I’m trying to clean up my act and talk like a lady instead of like a foulmouthed femblogger, but there are occasions when you just have to call a lying sack a lying sack. This particular week seems to have been just chock-full of lying-sackery. Here are a few choice examples:
— The “I’d Hit You But What You’re Made Of Splatters” Award goes to that arch-sack and current godbothering “family values” presidential candidate Mike Fu Huckabee. As Kossack arogue7 notes, Huckabee, aided and abetted by the right-wing noise machine, pretended that Wayne Dumond, a guy who’d violently raped a female relative of Bill Clinton’s, was actually a poor widdle innocent victim of The Evil Clinton Conspiracy, and so had Dumond freed; the “innocent” Dumond then went on to savagely attack and murder another woman.
Now, all of this alone would be enough to guarantee Huckabee lifetime Gold Card membership in the Lying Bleepsack Hall of Fame, but now the sick bleep is upping the ante: He’s blaming BILL CLINTON for all of this! I swear to God, the bastard knows that the national media — which unquestioningly broadcasted and printed every goddamned bullbleep anti-Kerry “Swift Boat” smear by Jerome Corsi and Company — is going to give him a bleeping free pass on this, and they will ignore the copious reporting that shows just how hard he and his buddies pushed to have Dumond freed, just to shove a stick in Bill Clinton’s eye and further hurt an already-traumatized woman. Bleepity bleep bleep bleep. “Family Values” my ass.
– The “I Promise To Lie Out My Ass” Award goes to another prominent Republican sack, Rudy “Wrap Myself In The Flag And Burn The Constitution” Giuliani, who when caught lying about health care never apologized and never explained, but instead promised to keep telling the same lie because (like Huckabee) he figures that the US corporate GOP/Media Complex won’t really challenge him hard on it, if at all. Which brings us to our next dishonoree:
– The “Lying Is OK If You’re A Republican Or Helping Republicans” Award goes to the Dean of High Washington Bullbleep, David Effing Broder himself, who is now lying as fast as he can about Social Security. Really, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. As Atrios mentioned the other day:
From 1969 to 1993 there was almost uninterrupted Republican dominance of Washington. And by dominance I don’t just mean control of the levers of power, but dominance of the social circle and the village customs. Carter was a brief aberration, and he was treated similarly as some out of town freak.
We’ve learned that the Villagers don’t mind lies as long as they’re in on them, don’t mind criminal behavior as long as it’s done by their pals, and don’t mind jawdropping levels of corruption as long as everyone’s getting along nicely while munching on quail at David Broder’s place. They don’t like outsiders, and the Clintons were outsiders.
The same will go for whichever Democrat wins the White House next year. There will be no cutting of slack, no nearly-perpetual honeymoon as there is whenever a Republican is in the White House. (The only reason the press turned against Bush Senior is because of the one decent thing he did, which was to undo some of Reagan’s tax cuts. Shows you what their priorities are.)
Now pardon me while I go somewhere to hose off all this bleep.
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Zed after reading? Is that possible! And…lolo.
arrrrghhhhh
Especially about Dumond…hadn’t been following that. *headdesk*
loo hoo, guess so, and I read it too! Woulda had zed ;-)
Thanks PW.
Hey Phoenix Woman!
peanutbutter @ 2
It’s Mike Huckabee’s “Finest” Hour, and a prime example of just how amoral the right-wingers really are. They literally do not care about who gets crushed to bits under their feet so long as they can make their opponents suffer.
peanutbutter @ 2
Yes, isn’t Huckabee just a lovely man? Bet you didn’t know that brutal violence against women was a family value.
egregious @ 5
Morning! How are you this sunny day?
Bleep and blurgh. I think I’ll go get ready for Wahoo!! And to think I once defended that bleepsack on these very boards.
(shakes head)
*yawn* Late even for singles. *gropes for alarm clock*
Phoenix Woman @ 8
Already played outside once and can’t wait to get back out there again. Life is good.
EPU’ed so I will park it here:
I have to say that I found this latest betrayal by the Democratic Party really disheartening. If it isn’t Reid and Pelosi, it’s Feinstein and Schumer. A President with job approval ratings in the 20s and they can’t stand up to him or for us on anything. It is like they frame issues to make themselves look as weak as possible.
Take the Mukasey nomination. Leahy said he wouldn’t bring up any nomination until the Administration coughed up the documents it had been holding back. He caved. Then without proper vetting of Mukasey, they go all gushy over him. In hearings, he doesn’t answer any of their questions but makes it plain that he believes as much in Presidential dictatorship as George Bush and Dick Cheney do. He can’t even answer a simple question about torture. So they ask him in writing and threaten not to approve his nomination unless he answers what should be for any decent person, let alone an Attorney General nominee, a nobrainer on torture. He doesn’t and their response is for Schumer and Feinstein representing the pro-torture wing of the Democratic Party to say they will vote for him anyway.
What is so frustrating is that the Democrats’ cowardice is not a single event but one stacked on top of another.
We may have to stay with them until the November election but after that we should give serious consideration in the following 4 years to breaking away and the establishment of a progressive party because let’s face it even with Democrats in control corporatists and yahoos like Schumer and Feinstein are going to be calling the shots and they clearly don’t represent us at all.
As to Broder. I pay no attention to this individual. Sorta like Krauthammer.
Speaking of liars, how about that DiFi? Here’s a comment from ThinkingSoutherner last night, which she allowed me to include in an email to the good Senator last night:
Please forgive my O/T and delurking, but I truly need to vent for a moment. From 1998 through late spring of 2001, my spouse, children and I lived as expats in Saudi Arabia. Although I and most expats were respectful of the cultural and religious tradtions of Saudi, we often derided, amongst ourselves, their oppressive government.
While the complete subjugation of women was often the focus of our negative comments, I remember, now earily, how we thought it completely out of bounds for their government to 1)listen to our phone calls (they sometimes did), 2)censor internet content availability (many sites blacklisted, and 3) their use of torture.
I have always taken comfort, in my many travels abroad, that overseas assignments were temporary and, at the end of the assignment, I would be able to touch home base again – my country – the USA. I now feel, with this newest reprehensible capitulation by Feinstein and Schumer, to our odious and malevolent president on his AG nominee, to be a woman without a country; no home base; no touch stone. We have become the christianized version of Saudi. I weep for my country. I weep for my children.
