Is there ever an occasion that that dumbshit that sits in the Oval Office won't take the opportunity to trot out his tired lines and lies? I was watching Preznit Dogshit Dumb give his speech before yet another group of military men and women who are convenient props and set-pieces for a man too afraid to face any random 2,000 Americans picked off the street to hear him speak in person.
President Bush defended his Iraq war policy in a patriotic Fourth of July talk, saying that while he honors the sacrifice of U.S. troops, now is not the time to bring them home.
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"If we were to quit Iraq before the job is done, the terrorists we are fighting would not declare victory and lay down their arms. They would follow us here," Bush said at the West Virginia Air National Guard.
...Since the attacks of September the 11th, 2001...
...Since September the 11th...
...We learned on September the 11th that in the age of terror...
...so since 9/11...
...al Qaeda as they planned the 9/11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 citizens...
...of al Qaeda -- the very same folks that attacked us on September the 11th...
...since the 9/11 attacks...
And they call him a One-Trick Pony. Imagine that. The Rememberer-in-Chief. When dead bodies suit his political ends.
Now that the uproar over the potential impeachable obstruction of justice by the Decider Guy is building, it's instructive I think to go back and look at another interesting case of Beloved Leaders compassion for the convicted.
His BFF Alberto Gonzales did a bang-up job as his reader of affidavits in Texas on complex death-penalty cases. Preznit I-for-an-Eye was all about sticking the needle in when required, because, dammit Juries R'Justice!!!
Jim Marcus, an attorney for convicted murderer Kenneth Ray Ransom, said, for example, that Gonzales's memo does not correctly state the basis for the clemency request he filed in 1997. "Had I known that the 40-page petition I filed would be boiled down to one slipshod sentence in Mr. Gonzales's memo, I would simply have filed a one-sentence petition," he said.
White House spokesman Brian R. Besanceney said in response to the complaints yesterday that Gonzales and his colleagues in the Texas counsel's office "treated each clemency petition with careful scrutiny and sensitivity." He also said the summaries Gonzales prepared represented "a small fraction of the information provided to the governor" and sought only to document "the governor's final decision" rather than recommend a course of action.
So, besides Scooter, who else has committed a crime that Our Little King has found worthy of commutation? Why none other than Henry Lee Lucas, an all-around nice guy.
Lucas's sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush. His was the only death penalty case among the 153 that came across George W. Bush's desk in his tenure as Texas Governor (including that of Karla Faye Tucker) in which Governor Bush intervened and commuted the death sentence.
So, Scooter is at least in good company ... a convicted liar and convicted murderer, two of the people George Likes Best.
It's unsurprising that Gonzo probably gave Beloved Leader input that affirmed his decision. It's what he does, somewhere between either deciding to spit or swallow from his post on his knees.
Keith Olberman has gotten it right again, as has Digby. Impeachment would be a mess waiting to happen, however investigations that lead to a resignation might be worth pursuing. After all, either or both men have made enough money for themselves and their families off the blood of Americans to live in the style to which they have become accustomed. Resignation would mean that we would be paying them a pension for their malfeasance in office, but hell that's a small price to pay to be rid of them both.
"We" being Democrats. One of the Hillary's pollsters apparently was involved in some sort of email shenanagins with a former associate.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist is being accused of illegal eavesdropping in a lawsuit that alleges he and his polling firm monitored the personal e-mails of a former associate who started a rival company.
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Markel learned his e-mail was being monitored from the first lawsuit because the suit quotes e-mails between him, Markel and others that show conversations they were having about doing business with clients of their former firm.
Email sent while he was an employee are fair game, because he was, I believe, tacitly consenting to be "monitored" by the very use of the company email system. But after he left? Not so much.
Hey, guys it's the illegality, Stoopid. No shit. Especially at a time when the country is starting to wake up to the illegal wire-tapping that the Criminal Enterprise that is the 1600 Crew has been engaged in. Jeebus.
No one will ever conclude decades (or centuries) from now that there was any apparent lack of Hubris in the ruling elite in the this country as the new century began.
Another reason we don't need a Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton dynasty. Too much insider-ness and hubris. We don't need dynasties, we need a change.
