{"id":3391,"date":"2007-04-16T01:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2007-04-16T01:50:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T08:50:47","slug":"purgegate-primer-supplimental-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/16\/purgegate-primer-supplimental-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgegate Primer:  Supplimental Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberto Gonzales testifies before Congress tomorrow.  Oh my goodness, I&#8217;m giddy as a schoolgirl.  That crescendo of rumbling you hear is a train wreck a-comin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to get up to speed before the spectacle, I would refer you to my <a href='http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/scandal_cheat_sheet\/the_purgegate_primer.php'>The Purgegate Primer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest twist in the tale, revealed after I wrote my cheatsheet, is that the Justice Department has been stacked with graduates from the &#8220;tier-four&#8221; (i.e., &#8220;pisspoor&#8221;) legal school founded by religious-right zealot Pat Robertson.  Read all about it  <a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2163601'>here<\/a>, or have it explained to you by Bill Maher <a href='http:\/\/onegoodmove.org\/1gm\/1gmarchive\/2007\/04\/bill_maher_new_21.html'>there<\/a> (video).  Expect Gonzales to field a few questions about <em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a group of longtime conservatives called for his resignation <a href='http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1610738,00.html'>earlier today<\/a>.   (That is, they made their request earlier today&#8211;they are not requesting that he travel back in time and resign four hours ago.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Spider-Man 3<\/em> will hafta be pretty goddamned good to beat this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberto Gonzales testifies before Congress tomorrow. Oh my goodness, I&#8217;m giddy as a schoolgirl. That crescendo of rumbling you hear is a train wreck a-comin&#8217;. If you&#8217;d like to get up to speed before the spectacle, I would refer you to my The Purgegate Primer. The latest twist in the tale, revealed after I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}