ccmask @ 104

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One name that’s been floated for Bush’s third attorney general is Joe Lieberman, the “independent” senator from Connecticut. …

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No way would LIeberlier give up his 6 years in the Senate (to say nothing of his wife’s mega bucks from big-ph*rma as a lobbiest for less than 2 years with Bush. …

We need an immediate law to ban members of Congress family members from being lobbyists.

This is a perfect argument for John Edwards to make. It fits in nicely with his anti-lobbyist campaign contributions argument.

katherine Graham Cracker @ 52

Barbara Olsen…was a liar in life so why not a liar in death. …

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Still, the woman did die a horrible death just like all those other people.

Where is she buried?

You have to admit that the committee hearings should be fun. And Hillary’s questions will be great.

Wanna bet that if he does go to hearings that she WON’T be there?

Ted Olsen should have to explain why his wife’s tearful good by from the plane that went down on 9/11 has been discredited. It wasn’t possible from the altitude and he gave several accounts of how she got through to him. That in itself is questionable.

From 9/11 to Ted Olsen to Jack Abramoff to Alice Fisher and the DoJ and who George W. Bush will pick for AG…all in one train of thought. That sums it all up pretty well.

Olsen is a good lawyer. He is on Team Bush. It therefore makes good sense for them to consider him. And, now, if the Clinton’s don’t particularly object he might as well be AG.

But, and this is weird, why would Team Clinton not object? What is the deal there?

Being a die-hard Republican, though, Olson probably doesn’t even realize that his actions before 9/11 indirectly (or even directly) led to his wife, Barbara, dying on 9/11…as did so many others.

Connect the dots:

1) Olson helped steal the 2000 elections for Bush and Cheney.

2) Bush and Cheney, once entering the White House, were obsessed with getting Saddam Hussein, which led to them, and their administration, blowing off the al Qaeda terrorist threat until it was too late to stop the 9/11 attackers.

a) In the first month of their administration, Bush and Cheney demoted the counter-terrorism chief, Richard Clarke, whose job it was to coordinate government efforts to stop any terrorist attack.

b) Thrice weekly cabinet-level counter-terrorism meetings that had been held on Clinton’s watch, with Richard Clarke often sitting in on these meetings, were stopped under Bush and Cheney, with their criminally negligent administration finally holding only ONE cabinet-level counter-terrorism meeting ONE week before 9/11.

c) Bush and Cheney blew off the Aug. 6, 2001 CIA-briefed PDB that stated “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the U.S.,” after which Bush stayed on vacation and it still took the Bush administration ONE full month to hold their ONE and only cabinet-level counter-terrorism meeting before 9/11.

So, I just don’t understand Ted Olson. Is he just as cold-blooded and heartless as any of the other power-mad, power-hungry neo-con Repubicans who’ve done so much damage to our democracy? Does he have any clue at all that his helping get Bush and Cheney into the White House started a chain of events that led to his wife dying on 9/11, along with so many others, both in the 9/11 attacks and in Iraq?

Oh right, certain Republicans have proven that they don’t “do” reality very well, but they definitely have denial down pat.

Which makes one wonder about anyone advocating for Ted Olson to be Alberto Gonzales’ replacement as Attorney General.

Right now, Democrats are perceived as weak, ineffectual, and useless because they are behaving that way! This very blog has documented all of the numerous ways in which they have been caving to Bush and the Republicans. It is not a matter of perception; it is reality.

I am a disgusted Democrat. And it ain’t because of some bullshit that Lanny Davis is spouting.

It’s like getting sued and letting the other side pick your attorney for you.

I guess the British just don’t have the stomach for Iran.

DING!