Broder is probably a moderate gooper- an endangered species. Of course he wants to privatize social security- they ALL do.
EvilDrPuma @ 7
And should Rudy stumble (which is likely, since over half of the evangelicals, who make up a third of the GOP’s voting base, have said that they would vote third party rather than for an Italian Catholic), he — not Romney, the self-financing joke — is the guy who gets the nomination. That’s why it’s important to spread this story; he’s the evangelicals’ fair-haired boy.
Phoenix Woman @ 6
Man, did you read Murray Waas’s contribution to the sordid tale? Huckabee had no knowledge of the facts in the case, kept making untrue statements about the facts in meetings. just like today, huh? Black is white, what’s wrongwitchyou?
Mommybrain @ 9
Me too, and all SoCal pups, you’re welcome to meet us about noon at:
Wahoo’s Fish Tacos
1862 Placentia Ave.
Costa Mesa
Look for the people with laptops in hopes of Wifi! We’ll be signing a get well card for Jane.
Huckabee ain’t goin anywheres- anyways…
Rudy on the other hand—different story.
Great post, PW. Kind of reminds me of that X-Files ep, Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’ where a character’s swears are more numerous than a femblogger’s, & are all bleeped out by him actually saying the bleeps:
Detective Manners: Yeah, that’s a bleepin’ dead alien body if I ever bleepin’ saw one. Oh, An’ they found your bleepin’ UFO.
behindthefall @ 10
ZzzzzzzzzZZzzzzz….
In view of this latest situation. The Mukasey event. Perhaps the Rupublican Party and the so called mainstream Democratic Party should merge.
Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, David Broder, David Brooks, Bill Keller.
Which of these does not belong in this group?
Got you, it was a trick question.
Marie Roget @ 20
That’s bleeping hilarious! If I ever go on the radio I’ll train myself to do that.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 22
They already have it seems, except for a handful of holdouts.
Hugh @ 12
For me, it’s got to the point where I either tune out, which is what they want me to do, or I walk around angry all the time. I suspect many others are in the same boat.
Can you do a recall election on senators?
Huck Fuckabee.
PeteCO @ 26
No.
Hugh @ 23
The problem of course is that Bush isn’t going to let anyone run DoJ who doesn’t agree with him. The deputies running it now are just as bad, if not worse, than Mukasey. Mukasey at least isn’t a product of Regent University.
EvilDrPuma @ 28
Unfortunately.
Good morning.
A beautiful but depressing morning in upstate.
Important and disturbing WaPo article by Dana Hedgpeth on private intel firm set up by Erik Prince.
Raises all sorts of questions of conflict of interest and dual loyalties.
It also seem like something straight out of a Neal Stephenson novel.
Phoenix Woman @ 29
It’s not pretty when the best we can do is damn with faint praise.
Hugh @ 30
Agreed.
Phoenix Woman @ 29
Good to know that Mukasey is a better educated fascist. Makes me feel loads better.
allan_in_upstate @ 31
Can make a lot of money with the intelligence you gain from datamining every person and every company in the US. This was always about power and money.
He is another Huckabee “goodie”
NYT
I am sick and tired of the MSM referring to supporters of these goons as “the values voters!”
If anyone finds any value amid that trash, do let me know. On the other hand, nevermind. lalalalalalalalala
Thanks for another good one PW. ;->
EvilDrPuma @ 28
As soon as I asked the question I figured you couldn’t. Republicans would have tried it by now.
Millineryman @ 25
That’s why we have primary challenges. (Waves to Donna Edwards. :-)
What’s interesting about primary challenges is how the media treats them.
When Democrats face them, especially from the left, the media goes into fainting spells at how this shows the chaos and disarray and inability to govern that marks the Democratic Party. When Republicans face them, the media either ignores them or talks about them in neutral-to-positive tones. Atrios has noticed this over the years.
PeteCO @ 37
Yup. I just wish right now that WE could try it.
Why is it that Schumer and Feinstein feel more comfortable playing to the base of the Republican Party rather than their own? And why do none of their Democratic colleagues call them on it? That is the ones who aren’t doing the same thing.
Phoenix Woman @ 38
And yet, the wingnuts constantly attack the “liberal media.” Talk about your battered wife syndrome.
Phoenix Woman @ 29
Fair enough, but that is why we have IMPEACHMENT. If the President refuses to abide by the Constitution and the rule of law, the Congress can impeach him. That is how it was SUPPOSED to work. Pity the Dems can’t read. Otherwise they might be familiar with that famous document upon which our democracy was founded.
What happened to my Huckabee Post? Maybe I dreamed I posted it.
Just one comment on an excellent review – If you’re helping Republicans, then you ARE a Republican. And you should be forced to OWN every single bit of their lying and corruption.
Republicans Delenda Est
Hugh @ 40
The Democratic Party is such a big tent, we’ll even let the Nazis in.
See? Godwin’s Law works.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/20…..esity.map/
Link to an “obesity map” showing how the US changed from fairly fit to fat in a few short years. Fat states shown as red. One will notice that the trend tracks fairly well with politics. Mississippi was the first “fat” state- then the rest of the south- now most of the midwest thrown in.
I don’t doubt you’ll have your election; but you’ll have so many things go wrong that your president (who should be sent to la hauge for his crimes against humanity) will call in Blackwater to settle things down and declare a state of immergency and declare the election void and the demacrats will be the guilty party because they always give in to this evil child and he will continue to run your country into the ground, which was the plan along. What a shame!
Hugh @ 34
Well, again, Bush isn’t going to be putting Patrick Fitzgerald in charge. The Bushistas are by far the most partisan gang out there. Even Nixon, when he pushed Carswell, was doing it as a rare fit of pique; Bush and his crew do nothing BUT nominate people like Carswell.
The good news? Whoever Bush picks has a little more than a year in which to enjoy their rulership. January 2009 isn’t that far away.
Hugh @ 12
If the progressive caucus is the largest wing of the D party in the House.. Why wait? Break it off now and make the Blue Dog / New Dems wake TFU and pay attention to their oath.
Great post, PW! As a native Arkansan I can say Huckabee is a serial liar at best.
