"...she (Goodling) sobbed for "30 to 45 minutes"

[SHRED]

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Poor little baby.
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Officials Describe Interference by Former Gonzales Aide

By Dan Eggen and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 23, 2007; A04

When Jeffrey A. Taylor, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wanted to hire a new career prosecutor last fall, he had to run the idea past Monica M. Goodling, then a 33-year-old aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

The candidate was Seth Adam Meinero, a Howard University law school graduate who had worked on civil rights cases at the Environmental Protection Agency and had served as a special assistant prosecutor in Taylor's office.

Goodling stalled the hiring, saying that Meinero was too "liberal" for the nonpolitical position, said according to two sources familiar with the dispute.

The tussle over Meinero, who was eventually hired at Taylor's insistence, led to a Justice Department investigation of whether Goodling improperly weighed political affiliation when reviewing applicants for rank-and-file prosecutor jobs, the sources said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201601_pf.html

[rfranklin]

1. Boo-hoo-hoo! The good news is that there's an opening for her....

with the Phelps law firm in Kansas.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

39. or lock her up

[salin]

2. is Goodling going to become Rove's "blue dress"?

I think she has the potential to play that sort of role, depends how much she fears being ostracized by the entire far-right vs how much she fears being vilified throughout history (or other prosecutions which could be pursued if she lies under oath and thus loses her immunity.)

[SHRED]

4. She is young and in way over her head...LMAO

[salin]

6. That is why it is so hard to predict how she will act

under this pressure. She has examples before her of courage and of further lying when other officials have gone before these committees - which door will she pick?

[global1]

13. There Will Be Blistering Questioning By The Dem Members Of The Committee......

she was probably coached by KKKRove to cry. Then the headline will be how badly the Dems treated the woman and they will vilify the Dems.

[SHRED]

15. you just nailed it

I hope not but in this world of superficiality, there is just no telling.

[Junkdrawer]

16. Remember Mrs. Alito....

[SHRED]

19. good call

[IndyOp]

37. And remember how Mrs. Alito was dry-eyed until she glanced off into the

distance on her right, nodded at someone in that direction, and then began :cry:

:eyes:

[Junkdrawer]

38. You bet. See post 33... n/t

[janx]

42. It sounds as if she was heavily used.

She had no idea what she was getting herself into. I pity her.

[jgraz]

50. No pity here. She didn't have to get a fraudulent law degree

and then go on to break federal hiring rules in a job she had no business accepting. She's a liar and a criminal and I hope she spends a long time behind bars.

:nopity:

[janx]

52. How was her law degree fraudulent? I realize it wasn't the best,

but was the school not accredited?

[piesRsquare]

48. Indeed!

I read the article--the positions this woman has held in recent years and the responsibilities she was charged with were not appropriate for her. The woman graduated law school in 1999, had six months of prosecutorial experience...she's a year younger than I am and has already held positions that I associate with being held by people 20 years older than I am!

Hate to say it, but the first thing that came to my mind was "Who's she been sleeping with?" Geez!

[jgraz]

49. The woman is 32. She's just a moran.

And she's completely screwn.

[Robbien]

3. When firing dozens of suspected non-Bushies, Goodling laughed

Put her butt on the line and the tears cannot stop flowing.

[SHRED]

5. They better roast her today...

...especially after yesterday's bullshit.

[salin]

8. I think we will see cooked Monica

ala the roasting - unless she is very candid (which I doubt) in which case we will be seeing smoke arising from Rove's office (ala one more smoking gun).

[Cobalt-60]

51. It's too cheap cut of meat for human consumption

But maybe Barney is hungry.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. The whole country and the world has sobbed for 7 years...

Send her to jail ASAP!

[hyphenate]

9. I hope she fries.

It would be very ironic to have another woman named Monica bring down the house of cards. :)

[SHRED]

12. Here was the core of her 'mistake':

"All I ever wanted to do was serve this president, this administration, this department," Goodling tearfully told a senior Justice official shortly before she quit..."

There is where she f_ked up.
She forgot that it is the USA citizens she was suppose to serve.

[brentspeak]

25. Exactly. The concept of serving the country and its citizens is alien to these people.

[mwb970]

28. She put her love for Bush and the Republican Party first.

She considered her job to be to work with the president to thwart the will of the American people. She put America last.

See Monica sob. Sob, sob, sob. See the jail. See Monica sobbing in the jail.

[bdamomma]

32. apparently this is what they are all forgetting, they are forgetting

they are there to serve the American people. I don't think her testimony will be telling she is in the same class as Kyle Sampson another scapegoat.

[Junkdrawer]

10. I can hear her now: "Can't they see that I'm just trying to do the Lord's work??"...

I'm a God Warrior....

