On the Prowl
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According to the former White House Counsel aide, who was transferred from that office after the resignation of White House Counsel Gregory Craig, each of the above executives answered “No” to Question 10S of the SF-86 supplement form traditionally filled out by potential nominees for presidential appointments.
The question:
10S. Is there anything in your personal life that could be used by someone to coerce or blackmail you or is there anything in your life that could cause an embarrassment to you or the President if publicly known?
__Yes __No. If so, please provide full details.
But to date, neither Roberts nor Philips has been formally vetted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “There may have been preliminary work done, but those kinds of commissions aren’t a high priority,” says the former counsel office aide. “Then again, Van Jones wasn’t properly vetted, either.”
Steele Wars
Despite successes in gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New
Jersey and the Massachusetts Senate race, Republican National
Committee chairman Michael Steele continues to
take hits from within his
own party. He was recently criticized for holding the party’s
winter meeting in Hawaii. And senior Republican Party leaders
continue to mount whispering campaigns against Steele, portraying
him as a money-grubbing, unethical opportunist, who will put
personal political goals before the party’s. The latest rumors
started before Steele left for Hawaii: that he attempted to have
the RNC buy a private jet to ease his travel itineraries.
RNC sources say there is no truth to the rumor. “You hear these things all the time. Six months ago, he was buying furniture for his home using RNC funds,” says a current RNC aide. “Now it’s a private jet. For whatever reason, people in this party can’t get over having a man who actually wants to lead in that leadership position. He’s ruffled feathers, but he’s also doing a good job, and the recent victories show that.”
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Alan Brooks| 3.15.10 @ 8:54PM
Thanks for the dirty laundry list- maybe.
Pregnant spurned mistress; an Indiana guv who doesn't want to run because of his wife; circular firing squads in the White House; Tim Geithner (you wouldn't forget him).
If what we have today is progress, you wouldn't want to know dystopia.
Alan Brooks| 3.18.10 @ 7:26PM
Who are the GOP going to run in 2012?:
Mark Sanford for president?
Joey Buttafuoco for veep?
RJ| 3.22.10 @ 6:21PM
Probably better than the two current buffoons
Alan Brooks| 3.23.10 @ 12:16AM
I dunno. When you don't know, you don't know:
isn't there always a further Hell one can drop to? We might end up with Kato Kaelin for president; Roman Polanski (he WILL be pardoned, eventually-- after a face-saving period) for veep!
Why, in the 21st century all things are possible,
RJ, there is no limit to high people can rise if they persevere. Blagojevich will wind up doing exponentially better in Show Biz than he would have if he hadn't gotten caught in '08.
The sky is the limit for ambitious citizens today.
Alan Brooks| 3.23.10 @ 12:20AM
Our new slogan:
"there is no limit to how high a Blagojevich can rise to when he trades his underpaying career in politics for a more lucrative one in Show Biz."
There's no business like show business, there's no business I know...
Alan Brooks| 3.23.10 @ 12:23AM
Ah so; you Chinese, you will in fact dominate the world, wont you?
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