Good for her.

This clip needs to go into the archives right next to the Ron Ziegler classic: “This is the operative statement! The others are inoperative.”

Snow and Ziegler — two liars trying to cover up for their corrupt administrations. But then again, I’m just talking about a certain kind of case, not this case!

I watched em too, spidey. I want another watergate summer this summer. Hearings on tv every day. Millions watching.

It isn’t the same mindset nor is it the same America.
There’s been an entire generation raised on partisan, hateful politics who actually believe that what passes for government today is what has always prevailed.

A good summer read for some perspective is Drury’s Advise and Consent. Wonderful writing about a confirmation hearing revolving around a congress that takes its job seriously and an executive that respects, to a degree, the advise and consent role the senate plays.

As KO said tonight, Nixon had a shred of patriotism and did what was right for the country. This president, from a family that believes itself entitled, has no such thread, not even a microfiber of patriotism.

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1677

We all know how the Scooter thing is going to play out-last day full pardon, so why not give him immunity and haul his skinny ass in front of some hearings?

Because Scoots knows it too. Why would he ruin a good thing now?

1) We learned that Scooter Libby, having had his sentence commuted by President Bush, was not going to have to spend the next 2 1/2 years in a federal peniteniary. However, until we finally learn the full extent of damage done to our national security by the outing of a covert CIA agent, odds are that 2 1/2 years was far, far too little. For instance, where’s the CIA’s after-incident damage assesment report? How many other covert CIA operatives were exposed after Valerie Plame’s CIA identity was revealed, along with her connection to the CIA front company, Brewster Jennings? How many of these other covert CIA agents were killed, if at the time Plame’s name was disclosed, they were overseas on a sensitive mission? How many of their contacts overseas were arrested and executed? Oh, right, the traitors in the Bush administration have sat on this report, and gotten one of their crony pals, Scooter Libby, to take the fall for them…which wasn’t much of a fall since Bush just commuted Libby’s jail sentence.

2) Also on Monday per a USA Today front page article, we learned that U.S. Marines in Anbar Province in Iraq had made an URGENT REQUEST 2 1/2 years ago (February 2005) for better-armored, better-designed vehicles (1,169 of them, called MRAPs) that offer better protection from roadside bombs. Donald Rumsfeld blew off this URGENT REQUEST. Just the other day, though, his replacement as Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, announced that he not only was finally getting around to placing an order for these vehicles to better protect our troops in harm’s way, but he was ordering a total of 17,770. (For Iraq? For Iran?) Shockingly, it is estimated that 742 of our troops over in Iraq have died in the 2 1/2 year period that this URGENT REQUEST requisition was ignored by Republicans in the Pentagon and the White House. Moreover, no estimate is made of how many of our soldiers in Iraq have been severely injured by roadside bombs over the past 2 1/2 years due to this lax (criminally negligent) Republican response to an URGENT REQUEST from our military forces over in Iraq in early 2005. A thousand? Five thousand? Over ten thousand?

The blood of so many Americans is on the hands of the most corrupt and evil administration in American history. Our troops in Iraq. Our CIA agents. The victims on 9/11. The victims of Hurricane Katrina. So much blood. Bright red, red-state Republican generated blood.

Impeach Bush and Cheney before they get even more Americans killed, or severely injured!!!

All members of this house and all the people of this country have a shared interest in building trust in our democracy. And it is my hope that by working together for change in a spirit that takes us beyond parties and beyond partisanship, we can agree a new British constitutional settlement that entrusts more power to Parliament and to the British people.

Change with a new settlement is in my view essential to our countries future for we will only meet the new challenges of security, of economic change, of communities under pressure, and forge a stronger shared national purpose by building a new relationship between citizens and government that insures that government is a better servant of the people.
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So I now propose that in twelve important areas of our national life the Prime Minister and the executive should surrender or limit their powers, the exclusive exercise of which by the government of the day should have no place in a modern democracy. These are:

The power to declare war.
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The power to make key public appointments without effective scrutiny.
The power to restrict parliament oversight of our intelligence services.
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Power in the appointment of judges
Power to direct prosecutors in individual criminal cases.
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And the executive powers to determine the rules governing entitlement to passports and the granting of pardons.

I now propose to surrender or limit these powers to make for a more open 21st century British democracy which better serves the British people.

It’s quite a striking contrast to the current administration on this side of the pond, eh what?

… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!

But come to think of it, the folks filling those chairs ought to be fully capable of saying F-no! Get this jackass out of here and bring in someone who actually will act as a conduit for information rather than being a
total jerkoff like Snow.

Why do we allow our elected officials, in theory working on our behalf, to select (#@*&^%$#%^^ – editorial comment deleted) “personalities” rather than folks with actual qualifications to take on this press-secretary role? This stooge is completely without portfolio from what I can tell. His performance suggests he is an absolutely turd.

Isn’t there a precedent, back in the day when the mainstream press pretended to earn a living, for calling a shithead a shithead?

Ask a blunt question, for mercy’s sake! No prisoners!