Did the GOP snuff one of their own?

Published on December 27th, 2008

Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not ‘Take the Fall’ for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney

Letter Sent to Attorney General Mukasey Requesting ‘Protection for Mr. Connell and His Family From This Reported Attempt to Intimidate a Witness’ After Tip from ‘Credible Source’

UPDATE: OH AG Reportedly Asked to Provide Immunity Protection…
Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not “‘take the fall’ for election fraud in Ohio,” according to a letter sent this morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck.

The email, posted in full below, details threats against Mike Connell of the Republican firm New Media Communications, which describes itself on its website as “a powerhouse in the field of Republican website development and Internet services” and having “played a strategic role in helping the GOP expand its technological supremacy.”

Connell was described in a recent interview with the plaintiff’s attorneys in Ohio as a “high IQ Forrest Gump” for his appearance “at the scene of every [GOP] crime” from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the RNC email system to the installation of the currently-used Congressional computer network firewall.

Connell and his firm are currently employed by the John McCain campaign, as well as the RNC and other Republican and so-called “faith-based” organizations.

In a phone call this afternoon, Arnebeck could not publicly reveal specific details of the information that triggered his concern about the threats to Connell. The message to the IT man from Rove is said to have been sent via a go-between in Ohio. That information led Arnebeck to contact Mukasey after he found the reports to be credible and troubling.

“If there’s a credible threat, which I regard this to be,” he told The BRAD BLOG, “I have a professional duty to report it.”

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# 1 Who said, on December 27th, 2008 at 7:49 am

He knew too much, he deleted mails and he was going to talk. Now he is gone like Betty Ford’s tits.

# 2 Personality said, on December 27th, 2008 at 7:56 am

Well, duh.

# 3 pedro said, on December 27th, 2008 at 7:59 am

Nah, he was just watching movies with Rove and he was making too much noise.

# 4 Pagon said, on December 27th, 2008 at 8:55 am

I look forward to Rove’s forthcoming blanket pardon. You know the kind – for things he may or may nor have done – like Ford gave to Nixon.

If there is no prosecution of the Bush gang, this country can look forward to illegal activities by future elected officials, regardless of party. What would stop them?

# 5 bobbo said, on December 27th, 2008 at 8:55 am

“If the Vice-President does it, its not against the law.”===hah, hah.

Not 100% yet, but who would bet against Bush having stole the 2000 election?

Repuglican = Douchbag.

# 6 gquaglia said, on December 27th, 2008 at 9:23 am

Guess Rove took a page from the Clinton play book.

# 7 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 9:26 am

Unnamed “credible source” with no evidence. Got to love the lengths people will go to in order to attack politicians…

# 8 bobbo said, on December 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am

Caught Rove on tape last night. He claimed the One Trillion Surplus that Clinton handed over was a depression and that only Bushieboy’s masterful tax breaks avoided something much worse.

Can anyone imagine much worse than what we have????

Paddy–really. On a scale of minus 10 to zero, how serious are you being?

# 9 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am

# 8 bobbo said, “Caught Rove on tape last night. He claimed the One Trillion Surplus that Clinton handed over”

ROFL!

National Debt as of 2000: $5,674,178,209,886

There was no surplus of anything, except scandal…

# 10 bobbo said, on December 27th, 2008 at 10:01 am

#9–Paddy==and whats the debt today?

# 11 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am

#9 – Paddy-RAMBO

>>There was no surplus of anything, except
>>scandal…

There’s always a surplus of scandal, Paddy-RAMBO. The difference is that in the Clinton years, the scandals had to do with stained dresses; during Dumbya’s reign, it had to do with undercutting the principals that America stands for, using the Constitution as virtual toilet paper.

And President Rove has been outed as a common thug, a violent felon.

Mission accomplished.

# 12 Angel H. Wong said, on December 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am

#11 Mr. Mustard.

Gotta love the Republicans and their priorities you know, they think that getting a BJ from a chubby woman is more disgusting than the death of 4,215 American soldiers in Iraq ( http://icasualties.org/oif/ )

# 13 thecommodore said, on December 27th, 2008 at 10:48 am

Wait, an IT guy is to blame for the relative drubbing the Republicans took during the election? Why? Were his webpages crooked? Were the colors wrong? C’mon – you can’t polish turds, Beavis.