Phoenix Woman @ 21
Huh?? Wha’…?
Hugh @ 12
As per usual, well stated.
I would add that the Bill of Rights has routinely been denied in the United States on the basis of gender, ethnicity, and sexual preference. What is so disheartening in 2007 is to see this retreat to pre-Magna Carta positions.
OT, one of many elephants in the living room are the historically high levels of oil prices. The latest spikes imvho are completely a function of Bush’s occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan (the latest price spike is from Turkish Kurd tensions, which were predicted before Bush occupied Iraq). The Democrats fail to mention what has been stated so frequently, we are funding both sides of the War
on Terrorin Error.Steve-AR @ 44
Comment 36, is that the one you mean? Sometimes page refresh helps.
phred, do you live in MD? Is there a tres in your life?
Clusterfuck is fine with keeping the fascist in charge of justice who he gave an interim appointment to. Mukasey is probably better.
The practical decision is whethter to keep the interim AG who will fuck up justice even more- or let Mukasey through who will probably make things a little bit better.
I don’t really care. Whoever’s in there is gonna have to kiss Clusterfuck’s smelly asshole.
I posted this downstairs
k, check this out
and why does anyone think this isn’t going to happen here in the states?
the president is definately laying the groundwork, claiming to be the soul provider in a case of national emergency, and emergency where he gets to decide what is or isn’t an emergency
and he has his aids go before congress and tell them the president cannot break the law, any order he gives makes that order the law
I think we are being set up, now the president has pakistan as a trial run
Mommybrain @ 54
Nope on one, no idea on two, depends on what a “tres” is… a french “very”? No clue. Now my curiosity is piqued ;)
egregious @ 35
Which reminds me; Acouple of weeks ago I was browsing the software aisle at a local computer store, and I came across a utility that allows you, for a nominal fee, to back up your computer drives over the interweb to a remote location. All your data is stored on a server somewhere. What a good idea, I thought.
Then again, maybe not…..
Steve-AR @ 36
So, again, crimes against women = OK with Mike Huckabee.
Pass it on.
perris
Bet ya a dollar that Bush is gone in January 09.
egregious @ 53
Weird..When I looked, @ 36 was an Adie post..did a hard re-fresh and mine showed up Leopard problems?
shirley webber @ 47
Nah. Bush has pissed off too many of the indies and lots of the sane Republicans (who, like John Cole, are fast becoming Democrats) for that to stand.
Look at all the Bushistas bailing from their appointed positions in the government. They wouldn’t be bailing if they thought Bush was staying.
One reason that DoJ is a mess right now both because of the number of Regent U whackjobs in high places and the fact that so many of them have decided that they prefer the bigger paychecks they can get in the corporate world, and Bush can’t find enough warm bodies to replace them. (A $100K-a-year salary doesn’t go very far in DC, not when slum-level housing starts around $1K a month.)
rwcole @ 58
Exactly. Look at the behavior of his cronies. They’re not acting as if he’s planning to stick around.
Phoenix Woman @ 48
So if there is no difference between Muaksey and the current acting AG Peter Keisler, why should the Democrats make themselves look so insufferably weak and supine by rolling over for Mukasey? If they opposed Mukasey, they would at least show some spine.
rwcole @ 46
Colorado; The “We’re not as fat as the rest of you fat bastards” State. We should put that on our license plates.
rwcole @ 58
I’ll lay 100 to one on that dollar and be more then happy to loose that bet
perris @ 65
Payable to Blue America, I hope. *g
Hugh sez, succinctly and clearly, as usual:
We may have to stay with them until the November election but after that we should give serious consideration in the following 4 years to breaking away and the establishment of a progressive party because let’s face it even
with Democrats in control corporatists and yahoos like Schumer and Feinstein are going to be calling the shots and they clearly don’t represent us at all.
Hugh, this is true. I’m ready. I’m a blue eyed gal, have been all my life, but I’m ready. If the frontrunners (cough hill cough) are not just pandering/triangulating to get elected, whereupon they return to the True Path (hopehopehope), I’m ready. (Can’t out-Pollyanna me!)
Hugh @ 64
No inside data here, but what if Keisler was worse? What if they are still planning to use U.S. Attorneys to throw the election? Just because we know about the scam doesnt mean it wont work.
rwcole @ 47
Coincidence? Cause-and-effect and if so, which is which? Components of a syndrome? Funny to see stereotypes supported by data, with timeline thrown in, no less. Combined insecurity and self-loathing makes you eat more and want to defend what you have against the outsider? I’d like to see that same map done for poverty and declining real incomes.
perris @ 56
I don’t think we are being set up..I think we are seeing a replay of Iran 1978 and the last days of Reza Pahlavi. The big difference is that the Pakistani revolutionaries are more radical and Pakistan has nukes.
Phoenix Woman @ 61
Another reason as the letter by Ashcroft, Comey, Goldsmith, and Philbin backing immunity for telecoms is that it wasn’t just the Regent incompetents who took the DOJ off the rails but those who supported most but not all of Bush’s extra Constitutional excesses.
Phoenix Woman @ 61
but why then are they claiming so much executive power?
to give that power to a democrat?
worse, to give that power to hillary?
if you watched some of the hearing, bush’s aid was actually saying it doesn’t matter what the law is, if bush orders something against that law it is not illegal
this means the following;
if congress wants to impeach, bush can say;
“I suspend that law, this is a national emergency and an impeachment will harm America”
he can say;
“we are at a time of grave danger, a national emergency exists, I suspend elections”
that is what his aids claimed when they said bush can order laws to be broken
phred @ 57
Upon further consideration, if by tres you mean a third, then yes on the latter. But, I live in MA not MD.
IOKIYADIFAR?
(It’s OK if you are doing it for a Republican)
Perris, at the time their brilliant plan to shut the dems out of everything and have a 1000 year republican rule was laid out, they thought they’d be greeted as liberators, with flowers and candy thrown at their feets.
Oh, wait, that was Iraq…
Same difference. They screwed too many pooches before the door opened and they noticed the disgusted look on peoples’ faces. But Teh Plan had taken on a life of its own and they can’t stop it now.
Where the fuck is that report on Gonzales that
DOJ is writing?
