I’ve had some fun at Rep. Dave Reichert’s expense in recent posts, mocking our nation’s 419th most powerful congressman for his lack of influence and his ham-fisted recommendations to replace ousted U.S. Attorney John McKay. But it looks like our state’s juniorest congressman could become a much more formidable force in both Washingtons now that Reichert seems to be following the savvy lead of a crack new political advisor: me.
Just last week I advised Reichert that the whole brouhaha was a rare opportunity to combine good policy with political expedience by nominating the eminently qualified John McKay to replace himself. And today we read in the Seattle Times that he’s kinda, sorta doing sorta, kinda that:
Rep. Dave Reichert has come to the defense of fired U.S. Attorney John McKay, whom he praised for pushing the federal government to work more closely with law enforcement in the Seattle area.
“It doesn’t seem to me that John’s being treated fairly,” Reichert, R-Auburn, said Tuesday.
He suggested the Justice Department reinstate McKay as U.S. attorney while the agency and Congress investigate “why they fired him.”
Sure, it’s a couple months late and more than a few dollars short, but it does at least show that somebody on Reichert’s staff is attune to the political danger — and opportunity — inherent in this growing scandal. Reichert’s newfound public skepticism follows that of Rob McKenna, who last week said that President Bush “made a mistake.” But McKay was fired months ago, and both McKenna and Reichert were actively involved in naming his replacement, thus their sudden willingness to speak out in his defense should be viewed in the context of the prior failure to do so.
Perhaps if Reichert and his staff continue reading my column, they can get out in front of the next inevitable scandal. I’m always eager to help.
Update: That’s swell of Reichert to take Goldy’s advice and ask the Justice Department to reinstate McKay as U.S. attorney. Before doing so, I’m sure Reichert listened to all the complaints against McKay, investigated the facts (as he’s inclined to do), and weighed all of the evidence. In the end, it seems Reichert has rejected Stefan Sharkansky’s theories about election fraud and the suggestion that McKay didn’t properly investigate the 2004 election. I’m just sayin’… [—Darryl]
Now, if you could just get him to listen to you before he opens his mouth…
Reichert Calls for McKay’s Reinstatement
According to Mrs. Rabbit, KING 5 News says Rep. Dave Reichert has called on the Bush administration to reinstate fired U.S. Attorney John McKay. Nothing up on KING 5’s web site yet.
However, I will accept Goldy’s comment as confirmation of this story.
I haven’t been able to verify yet my suspicion that Reichert may be thinking of turning Democrat to save his OWN skin. However, the demographics of his district point in that direction.
This is just too good. Poor Dave. When he’s got an itch, he can’t scratch until someone points out where he needs to be scratching. “Little more to the left there, Dave, your district seems to be changing.” “Am I still a Republican?” “Sure, Dave, today you’re still a Republican.”
Reichert is a confused man. His constituents are unable to determine his position on just about every issue, except Iraq, and we know how wrong he has been on that.
As far as I can tell his replacement suggestions have not been withdrawn and he gives no indication what should occur after the investigation, i.e. that McKay should serve as U.S. Attorney until the next president is sworn in.
One by one, the rats are deserting the ship. I think we should all call and thank them for finally making sense. Keep it up.
Any bets on how many days, hours before Gonzales resigns? Actually, I hope he doesn’t. Legally speaking, which makes him more available to questioning under oath from, resigning or staying right where he is?
I have, however, confirmed that Stefani, Mr. Sharansky’s former watchdog and my new pet dog, has turned Democrat! She says she the food is better at my place, and her former owner’s blog sucks. For photo of me playing in the park with my new dog, click here: http://www.spanish-living.com/.....rabbit.jpg
@6 “His constituents are unable to determine his position on just about every issue”
That’s not surprising, given that Reichert is unable to determine what his position is on just about every issue.
@7 Middle of week after next. Say, Thursday, 2:15 p.m. Eastern time. Announcement to be made at the Saturday Midnight Press Briefing.
Just wondering…
How many of you gullible fucking foolish marxists are aware that your gawd has is zachary backwards when it comes to “global warming”.
Here’s the truth. I know it’s difficult, but try to understand….
Global warming causes carbon dioxide. The whole notion of “greenhouse gases” is bullshit. As Algore put it (incorrectly) the planet does NOT “have a fever”.
Algore claims that CO2 causes global warming. Wrong. Global warming causes CO2. Algore is a dumfuckinggullibeass. Just like most of you useful idiots.
Get the time series data on temps and CO2. Notice that CO2 LAGS temps by umm… 800 fucking years.
Just thought you’d wanna know. I really hate to destroy your religion, but I think it’s best for you to know the truth.
You’re welcome.
Sounds like Mark has been hittin’ the sauce pretty hard tonight. Can’t say as I blame him. They haven’t had much good news lately.
Mark the Redneck,
Global warming causes carbon dioxide. The whole notion of “greenhouse gases” is bullshit.
Uh-huh. This coming from someone who cannot even manage the honesty to keep a simple bet?