# 14 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am

# 10 bobbo said, “#9–Paddy==and whats the debt today?”

Don’t know, fiscal year isn’t over yet. I simply pointed out the fallacy that there was a surplus during the Clinton Admin. Something you would have done if you had any real data to think with…

# 15 Angel H. Wong said, on December 27th, 2008 at 11:46 am

#14

I don’t need real data to know that Bush Jr. Screwed the economy Big time.

# 16 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

#14 – Paddy-RAMBO

>>I simply pointed out the fallacy that there
>>was a surplus during the Clinton Admin.

You’re really batting 0.000 today, RAMBO. Of course there was a surplus during the Clinton years. It wasn’t enough to pay off the massive debt incurred by Pappy and Bonzo, but at least it was going in the right direction. The budget surplus during Clinton’s last year in office (2000) was $230,000,000,000.00. It was $123,000,000,000.00 the year before that.

Under Dumbya and his “conservative” regime, spending has gone off the charts, and he’s managed to incur record-breaking increases in both the national debt AND budget deficit.

It must suck not to know the difference between the national debt and the national budget deficit/ surplus.

You better quit while you’re behind, RAMBO.

# 17 bobbo said, on December 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

#14–Paddy-O==good to know there’s no National Debt until the end of the year. Makes me wonder why we just don’t print calendars with every day being Dec 30th. Know what I mean?

# 18 Dallas said, on December 27th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

More disgusting news from the filthy party.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081227/pl_politico/16876

# 19 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

# 17 bobbo said, “#14–Paddy-O==good to know there’s no National Debt until the end of the year. Makes me wonder why we just don’t print calendars with every day being Dec 30th. Know what I mean?”

If you are worried about Nat debt, kill yourself now. The spending frenzy & rivers of printed money has barely begun. The next 4 years of deficit spending is going to make BushCo look like rank amateurs.

# 20 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

#19 – Paddy-RAMBO

>>The next 4 years of deficit spending is going
>>to make BushCo look like rank amateurs.

Maybe, maybe not. I doubt BushCo needs any help to look like rank amateurs, in any case.

The question is, will money spent over the next four years ACCOMPLISH a real MISSION, or will it be flushed down the toilet bowl of history, like all the trillions of dollars that Dumbya pissed and shit away, using the Constitution to wipe his foul bottom?

# 21 LibertyLover said, on December 27th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

#20, will money spent over the next four years ACCOMPLISH a real MISSION, or will it be flushed down the toilet bowl of history

MM, do you have a program that randomly sucks the same set of words out a database of “Obamessiah Support Topics” and just plop them down here? Anytime you respond to anything approaching criticism of your God, the same hackneyed statements show up under your handle. It is almost sounding like you are trying to convince yourself that your God is not as bad as his predecessor. I mean, the man isn’t even in office yet and is already about to be subpoenaed. Change we can believe in!

# 22 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

# 20 Mister Mustard said, “The question is, will money spent over the next four years ACCOMPLISH a real MISSION,”

Like MASSIVE monetary inflation? Yes, it will.

# 23 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

#21 – Liberty Loser

>>It is almost sounding like you are trying to
>>convince yourself that your God is not as bad
>>as his predecessor.

He’s not my God, Loser, but is there any doubt in ANYONE’S mind that he’ll be better than his predecessor? Any doubt whatsoever???

>> I mean, the man isn’t even in office yet and
>>is already about to be subpoenaed.

You’re right; he’s not even in office. Yet people like you and Paddy-RAMBO and the rest of the wingnuts are acting as though he’s tried, failed, and should be swept onto the same garbage heap as Dumbya and his puppetmasters.

As to being subpeonaed, have you been hitting the 7&7s a little early this year? Hmmm? Are we a little tipsy already, with four days yet to go until New Year’s Eve??

# 24 bobbo said, on December 27th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

ble and hope for stupidity of the masses.

What is it about “Liberty” that you love? Supposedly, you have to be informed in order for liberty to have any real meaning. I think you and Paddy would be just as full of yourselves with your Zieg Heil up Hitlers’ ass—any right wing authority figure would do.

# 25 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

#22 – Paddy-RAMBO

>>Like MASSIVE monetary inflation?
>>Yes, it will.

Now now, Paddy-RAMBO. Let’s wait until Obama actually wreaks the havoc you imagine he will, before we start mewling like an infant, shall we?

# 26 deowll said, on December 27th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

So what’s Rove going to do; fire them? They should have already been fired. The campaign is over.

