The long goodbye has been longer than we ever thought it would be; instead of days or weeks, it's now been over a year since my mother-in-law was admitted to a nursing home. In hindsight it was naive to think that the suffering would be so short in duration. It was also not apparent at the time that the nursing home into which she'd first been admitted was integral to the condition she was in when I first wrote about her long goodbye .
Looking for my dharma in spite of the weather
As I commented at FireDogLake about Monica Goodling in light of the DOJ's document dump last night:
Oh. Man.
I hope the testosterone-enriched members of the community didn’t buy that “stupid little good girl” act that Goodling sent up.
This bit in particular is going to get her spanked:
[source: email from Mari Santangelo to Robert Marshall, dd. 22-FEB-06 4:44p]
She deliberately avoided the DAG’s and OASG’s office; in the background, on the date of this particular email, the PatActII is being debated and is not approved until the end of the month, with the Delegation of Authority signed on 01-MAR-06 (need to double-check the date) almost immediately after the PatActII passed.
Within weeks of this time, Thomas Heffelfinger will announce he is leaving USA-MN position.
Our “stupid little good girl” was quite deliberate and very busy; she’s on the hook for a lot more than Hatch Act violations.
Oh, and one more bit that has been stuck in my craw and may yet add up to something. During the course of the emails about the delegation and in the cover letter of the delegation there is a reference to a memo — Memorandum for Jennifer G. Newstead, General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget, “Assignment of Functions Related to Certain Military Appointments, at 3-4(July 28, 2005)”.
As far as I can tell, Newstead is no longer in OMB; what the hell was this about?
Remember Iglesias comment to the effect that every thing was documented at DOJ in memos?
Yeah. That.
And I think we now have concerns about OMB.