This remarker is SO correct in his analysis, it's a relief. Too bad the MSM will never approach the subject.
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Comment #61790 by SamSnedegar on 4/02 at 11:26 am
I came late to this party, but it ought to be noted that there is nothing WRONG with dumping as many US Attorneys as the Preznit likes.
What would have and will be wrong is for them to replace the dumpees with new US Attys who will have agreed before taking on the jobs to break the law. How? By engaging in selective prosecution and using a prosecution as did the Starr chamber, to harass and/or eliminate political enemies or opponents.
The Bushitter gang of thugs is quick to point out that they have broken no laws, and they are entirely correct, BUT....... if INTENT could be proven, then their culpability is already in place, just waiting for some evidence with which they can be prosecuted.
We only have heard about the one replacement who was Rove’s choice down in Arkansas, and if there breathes a man with brain so dead that he thinks THIS yahoo is honest, then I have a bridge to sell him along with a ticket on the Madrid lottery. No, NONE of the original planned replacements would have been either honest or expected ever to be so, and the crimes that the planners intended would have been ongoing for years to come.
Unfortunately for me, I do not hold with putting people in jail for planning a bank robbery that they finally figure out is not going to work, so they give up. It is too much like my going over to shoot my neighbor because my dog defecated on his lawn, and I know that my neighbor is coming over to beat my ass because of it, and I fear for my life, so as soon as he opens his door to me, I blow him away with a 12 gauge. Going after people for what they MIGHT do or might have done is stupid, and I won’t countenance it, terrorism or not. It is hard enough to get the evidence to make a real case against someone for what he ACTUALLY DID that broke the law.
And that brings us to the US Atty matter: they broke no laws except by PLANNING for illegal acts in the future. When they commit those acts will be time enough to prosecute them to the fullest.
In the meantime, they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and didn’t even get a half a cookie to eat. It will go away because there isn’t any thing there.
The scandal, if it exists, is for the public to know what they had to have PLANNED for the replacements, and that it was outside the law. One thing it might do: make it harder than ever to get GOOD men and women to become US Attys, because the implication will always be there from now on that “at the pleasure of the President” means “do illegal acts at the behest of the power structure.”
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
America Tells It Like It Is!
TRUTHDIG'S Joe Conason advises us to ignore the pundits and bark louder, when confronted with their warnings of Democrat mistakes; if the MSM says it's a mistake, you can be sure Dems are headed up the right tree.
Typos and grammatical errors corrected for ease of enjoyment. Ed.
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Comment #61344 by Pete on 3/30 at 7:43 am
You want to rattle the Republican cage? Try these suggestions:
1. Scrap the recent bankruptcy “reform” act and return to the 1978 standard. Put the onus on lenders for stupidity.
2. Investigate the so called “right to work” think tanks. They’re nothing but union busting shills for the American Manufacturers Assn. and the Chamber of Commerce.
3. Charley Rangel is right; bring back the draft especially on the campussies of Yale, Harvard, ad nauseam. Those with the most to defend should be in the front line to defend it.
4. Bring back the Eisenhower tax code. 90% of 450 billion still leaves one with a nice piece of change and presumably a clear conscience for once.
5. Reintroduce the deduction for personal income for the middle class.
6. Restore the guards installed by FDR to prevent another depression, undone by republicans since 1994.
7. Investigate this baloney about “jobs Americans won’t do” like postal worker, pharmacist & nurse.
8. Throw out the H1B visa program. Does anybody really believe that there aren’t enough programmers, chemists or engineers graduating from American Universities?
Iraq has been an expensive subterfuge so that Newt’s “Contract ON America” could be pulled off. Down republicrats,up Kucinich!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment #61292 by Ralph David Hill on 3/29 at 9:08 pm
I’m 68. It seems that in recent years the too-frequent subtle shifts in meaning, the subtle rewrites of history -e.g. congressional Democrats voted FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ rather than VOTED TO GIVE BUSH THE AUTHORITY TO GO TO WAR, hoping against hope that that vote would help persuade Saddam to be more forthcoming and saying they expected Bush to use the power given him wisely (he didn’t), using military action as a last resort.