[SHRED]

11. More on, or, moron Monica Goodling

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Transcripts released late Tuesday revealed Goodling sobbed uncontrollably at great length when the controversy began to swirl around her.

In a previously undisclosed House Judiciary Committee interview, a veteran career Justice Department attorney testified Goodling had come to his office and couldn't stop crying.

"She proceeded for the next, it seemed like forever, but it was probably only about 30 or 45 minutes, to bawl her eyes out and say, 'All I ever wanted to do was serve this president and this administration and this department,' " Associate Deputy Attorney David Margolis said.

"My goal was to try to calm her, so I gave her some advice to calm her -- calm her down, which didn't work," Margolis said.

"I tried to make her laugh, which didn't work, and to give her some personal advice, which she didn't take," Margolis said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/22/goodling.testimony/index.html

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She screws up the Justice Department and in turn screws the country and all she can do is cry like a little baby.

30 to 45 minutes?
HOLY CRAP!!!!!

[hlthe2b]

14. God... there are no words... Can you imagine the career

justice department professionals' justified contempt for this worthless Rove clone sycophant?

[Cameron27]

41. Can you imagine having her career!

Barely out of Law School, and she's deciding the fate of experienced USA's across the country.

[KharmaTrain]

17. Popcorn...It's Getting Close To Showtime...

I expect C-SPAN3 will show this...and hopefully we'll get some juicy bits via CNN or MSNBC.



Will she be another Fawn Hall or a Jean Schmidt wannabe? :rofl:

[SHRED]

20. I agree with the above post(s)

She might start crying and the headlines will read how badly she was treated by the Dems.

Just like what happened with Mrs. Alito.

just sayin'

[KharmaTrain]

26. I See Her More As A Rosemary Woods

My Watergate memory at work here...

Mrs. Alito's "rain storm" was during a confirmation hearing...and she wasn't testifying. Ms. Goodling may strike a sympathetic figure, but her words will be what endure.

Of course the Mighty Wurltizer will attempt to portray her as some weak young thing...but if she blurt out something that embarasses or hurt this regime, watch that characterization change quickly.

[mwb970]

29. MIGHT start crying? /nt

[SHRED]

30. correction: WILL start crying

[Junkdrawer]

33. You can bet your ass that she's had crying-on-demand lessons....

It fits PERFECTLY into the "The Democrats are on a mean, partisan campaign" theme that Dubya's been selling...

[underpants]

18. Heard that on CNN - no mention of her going to Regent University

Some Entertainment Tonight wannabe from CourtTV was on talking with the ex-Fox girl (not blonde). They mentioned this and I laughed. I avoided almost all news for 4 days (little girl was sick/weekend) and I tuned back in to see that we are supposed to feel sorry for Monica. Whaaaa-ever

[SHRED]

22. Here:

Goodling, who is in her early 30s, graduated from Messiah College and received her law degree in 1999 from Regent University, both of which describe themselves as Christian-based schools.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/22/goodling.testimony/index.html

[Venus Dog]

21. She was crying for herself

because she knows the people she works for and what she herself has been guilty of doing as well - that is, when the "fit hits the shan" you blame a fall-guy and let them hang in the wind. She had 30-40 minutes of visions of herself hanging alone in a typhoon.
:evilgrin:

[brentspeak]

23. She bawled for over a half-an-hour? People like HER are running our nation?

Running it into the ground.

[SharonAnn]

36. Proving that she's not competent to handle major responsibility. I can understand

a few tears, it would be an emotional event, but I would expect a mature and capable person to "get a grip on themselves".

[spinbaby]

24. When does she make her appearancr?

:popcorn:

[speedoo]

35. 10:15 eastern, cspan3....

Get ready!

[spanone]

27. Good, and today she can sob in front of Congress.

[bdamomma]

34. I have a feeling she won't say anything either she will try

to protect herself, and you know she is as guilty as hell, she has committed crimes for being a "loyal bushie" and way over her head.

[SHRED]

31. Need 1 more vote...let's get it on!

[Richard Steele]

40. It's got 11 now- we're gettin' on with the getting it on! nm

[Stephanie]

43. Holy cow!

THis is going to be interesting. She's all lawyered up, she has a script to use to invoke the Fifth, but Conyers won't let her off the hook.

[The Backlash Cometh]

44. Don't you get it? She's being persecuted by heathens!

[Burried News]

45. At least our Monica's don't get all choked up.

W ... whining, weasel, wuss
Hope they catch her in perjury and disbar her tail ... if she ever passed the bar in the first place.

[spanone]

46. this article was a bullshit set-up. Rove school of low expectations.

[Lugnut]

47. Yeah whatever

I hope she fries.