David,

I want you to know that Republican operatives like you make me sick. You are morally and intellectually bankrupt. You can come here and talk a tough game, and even throw in some policy wonk boilerplate, but I know that you are badly shaken. Your party is going down, and going down hard. Even if your guy Bush crawls his way to the finish line, he will destroy your party doing so. Look for mega-losses for the GOP in 2008, and jail terms for quite a few of the gang.

F*** you, David, and I really mean that.

way to use dishonest language to prolong a war that you aren’t fighting in. the only folks who want us to stay in iraq are the sunnis and the oil executives. which one are you?

Comment by David — March 28, 2007 @ 8:00 pm

See how vague you can be about this? We just say “the enemy” without really saying who they are. And then change the subject since there really is no good answer.

I agree with most things you have to say, but in this instance I don’t believe these are show trials. I think Bush got rid of people that he appointed after they started looking to deep into his buddies. That is against the law.

Comment by David — March 28, 2007 @ 7:47 pm

You don’t “surrender” an occupation. You either stay or leave. There is no such thing as “winning” at this point. We already won. Remember Bush saying “Mission accomplished”? There is no war. Now we are an occupation force.

Surrender to who?

You are passionate and idealistically we are mostly in agreement, at least what I’ve seen, but these are show trials. In the end, a bunch of corrupt politicians and political operatives will be paraded before the public and ridiculed both in the halls of congress and here. And then Joe and Jane Citizen will shake their heads in disgust and make comments about how all politicians are corrupt, and then they will vote the next one into office.

Meanwhile, more people will be murdered in our name with our guns and bullets. And the only ones who will ever be charged with murder will be the poor souls that we brainwashed and sent over to wherever to do just that but were unfortunate enough to have a moment of insanity caught on video.

That’s the reality. But, hey, on with the show.

My smoke alarm is ringing….

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54861

The same percentage that acknowledge that we invaded Iraq based on falsehoods, deception, and evil motives but that it is important to let the cogs of our political machinery rotate around a few millions times so that we can figure out a way to leave while continuing to show support for our “troops”.

You know, the “troops” who are almost exclusively made up of our lower middle-class and poverty stricken sons and daughters? The ones that we directed to murder innocent men, women, and children. The ones that we sent in with plenty of bullets, but little if any armor.

Yes, the same percentage who think that we’ve reached some form of enlightenment by passing non-binding timetables (yes, it is non-binding) through congress attached to a bill that funds more bullets, bombs, and god knows whatever other tools of murder that we will then direct our “troops” to slaughter more innocent men, women, and children with.

In other words, a large percentage.

I know I hear fiddles, but does anyone else smell smoke?

Precedent shows that it takes especially heavy interests to outweigh even those interests of the Executive that are only implicitly protected by the Constitution. See, e.g., United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. at 713 (allowing in camera review of executive communications only because of a “demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial”). The D.C. Circuit has indicated just how substantial Congress’s interests need to be to warrant disclosure of executive materials. In Senate Select Comm. on Presidential Campaign Activities v. Nixon, 498 F.2d 725 (D.C. Cir. 1974) (en banc), the D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, refused to enforce a congressional subpoena for the Watergate tapes. In doing so, the court recognized the “great public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of conversations that take place in the President’s performance of his official duties.” Id. at 729. The court said that interest could “be defeated only by a strong showing of need by another institution of government — a showing that the responsibilities of that institution cannot responsibly be fulfilled without access to records of the President’s deliberations.” Id. at 730. Applying that standard, the court concluded that a congressional committee’s desire to satisfy its legislative responsibilities and its purported “oversight power,” was insufficient to overcome the President’s paramount interest. See id. at 732-733. Thus, Congress lost because it could not demonstrate that the subpoenaed evidence was “demonstrably critical to the responsible fulfillment” of its appropriate functions. Id. at 731.

I expect to see more and more of this. Frickin’ busses are going to need cow-catchers.

would an ER physician or police officer, that would chime in on this guess on my part: are they presenting with symptoms of amphetamine abuse? They seem to be tweakers (meth abusers) that have come under extreme stress causing episodes of paranoia and other issues due to rise in blood pressure and other acute environmental causes? They are really creating wild excuses for denying what their job requirements would lay out for them about what is legal. Are they being ordered to say all these things and are okay with it? knowing they are breaking laws the president can’t fix for them? I ask about the denial, as they seem almost as though they are under control of someone that has them convinced they are ruling by divine guidance and can do no wrong. We know this is a joke to the leaders, we have heard their jokes about the religious base. But it is something that they might use to try to retain illegal control via their admitted treasonous acts?

Oh yeah, that’s what the Republicans would have done to Clinton.