The latter is the way I understood it but (I think) highly skilled Republican operatives & rewriters of history introduced the idea that Congress had voted for going into war. Then Democrats seem to have just accepted that they had voted for the war in Iraq rather than having voted to give Bush the authority to go to war hoping that doing that would actually help to prevent a war.
Looking back of course it’s obvious now that Bush was no one worthy of being given any authority of any kind involving America’s safety, and those who voted to give him the authority to go to war in Iraq had mistakenly believed Bush was someone who could be trusted to act carefully and judiciously. But amazingly, many Democrats seem to have allowed that Republican rewrite to stand.
GOOD TO SEE I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE who hurts to see many pundits and “authoritative experts” treat important things as unimportant, etc. I don’t think the main thing for Democrats is to win points against the Republicans, but rather to reverse disastrous policies for the good of the country and to show up a lot of spin and deception presented with a tone of fairness and objectivity - seemingly the voice of expert authority - for what it really is - RUBBISH!!
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Comment #61287 by America on 3/29 at 8:01 pm
Dear Mr. Rove,
Even little old me in podunk Ohio knows you’re a crook. Thanks to the internet I know who you screwed, what you screwed em over for, when you screwed em, where you screwed em, how far and how long you screwed em.
You cannot hide from the American people forever. Your job is not safe and we don’t like you anymore. In fact we never did.
The only thing that keeps you in office is that little white crook in the big white house but that shit can’t last forever and definitely won’t last until 2008. God willing, yes, the same God that you have taunted the American people with and that Bush claims he serves but doesn’t - God willing, Cheney and Bush will be impeached and all of you will wind up in Federal - Pound- Your- Ass prison.
That way instead of screwing over the American People like you have for nearly a decade, you’ll be the one getting screwed instead.
Have a nice day and enjoy it while it lasts, but your time is done son. The media cannot shield you.
We Know!
Love,
America
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Comment #61224 by vanjejo on 3/29 at 2:20 pm
To alleviate this problem we could always put this administration under house arrest, elect a “commission” of “appointed” investigators to spend their time and look into it *kind of like the 9-11 commission* The country can be governed by the remaining elected officials who could get on with legislating what is best for the people of America; let Congress work on what they are paid to do, which is listen to us and “insure domestic tranquility”. D O M E S T I C.
I cannot fault Congress as long as they vote by the voices they hear. Read their mail and email and really listen when we call. Vote with American citizens FOREMOST on their minds.
They vote it and they cannot be held accountable if the decider vetos......
Just do the right thing - investigate and demand. Get going and stop stumbling - impeach.
Typos and grammatical errors corrected for ease of enjoyment. Ed.
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Comment #61344 by Pete on 3/30 at 7:43 am
You want to rattle the Republican cage? Try these suggestions:
1. Scrap the recent bankruptcy “reform” act and return to the 1978 standard. Put the onus on lenders for stupidity.
2. Investigate the so called “right to work” think tanks. They’re nothing but union busting shills for the American Manufacturers Assn. and the Chamber of Commerce.
3. Charley Rangel is right; bring back the draft especially on the campussies of Yale, Harvard, ad nauseam. Those with the most to defend should be in the front line to defend it.
4. Bring back the Eisenhower tax code. 90% of 450 billion still leaves one with a nice piece of change and presumably a clear conscience for once.
5. Reintroduce the deduction for personal income for the middle class.
6. Restore the guards installed by FDR to prevent another depression, undone by republicans since 1994.
7. Investigate this baloney about “jobs Americans won’t do” like postal worker, pharmacist & nurse.
8. Throw out the H1B visa program. Does anybody really believe that there aren’t enough programmers, chemists or engineers graduating from American Universities?
Iraq has been an expensive subterfuge so that Newt’s “Contract ON America” could be pulled off. Down republicrats,up Kucinich!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment #61292 by Ralph David Hill on 3/29 at 9:08 pm
I’m 68. It seems that in recent years the too-frequent subtle shifts in meaning, the subtle rewrites of history -e.g. congressional Democrats voted FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ rather than VOTED TO GIVE BUSH THE AUTHORITY TO GO TO WAR, hoping against hope that that vote would help persuade Saddam to be more forthcoming and saying they expected Bush to use the power given him wisely (he didn’t), using military action as a last resort.
