Remember - Gingrich member of group of "weirdos"

From the post-2006 election article of Dick Meyer of CBS:

"Really, it's just a simple thesis: The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn't call a duck a duck, because that's not something we're supposed to do.

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Yet none of these guys had success in capitalism. None made any real money before coming to Congress. None of them spent a day in uniform. And they all spent the bulk of their adult careers getting paychecks from the big government they claimed to despise. Two resigned in disgrace."

For those of you who forgot the article

Gingrich carried on affair for SIX years

From Scoobie Davis's blog:

"One has to keep in mind also that the American right was getting on Clinton's case about his sex life since the 1992 primaries. That's particularly galling considering that it was an open secret among DC politicos that Gingrich--the most important Republican from 1994 to 1998--was carrying on with the young blond House clerk twenty-three years his junior, Callista Bisek who would become Wife Number Three in 2000 (after, of course, ditching Wife Number Two). Washington insiders concluded that it was well know in DC that Gingrich and Bisek were having an affair which started shortly after Gingrich made the comment during the 1992 campaign that "Woody Allen having non-incest with a non-daughter to whom he was a non-father because they were a non-family fits the Democratic platform perfectly."

The rest is here:

Sister Mary Beth "Elephant" Buchanan

Here in Pittsburgh, we had a U.S. Attorney, now promoted to Washington for her slavish obedience to her Republican overlords, named Mary Beth Buchanan. She let her husband's Republican law firm off the hook for Enron style fraud, but saw fit to prosecute Tommy Chong for selling bongs over the internet.

Ms. Buchanan investigated local Democratic officials, namely, the Sheriff Pete DeFazio, the Coroner, Cyril Wecht, the mayor, Tom Murphy, and a County Judge, Joseph Jaffe. We now know it was part of a nationwide plan

Bastards.

WATB Alert - Federal Judges Whining about Inadequate Pay

One of the most out of touch segments of our society today are Federal Judges. Pay starts at $165,200.00. In addition, you have a job for life, you get your own paid for downtown parking space, your office staff is paid for, your opinions are written by top-flight law clerks, and everyone has to kiss your ass. The best part, if anyone pisses you off during your work day, you can send them to jail.

Can you beat that?

Apparently Justice Anthony Kennedy is complaining that Federal Judges are leaving because the job doesn't pay enough. WATB

Vicki's Dad Passed Away Tonight

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Happy Birthday Elvis Presley

Today is Elvis' Birthday.

Here's some Elvis trivia: If you add up the numbers in the date of Elvis' death, 8, 16 and 1977 - it adds up to Elvis' theme song: 2001. Spooky.