Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down" has admitted in the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was wrong to support the Iraq War. Good to see some folks hav the humility to admit something like that.
Posted by Rich at March 4, 2007 04:33 AMDemocrats continue to waste their outrage on Anne Coulter.
Posted by heron at March 4, 2007 05:14 AMHere's what 'I'm Bush's pussy' Gonzales thinks of Congress:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has indicated he is too busy to answer letters from Democratic congressional leaders about his firing seven U.S. attorneys involved in probes of public corruption, though a lower-level Justice Department official rejected their proposals.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, House Democratic Caucus chairman, had written Gonzales two letters suggesting that he name Carol Lam, fired as U.S. attorney in San Diego, as an outside counsel to continue her pursuit of the Duke Cunningham case. Asked by Melissa Charbonneau of the Christian Broadcasting Network about this column’s report that Gonzales did not respond, Gonzales said: “I think that the American people lose if I spend all my time worrying about congressional requests for information, if I spend all my time responding to subpoenas.”
Richard A. Hertling, the acting Justice Department lobbyist, responded Wednesday, 22 days after Emanuel’s letter. He contended “the Justice Department would not ever seek the resignation of a U.S. attorney if doing so would jeopardize a public corruption case” and rejected naming Lam as a special prosecutor.
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 05:46 AM
Pro-Romney site equates Howard Dean with Ann Coulter
Posted by Joseph at March 4, 2007 05:52 AMYou have got to see the picture of Ann. It's perfect. Under the heading: "Top GOP Candidates Denounce Right Wing Harpy"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 05:59 AM"..if I spend all my time responding to subpoenas.”
How many subpoenas has Speedy received? It sounds like dozens.
Trent Lott confirmed what I have been saying about Walter Reed. He said it was on the base closure list and somebody thought there was no more use investing in it.
Granted, this is a stupid excuse even if true when you are putting the wounded and injured in the facility...
But this excuse was bound to surface. It is so damned typical of people who have been reducing expenditures for over 6 yrs which might have helped veterans. They actually think framing the issue as fiscally responsible will exonerate them!
Posted by gtash at March 4, 2007 07:47 AMJudith--
Wasn't it Gonzales who proposed to think about pornography as the main issue of the Justice Dept?
Now that is interesting. Here you have a guy who terminates prosecutors for failing to act agressively on "drugs" and "guns", and he's too busy to answer letters about the dismissals, and believes anti-pornography is where Justice ought to place its resources. You suppose this has much to do with the old Republican base?
Posted by gtash at March 4, 2007 07:52 AMgtash, That's exactly what it will be, "a stupid excuse"!
My wingnut sister who works for CENTCOM in Tampa hates needless spending. She told me last year that the Government just spent a multi-million dollar contract to refurbish a perfectly good entrance and facade on their building that didn't need any fixing.
That's where the waste is going. These are the kind of funds that should be diverted to our incoming wounded soldiers.
Posted by Seven of Six at March 4, 2007 07:57 AMHappy sunday, Leftist Wackos! The temperatures are going to be over 80 degrees in Southern California this morning. And while climatologists receiving grant funds for their global warming studies warn us that the whole area will be under water in a few years, at least we can enjoy it today!
Surf's up!
Posted by muckdog at March 4, 2007 08:27 AMFuck off, mucky. And do us a favor and glue yourself to a surfboard, upside down!
Posted by at March 4, 2007 08:32 AMgtash, Gonzales carries the Ashcroft legacy forward.
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 09:19 AMHappy sunday, Leftist Wackos!
Happy Sunday, rightist shill for a dominionist cabal.
Seems like it will be a good day there to wear your Afika Korps shorts as you stand on the street corner doing the right arm extended at 45 degrees thing. Don't forget to shout "Get a job, you fucking bum!" as you assail a homeless Iraq Veteran who lost their legs and an arm in the conflict. Be sure to gloat and feel superior as you drive by a downtown wall with a deinstitutionalized schizophrenic's name scrawled on it by hand in their own feces to mark their territory. You deserve it.
Yes marvel at the glories of true capitalism...at the cost of $1 trillion dollars in corporate welfare. Socialism never felt so good! And those pattering steps you hear behind you? It is not the left running up behind you GOP fucks to club you like baby fur seals in Canada. Keep grinning. It's all good in sunny Republi-con land...until the indictments start coming down.
Posted by phidipides at March 4, 2007 09:20 AM"Fuck off, mucky. And do us a favor and glue yourself to a surfboard, upside down!"
ROFLMAO!
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 09:22 AMAnd the TLC award for Best, Most Original Mockery of an Appalling Authoritarian Rightist goes to....
phidipides, for his boffo "Afrika Korps shorts" takedown of the oblivious Muckdog!
You can surf the all the Internets and not find anything better than this, IMO. Bravo!
Posted by euzoius at March 4, 2007 09:37 AMAfter claims of Eritrean support for the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, I suspect that we will see Eritrea as the next "battle" in the Great War On Terror. The excuse, five British "diplomats" that have "disappeared" on the Ethiopian/Eritrean border and who have apparently been seen in an Eritrean Army camp.
Posted by blowback at March 4, 2007 11:32 AMThis is a good read.
The New York Times has made a list of the things that this Congress must attack, change, and make unlawful.
The Bush administration’s assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped. But preventing new assaults on civil liberties is not nearly enough.
Five years of presidential overreaching and Congressional collaboration continue to exact a high toll in human lives, America’s global reputation and the architecture of democracy. Brutality toward prisoners, and the denial of their human rights, have been institutionalized; unlawful spying on Americans continues; and the courts are being closed to legal challenges of these practices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/opinion/04sun1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 02:05 PMAnd Brit Hume chimes in on Walter Reed--echoing Trent Lott's excuse:
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HUME: I think it tells you a lot about the effect of the last election and the political atmosphere in Washington. This is an administration which is known or had been known for sticking by people even when they were embattled. The idea that conditions at Walter Reed hospital, a hospital that is on its way out of business, had deteriorated, that’s probably one of the reasons they wanted to put it out of business. This is unfortunate. It looks terrible, which is the problem. The problem is that it looks as if this administration, which has sent troops into harm’s way, is now neglecting them when they’re injured and need care and help. But make no mistake about it, this was a — there was a potential political firestorm on Capitol Hill began to brew about this. The administration did what it did to try to get it over with, and it may well have succeeded.
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Posted by gtash at March 5, 2007 05:24 AM