The latter is the way I understood it but (I think) highly skilled Republican operatives & rewriters of history introduced the idea that Congress had voted for going into war. Then Democrats seem to have just accepted that they had voted for the war in Iraq rather than having voted to give Bush the authority to go to war hoping that doing that would actually help to prevent a war.
Looking back of course it’s obvious now that Bush was no one worthy of being given any authority of any kind involving America’s safety, and those who voted to give him the authority to go to war in Iraq had mistakenly believed Bush was someone who could be trusted to act carefully and judiciously. But amazingly, many Democrats seem to have allowed that Republican rewrite to stand.
GOOD TO SEE I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE who hurts to see many pundits and “authoritative experts” treat important things as unimportant, etc. I don’t think the main thing for Democrats is to win points against the Republicans, but rather to reverse disastrous policies for the good of the country and to show up a lot of spin and deception presented with a tone of fairness and objectivity - seemingly the voice of expert authority - for what it really is - RUBBISH!!
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Comment #61287 by America on 3/29 at 8:01 pm
Dear Mr. Rove,
Even little old me in podunk Ohio knows you’re a crook. Thanks to the internet I know who you screwed, what you screwed em over for, when you screwed em, where you screwed em, how far and how long you screwed em.
You cannot hide from the American people forever. Your job is not safe and we don’t like you anymore. In fact we never did.
The only thing that keeps you in office is that little white crook in the big white house but that shit can’t last forever and definitely won’t last until 2008. God willing, yes, the same God that you have taunted the American people with and that Bush claims he serves but doesn’t - God willing, Cheney and Bush will be impeached and all of you will wind up in Federal - Pound- Your- Ass prison.
That way instead of screwing over the American People like you have for nearly a decade, you’ll be the one getting screwed instead.
Have a nice day and enjoy it while it lasts, but your time is done son. The media cannot shield you.
We Know!
Love,
America
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Comment #61224 by vanjejo on 3/29 at 2:20 pm
To alleviate this problem we could always put this administration under house arrest, elect a “commission” of “appointed” investigators to spend their time and look into it *kind of like the 9-11 commission* The country can be governed by the remaining elected officials who could get on with legislating what is best for the people of America; let Congress work on what they are paid to do, which is listen to us and “insure domestic tranquility”. D O M E S T I C.
I cannot fault Congress as long as they vote by the voices they hear. Read their mail and email and really listen when we call. Vote with American citizens FOREMOST on their minds.
They vote it and they cannot be held accountable if the decider vetos......
Just do the right thing - investigate and demand. Get going and stop stumbling - impeach.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
AG Spurning -- Half Price!
Comment by Cookie
March 30, 2007 @ 8:07 am
As far as I am concerned Alberto Gonzales is a disgrace to his race, and I am deeply offended that he is using us now that it is HE that needs US. I among a lot of Latina activists never supported him and questioned LULAC’s wholehearted endorsement of him — not to mention their push to nominate him for Supreme Court (!!!!!).
It’s not that I ever hated Sr. Gonzales, I just didn’t think he was qualified to hold such an important position — and he has since proven his is not. It is becoming common knowledge his appointment was a reward for his ability to get Jorgito out of jury duty when he was Governor of Texas, but that’s another story.
If anything Alberto is a disgrace to our race, displaying all the negative stereotypical qualities that so many of us have tried to disprove — lying, cheating, being ignorant. He has proven himself to be nothing more than an empty suit, and outdone so many other political appointees (read crony) in terms of being inept. Even gangs have a greater sense of pride and honor.
Not only am I offended by Betito playing the race card, I resent it. Let Bush carry his water, and leave Mi Gente alone. We were better off without him.
March 30, 2007 @ 8:07 am
As far as I am concerned Alberto Gonzales is a disgrace to his race, and I am deeply offended that he is using us now that it is HE that needs US. I among a lot of Latina activists never supported him and questioned LULAC’s wholehearted endorsement of him — not to mention their push to nominate him for Supreme Court (!!!!!).
It’s not that I ever hated Sr. Gonzales, I just didn’t think he was qualified to hold such an important position — and he has since proven his is not. It is becoming common knowledge his appointment was a reward for his ability to get Jorgito out of jury duty when he was Governor of Texas, but that’s another story.
