Writing by on Saturday, 30 of July , 2005 at 11:05 am
In what seems to be one of the lowest of the lows, this Republican leadership is going to attempt to get Patrick Fitzgerald removed as the US Attorney from Chicago.
I guess the original plan backfired, give the CIA care to a Republican loyalist, let him sweep it under the rug, and we move on. Mr. Fitzgerald is a US Attorney first, and a Republican second so it would seem, and has not swept it under the rug, but in fact has DONE HIS JOB. Now we all know that this administration punishes the competent, and gives the "Medal of Freedom" to the incompetent.
So we find this from the Chicago Tribune.By John Chase,Tribune staff reporter Published July 28, 2005
Former U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald said Wednesday he believes there is mounting political pressure to oppose the reappointment of U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald this fall, given his aggressive prosecution of government corruption in Illinois.
The former senator questioned whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the state’s top Republican, would support the prosecutor when President Bush decides whether to extend his term in Chicago.
But Hastert, who often battled with Sen. Fitzgerald while the two Republicans served together in Congress, quickly shot down the ex-senator’s claims. Hastert’s office said the decision rests entirely with Bush and that Hastert has no role whatsoever in whether the prosecutor keeps his job.
Fitzgerald was the state’s Republican U.S. senator in 2001 when he went outside Illinois’ political and legal circles to recommend Patrick Fitzgerald, who was then a federal prosecutor in New York. Peter Fitzgerald contends that the subsequent indictment of former GOP Gov. George Ryan and the federal investigation of Mayor Richard Daley’s City Hall have angered powerful politicians in both parties. The Fitzgeralds are not related.
“I’d be pleasantly surprised if Speaker Hastert recommended Patrick Fitzgerald for reappointment,” the former senator said in a telephone interview, echoing comments he made to WGN-TV Wednesday.
What has this great nation come to, Bush and the GOP knows they messed up, they know they have broken the law, so they are attempting to fire the man who's job it is to protect the law.
The Bush Administration, and the GOP leadership should be ashamed of themselves, they are an embarrassment to the nation.
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Category: Failed Presidency, Traitors in the White House
Writing by on Friday, 29 of July , 2005 at 11:55 pm
Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader, and fantastic doctor who was able to diagnose Terry Shivo from the floor of the Senate, you remember the guy?
For the longest time, this man was the Evangelicals pick for Republican nominee. They would say, "Jump!", he would say, "How High?"
Well in an odd turn, Frist is doing an about-face on the whole stem cell research thing. So I can only look at this one way, Frist is putting his money on the fact that the Right Wing nut bags are falling out of favor…
Anyone see this as anything else? I think it is a gamble that is way out there for him…
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Category: Crazy Evangelicals, Republicans, Right Wing Hypocrisy
Writing by on Friday, 29 of July , 2005 at 11:38 pm
Because the Bush Administration can't get its rotten nominees in any other way, Bush is going to install Bolton to the UN. Keep this in mind people; this is the first time in history a nominee was sent to the floor with NO recommendation. Bush is also the only "President" in modern history to use the recess appointment process. Clinton never did, nor did Bush 1, Ragan, Carter, or anyone for some time, if ever…
What makes the "President" think that the UN is going to give a rat's ass about a man that lied to Congress when asked if he had testified in anything, he said no, but he had in fact been spoken to the Grand Jury in the CIA Memo case, so he is a liar! He was unable to win support from the committee that is lead by Republicans.
This just show, George Bush is a failed President, he has resorted to tactics NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS EVER DONE TO GET HIS PLAN DONE. He is a failure, and this recess appointment is proof.
From the AP
President Bush intends to announce next week that he is going around Congress to install embattled nominee John Bolton as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, senior administration officials said Friday.
Bush has the power to fill vacancies without Senate approval while Congress is in recess. Under the Constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers’ August break would last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007.
An end run around the Senate confirmation process would certainly annoy senators - particularly Democrats - at a time when Bush’s nomination of John Roberts to serve on the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. It also could hamper Bolton at the United Nations, by sending him there as a short-timer without the Senate’s backing.
“There’s just too much unanswered about Bolton and I think the president would make a truly serious mistake if he makes a recess appointment,” Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said in an interview.
Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the president had not made the announcement and Congress wasn’t yet in recess, said Bush planned to exercise that authority before he leaves Washington on Tuesday for his ranch. The House recessed on Thursday and the Senate’s break was scheduled to begin later Friday.
