Must Read Greg Palest Post

Greg Palest has a must-read post on a voter the suppression tactic caging. Monica Goodling dropped the bombshell in her opening statements.

Despite my and others' best efforts, [Deputy Attorney General, Paul McNulty]'s public testimony was incomplete or inaccurate in a number of respects. As explained in more detail in my written remarks, I believe that the Deputy was not fully candid about his knowledge of White House involvement in the replacement decision, failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of the White House's interest in selecting Tim Griffin as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, inaccurately described the Department's internal assessment of the Parsky Commission, and failed to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in vote "caging" during his work on the President's 2004 campaign.

Caging is sending emails targeted to people not likely to respond. If no reply is returned they are then taken off the voter rolls. This is completely illegal. Not a single Democrat pressed to find out Griffin's involvement or his former boss Karl Rove. Dahlia Lithwick runs through a list of other questions the Democrats fumbled on.

Below is a caging email Griffith was involved in to purge homeless people off voting rolls.

Rubio Drops the Hammer Again.

"Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Ronald Reagan

Someone forgot to tell Florida House Speacker Marco Rubio. He is using a GOP website to attack Senate Republicans for not supporting his sales tax plan.

The conflict started flaring just after 10 p.m. Thursday, when Senate Majority Leader Dan Webster called state Republican Party headquarters. He got the party to change a GOP-run website so that it no longer promoted a Capitol rally organized for Tuesday by a group that opposes the Senate's more moderate tax-cutting proposal.

''Republican Party money shouldn't be spent to trash Republicans,'' said Webster, one of the most respected conservatives in the Legislature. ``We have a big tent here. Everyone lives under it. We have a Republican House and Republican Senate. It would kind of be counterproductive if they were coming to trash our plan.''

The website is run by the PAC Floridians for Property Tax Reform. The group is run by run former George W. Bush campaign operative Brett Doster. His claim to fame was taking part in a bogus voter fraud list with (drum roll) Tim Griffin.

The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, “Caging.xls.” Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses.

A check of the demographics of the addresses on the “caging lists,” as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes.

Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists by this reporter said: “The only thing I can think of - African American voters listed like this - these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.”

Rubio is not a consensus builder. He is a bully. Rubio selected Arza for a leadership post. His reputation for having a bad temper was legendary. Rubio delayed in taking action after Arza made his racist tirade towards Gus Barreiro.

You're nothing but a bitch.
You're a bitch.
You're nothing but a bitch.
God bless you, bitch.
Hey, bitch:
You ain't nothing but a bitch.
You ain't nothing but a bitch.
Brother,
My nigger.

Rubio punished Don Brown and Dennis Ross by making step down from laedership posts on the House Jobs & Entrepreneurship Council and Safety & Security Council. Rubio contiued to deny he forced them to step down after Ross went public.

Ross said Rubio called him into his office in the afternoon and asked for his resignation. Ross said Rubio told him that "he needs leaders that are with him on major votes."

Rubio rules by fear and intimidation. The company he keeps is prove of that.

Why Scott Jennings Used Unofficial White House Email Address

Why is Karl Rove deputy Scott Jennings using gwb43.com e-mail domain name and not an official White House email address? Jennings was involved in the email exchange to promote fellow Rove aide Tim Griffin to be a U.S. Attorney. Congressman Henry Waxman is looking into the matter.

"We're a go for the U.S. atty plan. WH leg, political and communications have signed off and acknowledged that we have to be committed to following through once the pressure comes," Jennings wrote in an e-mail from the gwb43.com domain name. Sampson noted in a related e-mail that "getting him appointed was important to" Rove, then-White House Counsel Harriet E. Miers and other officials.

The gwb43.com account, and others like it, have been traced to the Republican National Committee computer servers, Waxman's staff said.

What hurts the White House is since these emails weren't on official White House addresses; the case of executive executive privilege is harder to make. The use of nonofficial White House email is a violation of the Presidential Records Act.

Defines and states public ownership of the records

The President can shield some documents from the public. Since these emails are not official White House documents and are the focus of a Congressional investigation that isn't possible. The White House screwed themselves trying to get around the law.

Update: The Los Angeles Times posted a correction.

White House e-mail: An article in Monday's Section A on White House use of a private e-mail system incorrectly attributed to Scott Jennings, a deputy to senior advisor Karl Rove, an e-mail on that system saying, "We're a go for the U.S. atty plan. WH leg, political and communications have signed off and acknowledged that we have to be committed to following through once the pressure comes." The e-mail was written by Deputy White House Counsel William Kelley using a White House e-mail account.

Sorry about that, people.