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What a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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Does this mean we’re going to hear all the details about the House GOP’s dysfunctional marriage?
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Step right up to the GOTP trough. They pay $500 an hour to whore yourself out as their attorney…
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I suppose this lawyer will be charging MORE?
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Which inning is it?
I suspect that pressure came from partners who were losing clients, rather than from the clients directly.
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Smart move, since this guy did so well defending Maureen McDonnell. What’s that you say, she was convicted? Never mind.
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I have been told more than once by lawyers, to never trust a lawyer. Proven, perhaps, in your observation.
I love the implication: that a wound-too-tight gasbag clusterflub like David Rivkin just ISN’T UP to the awesomenity of this challenge.
Or, could it be that the perennially ridiculous habitual loser is TOO ORTHODOX and so insufficiently connected with the nutsillogical whackitudinality this job appears to require (like, the Russian emigre accent is maybe a CLUE to his core allegiance).
Or … and this is my actual guess … someone on the Congressional majority guidance committee actually asked Rivkin after “teh odds” and got a mostly rational answer (like, Well, we do have that pesky capitulation by Roberts, plus the several, cough hundred statements of principle not just he but Kennedy, Scalia and even Alito – tho never Thomas, we can rest assured – have had penned for them by the bright-light budding Ted Cruz’s of the Hahvad & Yale Republican Club Graduands that make up the labor force of the wingers’ clerking machine; or, just as devastating, Iz deeficult to prudeect!)
Thus does this idiocy get tossed into the hangnail remnants bin of minor irritants, along with Trey Trey’s wonderful BEEENNNGGGHHHAAAZZZIII!!! oopsventure.
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Bottom of the two hundredth and thirty-first, with the Republicans now reduced to sending in their rookie call-ups.
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The lawyer fired the client. The client is the Speaker of the House. The Speaker then hired an ambulance chaser to sue the President of the United States. It’s an open and shut case. Obama should be behind bars by Ramadan. I see no other way for this to turn out.
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Awesomenity? Nutsillogical whackitudinality? You’re awsomtaciousness is killing me here! 
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So does this means the suit will be because they stopped talking to each other?
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Don’t read too much into what I’m saying–I just mean a client with a beef about who another lawyer in their lawyer’s firm is representing ordinarily communicate the beef to the their lawyer, not the one they have the beef with.
But then I’m a lawyer, and, worse still, I ended a sentence with a preposition, so how can you trust that statement?
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That’s it. I’m suing you for breaking rules of proper grammar. Which has more substance to it than this stunt suit against the POTUS.
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The just right turd that wants to hang his name on this steaming pile of a suit has yet to be identified, trials are under way.
The winner will forever more be known as the dumbass that sued the President for doing his job.
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Well., if they wanted to find a lawyer that was not not reluctant or ashamed in the least to stand up in court and in the public arena (writ large) and advance a patently ridiculous but client approved argument then the guy that brought such glory to the cause of Governor and Mrs McDonnell is a logical choice. At least he knows that by representing Boehner et al that he will get paid. Belly up to the trough, boys!
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This is getting to be a pattern though… Didn’t the house repubs lose the first attorney that they hired when they decided to defend the DOMA? edit:: (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/10079-law-firm-bails-on-house-republicans-doma-defense)
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The level of Republican desperation is both hilarious and satisfying.
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