I gave up 3 months ago, it ain’t the same country I once knew…
We NEED criminal indictments, all other shit
is just talk…
phred @ 74
i did mean the latter. You “sound” like an old friend who once worked for the Brown admin in CA. Not you?
OT..Kagro X has a good piece on DiFi, Mukasey, etc.
Kos
egregious @ 69
What makes you think that Cheney and Addington’s sockpuppet Mukasey wouldn’t be as permissive as Keisler? If Mukasey can back torture, he can support anything. It is what makes all this talk of his willingness to “depoliticize” the DOJ ring so hollow. He has already shown that he will do whatever his masters want.
Hi Mommybrain_
By any chance did you send me a message through my Web site yesterday?
I got an e-mail from a Mommybrain yesterday yet my site metter didn’t show anyone at my site yesterday.
This is the only place I’ve seen your screen name so I thought I would ask.
Mommybrain @ 78
Nope, never lived on the west coast. I bet I would like your friend though :)
Loo Hoo. @ 14
I spent time in Saudi Arabia in the 80s and I felt the same way. Newspapers had huge swaths of copy just cut out of them or blackened out with markers. Television shows were similarly cut up. Military patrolled around with tanks and machine guns. ALthough I never saw it, many people talked about cutting off hands, cutting off heads. I mever imagined as Americans that we would be anywhere near that repressive.
Sigh.
Hugh @ 12
me too.
really need to rant/vent/debrief after this one…. but i’ve got an errand to run, so it will have to wait for me.
if i randomly start ranting in a later thread today, you-all will know why.
Millineryman @ 81
Yes, I did and I’ve never seen such gorgeous hats in all my life! Your photography’s not bad, either ;) I signed up for…photos by email?
Phoenix Woman @ 63
Good point.
Mommybrain @ 83
Thanks I’ve been blessed with an abundant amount of creative energy. All I got were 6 numbers in the message.
Translation of DiFi and Schumer statements:
IOKFDTDDD
It’s OK For Democrats To Define Deviancy Down
Milleneryman, your website asked for lotto numbers…those are the ones I dreamed I won with a few years ago.
Maybe the Huckabee/Dumond mess is the sex scandal that was under discussion last night.
Another liar:
link
I’ve been smelling DiFi’s growing odor of her actions. they’re not partisan, just too folksy with the enemy of the Constitution or at least appearances. Her husband is benefactor of her office and has made tons of $ through federal contracts through companies he owns large shares. Enough to move into a 16mil SF home this year or late last year.
The corruption appears to institutionalized, at this point. Its stunning how our country has been turned into the elitist ruled insiders club, with clicky lifers who sold themselves to the highest bidders a long time ago. Ted Stevens is in good company.
I too weep for America. DiFi is such a disappointment. She should be tossed out of office.
As ticked off as I was about Mukasey, and still am…the following statement by Cheney has had me laughing my *ss off….
“We have refrained from making public pronouncements about Mr. Chavez – I think, for good and legitimate reasons,” Cheney said today during an appearance before the World Affairs Council of Dallas. “He’s a – obviously, an individual with his own agenda. And he spends a great deal of his time worrying about us and criticizing the United States.
“My own personal view is that he does not represent the future of Latin America. And the people of Peru, I think, deserve better in their leadership. But that’s obviously a matter they’ve got to resolve for themselves.”
Mommybrain @ 76
here’s the rub though;
they NEVER believed that, their very goal was destabalizing the middle east, they knew with no doubt they would NOT be met as liberators
that’s why they undermined the infrastructure, that’s why they relesased thed army WITH their weapons, that’s why they left caches of ordinance unprotected
that’s why they trained death squads, that’s why they took over torture asylums and went ahead for more torture
they did not want to be treated as liberators, that was a lie
in between his “hillary is coming and we’re all gonna die!” posts, andrew sullivan has a post up today re. torture and mukasey that sums up the turning point we’ve reached as a country beautifully, and depressingly.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlan…..y-pre.html
‘mornin’… whaazup?
Hmmm…Pakistan is under lockdown, troops surrounding Bhutto’s place, Constitution suspended…
Bu’ush must be gettin’ a chubbie at this news.
Mommybrain,
OMG, I forgot that I put that in there. That’s too funny! I opened up the message and thought, well there’s a creative way to spam.
I’ll add you to my distribution list and once I reorganize things I’ll let you.
BobbyG @ 96
I may be wrong, but I think Butto is in Dubai…but maybe she came back..yikes.
LS @ 98
She came back, but reports now have her at the airport, tryin’ to get the hell back out.
Swell news to start off the day.
LS @ 93
Well, this may explain a lot. Maybe he still thinks we should attack Iraq and has just gotten confused because Iran is spelled a lot like Iraq and is in the same part of the world.
Also he probably thinks they all still speak Latin down there.
LS @ 98
She came back when she heard the news.
BobbyG @ 99
Where are you hearing the reports? CNN is doing “weddings”….OMG about Butto.
Alicia @ 101
Yeah. Linky.
This could all really blow up bad.
BobbyG @ 96
Yes, it’s his kind of a democracy. He and Cheney are probably wondering how they could do it here.
perris, honey, deep breath.
I was being humorous, or so I thought.
I do believe they thought their US plan to shut the dems out for a millenium by making them pariahs was brill. And I agree with you about Iraq.
Bullies always, but always, get their comeuppance in the end.
On the brighter side, at least we have dependable allies in the War on Terror like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
BobbyG @ 103
Hmmmmm….where have I heard this kind of language before…:
“A copy of the emergency order obtained by The Associated Press justified the declaration on the grounds that “some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive” and “weakening the government’s resolve” to fight terrorism.”
Hugh @ 100
I thought Cheney was supposed to be the smart one. Yeah, right.
On Pakistan,
The United States ”does not support extraconstitutional measures,” Rice said in an interview with CNN from Turkey, where she was participating in a conference with Iraq’s neighbors.
Extra-fucking-constitutional?
Dr. Rice, what is torture and immunity for
Blackwater and the Telecoms?
