Former Bu$h Attorney Charged With Trying To Kill His Wife!

[Bravo Zulu]

John Michael Farren, who served as deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, has been charged with strangulation and attempted murder after allegedly choking his wife and beating her with a flashlight.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/former-bush-attorney-charged-with-trying-to-kill-his-wife.php?ref=fpa

[Lil Missy]

1. Sounds appropriate for a bush operative.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Gee... he probably had a really bad day, didn't he?

He and Jeffrey Dommer should get a room.

[alittlelark]

3. What, no waterboard....?

[gateley]

4. Why couldn't it have been Yoo or Gonzales? nt

[malaise]

9. or Bush or Cheney?

The party of FAMILY values strikes again.

[intheflow]

5. Biblical family values at work again in the Republican party.

I guess she wasn't sufficiently submissive for his tastes. :puke:

[struggle4progress]

6. A Legal Times article from 1992 indicates J. Michael Farren PO'd nearly everyone when undersecretary

for international trade at Commerce under King Bush the First:

Legal Times
April 20, 1992
Volume 14; Issue 48
BUSH’S TRADE STRONGMAN
CHIEF PROTECTOR OF AMERICAN BUSINESSES PURSUES TASK WITH POLITICALLY COSTLY ZEAL
By Greg Rushford
... “It’s almost as if he was deliberately trying to manufacture unnecessary political controversies,” says one presidential aide ... Four officials who work closely with President Bush on trade matters say they are tired of spending their days trying to resolve controversies that, in their view, should have been handled more deftly by Farren ... “He has a prickly nature, is hot-tempered and stubborn,” says one Washington lawyer ... http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/01/former-bush-lawyer-charged-with-attempted-murder.html#more

[struggle4progress]

7. ... Mary Farren had delivered divorce papers to her husband on Monday ...

Former White House Lawyer John Michael Farren Charged With Attempted Murder of His Skadden Counsel Wife
Thursday, January 7, 2010 4:24 PM - By Kashmir Hill
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/attempted_murder_john_michael_farren.php

Gee! Why'd she wanna leave such a swell guy?

[SpiralHawk]

8. Republicon Family Values strike again

Verily, Republicons = The Latter Day Pharisees.

[Enthusiast]

10. Typical filthy Republican. nt