Oh wait. This guy never even worked for Rove so what the bleep is this all about? The most Rove can do is run around bad mouthing him.

If you are down to posting this it must be a real slow news day. Didn’t anybody drive into a tree or something?

# 27 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

# 25 Mister Mustard said, “Now now, Paddy-RAMBO. Let’s wait until Obama actually wreaks the havoc you imagine he will,”

No imagination needed. Just read his stated econ plans…

There is one upside to his stated plan. At least we may get some infrastructure upgrades in exchange for massive inflation.

# 28 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

#27 – Paddy-RAMBO

I must have missed the memo where MASSIVE monetary inflation was mentioned. Are you an economic wizard, in addition to your other talent of rearranging desk ornaments for the Secretary of State? w00t! You’re a true renaissance man!

And if there’s an “upside to his stated plan”, that would put it in stark contrast to Dumbya’s plans. No upside to them at all.

# 29 Olo Baggins of Bywater said, on December 27th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

At least we may get some infrastructure upgrades in exchange for massive inflation.

Ya think?

The alternative is that you get to stay warm by the fire of your stock certificates and 401k statements. If you have some land you might even get to grow some veggies, if you can steal some seeds and a hoe.

# 30 Paddy-O said, on December 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

# 28 Mister Mustard said, “I must have missed the memo where MASSIVE monetary inflation was mentioned.”

No. You slept through econ 100.

# 31 Mister Mustard said, on December 27th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

#30 – Paddy-RAMBO

>>No. You slept through econ 100.

RAMBO, I think you slept through the whole GED prep course.

Only a knee-jerk Obamaphobe would make an asinine claim like yours.

# 32 LibertyLover said, on December 27th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

#23, Poison,

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6535031

Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that Obama’s staff acted without his knowledge in working a deal with Blago and the soon-to-be empty Senate seat? Anybody’s?

AFA the doubt, 47% of the country’s population should be enough.

should be swept onto the same garbage heap as Dumbya and his puppetmasters

He should be.

http://www.maplight.org/

Obama has accepted more money from special interests than most of the people in D.C. Who’s holding Obamessiah’s strings, Poison?

Change we can believe in!

# 33 MikeN said, on December 28th, 2008 at 3:16 am

I’ve seen more credible evidence that Clinton snuffed his commerce secretary Ron Brown to keep him from following through on his threat to reveal the illegal campaign fundraising from China unless they dropped the investigation into his son.

# 34 Paddy-O said, on December 28th, 2008 at 6:28 am

# 31 Mister Mustard said, “Only a knee-jerk Obamaphobe would make an asinine claim like yours.”

Hmmm, printing rivers of $ causes inflation has to do with fear of anything?

I told you to back off the prescription drugs…

# 35 Mister Mustard said, on December 28th, 2008 at 6:49 am

#32 – Liberty Loser

>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6535031

Uh, you said (and I quote): “I mean, the man isn’t even in office yet and is already about to be subpoenaed.” What you posted was a link stating that Blago’s defense team’s unfathomable request to subpoena some members of Obama’s STAFF (not Obama) had been rejected, so nobody connected with Obama is being subpoenaed. No one ever suggested that Obama be subpoenaed, nor did anyone ever suggest that he was involved in the Blago scandal in any way.

>>http://www.maplight.org/

You keep posting this link to the main page of the site, stating that it supports some whackadoodle theory or other of yours. If you want to state something like “Obama has accepted more money from special interests than most of the people in D.C.”, post a link to that effect.

# 36 LibertyLover said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:14 am

#35, No one ever suggested that Obama be subpoenaed, nor did anyone ever suggest that he was involved in the Blago scandal in any way.

So the man is incompetent instead because he can’t control his own people. Grrrrrreat.

>>http://www.maplight.org/

Show me a link that Bush is a puppet. If you are going to throw around terms like “puppeteer” you should know that Obamessiah is controlled just as much.

# 37 Mister Mustard said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am

#36 – Libery Loser

>>So the man is incompetent instead because he
>>can’t control his own people. Grrrrrreat.

Snooorrrrre. Give it up, Loser. Neither Obama nor his people have done anything remotely unethical. Leave it to the Obamaphobics to try to create something from nothing with an imaginary link between Blago and Obama.

There is none. Give it up. You lost.

>>Show me a link that Bush is a puppet.

We’re not talking about Bush here. We’re talking about Obama. And you posted a link that you claim “shows” Obama is excessively indebted to people with vested interests, when it shows no such thing.