If anything Alberto is a disgrace to our race, displaying all the negative stereotypical qualities that so many of us have tried to disprove — lying, cheating, being ignorant. He has proven himself to be nothing more than an empty suit, and outdone so many other political appointees (read crony) in terms of being inept. Even gangs have a greater sense of pride and honor.
Not only am I offended by Betito playing the race card, I resent it. Let Bush carry his water, and leave Mi Gente alone. We were better off without him.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Ego Peto Verum shows how it's done
This one, long, appeared today on Greg Sargent's article at TPM Cafe:
On March 28, 2007 - 7:36pm Ego Peto Verum said:
Bush is either clearly delusional- passing Karl Rove's gas- or both... Methinks that it is both.
Bush is a stupid man. And, he has bragged about not want to be exposed to:-- divergent opinions- facts that dispute his pre-conceived notions- and/or open discourse.
Ergo, Bush probably believes that the American people (whom he regards with contempt- treats like we're dupes to be fooled- and, tramples & treads upon) will blindly follow him off-the-cliff.
What is tragic is that he has succeeded in fooling a sufficient number of wind-bags who howl loudly-- that Congress actually doesn't realize how angry are the majority of the American people.
Whilst they do not want to do it-- I actually believe that should Congress grow a conscience and shore-up their rubber-spine, that they could perform the following, with the support of the American people:--
1. Cut-off funding for this illegal & immoral war upon Iraq-- which has claimed the lives of over 650,000 Iraqi civilians. Americans now know that the Iraqi people want us out of their country. Americans now know that Bush & Co. and the neo-con traitors (including AIPAC) lied us into their miserable failure.
2. Commence impeachment hearings of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove & Gonzales. Americans would be relieved, for they can hardly wait to rid our nation of the this neo-con plague which is a disease upon our Republic.
3. Roll-back the unethical tax-cuts for the richest-of-the-rich & corporations which have both been raping our nation (and certainly have been traitorous, not patriotic) whilst the poor and average Americans have been forced to sacrifice in blood & treasure. Americans will find-out the hard way that the historical-level debt (which will prove $1 TRILLION-- and, is approx.$450 BILLION to-date) will break their backs, whilst the carnage & maiming will break their hearts.
Our nation once respected and admired, is hated around the world. In short, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove & Gonzales have not only proved to be corrupt, incompetent & insane-- but, they are also contemptible...
Please refer to:--
1. Counting the cost: The figures have now been vindicated by the government's own advisers. It's time we held our leaders to account for the 650,000 Iraqi dead., by Richard Horton
"Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at their word. This week, the BBC reported that the government's own scientists advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable. This paper was published in the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American- and British-led invasion in March 2003..."...
Continued on http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_horton/2007/03/ counting_the_cost.html ...
...
2. Terrorized by 'War on Terror': How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America, by Zbigniew Brzezinski
[cont.]..."... The culture of fear is like a genie that has been let out of its bottle. It acquires a life of its own -- and can become demoralizing. America today is not the self-confident and determined nation that responded to Pearl Harbor; nor is it the America that heard from its leader, at another moment of crisis, the powerful words "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"; nor is it the calm America that waged the Cold War with quiet persistence despite the knowledge that a real war could be initiated abruptly within minutes and prompt the death of 100 million Americans within just a few hours. We are now divided, uncertain and potentially very susceptible to panic in the event of another terrorist act in the United States itself..."... [cont.]
Entire article on http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/ 03/23/AR2007032301613_pf.html ...
...
3. The Crushing Fear That Stalks America: The country is not at war. It is the US military that is engaged in an Iraqi conflict, by Robert Fisk
[cont.]..."... And I realise that the girl in Dr Noll's seminar isn't spouting this stuff about "jihadists" travelling from Iraq to America because she supports Bush. She is just frightened. She is genuinely afraid of all the "terror" warnings, the supposed "jihadists" threats, the red "terror" alerts and the purple alerts and all the other colour-coded instruments of fear. She believes her president, and her president has done Osama bin Laden's job for him: he has crushed this young woman's spirit and courage.
