Sweet Justice: Rep Davis of Alabama who got to Goodling is a real law ...

[Botany]

.... school grad (Harvard) and former U.S. Attorney. :rofl:
She was so in over her head that the repugs tried to stop
the hearings.




http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070523/APN/705231956&cachetime=5

Davis got Goodling to admit that Gonzales tried to coach her about her testimony and
that Gonzales lied to congress in his testimony.

Davis in 08 .... that would be great.

Davis for President!

[amitten]

1. My my....and he looks so harmless...

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[Botany]

2. He was a killer

and it was so good to see too. I didn't see much of the hearings but I did
see Rep. Davis his legal skills were very sharp.

[Fridays Child]

4. The brightest spot of the whole day.

That's what he was.

[Erika]

3. Harvard against Robertson's Regent U

That is a laugh.

[Botany]

9. Ohio State plays Akron and Kent State in Football this year

that kind of of out classed.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Several Democrats yielded questioning time

Several Democrats yielded questioning time to Davis, a Harvard Law School graduate and former assistant U.S. attorney who has played a lead role in the Democrats' inquiry into the firings.


Brilliant!!!

[Botany]

10. My Fav line .... "I yield my time to Mr. Davis."

[illinoisprogressive]

6. And he is backing another black Harvard grad for president.

I saw him on Washington Journal this morning. You have to be really smart and clever to beat this guy. He is really good.

[samdogmom]

7. I am so impressed by how calm, collected, and coherent he was!

I heard him first on CSpan today--while I was waiting for the Goodling hearing to begin. He was so well-spoken and he handled Freeper callers so well, I wondered who he was. Then he appeared at the Goodling hearing and I got it! Wow, he's very smart and totally on message. He had a plan and he plowed ahead until he got this girl to admit that Gonzales is a sleaze ball! Alberto G. tried to collaborate stories, for goodness sakes! That is a crime all by itself. Why isn't the world appalled right now?

I guess it takes a lot to offend Bush-bots! They will stick by their man no matter how deep the doo-doo is! Wow! What a bunch of morons!

At some point, I hope a legal expert steps in, explains this mess to the masses and then these law-breakers need to be properly punished! Meanwhile, I think we discovered a few more heros today! And, a few more reasons why this is the biggest debacle of an administration to grace our planet....

[Botany]

11. and as the repugs who were there to protect bush/Gonzales ....

.... tried to stop the hearings .... What did he do?

"I need a ruling from the chair please." :rofl:

[Dhalgren]

8. He was excellent! Relentless, piercing questioning. Goodling looked

like she had been hit between the eyes with a hammer. She stared, opened-mouth at Davis as he asked direct questions and led her to the slaughter. It was a beauty to behold. After about his third question, you could see where he was going. After his sixth or seventh question, the Repubs in the room figured it out (hell, even Goodling began to see it) and they started trying to shut him down. But Congresswoman Lee was strong and brilliant in her own right and slammed the Pukes down. Then each successive Democratic Congressperson gave their time to Davis to continue his deconstruction of Goodling and her bosses. It was a moment that made you proud of the Democratic Party (and damn it, we need those moments!)...

[Botany]

12. it looked like the people trying to protect Goodling were trying to ..

.... to protect bush/Gonzales/Rove. They were supposed to be the firewall
and he went right around them.




just dreaming but he would make a kick ass Attorney General for President Edwards

[Dhalgren]

15. He would be one hell of an AG! Honest, smart, dedicated, EDUCATED!

Hell yes!

[snowbear]

13. If Charles Barkley wasn't going to be Alabama's next Governor, he could run for that.. but..

..it's in the bag for Governor Barkley!!

Unfortunately, he can't take office until 2010.. but our friends in Alabama will be lucky to get Barkley and finally get rid of that dirtbag Riley!



http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/2006-07-26-barkley-for-governor_x.htm

Rep. Davis should run for Jeff Sessions U.S. Senate seat in 2008!!

[nealmhughes]

14. Artur closed down the Hilliard Machine with a single primary vote!

I was lucky that I barely made it in his gerrymandered district in the previous election. By a few blocks. Now back in the Loyal 5th District where Bud Cramer treats his seat as if it were a sinecure and plays footsie with Dick Shelby and never met a defense bill he did not love, I long for the day when someone will present him with a real Democratic challenge as Artur did Hilliard.
Alabama has a lot of very savvy politicos who are "Good Democrats" viz., our new Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, our Lt. Governor Jim Folsom and especially one of our PSC commissioners, former Senate candidate Dr. Susan D. Parker, my neighbor.
For all of those who think of Alabama as just "another red state," in reality, there is a very long tradition of populism in the state, even from its foundation, rooted in the Jeffersonian/Jacksonian common man revolt of the Early Republic. Ruben Kolb, the Populist candidate had two gubernatoral elections stolen from him at the turn of the century by collusion with the Lily White Republicans and the Black Belt Democrats.
If one believes that there is a "gulf" in Upstate/Downstatate politics in NY or Illinois or California, then they have never considered Alabama, a state where even the accents change markedly once one crosses the Tennessee River and the crazy factor gets higher and higher as one nears Birmingham's suburbs and the city of Montgomery.
I had a huge signed photo of Artur on my interior office door for 2 years after he won the election the first time for all the students to see what Alabama could have as a representative.
Now I do not agree with every one of his votes, but I am proud to have supported him in 04 and it gives me hope that business as usual Democrats can be spat out like a piece of tired gristle clogging one's steak.

[Botany]

16. Thank you for posting.

Until yesterday I was not aware of Artur Davis but as of now I am
very impressed with his skill, calm, and savvy.

After what Goodling said about Gonzales (lying under oath & coaching a witness
he is done as A.G..

[LizW]

18. You're lucky, Neal

I'm in Spencer Bachus' district :( by a just a hair. I still consider Davis my rep, though.

[MaineDem]

17. He's very impressive

I think he's something like the "recruitment" director for the DCCC. If we can get more in Congress like Davis we'll be in great shape.

[bamacrat]

19. Finally, a Dem from bama with some cojones.

Or CO-Jones as Stephen Colbert would say. Bud Cramer is just a pub is dem clothes, about as useful as Lieberman. Booo shitty Democrats, we need to clean house and put some younger fresher minds in each and every state, good to see its beginning.