It’s beginning to look like there’s nothing behind that vacant expression [of Dana Perino].

She speaks for the President. Explains it all, doesn’t it?

Under the proposal, first reported by the Globe on Saturday, politically appointed lawyers in the Pentagon would have gained the power to veto the appointment or promotion of any member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, the military’s 4,000-member uniformed legal officers group.

http://www.boston.com/news/nat…..y_lawyers/

The Bush administration was going to push an initative that would have had Pentagon political appointee attorneys in charge of all promotions of JAG lawyers. Ayk there have already been some nasty reprisals and paybacks for JAG attorneys who have brilliantly and dilligently represented Gitmo detainees, and one who I believe prevailed in SCOTUS.

This is but another reprehensible attack on the Rule of Law and the basic rights to competent defense that was launched by I don’t know who/where in the Bush administration. More people than Bush’s point guard at the Pentagon,DOD General Counsel “Jim” Haynes were involved.

I find it difficult to believe that if Fred Fielding had input to this decision he would have allowed it to fly, but then I guess absolutely nothing should surprise anyone anymore.

Here’s the roll call on the Budget vote, and both of your Senators voted for the Bushie war appropriation and the rest of the Omnibus Budget bill as did much of the Democratic House.

http://www.govtrack.us/congres…..=s2007-441

Again thanks for the link to Progressive Punch. You live in a very interesting beautiful place.

I’m glad you got me to drill Georgie P. (the hopeful Bush 44). You are going to have to wait a long time before a current Bushie puts themseleves at risk while being in the service. However they have a track record of risks while not in the service.

George P. has taken risks, but the service is not where he took them. While a Rice University student, George Prescott was arrested by the Metro Dade police when he showed up at 4AM at the home of his former girlfriend, broke in through her bedroom window, which aroused not the girlfriend but the attention of her daddy. As any young lawyer to be knows, you can’t get your litigation groove on to early, so he had a vigorous argument with her father as to whether his direct path to his objective through his ex girlfriend’s bedroom window was the best approach.

Also as any young lawyer to be knows, what you don’t have in skill can sometimes be compensated with persistence, so after running away from daddy, he returned in a Ford Explorer burning up the front lawn by runnning back and forth. He was not convicted, because luckily, daddy and the ex-girlfriend decided not to press charges and unlike some ADAs who would anyway just because they can, this one took a look at the fact that he was an ex-President’s (lost to Clinton 2 years prior) grandson and his political future and dropped the charges.

Noelle,not to be outdone, and in the mode of Rush Limbaugh dabbled in filling out her own Rxs without hitting med school first, and some people felt they were not for “legitimate medical purposes.”

You are quite right that he’s now in the service. but he did not enlist as a JAG because they get sent to Iraq often and elite white Republicans don’t do Iraq.

As you know and have blogged hundreds of times eloquently, Iraq is the war that the Bush WHIG (White House Information Group–the Bush marketing arm for selling Iraq fearmongering or the Jerry Dela Feminas* of the Mushroom cloud) types hire servants to fight and die.

Bushies watch on television minus Dover coffins–kind of like a title fight for celebrities, or the Roman emperors watching the gladiators fight to the death.

George Prescott Bush (son of Jeb and Columba, and a lawyer) joined the Naval Reserve as an Intelligence officer. Currently for this aspiring Senator and President as Bush 44, it is the easiest way to get military service on his resume.

He’s following in the footsteps of a Democratic President.

Jack Kennedy would have spent World War II in Georgetown as an intelligence officer but for the FBI discovering he was having an affair with a suspected Nazi spy. Instead of being bounced from the Navy, his father arranged that he be sent to a war zone (but for his “hooking up” which is what they call this activity now on college campuses, he never would have been a war hero).

You were thinking, correctly, that as an attorney, and a former law clerk at the Florida Supreme Court his skills, would best be ultilized as a JAG officer.

But there’s a little problem with JAG for Bushies. JAG officers mandatorily now have to serve on active duty which may well mean Iraq, or if they join the Army reserves or National Guards while not required to serve Active Duty they often get sent to Iraq which means the land of the bang bangs as Bushies call them, where they can get their body parts scattered all over the road. So that’s yukkie for them.

Steve Sailer blogs about Georgie Prescott’s brave course into Naval Reserve and the details why here:

http://isteve.blogspot.com/200…..serve.html

AYK, the last Bushie to take a risk service wise was Poppy unless you calculate the risk that George Bush 41 might have hopped in a training plane blitzed out on coke and booze and had trouble keeping the ole plane’s nose on the horizon on takeoff.

Bushies talk about the importance of risk for others but not for them and their families unless of course risk could mean falling off a mechanical bull while drunk. The naval reserve takes people up to 42, so now that the barhopping at Chelsea Piers and Georgetown has attenuated for Barbara and Jenna, they have time for a Navy Reserve career. But as Jenna tells everyone at her cocktail party book promotions when asked that inconvenient question of why she doesn’t join, there are many many ways to serve our country–bars in Georgetown were a venue where she did this nearly ever night for a spell.

Georgie Prescott’s younger sibs are also deeply committed to risk taking. Little bro John Ellis Bush aka “Jebbie” was arrested twice. The first time was when he and his date were arrested in a car for being drunk and naked from the waste down while getting busy and fogging up the windows, in a Jeep Cherokee parked in a Tallahassee Mall (you remember the song “Talahassie Lassie” by the Beach boys . He was later arrested for being a public drunk and resisting arrest in the Austin bar strip.

I was glad to get the Prog Punch link. I hadn’t seen that site before.

I just think despite the refrain they don’t have the votes to stop Bush in Iraq that there are ways to structure votes to strangle the budget to force troops home without suffering politically.

Behind that humongous budget there was so much ridiculous pork while money that’s needed for basics didn’t get allotted.

Great post on the Sessions fearmongering ethos that calculates people are so stupid. Sessions thinks it’s great politics to present the same dumb downed message to trash the Dems. I strongly disagree with his strategy and hope it will backfire.

Here is a list of the Bush Puppy Dog gutless slaves:

Yes Give Us More Dover Coffins and Faster:

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)

Some of these names are understandable. But the first one jumped out and bit me. He’s my Senator, rated by Progressive Punch as 15th most progressive Senator (out of 50?). For reference, Lieberman ranks 47th, and Russ Feingold is 26th. I don’t think Akaka belongs on this list. Point me again to the source of this information, which must be highly selective?

Bob in HI

In response to Peterr @ 129

kinda Styx in your craw, no?

Charon target with that one, my friend.

Is cere a bus there?

HA! Des(e) iz LOL!