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.

WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin’s office confirmed Wednesday that Robert Flanagan, who was arrested and charged as part of an alleged scheme to gain access to a U.S. senator’s telephones, worked in her office last year.

Still, press secretary Katie Bruns said the Oklahoma Republican remains a co-sponsor of a congressional resolution honoring one of the other suspects for previous efforts to go undercover and gain information on the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN.

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PS – ACORN has yet to be charged with any crime. Way to get the low-hanging fruit there, boys!

A conservative activist who has caused problems for the community organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested and accused of trying to interfere with phones at U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu’s phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.

An FBI criminal complaint charging the men was unsealed Tuesday.

O’Keefe was the brains behind a series of undercover videos which have caused major problems for ACORN — the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now.

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