Required Reading

http://www.stopiranwar.com/
http://www.votevets.org/
http://www.warandpiece.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/

More Gonzo Corruption

In addition to Gonzo's recent bending the truth about how much he knew about the U.S. Attorney dismissals, let us not forget about his maneuvering to help shield Dubya's drunk driving conviction when he was called for jury duty back in 1997 and then the lie about such shenanigans when he was going through the Senate confirmation process en route to his current position as Attorney General. It's the typical, 'you protect me through lies, leverage and larceny' quid pro quo. Such an "honorable public servant" we have in Gonzo. Piece of shit ambulance chaser, I say.

Jeb Bush - No Friend of Gators

Good ol' boy Jeb Bush was denied an honorary degree by U of F. Congrats to their Faculty Senate for standing up for their convictions! What goes around comes around.

Cozy Threesome

Let's not forget what a cozy threesome that Bush, Gonzo, & Miers make.

Miers...introduced Bush to Alberto Gonzales, who served as Bush’s counsel while governor and later in Washington, before being named U.S. attorney general.

During Bush’s first term as governor, Gonzales used information turned up by Miers to persuade a local judge to excuse Bush from jury duty, a civic task that would have forced him to disclose his 1976 arrest for drunken driving in Maine. The incident was not divulged until the waning days of Bush’s 2000 campaign for the White House.

Fishing Expedition Part 2: honorable public servants

When Bush said, "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants" to whom was he referring??? The 'fishing expedition' is to get the facts about what folks like Gonzo, Harriet and Rove said and did in the process of replacing the U.S. attorneys and if anything about the process was improper. So, I guess these are the 'honorable public servants'!!!!!?!! What a joke. To say 'honorable' and 'Rove' in the same sentence is a complete oxymoron.

The Best Choice

I've been doing a great deal of thinking lately about the 2008 presidential campaign and have come to a conclusion that I really should have arrived at long ago--that Al Gore is our best bet for taking the White House back. I'm dead serious about this--he can win. We'll get by the "he's-part-of-the-old-clinton-days" criticism and he'll rise to the top of the field in short order. Among dem. primary candidates Al is running 3rd in several polls and in one he's double his numbers since November 2006--from 9% -18%--no other candidate has done this well. Plus, he's NOT EVEN A CANDIDATE! It's the globe stupid.
So call or write Al Gore a letter of support and urge him to run for President in '08!

HONORABLE AL GORE
2100 West End Avenue
Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203

Mr. and Mrs. Gore apparently have no direct email address according to the Al Gore Support Center, but scheduling requests can me made by calling the following numbers:
Phone: (615) 327-2227
Fax: (615) 327-1323

Other links:
http://www.draftgore.com/
http://www.algore.org/
http://www.algoresupportcenter.com/
http://www.algore.com/

Show Trial - Partisan Fishing Expedition

Show Trial - Partisan Fishing Expedition!?!?!?!?!?
I guess that's why the Senate on Tuesday voted 94-2 to strip Gonzales of his authority to fill U.S. attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation. I don't know about you but my guess is there were a few Republicans in that vote!

I don't know how anyone can be so delusional. It's called oversight, and Bush isn't so dumb not to know this. But his defense is pitiful and transparent--ripping a page from the Clinton 'witch hunt' political handbook. Pure reaction formation. If I wasn't so angry with the Bushies for what they've done to this country I'd almost feel sorry for them--but on second thought, I'm not that liberal.

Talking Points - Protect the Rover

I think it's obvious that the Bushies are protecting Rove. Read the email excerpts regarding the talking points, especially the "Who decided?" part and tell me what you think.
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Presciently titled “Prepare to Withstand Political Upheaval," this part of the memo predicted the fired prosecutors would make “strenuous” efforts to save their jobs by appealing to other officials in the Bush administration. The memo contained responses to likely questions from those fired and said “Recipients of such 'appeals' must respond identically.”