BTW: There might be a few other wackos who share you beliefs about global warming. But, I’m afraid the folks who are actually qualified to conduct and evaluate the research on climate change don’t find much merit to your “theories.”
@11 Glad to see you know more than all the world’s scientists put together, Sliderule Mark! Your Nobel Prize should be announced any day now. Then you’ll be able to pay your gambling debt.
P.S., thanks for buying my gas! NOV up another $2.58 today. I appreciate your business.
Maybe we will have rational analysis of the global warming causation problem one of these days. There has been an increase in both CO2 levels and intensity of solar radiation. If you run a statistical program with just one of these variables, you can explain the vast majority of global warming with just one variable. If you run it with both, you can skew your formula so that one variable (or the other) explains most of the global warming.
Historically, global warming from natural solar, orbital, and rotational cycles did cause CO2 levels to rise. Until we started burning lots of fossil fuels, there were no other major factors to massively change CO2 levels. Over the last 650,000 years, CO2 levels did positively correlate to global temperatures, with about an 800 year lag time.
The high CO2 levels today certainly cannot be explained by global warming. CO2 levels now are far higher than they have been at any time in the last 650,000 years. However, global temperatures are several degrees lower than their height in the last 650,000 years. It is practically certain that today’s high CO2 levels are caused by massive burning of fossil fuels, and not by higher temperatures.
We should also have research into the effects of higher CO2 levels on crop yields. Presumably, there is a positive correlation. High CO2 levels have been shown to increase marijuana yields, as well as the growth of noxious weeds. Presumably, they also increase the yield of food crops.
All this makes Darcy Burner look more attractive every day. The same clowns who recommended Rick White (Norm Maleng and Mike McKay) are the folks who recommended John McKay back in 2001. Dave Reichert, Norm Maleng, and Mike McKay also entrusted Larry Corrigan with their campaign money. Corrigan managed to steal over $70,000 in campaign funds without Maleng or McKay detecting it (guess McKay never looked at the bank statements for over two years, even though he was campaign treasurer and signed all the PDC reports). And then we have Corrigan being convicted for Attempted Child Molestation.
“Maybe we will have rational analysis of the global warming causation problem one of these days.”
Actually, we do have such an analysis. You just provided one. It’s enough to make me almost take back all the nasty things I have written about you. Almost.
(but good job, nonetheless)
Reichert was interviewed on 710 Kiro this morning – he said he thought McKay was canned because he was spending too much time on an information-sharing database to be used by local police agencies.
Ohhh… it all makes sense now. (?)
Climatologists made a one year prediction. Lots of hurricanes in 2006.
The were wrong.
One year. Wrong.
Anyone who believes their 100 year predictions is a retarded picklesniffer.
If you monkeys really believed in AGW, you’d kill yourselves in order to save the planet.
Prove to the world that you are serious. Kill yourselves.
Who is NOT going to be the next president:
1) The Smartest Woman In The World
2) Empty Skirt Obama
3) “I hate free speech” McCain
4) RINO Guiliani
I nominate Mark the Redneck for president. He’s the only one with the you-know-what to do what must be done.
Don’t be too hard on on Dave. He is still waiting for instructions…..
For an intelligent discussion about global warming, check out this website run by scientists with strong credentials in climate-related disciplines:
http://www.realclimate.org/
This is the single best place to go to check out an argument that doesn’t quite sound right.
We are talking about Reichert here right. The only person in history stupid enough to admit they vote count, and he can vote against the leadership when they let him.
It takes a real special kind of stupid to admit this….
I would like to take this opportunity to once again point out to all “strict constructionist” WingNutz™ that the phrase “executive privilege” is not once mentioned in the Constitution.
re 11: You are absolutely correct, MTR. Everytime I start the engine on my lawnmower or go for a ride in my car I can “feel” the global warming making me create the CO2.
Your mother must be proud — or on crack.
So Lucy. I see you were listening to Malloy….
WINGNUT QUIZ.
ON WHAT SUBJECT IS MTR MOST IGNORANT?
1) POLITICS
2) CONTRACT LAW AKA HONORING A BET
3) CLIMATOLOGY
4) MORAL CHARACTER
5) THE CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS ASS AND A HOLE IN THE GROUND
I guess since Bush already offered to have Rove, and Myers testify, just not under oath, he can not invoke executive privilege right?
Hahaaahhahahah!!!!
Since truth is not the subject of this thread, I see the WingNutz™ are out in full force.
True or false?
Bubba fired 93 US Attorneys when he his regime came into power.
And nobody said a fucking word.
re 28: I read it on some obscure buzzflash.com reference.
Malloy’s a little to fervent for my taste. The fine mixture of humor, satire, information, and fart jokes on the Stefani Miller Show is more to my taste — and that boring guy who sounds so smart. What’s his name? Tom Hartman.
Roger Rabbit says:
@72 How about if you bring yourself and you’re DD-214 to Mont lake Ale House some Tuesday night? Let us know when you’re coming so we can have a document examiner standing by.
