claims she sometimes has "problems with tense", and in fact had meant to use the "hortatory subjunctive".
But then comes John Sarbanes, showing off. His mother is a Latin teacher, he tells us, and so he knows that Ms Doan's statement is not the hortatory subjunctive.
Edna, my pessimistic dark cloud of hate and doom, is looming over my head.
help.
More to the point, English doesn't have a hortatory subjunctive. If she was talking to her employees in Latin, this might be an issue.
Go away, Edna! Go hang over the White House.
Where's the Massachusetts gay marriage amendment talk happening?
June 14,2007 | BOSTON -- Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the only state that allows it.
The narrow vote was a victory for gay marriage advocates and a blow to efforts to reverse the historic court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the state. More than 8,500 gay couples have married in Massachusetts since it became legal in May 2004.
To get the proposed ban on the 2008 statewide ballot would have required 50 votes. It got 45, with 151 lawmakers opposed. There was no debate.
As the tally was announced, the halls of the Statehouse erupted in applause.
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I know the Dems are getting pretty tired of Shrub calling theirs the "Democrat Party". But then, clear speaking has never been his strong suit ... or telling the truth, or planning, or ....
