Did The Paul Ryan For President Campaign Leak The Information About Cruz And The DC Madam?

Everyone's going to think it was Trump, right? I mean, it was certainly Trump who got his pal Pecker to run the National Enquirer piece Rubio had been unsuccessfully shopping around for months that claimed Cruz had had affairs with at least 6 women (nearly as many as Rubio's had). But the sudden revelation that of the old DC Madam phone numbers include Ted Cruz's phone number did not-- we've been told confidentially-- come from anyone connected to Trump. My source, who I don't know well enough to vouch for, would only say it rhymes with Cruz's first name. I started guessing. Fred? "No." Jed? "No." Red... someone with red hair... ADAM PUTNAM! "No." Hillary? No. Dead... someone connected to the Grateful Dead? "No, Mr. Klein, you're barking up the wrong tree." Eventually I figured out I had Cruz's wrong first name. Not "Ted" but "Lyin" is what he was referencing. Ah ha! Lying', lyin'... RYAN! And he smiled and drove off.

Ryan is going to be able to dispose of Trump easily-- relatively easily-- at the Republican convention in Cleveland. That's been all gamed out already and the fix is in, totally in. But what to do about Cruz? Montgomery Blair Sibley, the DC Madam's attorney, who seems to be certifiably insane, says he's releasing the records as soon as Monday. And he has a "dead man switch," explained by Maddow in the video up top, that indicates that if Cruz has him murdered, the records automatically come out. The records, in other words, are already online. Looks like Anonymous may have found them buried online already though. A website called Superstation95.com published a picture of the phone numbers yesterday and identified several numbers as belonging to Ted Cruz. It certainly looks like Cruz, whose campaign is predicated on him being "Gods candidate," is-- at the very least-- in for a bumpy ride. Of course, that's what Ryan would have wanted. Ryan and just about every other establishment Republican inside the Beltway. I kept trying to figure out if McConnell rhymed with anything. Or Mitch.

The question now becomes, how many times did Ted Cruz's name and number appear in the DC Madam's records? With Ted Cruz playing the part of the devout Christian to woo Evangelical voters to his Presidential Campaign, his use of whores becomes particularly relevant to today's election campaign.

 

Rollins Honored By Congress

Aaron Schock has nothing to be worried about but do Darrell Issa & Steve King still fear this woman?

What does Alan Grayson have in common with right-wing fanatics John Mica, Jeff Miller, Allen Boyd, Vern Buchanan, the Diaz-Balart Brothers, Bill Posey and Howdy Doody Nimrod? Well, sure they're all members of Congress from Florida-- as are Corrine Brown, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kendrick Meek, Alcee Hastings, Suzanne Kosmas, Cathy Castor, Ted Deutch, and Ron Klein. All of them were co-sponsors of Grayson's resolution today to honor Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as it celebrated it's 125th anniversary, the top liberal arts Master's degree-granting educational institution in the South. And perhaps if Liz Cheney-- or even Mary Cheney-- had graduated from there, instead of professional tennis player Dorothy Cheney, Congress would have voted unanimously to pass the resolution. Instead 132 Republicans joined all 239 Democrats voting YES, passing H Res 1169 371-36. In the end, every single Florida Republican voted for it, even the ones who didn't co-sponsor it.

These kinds of pro-forma resolutions... well, it's just a harmless form of congressional courtesy. Ten minutes earlier there had been a unanimous vote to pass Mike Honda's resolution celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and a few minutes before that another unanimous vote for Ike Skelton's resolution "recognizing and honoring the courage and sacrifice of the members of the Armed Forces and veterans." Charlie Melancon's resolution honoring "the workers who perished on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, extending condolences to their families, and recognizing the valiant efforts of emergency response workers at the disaster site" also passed without a single dissent. As did Don Young's resolution Tuesday "commending Lance Mackey on winning a record 4th straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race." It passed 411-0 (although three dog lovers voted "present").

