I Was Afraid of This!

When Jane pointed this out at firedoglake and with the subsequent nomination of the lead prosecutor to the Federal Judiciary I got such a chill up my spine. But apparently it only gets worse on the conflict of interest stage as Jane points out in this post.

Here it is:

And you thought we'd forgotten Barbara Comstock. Fat chance. She may be busy doing opposition research into Patrick Fitzgerald and his witness list on behalf of Scooter and the bear, but people like Valley Girl and Alison K. have been doing opposition research into her.

Turns out she's bosom buddies with none other than fellow wingnut ogress Alice Fisher. From Roll Call, January 9, 2006 (Lexis/Nexis):

It's Washington. Eyebrows were raised last month at just how cozy things were at the Justice Department's Christmas party. Most notably, between Alice Fisher, the newly installed head of the Criminal Division, and her old buddy Barbara Comstock, a strategic public relations and lobbying consultant who represents two of the biggest Republican fish caught up in the corruption scandals engulfing Washington.

This is just a snipit. Read the whole thing.

As I said, though the many Fat Ladies may be singing, if no one is listening we are in deep doo-doo. And so is our system of government.

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!