PW, I think the world needs people who call it what it is. PW, sibyl of our time. Besides, you’re in stellar company. My spiritual teacher had no qualms whatsoever in calling us, his students, lying sacks of shit when we were! The only difference is he doesn’t experience anger and the whole gamut of negative emotions. Yes, this has been a tough week! But, a bit of good news is Sheldon Whitehouse on the floor of the senate taking a stand to hold back the darkness. I’ll try and find a link and post it. Blessings to us all.
Bay State Librul @ 109
Wink, wink, nod, say no more.
LS @ 107
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
phred @ 108
cheney has always been a moron;
from here, a great article
Bay State Librul @ 109
If the President says it, it makes it Constitutional ;)
Silencers…
So, Butto voluntarily flew back to Pakistan to see if she would be either
departeddeported or arrested? That’s not too smart of her..phred @ 108
I thought Cheney was supposed to be the smart one. Yeah, right.
“Diplomacy is hard.”
A ray of hope:
A young anthropology professor at Barnard College ( i.e., Columbia )
who had been targeted by a right-wing smear campaign,
including complete fabrications of what was in her writings on Israel,
has been given tenure.
Not many of them are actually ’smart’, and they’re certainly not ‘wise’. (Intelligence tells you that smoking is bad for you; wisdom is what gets you to quit.)
What they have is an extreme lack of morals and scruple that they use to cut ethical corners; their bags of cash (either ill-gotten or inherited from forebears who got it immorally) insulate them from the consequences of their actions.
OT..More crazy shit
AP
Pakistan. Don’t get me started. Arrrgh.
Will be interesting to see if the army continues to support the current Pakistani govt. I suppose that’s the key. Could be on the verge of a revolution there.
Does this Administration actually support Butto or Musharraf in their “different” reality?
rwcole @ 47
Yikes! What a graphic way to show this enormously dangerous change. I’d swear, they’re making the aisles at Wal Mart a foot or so wider so that two of these folks can pass. Been working with a friend since the beginning of summer on this. I got him to give up just three things – processed foods, dairy products and beer. He’s lost 90 pounds.
I’m giving a speech today on behalf of Diane Benson at an event sponsored by the environmental group, Step It Up! Part of the reason wingnuts HATE environmentalists so much is that environmentalists tend to be among the most fit people in the country.
Phoenix Woman @ 119
Criminals NEVER think they’re gonna get caught. That’s why legal deterrents don’t work on them. They only deter those pre-disposed to be law-abiding.
rwcole @ 122
Cheney: Any of those monks getting arrested over there in Pakistan again???
Thompson: Whatever happens in Pakistan will help us fight the Soviet Union..
rwcole @ 122
Anti-American rabid Islamists with nukes. Yummie. Could be very soon. Who needs to await Iran?
LS @ 126
Cheney decides to put off China trip saying Tokyo is cold this time of year.
more from the article about cheney, you guys really should take a look at this article;
Sheldon Whitehouse on Mukasey.
“Will we join that gloomy historical line leading from the Inquisition, through the prisons of tyrant regimes, through gulags and dark cells, and through Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers? Will that be the path we choose?” Whitehouse said in remarks on the Senate floor.
“If we allow the president of the United States to prevent, to forbid a would-be attorney general of the United States — the most highly visible representative of our rule of law — from recognizing that bright line, we will have turned down that dark stairway. I cannot stand for that.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-na-mukasey1nov01,1,15315.story?
coll=la-headlines-nation
perris @ 129
makes me think he and chimpy are the perfect pair.
BobbyG @ 128
Yes, but because Bush has reserved World War III for Iran, should we call this one World War IV or does China already have dibs on that one?
peony @ 131
Sounds like he might block the confirmation…Please, please, please…and then filibuster everything until 1/20/09.
Re; Erik Prince and Co
This is from http://www.namebase.org. This site allows you to search for links between people/companies..
Really, really interesting stuff here :) Just enter a name and see where it leads you ;)
Have fun….
Typing in Erik Prince you get…and then you can follow up…….
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Gore/Whitehouse
From the UK:
Bad shit goin’ down.
perris @ 113
Wow. I had no idea. Thanks for the link. Wow.
Good to know. I had been wondering if the fundies weren’t circle jerking over a Huckabee candidacy because he wasn’t nasty enough for them.
BobbyG @ 137
The judges are in a whole heap of trouble…I hope the military and the people rebel, but it sounds like the military is obeying Musharraf, at least so far.
Regarding Huckabee…he is exactly what the 29%ers want…I think Ghouliani will scorch and burn ultimately, even if he makes it as the nominee…at least I hope so. Honestly, if Ghouliani becomes president, I will consider leaving the country…if it is possible to get out.
Proclamation of Emergency declared by Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday:
“WHEREAS there is visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and incidents of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, IED explosions, rocket firing and bomb explosions and the banding together of some militant groups have taken such activities to an unprecedented level of violent intensity posing a grave threat to the life and property of the citizens of Pakistan;
WHEREAS there has also been a spate of attacks on State infrastructure and on law enforcement agencies;
WHEREAS some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism thereby weakening the Government and the nation’s resolve and diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace;
WHEREAS there has been increasing interference by some members of the judiciary in government policy, adversely affecting economic growth in particular;
WHEREAS constant interference in executive functions, including but not limited to the control of terrorist activity, economic policy, price controls, downsizing of corporations and urban planning, has weakened the writ of the government; the police force has been completely demoralized and is fast losing its efficacy to fight terrorism and Intelligence Agencies have been thwarted in their activities and prevented from pursuing terrorists;
WHEREAS some hard core militants, extremists, terrorists and suicide bombers, who were arrested and being investigated were ordered to be released. The persons so released have subsequently been involved in heinous terrorist activities, resulting in loss of human life and property. Militants across the country have, thus, been encouraged while law enforcement agencies subdued;
WHEREAS some judges by overstepping the limits of judicial authority have taken over the executive and legislative functions;
WHEREAS the Government is committed to the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law and holds the superior judiciary in high esteem, it is nonetheless of paramount importance that the Honourable Judges confine the scope of their activity to the judicial function and not assume charge of administration;
WHEREAS an important Constitutional institution, the Supreme Judicial Council, has been made entirely irrelevant and non est by a recent order and judges have, thus, made themselves immune from inquiry into their conduct and put themselves beyond accountability;
WHEREAS the humiliating treatment meted to government officials by some members of the judiciary on a routine basis during court proceedings has demoralized the civil bureaucracy and senior government functionaries, to avoid being harassed, prefer inaction;
WHEREAS the law and order situation in the country as well as the economy have been adversely affected and trichotomy of powers eroded;
WHEREAS a situation has thus arisen where the Government of the country cannot be carried on in accordance with the Constitution and as the Constitution provides no solution for this situation, there is no way out except through emergent and extraordinary measures;
AND WHEREAS the situation has been reviewed in meetings with the Prime Minister, Governors of all four Provinces, and with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Chiefs of the Armed Forces, Vice-Chief of Army Staff and Corps Commanders of the Pakistan Army;
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the deliberations and decisions of the said meetings, I General Pervez Musharraf, Chief of the Army Staff, proclaim Emergency throughout Pakistan.
