Been away. Miss me? Sorry for the long absence (if you noticed). I have been working some insane hours, on a second shift. Doesn't leave much energy for blogging. But I'll do better.
Anyone want to believe that these two mean a word they say?
The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the
FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra, top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said the audit shows "a major failure by Justice to uphold the law."
"If the Justice Department is going to enforce the law, it must follow it as well," said Hoekstra, of Michigan.
Note to dear readers: before the November defeat of the republicans, Hoekstra was hardly a champion of "openess", so don't be misled by his crocodile tears. His total demands for real oversight were exactly, ummmm, zero, just like all the rest of his yellow-bellied Rove-fearing cronys. So anything he says now is purely grandstanding, like the rest of his congressional minority compatr-idiots who are trying to redeem themselves in time for the 2008 elections. Yeah, good luck with that, Pete.
The more shit like this that comes out, the more anyone not in a coma (or in the brain-dead 28% of Bush supporters or is that redundant?) will realize that the republicans were not working for a paycheck that anyone could see (see: Bob Ney, "Duke" Cunningham), but one that would pay off in later years. Except Cunningham was as big an idiot of a congresscriminal as he was a Naval Officer ... he was (obviously) never much good at either. Hell of an aviator though.
Newt Gingrich, the darling of the conservative right and architect of the Republicans' 1990s "contract with America", has spoken in depth about the extra-marital affair he conducted with a congressional assistant and confirmed that the relationship was ongoing at the time he forced the impeachment of President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair.
"There were times I was praying and I felt I was doing things that were wrong but I was still doing them. I look back on periods of weakness that I was not proud of," Mr Gingrich told the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family.
I wonder if Ted Haggard was watching the door for him whilst praying in the Missionary Position?
The hypocrisy of these people knows no bounds. Perhaps a Giuliani-Gingrich ticket "GG", that means something somewhere, I think.
Yes, as a charter member of the dirty, smelly foul-mouthed hippie brigade some things just make me grin from ear to ear.
Democrats controlling the U.S. Congress are confronting President Bush on a broad range of issues regarding his handling of the war in Iraq, and the larger war on terrorism, as well as domestic issues. Congressional committees have launched investigations on numerous topics, including U.S. efforts to train Iraqi military forces, waste by military contractors, and the treatment of terrorist suspects.
Let the indictments roll!
I wonder how many of them will be (a) finding Jeebus (2) headed into rehab or (3) both to avoid the inevitable Foleying of their careers.
And seriously, didn't any of these fuckers (some Democrats included) read any of the shitty legislation passed (and then ignored) but Preznit Too Stupid to Swallow?
I have been seething with anger over the whole mess at Walter Reed; it's a total national disgrace. Anyone who has a "Bush-Cheney" bumper sticker and a yellow ribbon magnet on their car ought to be so ashamed of themselves that they ought to not come out of their houses until, oh, 2025 or so.
It hardly gets better when the Undersecretary for Defense Lunacy and Bean-Counting, some kind of a doctor (PhD economist apparently) makes this statement:
Congress, pressured by veterans groups, has in recent years boosted military pensions, health insurance and benefits for widows of retirees. Internal Pentagon documents forecast that the lawmakers' generosity since 1999 will force the federal government to find about $100 billion over the next six years to cover the new benefits.
"The amounts have gotten to the point where they are hurtful. They are taking away from the nation's ability to defend itself," says David Chu, the Pentagon's undersecretary for personnel and readiness. (my emphasis)
"So, it's come to this has it? Sorry we can't fix those holes in your abdomen from the high-velocity IED, soldier. We need to pay Halliburton to cater a meal for their managers in the Green Zone. Sorry. As you soldiers and sailors say ... 'Embrace the Suck', it's for the Global War on Terra". And CheneyBurton.