President Bush, Failure pure and simple…
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Category: Life in Bushs America, Failed Presidency, Bush Lies
Writing by on Friday, 29 of July , 2005 at 12:38 am
The Republicans pushed the Energy Bill down the American people, with the help of some weak Democrats. It give HUGE tax cuts to oil and gas companies, the same ones that are making record profit at the moment, and will do nothing to lower the sky-high pump prices.
From the AP…
A national energy plan that would send billions of dollars in tax subsidies to energy companies passed the House on Thursday despite criticism from many lawmakers that it would do nothing to dampen high prices or lessen dependence on Middle East oil.
Within hours, the Senate began debating the legislation, with plans to vote on it on Friday.
Congress to Americans, who gives a rats ass what you want, or need.
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Category: Life in Bushs America, Failed Presidency
Writing by on Thursday, 28 of July , 2005 at 12:04 pm
Let the exploitation of the people in Central America begin. To hell with the American blue-collar worker.
You get what you asked for, you voted for a man because he claims to love Jesus more than the 41 other Christian presidents that we have had, and now your job is going to be sent to Juan Veldez, and his little donkey.
Hey but at least you will have more time for church…
Visit http://stopcafta.org/
Read the news here…
What a sad day in America, what next, are we just going to close America down?
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Category: Failed Presidency, Economic News
Writing by on Thursday, 28 of July , 2005 at 11:52 am
I love Harpers, they are by far the most well thought out publication ever…
Those that run around telling you that you are going to hell, and voting because they know what Jesus wants, have no clue about Jesus, or his teachings…
From Harpers.org
Only 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments, and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. This failure to recall the specifics of our Christian heritage may be further evidence of our nation's educational decline, but it probably doesn't matter all that much in spiritual or political terms. Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that "God helps those who help themselves." That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of neighbor. On this essential matter, most Americans-most American Christians-are simply wrong, as if 75 percent of American scientists believed that Newton proved gravity causes apples to fly up.
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Category: Crazy Evangelicals, Right Wing Hypocrisy, Culture of Life
Writing by on Thursday, 28 of July , 2005 at 11:14 am
OMG, thanks to AmericaBLOG for pointing this out. The man who speaks to Jesus in the White House, the man who ran on the moral ticket gives a giant "FUCK YOU" to the press yesterday.
You have to see this video, and this man calls himself a Christian? Wake up people, you are being played for fools!
Watch this Video from onagoodmove.org
Here it is enlarged…
UPDATE: Some think it is his thumb, I am not so sure… I think you would have to trwist the crap out of your hand to get the thumb there… But, we will see.
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Writing by on Thursday, 28 of July , 2005 at 11:07 am
Well the NY Times has discovered that the White House may have a 3rd leak. We know about Karl, and we know about Libby, but who is this 3rd leak…
From the NY Times…
In the same week in July 2003 in which Bush administration officials told a syndicated columnist and a Time magazine reporter that a C.I.A. officer had initiated her husband’s mission to Niger, an administration official provided a Washington Post reporter with a similar account.
The first two episodes, involving the columnist Robert D. Novak and the reporter Matthew Cooper, have become the subjects of intense scrutiny in recent weeks. But little attention has been paid to what The Post reporter, Walter Pincus, has recently described as a separate exchange on July 12, 2003.
In that exchange, Mr. Pincus says, “an administration official, who was talking to me confidentially about a matter involving alleged Iraqi nuclear activities, veered off the precise matter we were discussing and told me that the White House had not paid attention” to the trip to Niger by Joseph C. Wilson IV “because it was a boondoggle arranged by his wife, an analyst with the agency who was working on weapons of mass destruction.”
Mr. Wilson traveled to Niger in 2002 at the request of the C.I.A. to look into reports about Iraqi efforts to buy nuclear materials. He later accused the administration of twisting intelligence about the nuclear ambitions of Iraq, prompting an angry response from the White House.
Mr. Pincus did not write about the exchange with the administration official until October 2003, and The Washington Post itself has since reported little about it. The newspaper’s most recent story was a 737-word account last Sept. 16, in which the newspaper reported that Mr. Pincus had testified the previous day about the matter, but only after his confidential source had first “revealed his or her identity” to Mr. Fitzgerald, the special counsel conducting the C.I.A. leak inquiry.
Mr. Pincus has not identified his source to the public. But a review of Mr. Pincus’s own accounts and those of other people with detailed knowledge of the case strongly suggest that his source was neither Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s top political adviser, nor I. Lewis Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, and was in fact a third administration official whose identity has not yet been publicly disclosed.