2. I hereby order and proclaim that the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan shall remain in abeyance.
3. This Proclamation shall come into force at once.”
_____
Doesn’t take much imagination to substitute “U.S.” for “Pakistan” in the foregoing. Would we rebel were Bu’ush to do this to us?
Schumer DiFi et al would just bend over and spread ‘em.
Well, Bobby G, it would work if you excise the parts about an independent judiciary. We don’t have an independent judiciary anymore.
India has to be very worried about the events in Pakistan.
Oh, this is just ducky…Blackwater and it’s new private CIA:
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/3/9641/17398
LS @ 145
just ducky?! LS that’s hair-raising
EvilDrPuma @ 59
Popping in quickly here (wheelbarrel assembled, woot) and madly trying to catch up — I have to put on my cynical hat for a moment and say that crimes against women = okay with an AWFUL lot of people. All they have to do is point their finger and say, SLUT! Then it’s fair game, for a depressingly large percentage of the population. Absolutely depressingly large percentage. Hell, I fell for that line of thinking when I was younger . It’s very pernicious.
Elliott @ 146
I heard an ad the other day where they were saying blackwater will be there for catastrophies, “from providing security to rebuilding infrastructure”
excuse me, why the HELL would they have an ad like that in America?
they are getting ready, setting the marketing program that they think will prepare us for them “securing our streets”
Elliott @ 146
Just remember, folks, that the 4th Amendment (actually, the gamut of constitutional strictures) does not apply to invasions of privacy by “private sector” entities. Hence, Bu’ush’s jones to privatize everything he can, and concomitantly eviscerate the judiciary to eliminate any prospects of tort redress.
Ed*ard Teller @ 124
I have one thing to say:
High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Just Say No.
Steve-AR @ 144
And I guess we’re in the familiar position of having to back dictatorship or have the nuclear arsenal fall into the hands of the worst Islamo-whatever’s.
Obesity?? All the more difficult to run away from the likes of Blackwater, who spend all their time training.
LS @ 134
Oh, that Kyl-Lieberman vote worried me, and some other moves have worried me, too, but — c’mon Sheldon!!!!!!!!
DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sheldon Whitehouse gives me hope.
BobbyG @ 149
Thanks. I really feel better now. :O
Maybe Pakistan is the great experiment or dress rehearsal.
behindthefall @ 153
There is no way to block it. Reid has shown he won’t respect a hold from a Dem. There are ~70 votes for confirmation so no filibuster. BTW I still haven’t heard how Feingold will vote.
Elliott @ 154
whitehouse was on air america yesterday, gave this account; (paraphrased)
“I respected mukasey up until the point that it was obvious he changed his tesitmony at the command of the whitehouse”
whitehouse said accept for that he liked mukasey as ag
Huckabee on PBS, says there is a law higher than all our laws…it is in our hearts, and it tells us what is right and what is wrong.
Ain’t that great??? So, Huckabee lives by a law that is above all laws. Yeah, that’s the ticket. That also explains Blackwater and W and, and…
think progress has this up now;
perris @ 158
With more time, Sheldon will become less gullible..Murkasey is typical Thug sleaze..even as a Fed judge.
Elliott @ 154
How about we call Whitehouse Monday and ask him to put a hold on Mukasey?
peony @ 162
That would work about as well as Dodd’s hold on FISA. I don’t think Reid was going to honor a SJC “no” vote.
Bastards cave to fascism
every time
what’s to do
Steve-AR @ 163
Would rather try and fail than not try at all though.
Here it is, Pups, W’s upcoming proclamation of martial law:
Proclamation of Emergency declared by UNITED STATES Commander-In-Chief, Field Marshall George W. Bush, on Saturday, October 25, 2008:
“WHEREAS there is visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and the banding together of some militant groups have taken such activities to an unprecedented level of violent intensity posing a grave threat to the life and property of the citizens of the United Sates of America;
WHEREAS there has also been a spate of attacks on State infrastructure and on law enforcement agencies;
WHEREAS some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism thereby weakening the Government and the nation’s resolve and diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace;
WHEREAS there has been increasing interference by some members of the judiciary in government policy, adversely affecting economic growth in particular;
WHEREAS constant interference in executive functions, including but not limited to the control of terrorist activity, economic policy, price controls, downsizing of corporations and urban planning, has weakened the writ of the government; the police force has been completely demoralized and is fast losing its efficacy to fight terrorism and Intelligence Agencies have been thwarted in their activities and prevented from pursuing terrorists;
WHEREAS some hard core militants, extremists, terrorists and enemy combatants who were arrested and being investigated were ordered to be released. The persons so released have subsequently been involved in heinous terrorist activities, resulting in loss of human life and property. Militants across the country have, thus, been encouraged while law enforcement agencies subdued;
WHEREAS some judges by overstepping the limits of judicial authority have taken over the executive and legislative functions;
WHEREAS the Government is committed to the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law and holds the superior judiciary in high esteem, it is nonetheless of paramount importance that the Honorable Judges confine the scope of their activity to the judicial function and refrain from judicial activism;
WHEREAS an important Constitutional institution, the Supreme Court, has been made entirely irrelevant and non est by a recent order and judges have, thus, made themselves immune from inquiry into their conduct and put themselves beyond accountability;
WHEREAS the humiliating treatment meted to government officials by some members of the judiciary on a routine basis during court proceedings has demoralized the civil bureaucracy and senior government functionaries, to avoid being harassed, prefer inaction;
WHEREAS the law and order situation in the country as well as the economy have been adversely affected and trichotomy of powers eroded;
WHEREAS a situation has thus arisen where the Government of the country cannot be carried on in accordance with the Constitution and as the Constitution provides no solution for this situation, there is no way out except through emergent and extraordinary measures;
AND WHEREAS the situation has been reviewed in meetings with Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Abrams, House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid, and with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Boylan, the Chiefs of the Armed Forces, and the owners of Blackwater Industries;
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the deliberations and decisions of the said meetings, I, Field Marshall George W. Bush, Commander in Chief of the United States of America’s Armed Forces, and newly controlling partner of Blackwater Industries.
