The newspapers may have gotten an anonymous fax tip or throwaway email feed and not have known who the source was but just based on the emails contents started working to check out what they had.

It seems that especially if the St Pete paper were to know the source for sure and didn’t print the story because they couldn’t get enough people to go on the record they would have been much more interested in the goings on with Emanuel having Dave Lutrin the token Foley opposition replaced by the Republican turned Dem Tim Mahoney since they would have good reason to connect those dots.

Also with the documented email trail now going all the way to Dan Burton at the DCCC, this is the same guy Rodgers at Blogactive bragged as his contact to coordinate the release of the Foley story the day after his name was locked in by law on the Florida ballot.

Also Rogers also is a prior tipster to Wonkette on other issues and remember the release sequence was StopSexPredators then Wonkette then ABC and Brian Ross.

A serious question:
Are there really people out there who think that one party is more corrupt than the other in such matters? That one party takes has is more influenced by lobbeyists than the other? That Pelosi et al. are going to ‘clean up’ the House, now? That they ever cared for a second about any of that stuff? I think that may be the most disappointing thing about the major news outlets: they know the game very (very) well, but just play along, election after election.

I have to agree with the one commenter over at CQ that this is an attack by left nutroots oriented GW doing pushback for the interparty war on the dem side.

It is the tug of war between the Dean/Kos/Pelosi lefties and the Emmanual/Clinton contingent.

I expect to see more blood in the water.

I don’t think Greenwald is eating crow. He went after Emmanuel but his other talking points were the same as usual. Republicans are bad. Democrats are good. Republican leaders lied and are still lying. Democrat leaders are idealistic and super wonderful. The whole other side is enough to make you sick. They completely ignore all the dirty tricks like waiting until the day after the time limit that Republicans could put someone else in Foley’s place and it worked. They won that seat. These are dispicable people and I for one will not make excuses for them and certainly never vote for any of them.

I’m willing to bet that the Democratic party is already having second thoughts in pulling out. So why did they vote in favor of all of the “Cut and Run” resolutions in the last year; yet, they are hesitant?

One might even say a deserved defeat in view of the corruption –and it is ironic Strata uses a Jewish politico with close ties to Israeli
right-wing circles to make his point. Emanuel has purposely countered Murtha and others in his party who put American interests first, ,and done his best to keep the Democrat Party as committed to protecting Israel as possible. In this case that means staying in Iraq.

What amazes me more, is that I think the donks were using “language” against the GOP. Since everyone knows that Barney Franks, and others, got a free pass.

But what the democrats had, was a GOP “Goody Two Shoes” approach to politics. And, really. NOBODY is above the fray.

Larry Craig made it back. From Utah. So the Foley claim was just sensational; because everybody bought it. Even the blogs. Where it is the only place I saw it. Because it is the only place I look.

By the time Larry Craig’s name got flung out, those who POLL pretty much knew that the GOP wasn’t going to keep its majority. So, the fires, or rumors, were tampted down. While obviously, in ALL cases, each party wants to get voters to vote for them. And, “not the other guy.”

It might be better to point out how well Rumsfeld’s firing was hidden, until after election day. And, how the James Baker “cook-up” of Sandra Day O’Connor “forks” and innane BS to serve the Saudis, well. ALSO WAS NOT DISCUSSED. Who only knows what would have happened if Bush had not come out of election day lame?

I also notice that the Saudis are now screaming like PIGS! So a lot of stuff that will affect 2008 is way out in the open, now. With two years more to go. And? According to DEBKA, the Kurds in Iraq are furious. They’re not interested in Baker’s “desires.” And, they are emphatic about NOT becoming a colony!

More deceit and lying ahead. Because the White House is probably of two minds. How to get someone into the UN who will be Saudi friendly.

In other words, how to “re-take the test” because nobody can fire Bush #43, anyway. The democrats WON’T. He’s their best gift, ever! While last year? Fitzmas fizzled. This year? A new team comes up in January. And, it’s only a matter of time to find out if the queerest thing of all is that Israel has no American friends. REALLY!