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Category: Failed Presidency, Bush Lies, Traitors in the White House
Writing by on Wednesday, 27 of July , 2005 at 10:11 am
Okay, here is the deal, the Senate is going to go on August vacation (Bush is going away for a month as well) and they want to get has much done as they can before the recess. The bill that is currently on the floor for debate is the $491 Billion Defense Spending bill. Now in the past this bill gets a lot of debate, a lot of amendments and so on. On average this bill sees about 4 weeks of debate, it has never received less than 2. So Yesterday Frist tried to end debate on the bill, a cloture vote, after only one week of debate.
Why you may ask? Well Bill wants to be able to put the bill aside so that they can move to the important task at hand, getting to the NRA'a top priority, a bill that would curb gun manufactures liability in lawsuits.
From the AP…
Senate Republicans on Tuesday moved the National Rifle Association’s top priority ahead of a $491 billion defense bill, setting up a vote on legislation to shield firearms manufacturers and dealers from lawsuits over gun crimes.
Completion of the defense bill, which the Senate had been debating for a week, will now be delayed until fall. Democrats were incensed.
“What’s happening on this gun liability bill is really despicable,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. “To put that ahead of the defense bill, I think, is the most distorted priorities I can possibly conceive of.”
-snip-
Congress was on the verge of passing the bill a year ago when the NRA abruptly asked Craig, a member of the association’s board of directors, to withdraw it after gun opponents amended it to extend an expiring ban on assault weapons. A pickup of four GOP Senate seats in last November’s election emboldened gun rights supporters to try again, confident they can block Democratic attempts to attach an assault weapons ban.
The bill would prohibit lawsuits against the firearms industry for damages resulting form the unlawful use of a firearm or ammunition. Craig said such lawsuits are “predatory and aimed at bankrupting the firearms industry,” unfairly blaming dealers and manufacturers for the crimes of gun users.
So the troops are pushed aside for Special Interest groups…
For shame.
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Category: Military, Right Wing Hypocrisy, War on Terror
Writing by on Wednesday, 27 of July , 2005 at 9:56 am
Talking point number one of the GOP has been debunked and debunked again, and now has been debunked even more. Today the Washington Post has kept the heat on, and this is what they say…
Harlow, the former CIA spokesman, said in an interview yesterday that he testified last year before a grand jury about conversations he had with Novak at least three days before the column was published. He said he warned Novak, in the strongest terms he was permitted to use without revealing classified information, that Wilson’s wife had not authorized the mission and that if he did write about it, her name should not be revealed.
Harlow said that after Novak’s call, he checked Plame’s status and confirmed that she was an undercover operative. He said he called Novak back to repeat that the story Novak had related to him was wrong and that Plame’s name should not be used. But he did not tell Novak directly that she was undercover because that was classified.
Just because you are working behind a desk today, does not mean you will be doing the same tomorrow. In fact, according to her outside contacts she was a consultant.
This White House ran on fear and national security, you should be more fearful, because their actions have made us all less safe.
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Category: Failed Presidency, Bush Lies, Traitors in the White House
Writing by on Wednesday, 27 of July , 2005 at 9:41 am
The number of dead in Iraq has reached 1781, that is 1781 deaths because George Bush wanted to make is daddy love him again. 1781 deaths because of a lie…
See http://morethananumber.org/
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Category: Iraq, Fallen Heros, War Profiteering
Writing by on Monday, 25 of July , 2005 at 10:01 pm
A great story on the Traitorgate from the NY Times. the best is on page 2…
The White House response began at 9:30 a.m. on July 7, a Monday, as Mr. Fleischer briefed the press at the White House. “There is zero, nada, nothing new here,” he said of Mr. Wilson’s claims. But under questioning, Mr. Fleischer’s account became murkier. He seemed to concede, before backing away, that Mr. Bush’s entire statement about Saddam Hussein’s search for uranium in Africa might have been flawed.
By evening, as Air Force One lifted off, officials on the plane were calling The Times and The Washington Post to make it clear that they no longer stood behind Mr. Bush’s statement about the uranium - the first such official concession on the sensitive issue of the intelligence that led to the war.
Aboard the president’s plane was a copy of a State Department memorandum on the Wilson matter faxed in-flight to Colin L. Powell, then the secretary of state. Officials who have seen the memorandum say that in a passage marked “S” for “secret,” it included a crucial revelation: that Valerie Wilson was a C.I.A. officer who played a role in the agency’s decision to send her husband to Africa.
As Mr. Bush appeared with one African leader after another, reporters repeatedly tried to slip in questions on Iraq. On Wednesday, July 9, in South Africa, he was asked if he regretted the uranium reference in the January speech.
“Look,” the president replied, “I am confident that Saddam Hussein had a weapons of mass destruction program.”
When is the leadership in the Congress going to grow a set and at least investigate this… Cowards!
