If you’ll recall, one of the criminals charged in the Louisiana Watergate scandal, Robert Flanagan,  has a daddy who is an acting U.S. attorney. Well, his lawyer has started plea bargaining talks with federal prosecutors. I find this interesting because until now, the story from their pimp, I mean, master Nazi leader, James O’Keefe, was that they had done nothing illegal, and that the “truth would set them free.”

But if they all make plea deals, how’s the truth ever going to come out? They also waived a preliminary hearing that was scheduled for today. Me thinks they’re not laughing anymore. And we’ve yet to hear a single reason why U.S. attorney Jim Letten removed himself from the case the day after their arrests. We have, however, received confirmation from Oklahoma repiglican representative Mary Fallin that Flanagan was once a paid intern in her office. Fallin is still a co-sponsor of a resolution to “honor” O’Keefe for his cleverly edited videos that have led to zero charges against anyone at ACORN (because nothing illegal occurred), but stopped short of showing the ACORN folks throwing pimpy O’Keefey out of their offices.

Gotta love the way repiglicans always honor their criminal heroes. You can bet your bippy that somewhere right at this very minute, one of them is singing the “praises” of Ronnie Raygun, and how we should overlook that whole Iran-Contra thing. The repiglicans introduce resolutions to praise the likes of O’Keefe, but about the time Dennis Kucinich ever introduced a resolution to honor Michael Moore (and he should, by the way) the repiglicans would scream and kick until hell wouldn’t have it anymore.

I shouldn’t be too hard on them, though. It’s gotta be tough looking at the world through teabag-colored glasses.