Kagro hits the nail on how deep and insidious the DOJ problem is.
Plus this, Christy Hardin Smith:Please do take a little time to read this Anonymous letter.

We are in a very serious fight that is not a slam dunk win for democracy, to state the obvious. The PR team with the most power is on the right, on the left are some very able citizens and political warriors. As you all know about 30% are lizard brains who will be swayed by nothing, not even the truth, so the battle is for a majority of the 70% left, something to think and ponder over while we see if they self implode, which is an option in our favor. This post will be too long if I develop what I think, I can do it on my own time, enough said.

Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, Maddy, Maddy.
(Willis to Sheppard In Moonlighting)

Love yer post, it IS narrowed down to a big PR battle for a dumbed down populous.

A shame all my com studies and media experiences are now shilled out to those who don’t care about a cause but only the paycheck.

My hero woulda been Edward Bernays, their hero is obviously Goebbels.

Be that as it may, command of the language, shaping of the image rule.

Wish I knew how to fight the best of the PR flacks on the other side. All I got, is moral terpitude. That and a quarter gets ya. Nada.

We are in a very serious fight that is not a slam dunk win for democracy, to state the obvious. The PR team with the most power is on the right, on the left are some very able citizens and political warriors. As you all know about 30% are lizard brains who will be swayed by nothing, not even the truth, so the battle is for a majority of the 70% left, something to think and ponder over while we see if they self implode, which is an option in our favor. This post will be too long if I develop what I think, I can do it on my own time, enough said.

RevDeb,

thanks for that KagroX link – I read it last night – it is a staggering post – even by left blogistan standards

Yeah, I gotta oink one more on that. Shared it with a lot of folks I wander round to.

Thanks to FDL and all you folks who thread here. More and more I’m finding breaking news and conciousness here that’s breathtaking.

I’m quite taken by it all . . . . new to the blogosphere thang, but not unread by any means since discovering Gilley, and Drifty, and now, FDL (Atrios, General) . . .

I thought I was cutting edge on AW.com, CounterPunch, IraqSlogger, WatchingAmerica and such . . . .

This is where the REALreality is being exposed.

This is where real truths are shown and held under light for inspectin. And it’s a MERCILESS but honorable readership that holds the final court post the posted verdicts by the mods.

IGBOBLAB-I’m Gonna Bust Out Bawlin Like A Baby (credit to one Tubdude of Camp Howdyville twice a year for Strawberry Music Fest). The Tubdude knows . . . he prolly lurks, and I’m gonna catch hayall for outin him, but, it’s MY fav acronym . . . and he’s my fav Tub Player . . . yep, tub and a rope and a glove.

OT- Play that fast one y’all do, in the people’s key-G.

Quick ’so sorry’ to the FDL mods cuz I KNOW I’ve strayed offtopic a few times before this . . . I’ll try and do better . . . .

Prairie Sunshine @ 98

The Democratic president should appoint Fitzgerald as AG with instructions to find the “sleepers” and firewall ‘em. Job 1: Restore the honor and integrity of the Justice Dept.

Give ‘em four years of duty in Iraq, East Timor, or Nome. They may have tenure, but that doesn’t define what they do or where they’re assigned to do it.

THAT is pure brilliance. And I’m not just saying that cuz I’m disgruntled and vengeful. It’s PURE clean and neat to get a job done with hurdles that look insurmountable in their challenge.

Very, very, nicely, put forth. I bow to yer wow.

Kagro hits the nail on how deep and insidious the DOJ problem is.

It now seems that the Monica Goodlings of this “administration” have been planting partisan “sleeper cells” among the career civil service ranks — the very positions that are supposed to be non-partisan and are therefore protected in their tenure by law. What this means is that the DoJ and other agencies of the executive branch are filled with people who understand that their role in the next Democratic administration — which will be prohibited by law from rooting them out and firing them for political reasons — is, as Atrios says, to take that administration down from the inside.

The last paragraph:

Absent some overt declaration now that things have gone completely haywire within the executive branch — and impeachment comes to mind here — the next Democrat to win the White House will be unable to reestablish control over the executive without falling into this trap.

Great read, thanks for sharing that. Yep, built from the top down . . . and set up to seem ‘inappropriate’ to go after no matter HOW heinious the crimes committed by the underlings tampering with dem voters, etc.

Gore/Kucinich

Hil is a shill. Unelectable in the General. Folks have done GREAT work discrediting her and Bill for what they did in ‘04 to the dem’s, etc.

Obama is too new, but worthy of TOP SPOT in a new admin, and a shot at any of the NEXT 3 General Elections . . .

Edwards had his run, he’d be too weak to run out there ‘gainst even a demoralized GOP. The McCain/Lieberman independant move is gonna take a lot of votes from the Dem’s, no matter WHO they run out there. It’s a SERIOUS threat, not to their election, but, to the re-election of a GOP team!!!

Every single middle of the road GOP Heartland vote will swing to those two if Hilary is running.
a similar reaction, but I got nothing to solve that except RUN the two, and run them HARD, and LOUD!

GORE/KUCH, on a peace and freedom platform, on a Green Platform, and rebuilding america and american’s civil rights and doing SOMETHING about the immigration and domestic jobs issues. Guarenteed win across the country, across the middle of heartland. Negate abortion and creationism.

The Champions Of The Middle Class!!!

Jobs, jobs, jobs . . . . . . that alone will win the day in a landslide, and negate any jive ass religious and creationist issues brought up to counter them. They should also plan for a settlement, with Palistinean Land Made Available, in the Israel/Palistinean issue.

With enough strength on DOMESTIC issues, the foreign policy issues they need to pursue to restore USA credibility won’t hurt them no matter HOW much the combined A*P*C/MIC/Christian Fundie/KKK White Old Fart combo come after them.

And, with Obama slated for a TOP position, that will unify yet ANOTHER voter population to their run.

Feingold is unelectable as he’s just too far below the radar for middle of the road dem’s OR GOP folk. NO ONE KNOWS WHO HE IS! And THAT, opens him up to the Fundie’s on abortion and other Fundie issues.

If Waxman and Reid don’t hammer this admin, and take them down hard, REALLY hard, in the next 8 months . . . . the hard like it kills the GOP for a generation kinda hard, then it’s very likely the dem’s will LOSE the General Election, one way or another.

N NO ONE, is talkin bout that, and they damned well better be, and talkin soon.

With CA (and a few others) movin the primary up so much sooner, the timeline to PREEMPT and SOLVE these issues is a LOT more narrow than anyone is discussing.

And it will be just like we slept thru two and a half decades when we let the wolves in. We’ll snooze right thru it.

Keep the pressure on, beat them down HARD, and beat them some more. Put them in prison, disgrace them in any way possible, from ShrubCo to A*P*C to Creationism In Our Schools.

And focus on rebuilding america, and jobs.

Harumph.

* Edited by Mod

And then ask yourself whether you trust the Bush Administration and all of their political pinky swear fealty minions to use this power wisely and judiciously and only for proper, legal purposes.

I ask myself why so many on sites like this trust the administrations Official History of what really happened on 9/11, the day that helped make most of their further depredations possible?

That, and why do so many beleive the Bush Regimes official numbers of U.S. servicemembers killed and wounded in Iraq? most likely its over 10,000 by now.

Mandrake—

Yes I’m in Russia :)

How long? How are things going? I will probably be EPU’d on this since I left the office to run some errands and these FDL’ers are just such excellent, prolific writers so I’m sure there will be a fresh thread by the time I get back to this! CanNOT keep up!