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Writing by on Sunday, 24 of July , 2005 at 11:03 pm
Looks like the White House may have destroyed evidence in the Plame leak case.
Today, Alberto Gonzales admitted that he told Andrew Card about the investigation immediately, but tool 12 hours to inform the White House staff that it must “preserve all materials” relevant to the investigation.
So the White House had 12 hours to get the story straight, and to destroy as much evidence as they can…
Here some info from today's NY Times
But the scandal has metastasized so much at this point that the forgotten man Mr. Bush did not nominate to the Supreme Court is as much a window into the White House’s panic and stonewalling as its haste to put forward the man he did. When the president decided not to replace Sandra Day O’Connor with a woman, why did he pick a white guy and not nominate the first Hispanic justice, his friend Alberto Gonzales? Mr. Bush was surely not scared off by Gonzales critics on the right (who find him soft on abortion) or left (who find him soft on the Geneva Conventions). It’s Mr. Gonzales’s proximity to this scandal that inspires real fear.
As White House counsel, he was the one first notified that the Justice Department, at the request of the C.I.A., had opened an investigation into the outing of Joseph Wilson’s wife. That notification came at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2003, but it took Mr. Gonzales 12 more hours to inform the White House staff that it must “preserve all materials” relevant to the investigation. This 12-hour delay, he has said, was sanctioned by the Justice Department, but since the department was then run by John Ashcroft, a Bush loyalist who refused to recuse himself from the Plame case, inquiring Senate Democrats would examine this 12-hour delay as closely as an 18
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Writing by on Friday, 22 of July , 2005 at 9:15 pm
All I can say is WOW, I am not sure if this man is an idiot, or a freaking genius. Here is his main platform, Vote for me, and I will work to impeach Bush…
I am not kidding! From the Rutland Herald
A Congressional candidate who wants to impeach President Bush insists he can win the Republican primary.
Dennis Morrisseau, 62, of West Pawlet, plans to seek the Republican nomination to run for U.S. House of Representatives. The seat is being vacated by Rep. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., who plans a run for the U.S. Senate.
A central part of his platform, Morrisseau said, will be bringing articles of impeachment against Bush.
He will most likely face Maj. Gen. Martha Rainville, adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard, in the September 2006 primary, along with any other candidates who might get themselves placed on the ballot between now and then.
Morrisseau said he considers himself more of a Republican than the president, and he thinks a lot of Vermont Republicans agree with him.
“This leadership isn’t very Republican and I don’t think it’s very popular with Vermont Republicans,” he said. “Republicans in this state tend to be mind-your-own-business people, keep taxes low and government small.”
Morrisseau held up former Gov. Deane Davis as an example of a Vermont Republican.
“Davis was the best environmentalist we had in this state,” he said. “That’s Republicanism in Vermont. We like small businesses. We’re afraid of outsiders and large businesses. That’s what I’m about.”
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Category: Life in Bushs America, Republicans, Smart Republicans
Writing by on Friday, 22 of July , 2005 at 9:04 am
Well it looks like the Right-Wing Hacks sent out to debunk the avalanche of information that is coming out about how treasonous this administration is, can't even keep the lies straight.
On CNN Rich Galen, part of the hack army, tried to rebut the idea that Karl Rove and others were leaking classified information. I am not sure if the next exchange was a brilliant trap by Candy Crowley, or just the ongoing plague of misinformation.
CROWLEY: Today there is a new development. The "Washington Post" reports on a classified State Department memo marked "S" for top secret in which Plame's married name appears. If anyone in the White House saw that and still leaked her identity, that person could be in a world of trouble.
GALEN: I'm not sure it was top secret. It said secret.
CROWLEY: Yeah, right. It didn't say "TS," it said "S," secret.
Wow, Open mouth insert foot…
It looks like it is going to go from bad to worse for the administration. Today the WSJ reports (login requiered) that the memo was in fact "Top Secret"
A key department memo discussing Joseph Wilson's Niger trip was classified "Top Secret," and the passage about his wife's CIA role was specially marked "S/NF" - not to be shared with any foreign intelligence agencies.
(I got this quote from Think Progress, they have a WSJ account)
For those that are not sure how this whole Security Clearance works, if the whole document is marked "Top Secret" then all of it's contents is as well. The Clearance issue also has a "Need to know" clause. This means that just because you and I have a Top Secret Clearance, we can not chat about all things we may know, I may not have a need to know.
The point is, the whole document is Top Secret, and the [S/NT] is a "Need to Know" designation, letting the reader know that NO foreign agent has a NEED TO KNOW.
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