And we’ve had 8 years of proof that Bush is a puppet. Can you seriously be questioning this incontrovertible fact??

# 38 bobbo said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am

#36–Libery==you are kidding right?

# 39 bobbo said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:26 am

#37–Mustard==I find it “impossible” to believe that Obama and Emmanuel did not have first hand knowledge of the corruption of Blago. I didn’t know until last week that knowledge of a corrupt official “required” other politicians (if not others as well) to report such corruption.

Now, I don’t blame those Dem Party Leaders and Hopefuls for cratering their own political careers to turn the scum in, but there “ethics” are not pure===they are political.

All politicians are power seeking scum and do not deserve our trust. Obama is no different, just shinier wrapping. I still am hoping for the best, but lets not lose our rationality.

# 40 Mister Mustard said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:32 am

#39 – Bobo

>>All politicians are power seeking scum and do
>>not deserve our trust.

Well then. I guess you may as well just kill yourself, if that’s the way you feel. There’s really no hope, is there? No good can ever come from those who govern us. Even if we vote all the bastards out, those who replace the politicians will be, by definition, politicians.

# 41 bobbo said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:38 am

#40–Mustard==you just enjoy “believing” don’t you? You believe in Religion. You believe in politics. You believe in condiments.

I believe in science: outcomes.

and yes, the majority of incumbents getting re-elected is the biggest support for the general corruption we have. I would think (not believe although that term might be used thru inexactitude) that a few rounds of voting every incumbent out of office might disconnect these scum from big money and reconnect them to the people. But I am an atheist in most things.

“Believers”/suckers/Silly Hoomans.

# 42 Mister Mustard said, on December 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am

#41 – Bobo

>>Mustard==you just enjoy “believing”
>>>don’t you?

Of course, Bobo. Everyone does. It’s the inevitable product of eons of evolution. And when one finds something worth believing in, it’s very gratifying.

You, on the other hand, being the avante-garde, hip-and-happening, intellectual, slightly dangerous non-conformist international man of mystery that you purport to be, take great solace in your negativism. To paraphrase Dr. Evil, “we’re not so different Mr. Bobbolina, you and I”.

And your notion of voting in people who don’t know what they’re doing every 4 years (or 2 years or 6 years), while superficially attractive, is a recipe for disaster. Find a winning horse, and go with it.

# 43 LibertyLover said, on December 28th, 2008 at 9:17 am

#37, Poison,

>>So the man is incompetent instead because he
>>can’t control his own people. Grrrrrreat.

There is none. Give it up. You lost.

Farmer: “Mr. Fox, I want you to investigate rumors of foxes being in the henhouse.”

Fox: “Will do.”

Weeks later . . .

Fox: “I can honestly say that neither me nor any of my comrades have ever been in the henhouse nor do we wish to be in the henhouse.”

Farmer: “Good enough for me.”

>>Show me a link that Bush is a puppet.

We’re not talking about Bush here.

Ah, but you brought it up first by talking about his puppeteers. I just merely pointed to a resource showing the strings tied to Obamessiah.

We’re talking about Obama. And you posted a link that you claim “shows” Obama is excessively indebted to people with vested interests, when it shows no such thing.

Perhaps you should learn to read because anybody with a brain and forefinger can find the correct links to click on.

And we’ve had 8 years of proof that Bush is a puppet. Can you seriously be questioning this incontrovertible fact??

Ah! I see your fallacy. You assume because I am attacking Obamessiah, I am defending Bush.

Think outside the square, Poison.

# 44 Mister Mustard said, on December 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am

#43 – Liberty Liar

Christ, I’ve never seen a more long-winded, bloviating, wind-baggy way to say “I was full of shit when I claimed that Obama was going to be subpoenaed.

Just admit it, you were bullshitting, and you got caught.

# 45 LibertyLover said, on December 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

#44, NEVER!!!!! Bwahahahah.

How many times have you blamed shit on Bush when one of his cronies screwed up? Too numerous to count.

Now, Obamessiah’s guys screw up and he is clean as a whistle. You take the cake!

# 46 MikeN said, on December 28th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

PaddyO I suggest you learn the difference between annual budget deficit and accumulated debt.

Mustard, the news stories to date tell us plenty about Obama and company’s knowledge of Blago, as bobbo has pointed out. If Blagojevich said that Obama isn’t willing to pay up for the Senate seat, how did he know that unless he asked?

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