2. I hereby order and proclaim that the Constitution of the United Sates of America shall remain in abeyance.
3. This Proclamation shall come into force at once.
Field Marshall George W. Bush
President of the United Sates of America
LS @ 159
We-e-e-e-l, he’s got a point there, about a higher law: when things go right, that’s what guides us to write the good nitty-gritty laws for human interactions, I believe. Not necessarily any harm in that, and I would not imagine that that assertion would have gotten much of an argument from Franklin, Jefferson, et al. The ‘conscience’ and ‘repugnance’ that comes into the torture discussion could be just determined by societal conventions, but more likely those terms were written in by people who themselves believed that attention to an inner sense of rightness, a ‘higher law’, would cause someone in the right place at the right time to stand up and say, look, you may think this behavior is acceptable because it done elsewhere, but it is not: it is wrong, and I can’t point to a human law that says so, I can’t cite a survey to tell you so, I just know that it is wrong.
‘Course, now, certainty can be a dangerous thing …
at what point do we STOP CALLING IT cav-ing and call it partners in CRIME?
Ed*ard Teller @ 165
OT: Happy B-day!
tw3k @ 169
Thanks! I only feel a day older….
ET—happy birthday!
Steve-AR @ 161
If Sheldon really means what he said, he will do everything in his power and filibuster. It’s frustrating that the Dems don’t realize you don’t just say no to this corrupt administration, you have to drive a stake through its heart over and over again!
ET…that is just chilling. I wonder who “wrote” Musharraf’s decree? Addington and Fielding?
Ed*ard Teller @ 169
good :)
test….
Happy Birthday ET
Ed*ard Teller @ 170
Happy Birthday…just remember, you are younger than you will be next year!!!
Ed*ard Teller @ 166
Be a hell of a bday present for me :-P
Dennis Shulman @ 175
I give you a passing grade
Happy Birthday ET!
LS @ 177
I think it was Yellowdog Jim who said “Growing old sucks, but it beats the alternative.”
Dennis Shulman @ 174
Greetings!
Ed*ard Teller, would you or FDL mind if I cross-posted your #166, “proclamation” at my place, of course with all appropriate credit?
Happy Birthday, Mr. Teller!
BTW, ET, Happy Birthday!
RonD @ 183
I’m honored. Off to the shower and into Anchorage for the Step It Up! Conference. Ice finally started forming on our lake last night. A gorgeous, crisp sunny day coming up.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, friends!
Mods, is there any problem with me cross-posting ET’s comment? It was posted on FDL, and that might give you some reason to object…all credit will be given…I would just like explicit permission. Thanks.
RonD @ 187
Oh, Dear! I hadn’t thought of that. “Dear General Musharaf, I’ve taken some liberites with your proclamation….blah, blah, blah……Your admirer – Field Marshall George W. Bush”
Hugh @ 64
In addition Schumer’s plan to pass a Bill stating that “Waterboarding is Torture” wil mean that it is AFTER THE POINT OF ENACTMENT. Thus it would mean that acts of Waterboarding (or other acts specified in the law) were “Not Torture” before 2008. The torturers would thus walk free from the ex post facto provision of the Constitution.
IMO there is more than enough in the law to establish that waterboarding is torture. It was torture during the Nuremberg Trials. It was considered torture in the trials of the Japanese “Kempetai” Police after WWII. It was the most commonly used torture used by the Khmer Rouge to extract confessions of “economic crimes”…100% confession rates. Water tortures like this were used in the Inquisition to extract confessions of witchcraft or to force conversions of Jews and Muslims.
SERE training to prepare military specialists who may be captured by an enemy undergo waterboarding because it helps them be prepared for torture. Even with the knowledge that doctors are at hand and those that are inflicting the suffering are on “our side”, the Special Forces have a high dropout rate after the waterboarding exercise. No one who undergoes it fails to “break”.
No one in their right mind considers these acts “hard interrogation”…would you interrogate a daughter like this legally? It would be ruled to be abuse of the worst kind…torture! Treat your wife like this and you are going to jail for a long time.
How can Schumer and Feinstein dare look at themselves in the mirror? They are no better than the memberrs of the German Reichstag who approved such laws in Hitlers time.
Howie is upstairs with a terrific candidate from New Jersey:
Blue America Welcomes Rabbi Dennis Shulman, Our First NJ Candidate
RonD @ 187
Thanks for asking, but no issues here. Once it’s out in the blogosphere, it’s all fair game.
Your question may help remind folks why “preview is your friend”.
LOL-ET, Thanks for the permission, and I would never want to step on FDL’s toes. I love hanging out here way too much. Musharraf sues Bush for copyright violation-funny.
IIRC, a US Congressman-maybe Alan Simpson, but not sure-considering the English translation of Mein Kampf to be poor, re-translated it and published it in America, and IIRC, was successfully sued by Hitler’s publisher, thus making him the only American politician ever successfully sued by Hitler.
Thanks RBG.
Anna Parenna @ 90
Hmm! Maybe they’ve come up with the actual documents showing Huckabee talking about “getting Clinton” by releasing Dumond? There must be something NEW since, if this is the sex-scandal it was old hat back in 2006. Some new key information must have emerged.
Murray Waas does sometimes write for the LA Times. So maybe he’s coming out with it in the LA Times.In addition he has been following this so-called “sex story” on the net…or at least is looking at the blogs that refer to it Hmmm!
Ed*ard Teller @ 186
Oh and happy birthday! Even if you trashed mine for next year ;-)
Do votes on Presidential nominations require cloture? Can 40 Senators block a vote from coming to the floor and table the motion?