But America is not at war. There are no electricity cuts on Valdosta's warm green campus, with its Spanish style department blocks and its narrow, beautiful church. There is no food rationing. There are no air-raid shelters or bombs or "jihadists" stalking these God-fearing folk. It is the US military that is at war, engaged in an Iraqi conflict that is doing damage of a far more subtle kind to America's social fabric..."... [cont.]
Entire article on http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2387832.ece ...
On March 28, 2007 - 7:36pm Ego Peto Verum said:
Bush is either clearly delusional- passing Karl Rove's gas- or both... Methinks that it is both.
Bush is a stupid man. And, he has bragged about not want to be exposed to:-- divergent opinions- facts that dispute his pre-conceived notions- and/or open discourse.
Ergo, Bush probably believes that the American people (whom he regards with contempt- treats like we're dupes to be fooled- and, tramples & treads upon) will blindly follow him off-the-cliff.
What is tragic is that he has succeeded in fooling a sufficient number of wind-bags who howl loudly-- that Congress actually doesn't realize how angry are the majority of the American people.
Whilst they do not want to do it-- I actually believe that should Congress grow a conscience and shore-up their rubber-spine, that they could perform the following, with the support of the American people:--
1. Cut-off funding for this illegal & immoral war upon Iraq-- which has claimed the lives of over 650,000 Iraqi civilians. Americans now know that the Iraqi people want us out of their country. Americans now know that Bush & Co. and the neo-con traitors (including AIPAC) lied us into their miserable failure.
2. Commence impeachment hearings of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove & Gonzales. Americans would be relieved, for they can hardly wait to rid our nation of the this neo-con plague which is a disease upon our Republic.
3. Roll-back the unethical tax-cuts for the richest-of-the-rich & corporations which have both been raping our nation (and certainly have been traitorous, not patriotic) whilst the poor and average Americans have been forced to sacrifice in blood & treasure. Americans will find-out the hard way that the historical-level debt (which will prove $1 TRILLION-- and, is approx.$450 BILLION to-date) will break their backs, whilst the carnage & maiming will break their hearts.
Our nation once respected and admired, is hated around the world. In short, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove & Gonzales have not only proved to be corrupt, incompetent & insane-- but, they are also contemptible...
Please refer to:--
1. Counting the cost: The figures have now been vindicated by the government's own advisers. It's time we held our leaders to account for the 650,000 Iraqi dead., by Richard Horton
"Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at their word. This week, the BBC reported that the government's own scientists advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable. This paper was published in the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American- and British-led invasion in March 2003..."...
Continued on http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_horton/2007/03/ counting_the_cost.html ...
...
2. Terrorized by 'War on Terror': How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America, by Zbigniew Brzezinski
[cont.]..."... The culture of fear is like a genie that has been let out of its bottle. It acquires a life of its own -- and can become demoralizing. America today is not the self-confident and determined nation that responded to Pearl Harbor; nor is it the America that heard from its leader, at another moment of crisis, the powerful words "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"; nor is it the calm America that waged the Cold War with quiet persistence despite the knowledge that a real war could be initiated abruptly within minutes and prompt the death of 100 million Americans within just a few hours. We are now divided, uncertain and potentially very susceptible to panic in the event of another terrorist act in the United States itself..."... [cont.]
Entire article on http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/ 03/23/AR2007032301613_pf.html ...
...
3. The Crushing Fear That Stalks America: The country is not at war. It is the US military that is engaged in an Iraqi conflict, by Robert Fisk
[cont.]..."... And I realise that the girl in Dr Noll's seminar isn't spouting this stuff about "jihadists" travelling from Iraq to America because she supports Bush. She is just frightened. She is genuinely afraid of all the "terror" warnings, the supposed "jihadists" threats, the red "terror" alerts and the purple alerts and all the other colour-coded instruments of fear. She believes her president, and her president has done Osama bin Laden's job for him: he has crushed this young woman's spirit and courage.
But America is not at war. There are no electricity cuts on Valdosta's warm green campus, with its Spanish style department blocks and its narrow, beautiful church. There is no food rationing. There are no air-raid shelters or bombs or "jihadists" stalking these God-fearing folk. It is the US military that is at war, engaged in an Iraqi conflict that is doing damage of a far more subtle kind to America's social fabric..."... [cont.]
Entire article on http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2387832.ece ...
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