Hey Roger did you say you would be at Mountlake Ale House with your DD-214? If you show up with TypicalLefty I will be there with my Military ID just to prove you that not all military personnel agree with you on many subject matters. Hell I might bring a large number of folks who would like to meet your sorry ass, oh we will not skin you just to make a point. Yes Roger we all still love you even if you support Osama bin laden and Jim McDermott.
re 32: That’s ‘cuz Bush is a retarded right wing bunghole and we hate him.
‘NUFF SAID!!!!!
So what are you wingnuts going to do when it is proven the White House was pressuring the Justice Dept. prosecutors to ignore guilty Republicons, stop investigations of guilty Republicons, and prosecute only Democrats?
Will your heads explode? What will we do with all that manure you accumulated from listening to Rush, ORiley, and Hannitys lies? We’re gonna need a dump truck….
You know the best thing about being a liberal. You don’t have to lie to discuss politics. Ever.
All Facts Support My Positions.
Period.
Bubba fired 93 US Attorneys when he his regime came into power.
SEE WHAT I MEAN? I MEAN ABOUT THE ASS AND THE HOLE IN THE GROUND?
Hey Roger and Gang what say you?
How he crashed Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday party in Toronto – and the surprising reaction he had when he first saw Clinton.
What young Clinton aides say behind Clinton’s back about the former President and why they mimic his “quirky mannerisms.”
The real story of how Clinton’s team trashed the White House as he left the Presidency in 2001.
Why Clinton is nothing more than a 1960’s generation first President: “a smiling, pouty, hulk of a man – an overgrown adolescent.”
Clinton’s $43 million money grab – after expenses and living costs – since he left the White House.
Clinton’s “Taj Mahal:” his Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, that cost an amazing $165,000,000.
Why history will remember Clinton for being the most undisciplined President of the modern era and the least ethical.
What FOBs Rick Kaplan and Jeff Greenfield told Tyrrell about Clinton’s scandals after he left the White House.
Clinton’s “funk” in 2001 and what Secret Service agents said about Clinton’s chatter about becoming Secretary General of the United Nations.
Terry McAuliffe’s recollections about he boy President after he left the White House: Clinton did not know how to use an ATM card.
Clinton is such a no show in Chappaqua and despite claims by Hillary and Bill of intense religiosity, Tyrrell uncovered that there’s no church within thirty miles of Chappaqua that has Bill or Hillary even as even casual visitors.
The true story of Secret Service agents who work for Hillary and why they “detest” her and their true feelings about Bill.
The secret “deal” that Hillary and Bill made to keep their marriage together that has often times resulted in “verbal violence.”
Why the New York City Police Department Dignitary Protective Unit is so angry with the President’s desire for “off-the-beaten-path” night spots.
The Clinton curse: Why both Clintons’ friends and enemies seem to suffer so much.
“The Chop Suey Connection:” The Clintons’ ties to China and why it portends such dangers if Hillary ever becomes President.
How Bill Clinton used his book “My Life” to sabotage any plans John Kerry had in using him to campaign during the 2004 election.
Why the Clintons have become “the two most exaggerated figures in modern American political history.”
re 36&37: You are giving MTR more credit than he deserves. He doesn’t have the capacity to understand what you are saying.
MTR: I know which came first in the chicken or the egg controversy.
It was the egg. Because you can’t have a chicken unless you first have an egg.
Always been that way. Always will.
re 38: Ted Kennedy’s girlfriend died in a car accident decades ago.
And John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were all shot by WingNutz™.
KLAKE THE FLAKE: STOP TELLING US WE LOVE OBL. IT’S A F*CKING LIE. IT’S YOU WINGNUT SH*T FOR BRAINS WHO LOVE THAT MURDERER OTHERWISE YOU WOULD HAVE CAUGHT HIM BY NOW.
CLINTON CAUGHT THE FIRST WTC BOMBER. HE’S IN F*CKING JAIL.
WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SHOW FOR YOURSELF? JACK F*CKING SH*T!!
NOW JIM MCDERMOTT WE LOVE. ANYONE WHO EXPOSES A CRIMINAL HYPROCRITE LIKE NEWT GINGRICH IS A COOL DUDE IN MY BOOK. I BET YOU’RE GOING TO VOTE FOR THAT LOSER GINGRICH. LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE.
LIKE MTR, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR ASS FROM A SINKHOLE.
News Flash from Mark: Light bulbs don’t generate light. Rather, they absorb darkness.
38 – MORE F*CKING CUT AND PASTE FROM THAT LOSER KLAKE.
klake: “Poop” is never mentioned in the Constitution, so it must be unconstitutional.
Show me where it says in the Constitution that anyone gave you the authority to decide for yourself when to take a poop?
Try as you might (and I know you will), you’ll never find poopal permission grated in the U.S.Constitution.
You will, however, find it flying on the state flagpole in some Southern states. It’s their sacred heritage.
Jumpin’ Jesus Klake, did you get that list from the Fox Noise Channel or what?
Goldy,
Since you’re at it, any chance you can get Reichert to support the National Hate Crimes Bill which was just introduced into the House?
LD
@45 NO HE GOT IT FROM CNN CLINTON NEWS NETWORK
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