Before the Senate gets back in. You know that they are not going to allow you to replace one hack with another. So what is old Bush to do, he may be forced to get a real AG, but the liar that we have had.

I am not sure what has caused the sudden destruction of unity in the republican party, but the GOP is over this lame duck. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), an administration cheerleader for the last 6 years sent a press release where he said, “I want a new strategy for Iraq. I continue to completely support the men and women in the American Armed Forces. They have not failed us. It is the Iraqi government that is failing to make even modest progress to help Iraq itself or to merit the sacrifices being made by our men and women in uniform. I am unwilling to continue our current strategy.” Oh no, what is Bush going to do now that a few Republicans are thinking of the troops!

One reason for the fleeing of the party could be the whole Libby thing, they are to cowardly to actually say something, but willing to toss Bush under the bus on every other issue. I personally think that this issue is really all about Domenici, he is under investigation because his hands are all over the purge of US Attorney. This may be a very unpopular man looking for any good publicity.

The whole press release is below.

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Now when the far right hacks start looking at the far right hacks and pointing out the depth of idiocy in their comments you know the lie must be so off base even the liars can’t swollow it. The only real difrence between the plan Nancy Pelosi takes and the one the former Speaker of the House took, Fat load Dennis Hastert, is that the plane uses less gas to fly, because face it, Hastert is such a giganic load of shit that it took far more fuel to get that beast aloft.

Everyone, even the right-wing White House hack, Tony Snow said, “I’ll just repeat our position, which is, as Speaker of the House, she is entitled to military transport, and that the arrangements, the proper arrangements are being made between the Sergeant of Arms office in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Department of Defense. We think it’s appropriate, and so, again, I think this is much ado about not a whole lot. It is important for the Speaker to have this kind of protection and travel. It was certainly appropriate for Speaker Hastert. So we trust that all sides will get this worked out.”

Republican Representative Ray LaHood, Republican of Illinois said, “This is a bunch of baloney” when asked about the fake controversy.

I know that it drives the right-wing hate mongers nuts that Nancy, a Democrat from California is 3rd in line for the presidency, and that at the rate Bush and Cheney are going, she just might get it, but the fact of the matter is that she gets a plane, and she gets one that can fly non-stop from DC to her home district in San Fransisco. Fat Load Hastert only needed to go a third of the distance, therefor most planes can do that without a refueling stop. Get over it people, your reckless disregard for the American people lost you the election, and you all only look like desperate freaks trying to make up shit. You lost, and will continue to loose at this rate.

I find it almost comical that the media is all a quiver about the fact that the second in command that Nancy Pelosi wanted, Representative John Murtha, was defeated and the front runner, Representative Steny Hoyer, was elected. The New York Times wrote today, �Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House.�

This is bullshit, lets us take a moment look at the fall of 1994, the Speaker Elect of the House was Newt Gingrich, and the newly elected Republicans were holding elections for the upcoming Congressional leadership posts. Newt, was throwing all his weight (And that is a lot, trust me) behind a man by the name of Robert Walker of Pennsylvania, for the position of Majority Leader. As the internal House election drew near, Newt was campaigning hard to get Robert the position, but as the votes were counted it was clear that he had failed and the position went to a rival of Newt�s, Tom DeLay. Almost the exact same situation as we have today. At the time the media said nothing about how Newt was damaged goods before he even got the job, none of it.

The right wing news media is so thrown off on how to spin the Democratic landslide; they have no idea what to do. They have sold their souls to the Republicans who have then turned around and lost the election. Right now the news media is seen as culpable of the failures of this administration and its Republican protectorates. The American people see the media not as the fourth estate doing its job to keep the government in check, but as an accomplice. The media is fearful of the wrath that the Democrats have the power to unleash, like the reestablishment of the �Fairness Doctrine�, or the halt to the very much desired media consolidation that the Republicans dangled in from of their faces.

You want proof of the media�s crimes, look no further than this story.

Now to be fair, I lifed this right off of ThinkProgress‘ site, they do such a great job.

Today, President Bill Clinton taped an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, which is scheduled to be aired Sunday. He was told the interview would focus on his nonpartisan efforts to raise over $7 billion to combat the world’s biggest problems.

Early in the interview, Wallace attempted to smear Clinton with the same kind of misinformation contained in ABC’s Path to 9/11. Clinton was having none of it.

ThinkProgress has obtained a transcript of the interview. Here are some highlights –

Wallace repeats Path to 9/11 misinformation, Clinton fights back:

WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on Fox News Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers, and I got to say I was surprised most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were President? There’s a new book out which I suspect you’ve read called the Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Bin Laden said “I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of US troops.” Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole.

CLINTON: OK..

WALLACE: …may I just finish the question sir. And after the attack, the book says, Bin Laden separated his leaders because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is 20/20.

CLINTON: No let’s talk about…

WALLACE: …but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?

CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network…ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 9/11 Commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people.

Clinton takes on Fox News bias:

WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?

CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.

WALLACE: Right…

CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..

WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…

CLINTON:…

WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?

CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked: Why didn’t you do anything about the Cole? I want to know how many you asked: Why did you fire Dick Clarke? I want to know…

WALLACE: We asked…

CLINTON:…

WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?

CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.

WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…

CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth.

WALLACE: About the USS Cole?

CLINTON: Tell the truth.

WALLACE: I…with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.

CLINTON: Did you ever ask that? You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…

WALLACE: [laughs]

CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.

Clinton on his priorities and the Bush administration priorities:

CLINTON: What did I do? I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that thinks Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…

WALLACE: [Laughs]

CLINTON: I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get Bin Laden. I regret it but I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could. The entire military was against sending special forces into Afghanistan and refueling by helicopter and no one thought we could do it otherwise…We could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify that Al Qaeda was responsible while I was President. Until I left office. And yet I get asked about this all the time and they had three times as much time to get him as I did and no one ever asks them about this. I think that’s strange.

Read the full transcript (rough) HERE.

Fox New, the mouth piece for the administration is having a hard time finding the spin in these numbers… The bounce is gone, and he is back to the Nixon numbers. The other great news Faux is not able to spin out is that Americans want the Democrats in charge!

From Fox News (bolds are mine, So there)

Less than four months before Election Day, the latest FOX News Poll finds that voters strongly favor the Democrats on key issues such as the economy and gas prices, and give the minority party a double-digit lead for control of Congress this fall. For most of President Bush’s second term in office, more Americans have said they disapprove than approve of his job performance and that is again the case in this new poll.

The president’s approval rating dropped to 36 percent, down from 41 percent approval two weeks ago and 40 percent in mid-June. Bush lost ground this week among some key constituent groups, such as Republicans, whites and men. Overall, 53 percent of Americans say they disapprove.

"It is important to remember that the president got his bounce after the killing of al-Zarqawi in Iraq," comments Opinion Dynamics Chairman John Gorman. "While administration officials were careful not to overplay the significance of this, it naturally created hope that things would get better. Several weeks of bloody footage from Iraq have pretty much dashed those hopes."

Joe Lieberman’s best friend Colin McEnroe and AP Capitol Reporter, Susan Haighs, were on WITC’s Beyond the Headlines on Sunday and they explained why everyone should take Ned Lamont’s campaign very seriously. They also go into why Joe’s running scared and threatening to run as an independent (here’s a hint: it’s becasue there’s a VERY good sign that Lamont will beat him in the primary).

Read more of this on ConnecticutBLOG has more.

Make sure you check out the vedio of the Fox News guy head bobbing and sleeping!!

Taken from BBC News

Dispute hits UN rights watchdog
A session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission has been suspended for a week amid disagreement over plans to reform the Geneva-based body.
The commission meets annually to examine global human rights standards.

The US has condemned the reform plan, but it has broad support from European, Asian and African countries.

Members with poor human rights records have recently discredited the commission’s work, the BBC’s Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.

The commission has some important business this year: consideration of human rights in North Korea, Sudan and Belarus, and discussion of the war on terror and its effect on human rights, including a report into Guantanamo Bay.

But all that may be in jeopardy because of the deadlock over reform plans. The UN could be left without a human rights watchdog for the first time in its 60-year history.

Election plan

The plan is to replace the commission with an elected human rights council which would meet three times a year.

Members would be expected to have good human rights records, in contrast to existing members which include countries with poor human rights records such as Sudan, China or Zimbabwe.

The changes do not go as far as everyone would like but they have widespread support.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan backs them, so do European Union countries and African and Asian nations.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International also support the plan.

However, the US says the plan has major deficiencies.

Does anyone else see the irony of this article? The United States is on the committee for the ethical and humane treatment of humans, yet has found itself in the fiasco that is the Abu Ghraib torture cases.

I will have to find the article later this eveninng, but the reason the UN hasn’t been able to go after the US about this is because of the fact that we do not consider Iraqi’s anything about “enemy combatants” and therefore are not protected under the Geneva Convention laws on the treatment of humans.

How can the UN turn away from what the US is doing, yet take us seriously on these same topics?

I post this, because for the most part I just hate Bill O’Reilly so much, he is more of a liar than George Bush and Scott McClellan combined and has a heart as black as the devil.

Well Fox News, with it’s flagship shill Bill “Falafel” O’Reilly, is seeing it’s rating take a huge fall, as others see a gain. I guess Americans are looking for real news, not “Missing White Girl Watch” and “GOP Talking Points”.

Now the truth is Bill is number one in his time slot, in face he has a little under 3:1 over his nearest competitor, but HIS ratings have dropped by 21% over last year, while most others saw huge gains. Countdown on MSNBC has seen a 55% increase, while even Head Line News, that has no one specific on has gained 33%. You can take a look yourself (PDF)

We must really have our collective heads in the sand. Of all the horrible wrongdoings that Bush is guilty of, there seems to be no public outcry for his impeachment. Clinton brought a new age of prosperity to this country by fixing the economic mistakes of the previous Republican administrations, but the moment America learned that he was getting a little action on the side, the proverbial shit hit the fan. Bush can commit war crimes, turn a blind eye to devastated US cities, eavesdrop on our phone calls, muzzle environmental scientists, and piss all our money away, but as long as he doesn’t bone an intern he’s A-OK.

This logic excapes me for some reason.

Now we all know the Onion is satire rag, it is meant to be funny. Well this weeks

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