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Does any Republican Candidate Want to Win Iowa?

Posted by Jonah on December 28, 2007 at 02:30 PM

Rudy Giuliani

“... We've been in Iowa quite a bit,” Giuliani said. “We’ve been in New Hampshire more … we think this strategy fits our campaign.”

Mike Huckabee

“It’s a remarkable story. If we finish second or if… we finish third, it’s a remarkable story,” he said. “I think we will make political history one week from today probably one way or another.”

John McCain

McCain is looking to benefit from strong poll numbers in New Hampshire and the endorsement here of the state's most influential newspaper, the Des Moines Register. But in remarks after the event, he rejected the idea that he hadn't paid enough attention to Iowa. He said he would leave to the media to decide whether he meets expectations here.

Ron Paul

Rep. Ron Paul is hoping for victory at the Iowa caucuses next Thursday night, but admits it's hard to know if his election-night support will be stronger than his single-digit poll numbers.

Mitt Romney

Republican Mitt Romney, facing an unexpected battle against Sen. John McCain in his own backyard of New Hampshire, headed straight to the ski slopes of that state this week instead of flocking to Iowa with the other presidential contenders.

Fred Thompson;

Tells CNN that he wants to do better in caucuses than “show”
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Gotta hand to him, he's persistent. But he always comes back meaner and drunker. It frustrates him so.

TICK, TICK, TICK... BOOM!!! ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!

Posted by *Harpo* on December 28, 2007 at 03:58 PM

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Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on December 28, 2007 at 04:12 PM

Maybe no registered Republicans will come out to the Iowa caucuses in protest over the low-quality slate the RNC is offering?

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SandyH on December 28, 2007 at 07:10 PM


December 31, 2007

His Honor Michael B. Mukasey
U S Attorney General
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Dear Attorney General;

This letter is to inform you of the many complaints against fraud and corruption within the Dept of Justice, specifically related to the Federal Bankruptcy issues in Delaware.

The Director of the EOUST replaced the Region 3 US Trustee, Roberta DeAngelis on Dec. 22, 2004 as Trustee over Wilmington DE. We had direct correspondence with Mr. Lawrence Friedman who assured us that the matter would be handled.

On Feb 15, 2005 the Asst US Trustee Frank Perch then did place in a Motion to Disgorge Traub Bonacquist & Fox (TBF), for $1.6 million. This is attached with this letter as “Exhibit 1” (D.I. 2195). The Asst US Trustee has testified, multiple times, that he had discussions with the officers of the courts in the eToys bankruptcy case (Del 01-706), as he specifically warned TBF and the Debtors counsel, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnel (MNAT), against breaking the law of § 327(a) and Rule 2014 of the bankruptcy statutes.

Despite this warning the Law firm of MNAT and TBF, along with other parties did draft a Hiring Letter for Barry Gold (a direct paid associate of TBF [confessed]). This Hiring Letter was kept hidden, in a clandestine manner, as it directly ignored the caution of Frank Perch as Asst US Trustee. The Hiring Letter is already in the court docket record of eToys as docket item 2169 and is attached here as “Exhibit 2”. It specifically gives Barry Gold, under the “guise” that he is arms length, permission to Circumvent the Code and the Court. While it proves, conclusively, Scheme to Fix Fees (18 USC 155 Janet Reno Reform Act of 1994), it becomes a full blown “conspiracy” to perpetrate “fraud on the court” by “officers of the court” as they were [fore]warned and then did the subterfuge in a “collaborative” manner.

Less than ten (10) days after we were told by Director Friedman that the matter would be handled, the attorney for the “new” US Trustee, Kelly B Stapleton, then did sign a letter giving implied clemency to the admitted acts of perjury and fraud. The Stipulation to Settle is eToys docket item 2201 and is attached here as “Exhibit 3”. It contains the following [obvious] illegal clause,

“WHEREAS the United States Trustee shall not seek to compel TBF to make additional disclosures; “

Then, documenting that the clemency is totally erroneous and destroyed any “sufficient deterrent” value, Paul Traub of TBF then perpetrated another $100 million fraud in the KB Toys bankruptcy case in Delaware. (04-10120) Where Mark Kenney stepped up to

the plate and defended the fraud and obstructed justice by asking the Court to strike and expunge us. (KB Toys D.I. 2228). This is attached as “Exhibit 4”.