Now I first heard about this when a friend called me and said "Grayson introduced a bill to honor Rollins." My immediate reaction, knowing Grayson is, first and foremost, a Joni Mitchell devotee, was to wonder if the former Black Flag singer was born in Orlando. I even looked it up. He wasn't; he was born in D.C. And then I figured out it was Rollins College, which is in Grayson's district. The whole GOP leadership voted for it: Boehner, Cantor, McCotter, even a gratuitous asshole like Pence. So who didn't? Well, let's scrape the bottom of the GOP barrel and see what we come up with.

Car thief and prime suspect in the Toyota boondoggle, Darrell Issa (R-CA), Mean Jean Schmidt, three pathetic Republican closet queens, Aaron Schock (R-IL), Dana Rohrabacher and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) (whose lover was involved in a triple gay murder/suicide not far from the campus a couple of years ago), Paul Broun (R-GA), almost universally considered the least pleasant, least effect and most obnoxious member of the House, Dan Burton (R-IN), the guy who painted President Clinton's head on a pumpkin and shot at it while demanding the Navy station a ship "off the coast of Bolivia," Steve King (R-IA), sex predator John Shadegg, Lynn Westmoreland and your regular bunch of Texas secessionists and cutthroats.

Maybe they're all just pissed off because Deborah Jeane Palfrey ("the D.C. Madam") graduated from Rollins and the discovery of her escort service's client list led to the end of the careers of countless close Cheney associates, although one infamous diaper-wearing senator is still representing wealthy special interests and family values conservatives in Louisiana. Many people who have looked into the case realize that Cheney had Palfrey (as well as Brandy Britton, one of the escorts) murdered in a way to make them appear vaguely like suicides. Still... is that any reason to snub one of the South's best colleges?



UPDATE: OK, So Broun's A Pathetic Nutbag. Grayson Won't Lower Himself To His Level

After making himself ridiculous yesterday be joining 35 other GOP sociopaths to oppose the bipartisan bill to honor Rollins College, probably because he just hates or fears Alan Grayson, Georgia kook Paul Broun proposed an identical bill today to honor the University of Georgia Graduate School in Athens. Broun is best known not only as a demented birther but for comparing President Obama to Hitler, something that even caused Georgia's two extreme right-wing senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson to recoil in horror and publicly rebuke him. He's been on an anti-Muslim jihad so vicious and bigoted that sober and judicious Glenn Greenwald called one of the sickening stunts by him and Sue Myrick possibly "the most despicable domestic political event of the year."

Ironically, the county he invariably loses-- and loses big-- when running for election is Clark County, some of Athens and the University of Georgia, where he is almost universally considered an embarrassment and a tragedy inflicted on them from the less enlightened parts of the district. In any case, his resolution passed today, unanimously, of course, Grayson magnanimously joining all 244 other Democrats to vote in favor.

WHO MURDERED THE DC MADAM? WE CAN BE SURE IT WASN'T LARRY CRAIG, MARK FOLEY, MITCH McCONNELL OR LINDSEY GRAHAM

The Tarpon Springs, Florida police and the corporate media have immediately declared the death of Deborah Jeane Palfrey (aka- "the DC Madam") a suicide-- even before the police were willing to confirm the body was hers! They claim there is a suicide note but won't disclose the contents. You'll recall she was convicted of running a prostitution service catering to members of the Inside the Beltway elite. Her client list yielded up a number of Bush Regime bigwigs and the hapless wingnut from Louisiana, David Diapers Vitter, who has a long history of chasing prostitutes in his own state and elsewhere. Of course, it is likely that whomever else was on that client list-- the undisclosed politicians, for example-- would have quite the motive for murder.

One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.

Last year, Palfrey said she, too, was humiliated by her prostitution charges, but said: "I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made of."

It could have been a suicide... but I wouldn't jump to conclusions until after a thorough investigation but a trustworthy agency. Uh, oh... I guess we'll never know.


UPDATE: SO... WHO MURDERED HER?

Read the comments below. Read a report from Fox. There will be conspiracy theories about this forever-- which doesn't mean she wasn't murdered. Larry Flynt, when asked if she was assassinated: "I personally believe that's what happened, but I have no proof." That about sums it up for most of us.