Anticipated questions and suggested responses included:
“What?”“U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president (there is no right nor should there be any expectation that U.S. attorneys would be entitled to serve beyond their four-year term).”
“Who decided?”“The administration made the determination to seek the resignations (not any specific person at the White House or the Department of Justice).”
“Why me?”“The administration is grateful for your service, but wants to give someone else the chance to serve in your district.”
“I need more time!”“The decision is to have a new acting or interim U.S. attorney in place by January 31, 2007 (granting “extensions” will hinder the process of getting a new U.S. attorney in place and giving that person the opportunity to serve for a full two years).”

Support Our Troops - Bring Them Home

It has to be put this bluntly I'm afraid. Anything less has been, and will continued to be, labeled "democratic slow bleed policy." STOP additional funding now! This IS the way to support the troops. Then, if Bush doesn't begin to withdraw (or euphemistically, 're-deploy') then the blood is on his hands even more than it is already--the same way if your bank says that you're over-drawn and you still keep writing checks--it's your fault, not your bank's.
To the Democrats in Congress: WE ARE WITH YOU ON THIS--DO IT NOW!

Halliburton to open headquarters in Dubai

I don't know what all the hub-bub is about; I think it's a perfect fit! Jesus, Mary, Joseph, you couldn't write a fictional account that would out-sleaze the reality of the repugnacan party with all its lunacy and corruption.

Foxian Slip?

They just can't help themselves can they? Freud would have a field day with those clowns.

Hillary Hardball

I think Hillary is great, but I can laugh at this.

Blunder Bush

"The most dangerous foreign-policy blunder in this country since Vietnam."

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter making perfect sense as usual. How can anyone not like and respect this man?

Eye of Newt for President? What a Joke!

Newt--absolutely the biggest hypocrite in the world--for president. Now that's a laugh. True that he is on par for the anti-family values platform that seems to be a requirement with the current field of repugnacan candidates, but Gingrich would be a veritable smorgasbord for any opponent. Frankly, I'm licking my chops as I think about this ridiculous possibility. Newt, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, has married three times. Ok, Rudy ties him on this one, but only the Newt can lay claim to the base manner in which he threw his ex-wives to the curb. If I'm not mistaken--and I don't think I am--his first wife has said that the Newtster discussed divorce details while she was recovering from cancer surgery. Nice. His second wife was apparently blind-sided when Newt called her just prior to the story of his affair originally breaking in the press. Nice timing. And his current 'lucky lady', Callista Bisek, is a former congressional aide who is more than 20 years his junior. The timing on this one is even more precious. While still married to wife #2, Newt was boinking Callista while he was leading the righteous charge for Clinton's impeachment (and don't give me that crap about, "well, Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, not for adultery"--every rational person knows that was a bogus prosecution). Add to this the very good likelihood that Callista got her job by giving one and perhaps you do have the perfect repugnacan candidate for president.

Did Anyone Think It'd Take This Long?

FBI obtained records 'illegally'

The attorney general has ordered new safeguards

The FBI has been illegally obtaining information on the US public, a report by the justice department's inspector general has said.

Bush-Cheney -- Privateers

I've said it before and I'll say it again, and again, and again. Privatization of everything that Bush-Cheney can get their hands on leads to abysmal failures--except of course for the cronies that make big bucks at the expense of everyone else. So, here gain, connect the dots on the Walter Reed controversy and, sure enough, a big fat ex-Halliburton stuffed shirt shows up. My, my, my. It seems as though about 250 Federal employees were dumped during yet another privatization scam of the Bush-Cheney White House in favor of a private contract. You guessed it. That private company has ties to the current administration--the company top dog is an ex-Halliburton pal of Cheney's, Al Neffgen. Take a peek at how nice of a job he did at Halliburton's KBR--nice and transparent hey? What's a hundred million over-charge between friends? A real honest business man--NOT. And now he's f'ed up our vets--you know, those boys that Bush sent over to die or be severely wounded, only to come back to sub-standard care provided courtesy of Bush-Cheney cronies. How perfectly sweet is that?