Immediately thereafter Asst US Trustee Frank Perch and Lawrence Friedman resigned from their office. Other resignations connected to this case include Debra Yang of the Corp Fraud Task Force, Ellen Slights as AUSA in Delaware, Gordon Robinson of the SEC Bankruptcy Fraud Division and your predecessor, Alberto Gonzales, who we informed, right prior to his resignation, about knowledge of his complicity in promoting the removed Roberta DeAngelis to the post of General Counsel of the Dept of Justice EOUST office. DeAngelis and Kenney are now involved, in the criminal conspiracy, asking the 3rd Circuit Court, (case 07-2360) to dismiss the case, while they defend their efforts to give clemency to the fraud and perjury.

Finally, just a few weeks back, we placed in the Public Record out here in California, the newly discovered evidence that the US Attorney office in Delaware, Colm F Connolly, whose office has refused to prosecute the affair, is also guilty of bad faith acts and non disclosure. Colm F Connolly was a partner with the MNAT law firm in 2001 when the fraud and perjury began. Over $300 million, all Court Docket record proofs, of fraud has occurred that benefited Bain.

The US Sup Ct decision In re Hazel Atlas Glass (1944) has been affirmed by the 3rd Circuit and states, specifically, that there is no statute of limitation of Fraud on the Court by “officers of the Court”. We have also attached a copy of the clocked item given to the US Attorney’s office in California.

This mess and corruption of the Dept of Justice is most certainly a rogue element, not of your making. We hope and pray that you will not resign, as the others have, who have chose discretion rather than valor. We seek the American spirit of Truth and Justice. Hoping, earnestly, that you are the person who will stand tall against corruption.

Testified to you this day
“Under penalty of perjury”
Steven Haas (a/k/a Laser)
100% owner Collateral Logistics
Court approved consultants of eToys

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LaserHaas on December 31, 2007 at 11:03 PM

I can tell that those that run the blog for the Democratic National Committee are not impressed with Rudy Giuliani’s lack of positive leadership for his own campaign. Mayor Giuliani’s publicly pointing out that his campaign people are more worried about New Hampshire than Iowa suggests his own belittling of his chances in Iowa and New Hampshire. It also gives us more of the same poor elitist Republican leadership with the suggestion that ‘certain’ people or states do not matter as much as others.

I knew that Rudy Giuliani lacked in leadership when he publicly put Senator Biden’s thirty-three year experience in the U.S. Committee on Foreign Relations down saying that Biden had not worked for the U.S. State Department before. This was during the very week Senator Biden was on the phone with both Benazir Bhutto and Pakistani President Musharraf. The U.S. President does not publicly put down the country’s Chairperson on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in front of the international community be they Democratic or Republican. Not if your smart enough to be president and need some kind of government back up with American foreign policies...

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ElizabethJW on January 3, 2008 at 09:56 AM

As far as the DNC quoting Mike Huckabee saying, “If we finish second or if… we finish third, it’s a remarkable story,” what would be even more ‘shocking’ and remarkable is if America ever leaves Iraq under a Republican Huckabee administration.

John Edwards says only 3,500 to 5,000 U.S. Troops will remain in Iraq after the first ten months of his administration and part of his decision is based on the Iraqi Government’s lack of effort.

This would be a remarkable message for America to give the current government of Iraq in their lack of working for a unified government that takes on the Islamic politics on violence and the tolerated violence in the region by certain governments. So John Edwards has got the best message for fighting the war against terrorism in Iraq by not fighting the war in Iraq.

So if you want to hold America’s head up for the beheaded and the U.S. Soldier coming out of Iraq, vote Edwards.

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ElizabethJW on January 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM

Senator Mc Cain has admitted in so many words that pursuing positive support for the Iraq war was one of the worst mistakes he has made. However his saying that he will leave whether he meets expectations in Iowa up to the media is more of the Republican elect’s attitude of leaving everything up to what The President says, isn’t it?


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ElizabethJW on January 3, 2008 at 10:50 AM


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