Jon Stewart at the Daily Show revisits the Monica Goodling kerfuffle.

You know I can't be positive, but I think I may have met Sodomy Hussein at a local gay bar many years ago. And no I don't want to explain why I was in a gay bar.

But they made a Cosmopolitan to simply die for!

I was incorrect, the Goodling testamony did indeed reveal a smoking gun. Hell it may in fact be a smoking cannon!

This Monica revealed something hotter --- much hotter --- than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One....And the Committee members didn't even know it.

Goodling testified that Gonzales' Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffin's "involvement in 'caging' voters" in 2004.

Yeah I was confused about what "caging" is as well, but fortunately smarter people then myself are on the case.

But what's 'caging' and why is it such a dreadful secret that lawyer Sampson put his license to practice and his freedom on the line to cover Tim Griffin's involvement in it? Because it's a felony. And a big one.

Here's how caging worked, and along with Griffin's thoughtful emails themselves you'll understand it all in no time.

The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked "Do not forward" to voters' homes. Letters returned ("caged") were used as evidence to block these voters' right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and --- you got to love this --- American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters.

Why weren't these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation --- and the soldiers were overseas. Go to Baghdad, lose your vote. Mission Accomplished.

So what this is my friends is the evidence that Rove and his cronies stole the 2004 election, and how they did it. Is that a big enough smoking gun for you?

And what is more the reporter who broke this story, Greg Palast from the BBC, claims to have the 500 missing Rove e-mails! Holy shit!

So go and visit our best new friends at The Brad Blog because they have all of the details.

I cannot believe I did not think that this US Attorney story was going to be very interesting! I am an idiot.

Monica Goodling testimony very disappointing.

Testifying under court-approved immunity, 33-year-old Monica Goodling acknowledged that she had given too much consideration to whether candidates for jobs as career prosecutors were Republicans or Democrats.

“You crossed the line on civil service laws, is that right?” asked Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.

“I believe I crossed the line,” Goodling replied. “But I didn’t mean to.”

She said she had limited involvement in the firings and offered the panel’s Democrats nothing new in their probe of whether President Bush’s top political and legal aides chose which prosecutors to dismiss.

Goodling said she never talked to Karl Rove, Bush’s political adviser, nor Harriet Miers, then the president’s White House counsel, about the firings. She said Gonzales’ former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, drew up the list of those to be dismissed but she didn’t know how names got on it.

There was, at least so far, no smoking gun. There was very little new information. She admitted to breaking the law by hiring people based on their political leanings but did not say if anybody asked her to do so.

But my question is this: If Monica Goodling did not make the list of US Attorneys to be fired, and Paul McNulty didn't, and Alberto Gonzales didn't, and apparently neither Karl Rove or Harriet Meir's did it either, then who the fuck did?

I mean how many other people could have decided who was to be fired? I am guessing nobody else.

Which means that somebody, or everybody, is lying. And Congress better get to the bottom of this and not let this administration dodge and lie their way out of yet another scandal. This is a very convoluted and bizarre situation and it needs to have the light of justice shined right in its damn eyes.

If you thought the "Monica problem" was over when Clinton left office, you are wrong. This administration has their own "Monica problem".

Two years ago, Robin C. Ashton, a seasoned criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, learned from her boss that a promised promotion was no longer hers.

“You have a Monica problem,” Ms. Ashton was told, according to several Justice Department officials. Referring to Monica M. Goodling, a 31-year-old, relatively inexperienced lawyer who had only recently arrived in the office, the boss added, “She believes you’re a Democrat and doesn’t feel you can be trusted.”

Ms. Ashton’s ouster — she left the Executive Office for United States Attorneys for another Justice Department post two weeks later — was a critical early step in a plan that would later culminate in the ouster of nine United States attorneys last year.

Ms. Goodling would soon be quizzing applicants for civil service jobs at Justice Department headquarters with questions that several United States attorneys said were inappropriate, like who was their favorite president and Supreme Court justice. One department official said an applicant was even asked, “Have you ever cheated on your wife?”

Oh I can hardly wait to see this lady tesifying in front of Congress!

You can take the fifth all you want, but when Congress wants to talk to then by God they are going to talk to you!

Congressional investigators checking for political motive in the Justice Department's dismissal of selected U.S. attorneys last year now have a federal court order to hear from a former high-level government attorney, Monica Goodling.

In a request for immunity from prosecution filed and granted within hours Friday at U.S. District Court, the House Judiciary Committee said the protected testimony could shed light on circumstances "surrounding recent terminations of certain United States attorneys, representations to Congress regarding those circumstances, and related matters."

The panel's leadership believes Goodling took part in "crucial discussions" leading to a "termination list" that was then "refined and finalized," according to a letter last month from committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., that was sent to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Oh goody, goody, Goodling!

I can hardly wait to see this testimony.