Unfortunately for the Republithugs, this won’t work any better this time than last.

Someone committed treason in the Bush administration by ordering the outing of a covert CIA officer during a time of war…and Scooter Libby is still covering for those who committed this treasonous act for political CYA purposes.

Someone in the Bush administration ordered the firing of a U.S. Attorney (Carol Lam) who was in the middle of uncovering and prosecuting criminal activities perpetrated by Republicans and reaching as far up as inside the White House itself.

Thus, this specious claim that no underlying crime was committed just doesn’t hold water.

From Scooter Libby obstructing justice to Monica Goodling taking the fifth in a blatantly obvious attempt to also obstruct justice, it is apparent that an underlying crime has been committed, with Karl Rove up to his eyeballs in both of these serious breaches of national trust.

But until Democrats control both the White House and both branches of Congress more fully, we won’t know the full depth of corruption to which the Bush administration and the Republican Party have really sunk.

Therefore, the Democratic Party’s platform for the upcoming 2008 elections should include a proviso stating that the winning Democratic Party presidential candidate will make her or his top priority getting to the bottom of all the corruption of the Bush administration, with both current and new Democrats in Congress in 2009 helping to get to the bottom of the Republican cesspool, and reversing as much and as soon as possible all the damage that’s been done to our democracy.

Of course, knowing Democrats, they’ll overreach as much as the Republicans, let power go to their heads, and decide to try to outlaw all guns in America and make cigarette smoking illegal nationwide…just as “culture of corruption” Republicans would love to outlaw all abortions nationwide and shutdown the porn industry.

For some reason, I tend to have problems with any monopolists no matter what their party affiliation. Why? Because all monopolists are totalitarian authoritarians who never “play nice,” but always “bully” their extremist “pet projects” over everyone else. Censors are ALWAYS monopolistic bullies.

The neo-con Republicans have adopted this extremist attitude. It will be up to the newly empowered Democrats to choose whether they will adopt a similar attitude (although over different issues, but with the same intent of legislating morality) or prove that they will not act like the “culture of corruption” Republicans have been acting. We’ll see.

And who the hell came up with those horrid signs polluting the major thruways W.Va.; the one’s that say “We’re Open for Business”? WTF? Yeah, they’ll give you the business, alright!

Hatch is in a way responsible for the first Space Shuttle
disaster. He made sure Morten Theiokol, outside of
SLC got the contract for the solid rocket boosters. Since they were in the Utah desert, they had to be broken into
parts to fit on rail cars to FL. The engineers always wanted the boosters to be one tube built in Huntsville,
put on a barge to be delivered to Cape Canaveral. Hence
no O-rings, no leaks, no explosion. Regan and Hatch
politics trumps science, engineering, truth, justice,
American Way. I think the charred remains of the Columbia is plenty of evidence, Orrin.

Wow! I had never heard that before.

Gee, if only the MSM would inform me. Thanks.

She had inadequate legal credentials for her nominal position. But she had the experience, as did Tim Griffin, as an opposition researcher to be let her loose on “the files” (which Mr. Sampson claims were really never kept).

Ms. Goodling should be leapfrogged while investigations dig out more evidence. Her fate should be determined later, after it becomes clearer whether she was a faithful neophyte promoted well over her head, or a dirty trickster let loose with all the tools of the DOJ.

one that immediately comes to mind is the investigation of NJ Senator Menendez, which, to the best of my knowledge and belief, began during the fall of 2006 and “miraculously” vanished from view thereafter.

there were also multiple investigations of dem officials by the USA in the western district of PA, and local news coverage that suggested that perhaps some (or all) of them were politically-motivated witch hunts.

no doubt there are others.

Take today’s WaPo, for example: “Democrats Widen Rift with President” a headline that more accurately would have read, “President Widens Rift with Reality and Congress”. Just under it, the WaPo claimed that the “Supreme Court Affirms President’s Terror Policy”, a statement that almost inverts the temporary reprieve granted to it by the Court’s insistence that plaintiffs exhaust their effective lower court remedies. Mathew Dowd left the Bush tent and is now described as if he needs a stay in a Russian asylum/prison.

Mere exposure is no longer adequate. Rove as perfected the line, “Yeah, we did it. So? Everybody does it,” a variation on which was Sampson’s claim that distinctions between a USA’s professional performance and political loyalty were “largely artificial”.

Opponents of corruption must now pre-litigate their claims in print to demonstrate the corruptness in order to get fair attention paid to those claims.

http://consortiumnews.com/2001/010301a.html

I recommend.