by Jay Stevens
A couple of juicy resignations today – which must be really, really bad, announced as they were on a Friday.
First, the fun one: a senior administration official, Randall L. Tobias, resigned his office today because he was outed as a customer of a prominent DC madam.
Wait, it gets better.
Tobias was the administration’s “AIDS Czar,” the official responsible for co-ordinating with world leaders on fighting the AIDS epidemic.
Wait, it gets better.
Tobias – surprise, surprise! — was toeing the Bush administration line of promoting abstinence over distributing condoms as a preventative. (Hat tip, AmericaBlog.
If the official promoting abstinence and monogamy can’t keep it in his pants, why would a rational person expect the entire third world to?
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The second resignation falls a little closer to home. Senior Dept of Justice official, Robert Coughlin II, announced his resignation retroactive to April 6 “because he was relocating to Texas.”
Or, more likely, it was, as “a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case” said, he was “coming under scrutiny” over his friendship with Kevin Ring, an Abramoff associate connected to the Doolittle investigation, and an old friend of Dennis Rehberg.
Wait, it gets better:
Making the situation more awkward for the embattled Department, the official, Robert E. Coughlin II, was deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the Department’s probe of Abramoff.
Hm. Aren’t some folks saying Carol Lam was fired because she busted Duke Cunningham over Abramoff-related corruption charges, and was following the case to Rep. Jerry Lewis, ex-CIAer Dusty Foggo, and defense contractor Brent Wilkes? And isn’t it for steering contracts to Wilkes that John Doolittle is facing heat?
So, Doolittle’s aide, Kevin Ring, and subsequent employee of Abramoff, involved in the Wilkes contracts, the investigation into which Carol Lam was likely fired…is the DoJ’s lead Abramoff investigator’s pal?
And you wonder why the Abramoff investigations dried up right around the elections?
Update: The Tobias story gets even better! Apparently during his tenure as “AIDS Czar,” he was pressuring international organizations to deny outreach to sex workers!
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April 28, 2007 at 6:06 am
Yes, but I STILL want to know what transpired in the white house when faux reporter Gannon/Guckert/hotmilitarystud spent over 200 visits to Georgie’s house! And many of them sleepovers! I mean, just think, a fake reporter who is a homo who has his own homo website from which he solicits homo sex, who REGULARLY spent the night in the white house, and who OBVIOUSLY was a good friend of the presidunce’s as seen in the many pictures of georgie hugging hotstud, in MUCH the same way Clinton hugged Monica! I mean, wassupwiththat? I think that the biggest bombshell has yet to drop. The one that admits that among his OTHER hypocrisies, little king georgie is queer!
April 28, 2007 at 11:19 am
Do you have a problem with George Bush being a homosexual, Larry? Would you like to discuss your latent homophobia?
April 28, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Kevin, I absolutely do NOT have a problem at all with homosexuality, just with hypocrites!……….and war criminals. But I admit that I did get just a wee bit unconfomortable when I clicked on gannon/guckert’s site out of curiosity. Here, check it out. http://www.hotmilitarystud.com Maybe you’ll see the presidunce in one of these photos!
April 30, 2007 at 2:06 pm
p.s. For a loooog time, it has been known in some circles that chimpy bush is a homosexual. Now, kevin will say that I’m a homophobe for pointing this out. Well I’m not. I’m just a bushphobe and a hypocrite/warcriminalphobe. So, now that the truth is coming out, I hope it comes out on georgie too. For you see, the party of “family values” should really be seen for what they are.
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