Can there be a filibuster on a nomination?
Since the leadership and these Bush Dogs won’t act in the nations best interest perhaps the 40 or so Democratic Senators with half a brain left (that understand what torture is) can stop the process in its tracks?
egregious @ 69
Keisler is an ACTING Attorney General. He has no tangible authority that derives from undergoing the “advise and consent” process. If Mukasey is passed through by the Senate they have CONSENTED to him. So morally that’s a huge difference. In addition, Keisler will have to come up for his own hearings at the end of, I believe, 145 days. If he is not approved for a permanent position, Bush will have to appoint someone new.
Recall what happened to Bolton at the UN. One cannot keep an unapproved “Acting” or Interim in the position forever. They must face approval from the Senate.
So by placing Keifer in the post the Senate would have the chance to confirm him via hearings. If he acts unlawfully before then he would not be conformed and have to step down.
Thus Keifer is more vulnerable than Mukasey would be.
allan_in_upstate @ 118
A lot of folks missed this small victory over the David Horowitz pressure groups.
Chemerinsky Re-Hired as Dean of UC Irvive Law School
“The effects of a strike will be felt most severely by television, with late-night chat shows hosted by David Letterman and Jay Leno — which both lean heavily on teams of union writers — expected to go off the air.
Other nightly shows such as Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” and Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report” are also tipped to shut down, according to reports.“
Another US television institution, comedy show “Saturday Night Live” would also be sent reeling.
“Boom — our show just shuts down,” Amy Poehler, a member of the cast, told Daily Variety this week. “It’s just done. There is no backlog of scripts.”
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/H…..22007.html
peony @ 162
Please do, and then request that he stand up on the Senate floor and proclaim that the cowardly bastards
he is surrounded with, might have given George Washington to the English Monarchy and reimbursed them for all that Tea …
… wishful thinking on my part, I know but still …
LS @ 199
No scripts ?!! How will Faux Noose survive ?!! *g*
Good grief, are you all at Waco’s Taco House ? *g*
Loo Hoo, if you get WiFi there, please give everyone hugs and kisses from me too !
Hi All,
From all us here meeting at Wahoo,s Fish Tacos in Costa Mesa CA
Present and accounted for:
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Rather slow on the blackberry tho (about 10 minutes for a screen refresh)
Just checkin in to say Hi!
Ed*ward,
Happy B-Day!
I just sent a copy of this picture to the Benson campaign
Like all ridiculous Republican Presidential candidates when Rudy 911 gets specific, he makes completely false statements. When he criticizes any Democrats who advocate starting a dialogue he has no alternatives. His figures on prostate probably come from Judith who used to be a detail rep before she came into big bucks (the fruits of Rudy’s purported 911 consulting and speeches) to marathon shop. Think if there were no 911 how much less money Rudy would have now although he did nothing positive to prepare for a potential attack and plenty to enhance its pulmonary health hazards and dangers to firemen because of piss poor radio contact that this afternoon New York has not changed.
His saber rattling on Iran is typical of the Bushies, Cheneys, William Crystals and the Podhoretz types. They have no troops whatsoever to send in Iran–the US armed forces and National Guard have been broken, and Iran has a real army and real intelligence service that the mullahs and clerics have shaped despite their holocaust denying parody of a puppet president. Paradoxically while holding the fundamentalist reins, the mullahs have efficient secular components that are building a nuclear bomb. It will be interesting to see what the next 50 years brings their with a generation of students who are torn between fundamentalism and a more Western secular milieu.
Ain’t no significant numbers joining up and only the Draft will stop the Iraq fiasco so Iraq can decide if they want to be taken over by Iran and Hamas or not.
Their kids aren’t in the Armed Forces; they’re on the golf course and the Ivy League dorms, and they never will be in the Armed Forces.
There is no effective air attack on Iran’s rapidly maturing nuclear bomb facilities which are hardened, underground, very dispersed, and its 993 miles from Tehran to Tel Aviv.
You won’t hear any specifics on most issues from any of the totally pathetic Republican white men candidates, certainly not Rudy 911 who would rachet up the Police State we now have in his fantasy of Oval Office Rudy if he weren’t going to lose to flip flop Romney.
Whichever of the three Dems wins the Iowa primary come January 3 (less than 60 days away), the primary,and then the general election, will it make that much difference?
EXCELLENT post, PW! You should do ones like this every week.
Hugh @ 12
Hugh@172–well said. Good point with the juxtaposition of Police State Bush with a record low job approval and the backbone of a jelly fish Dems who are his complete slaves talking tough once in a while but voting with him every time like the complete hypocritical unprincipled pansy asses they are.
That tired old argument that they don’t have the votes to override a veto doesn’t hold up with their complete capitulation on Mukasey and Telco Immunity and warantless wiretapping for all calls and emails all the time not to mention the countless data bases of your personal information matrixed out the wazoo and leaked out the wazoo by incompetent bureaucrats.
Oh yes indeed! The Huckster is a piece o’work.
Not only did he let DuMond go, but as of 2004 he had let at least 12 murderers out of jail, along with other miscreants by granting clemency. His term was 1996-2007, so who knows what the final number is.
Huckster, the clemency king! Cripes.
And that’s just ONE area of his douche-baggery.
Plenty more to discover there!
Bay State Librul @ 109
When they say it isn’t about money, it’s about money.
When they say it isn’t about sex, it’s about sex.
When they say they don’t do extra-constitutional, they really do extra-constitutional.
The very fact that phrase ‘extra-constitutional’ came out of her mouth was because it had been on her mind!
BobbyG @ 142
Doesn’t take much imagination to substitute “U.S.” for “Pakistan” in the foregoing. Would we rebel were Bu’ush to do this to us?
There really isn’t much difference between this and Dubya declaring there’s a Global War on Terror and as such he as CiC can do anything he wants.
Dictators don’t need words, they only use words as decorations.
LS @ 159
What if that ‘law higher than all our laws’ tell us to obey the Rule of Law?
LetterMan @ 204
She shouldn’t talk about how ‘the country failed them [the vets]’, she should say how the Conservative Bush Republicans failed them and that’s why it’s time for Progressive Democrats to run things.
MarkH @ 209
Even while Musharraf is citing the War on Terra and Abraham Lincoln?