How controversial can a pizza party be?

When John Ashcroft is involved, anything and everything becomes suspect.

The former Attorney General hosted a pizza party and invited his former employees. The only problem (besides the fact that he is hosting a lame pizza party as if this were his 11th birthday and he needed help from the hired clown to blow out the candles) is that Ashcroft is now a lobbyist. And lobbyists are just not supposed to host parties (even dumb ones) for government officials.

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I wonder if the soaring eagle-lover will perform?

Convicted Felon (and former Republican Congressman) Bob Ney Goes to Prison

Bob Ney (R-OH) is going to prison today and thus he felt required to email all 9 of his remaining supporters. Ney touchingly quoted Garth Brooks, left his mailing address at the prison and then asked himself all the rhetorical questions he could muster: “Would I change things if I could? Sure. Am I sorry for things that happened? Absolutely, and I will pay the price."

Ney is like the unpopular kid who moved to Pennsylvania when I was in the third grade. She and her mom printed up a series of Valentines (in June no less) with her new address and phone number and taped them to the inside of each classmate's yearbook. I think I put a sticker of The New Kids on the Block over it.

Just remember Bob, it's like Avon Barksdale said: "You only serve 2 days: the day you get in, and the day you get out."

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Real Life "You Can't Handle the Truth" Guy Fired!

I haven't written about the outrageous firing of US attorneys because I didn't really have anything new to say that wasn't covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times.

In case you need the back story, here goes: in the last year the Justice Department has starting firing a number of very effective, well-trained, successful federal attorneys despite their superb work evaluations and prosecution records. They include Carol Lam of San Diego, John McKay of Seattle, David Iglesias of New Mexico, Daniel Bogden of Nevada and Paul Charlton of Arizona. What do they all have in common? Each one prosecuted a Republican in office (e.g. Randy "Duke Cunningham") or a Republican fundraiser/ally.

Now here's where it gets hilarious. Duke Cunningham was supposedly the inspiration for the Tom Cruise character in "Top Gun." Now, in today's Washington Post, buried at the end of another very good article on the attorneys, there is this nugget: one of the aforementioned attorneys, David Iglesias, was the defense lawyer in a famous Navy hazing case that inspired the Tom Cruise character in "A few Good Men."

So what appears to be another shady Republican conspiracy, turns out to be just another reason to not inspire Tom Cruise.