Comments on: Waiting For History

By: kairos in cal

kairos in cal — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:25:34 +0000

Scarecrow, thanks for asking the right questions and coming to the right conclusion!

Did this undercut Congress’ prerogatives to influence US Attorney appointments? Sure, but what about usurping the power to declare war? Or the power to determine what does or doesn’t get included in the federal budget? Or the most basic legislative power to write statutes and not have them overridden by signing statements or simply ignored, as with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the War Crimes Act or treaties ratified by Congress?

Blessings to the FDL leaders.

By: ardyjay

ardyjay — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:14:03 +0000

In 8 or 9 days Bush will have 666 days left in his term. anyone else worried he might start something apocolytic to ‘change the subject’?

By: oddmommy

oddmommy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:42:10 +0000

I’ve also been pondering the question of why this particular outrage blossomed into a wildfire when so many others were summarily quenched. I think it’s because there is something so NAKED about what they were doing with these firings. They can’t “spin” it; there is nothing to “spin” it into….that is why they are having to resort to sandbox-level “he did it FIRSTs” about Clinton.

By: HotFlash

HotFlash — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:33:53 +0000

cbl @ 102

I remember how long it took for Nixon to actually resign. Now I am hoping the pace will pick up for the push to oust this corrupt WH administration

bwaaahaahaaa ! there was no internet, no open sourcing, no OSIS or other inter-govermental info sharing systems, and certainly no Pachacutec and Marcy in the hearing rooms

Yes. We should be able to impeach at slightly slower than the speed of light.

By: HotFlash

HotFlash — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:32:45 +0000

ReneND @ 99

Balrog the Fascist Troll @ 86

Twisted Martini @ 74

Balrog were you flaming people last night?

No, but I got my tail feathers singed pretty good.

must not have other opinions, buster. ;)

But, tailfeathers are *not* pinions!

By: JEP

JEP — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:17:55 +0000

. Republicnotademocracy @ 123

I’d like to see Rove and Cheney brought down.
Neither one of them would I like to drink a beer with.

Bush, on the other hand, is a straight, brave ordinary guy; the universal Common Man which is what our republic is all about.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but it does provide some plausible, if not shameful, deniability. But that alone is good enough reason to impeach Bush, just the fact he let them use his office as a hand-puppet makes him unworthy of any consolation.

And how many Common Men grow up with silver spoons coming out of every orifice? That’s part of the biggest lie in this whole story, that Bush is a “regular guy.”

And what proof do you have that he’s “straight?” Seems to me he’s offered little evidence of that, by numerous definitions.

By: Scarecrow

Scarecrow — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:12:56 +0000

Just a reminder for those joining late.

The Waxman/Plame hearing is on CSPAN, and Marcy and Pach are in the hearing room.

Marcy has a new thread upstairs and will be live-blogging.

By: Republicnotademocracy

Republicnotademocracy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:10:48 +0000

I’d like to see Rove and Cheney brought down.
Neither one of them would I like to drink a beer with.

Bush, on the other hand, is a straight, brave ordinary guy; the universal Common Man which is what our republic is all about.

By: HotFlash

HotFlash — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:09:00 +0000

Scarecrow @ 93

Balrog the Fascist Troll @ 87

Twisted Martini @ 74

Balrog were you flaming people last night?

No, but I got my tail feathers singed pretty good.

Insufficiently anti-fascist? Happens to the best of us. Arise and troll no more. ;)

I went looking, couldn’t find. What thread, or were you using another nome de blog?

By: j.cro

j.cro — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:04:57 +0000

Kathryn in MA @ 119

RevDeb and i are going to live blog - i took off work (i’m plotzing i’m so excited)

Don’t you just love playing hookey?

Happy Friday to all!!!