Matt Gunterman April 12th, 2007

Mitch McConnell is the nation’s #1 money-grubbing, influence-mongering, Bush-enabling U.S. Senator. That’s well established. In fact, Sen. Mitch McConnell would likely wholly agree with the substance of that statement, but he’d probably use slightly more flattering words. Probably not on the “Bush-enabling,” though; he’d probably use those words. I mean, Sen. McConnell and his crazy, foaming-at-the-mouth base of supporters believe George W. Bush is some holy instrument to bring about Armageddon. I bet McConnell in his sick little head takes real pride in enabling that load of crap.

Look at how much corruption surrounds this man and look at how corrupt the people who are products of his political machine are. You’ve got McConnell’s protégé J. Scott Jennings, now the right-hand man in the White House of Karl Rove, at the center of the biggest White House scandal since Nixon’s Watergate. This trouble is just the Washington side of McConnell’s corrupt and inept organization. When you combine it with the Kentucky side, it’s a sad, sad monstrosity that is tearing down the very fabric of our nation and commonwealth.

From Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker:

A U.S. congressional panel investigating the firing of federal prosecutors authorized subpoenas on Thursday for e-mails the White House has declared may be missing.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., challenged the White House assertion, saying, “It’s not a question of e-mails being lost, it’s e-mails they don’t want to retrieve.”

The White House disclosed on Wednesday some of its staffers, including President George W. Bush’s senior political adviser, Karl Rove, and several of his deputies, wrote e-mail messages on official business on Republican Party accounts, and some may have been wrongly deleted.

On a voice vote, the Judiciary Committee authorized subpoenas for these and other White House documents as well as for records it has sought from the Justice Department.

The panel also authorized subpoenas for Associate Deputy Attorney General William Moschella, and Scott Jennings, an aide to Rove, permitting Leahy to sign subpoenas compelling the Bush administration to surrender hundreds of new documents and force Moschella and Jennings to reveal their roles in the firings.

The votes authorize subpoenas to be issued if the administration records are not turned over and if Moschella and Jennings decline to appear before the panel.

• J. Scott Jennings , Mitch McConnell , RNC Email Scandal
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