YOU CAN'T ARREST A BUSH APPOINTEE FOR BITING OFF SHEEPS' BALLS BUT TAKING BRIBES IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MATTER

When Karen sent me the photo up here I thought it was George W. Bush in drag. Instead, it's another of the Bush Regime's corrupt apparachiks, one who is likely to soon be headed to a woman's federal penitentiary.

PROTECT YOUR GROIN, GUYS

by Karen Allen

It appears the malfeasance of the Bush Regime’s appointees knows no bounds. Sue Ellen Wooldridge, since 2004 the government’s top environmental prosecutor, was recently exposed for being in bed with an oil and gas lobbyist, J. Steven Griles. Literally. Wooldridge and Griles began dating in 2001 when he was her boss and the two now cohabit a condo in Virginia. As she moved up the appointee ladder, Wooldridge was questioned several times whether she had any conflicts of interest, which she denied each time. Griles eventually left government service to become a gas and oil lobbyist. Griles was instrumental in getting the Bush Regime to sign off on a proposed $25 billion natural gas pipeline. Griles is also the target of a Justice Department criminal investigation into his dealings with imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Nine months before agreeing to let behemoth oil corporation ConocoPhillips delay a half billion dollar pollution cleanup, Wooldridge took title to a $1 million dollar vacation home on luxurious Kiawah Island, South Carolina, with that oil company’s top lobbyist, Donald Duncan. The third owner of the property is Steven Griles, Wooldridge’s live-in lover.

Two months ago, amid a growing controversy once the property purchase by the two lobbyists and Wooldridge became known, Sue Ellen Wooldridge resigned her government position, saying she had done nothing wrong.

In various interviews, Wooldridge is somewhat noted for a story she tells about her childhood growing up in rural California. She related that she enjoyed castrating male sheep by biting off their gonads with her bare teeth. She said it was the natural way to do it. California has a lot of kooks and nuts in its Republican congressional delegation but few are as bat-shit crazy as Sue Ellen's main defender, right wing extremist Dan Lungren who vowed to be a character witness for her in the coming congressional hearings.