“Mr. Gonzalez, it appears to us that you are lying, because we don’t want to ask people who know whether or not you are lying, thus we will just assume you are, so we are moving to appoint a special prosecutor, although we have no clue why we’re even talking about this issue as it has nothing to do with the fired US attorneys… so hah!”

Apparently legislators aren’t elected to legislate anymore. They’re elected to conduct rampant and out-of-control witch hunts against the opposing party’s elected leaders.

I wonder why only 14% of the American public approves of Congress. I wonder.

Comment by O. Bigfoot — July 26, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

Big Zero, you are a piece of work. To say:

In spite of Hitler’s evil, he was a fascinating character in what he was able to accomplish during his lifetime. Who knows how far Hitler could have gone in destroying European nations and rebuilding them in his image had it not been for the United States’ “interventionism”.

Yikes!!! You admire Hitler!!! ………………..Not good.

Hitler embarked on a war of aggression, not unlike Bush. Driven by his delusion that he was on God’s mission.

Fortunately, genocide isn’t (or doesn’t at this point appear to be) on dub’ya’s mind.

GWB started this disaster based on his desire to rectify what he perceived to be his father’s failure. He appealed to greed, his own and that of his buds, as well as his utter faith in the ignorance of the American people, to get the thumbs up. This was not a war to stop a genocide, it was a war to settle a beef. Not yours. Not mine. Not the thousands of soldiers who sacrificed their lives. For his.

If Halliburton and the Bush “Rangers” can make a buck in the process . . . . Yee Haw!

Napolean complex run amok. Perhaps that’s why you want to super-size yourself . . . size zero “big” foot.

Comment by rockyroad — July 27, 2007 @ 12:09 am

Anon,

You raise good points. Why did Pelosi come right out of the box asserting that no empeachment proceedings were in the works? I’m a bit rushed, but that’s a question that deserves an answer.

We must know who knew what and when they knew it.

Comment by rockyroad — July 27, 2007 @ 12:30 am

Recognizing that Anon is a troll, I’ve got to say . . . here in blog-land, we are demanding action, and we are getting none. If dems are complicit in the various debacles, our good dems have no ultimate incentive to tackle these problems.

These facts and this knowledge could come back and bite dems.

Perhaps Pelosi has weighed the odds and decided to obfuscate.

Me? Dem, Repug . . . . don’t care. Just want the truth.

Empeach the whole lot of them.

Comment by rockyroad — July 27, 2007 @ 12:46 am

AND Republic, you must be kidding me about Dukakis. Once your party nominates Hillary (oh and you fools will), Willie Horton will look like a vacation. This woman is at 48% unfavorable when the media does nothing but gush over her. Imagine after we challenge her on Iraq, taxes, abortion, the right to choose arms, not to mention Vince Foster’s murder, travelgate, eavesdrop gate, her brother’s pardon problems, and her shrillness. Like I said, you will wish it was just Willie Horton after we’re done swiftboating her. I can’t wait.

Authoritarian Aggression. When I say authoritarian followers are aggressive
I don’t mean they stride into bars and start fights. First of all, high RWAs go to church
enormously more often than they go to bars. Secondly, they usually avoid anything
approaching a fair fight. Instead they aggress when they believe right and might are
on their side. “Right” for them means, more than anything else, that their hostility is
(in their minds) endorsed by established authority, or supports such authority. “Might”
means they have a huge physical advantage over their target, in weaponry say, or in
numbers, as in a lynch mob. It’s striking how often authoritarian aggression happens
in dark and cowardly ways, in the dark, by cowards who later will do everything they
possibly can to avoid responsibility for what they did. Women, children, and others
unable to defend themselves are typical victims. Even more striking, the attackers
typically feel morally superior to the people they are assaulting in an unfair fight. We
shall see research evidence in the next chapter that this self-righteousness plays a huge
role in high RWAs’ hostility.

Apparently Mr. Gonzales didn’t get the memo on November 7th 2006, that said: Ah Shit, they won! We are in big trouble for all of the BS we pulled while our party controlled congress. Please start shredding papers as soon as possible. Do not tell Congress anything if yoy have too, then please don’t get caught in a lie. The truth won’t set us free, it will get us impeached. So Fredo make sure you don’t testify at all. If they call you to testify, please call in sick. If they stop buying the sick excuse, then tell them your dog ate your homework. If that doesn’t work, then tell them you have visit Iraq. If that fails then bring up 9-11 as often as possible and make sure you don’t use the term, “I don’t recall Senator”, this will get them pissed off at us and make them hand us our asses. And remember to deny you ever read this letter because I’m not supposed to be telling you this stuff. This is not your boss writting this letter.

Sign W

Comment by funky p — July 26, 2007 @ 2:48 pm

I have been giving Fitz a break. I wanted him to have a chance to get Libby in a position where he might actually talk (that is, at the prison door), and thereby buttress the case against Rove, Armitage, et al.

But now that Libby will be doing no more talking, it seems the time has come and gone to indict the others involved.

Comment by Egreggious — July 26, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

There’s really only one Arlen Specter. It just SEEMS like there are two of him because Fox News likes to put a (D) after his name. A reasonable person might conclude that there is an Arlen Specter in each party.

Comment by bilbobaggins — July 26, 2007 @ 2:44 pm

I am with you on this. I have my doubts about Fitz being as unbiased as some think he is. I judge him in this affair based upon the results. Results are zippo!

Comment by PeterW ”

Excuse me. People admitted to outing her. What more could you want. And it would be easy to prove that they had both knowledge (she was covert and working under a cover company which they also outed) and intent – they did it, what more intent do you want?

You’re joking…right? If you are referring to the State US Attorneys, there is no way any of them are going to enforce anything against the Bush Administration. They were all carefully hand picked and this whole scandal broke because they got rid of the ones they thought were not loyal enough to the President of the United States (rather than being loyal to the constitution and the people).

Did I mention that many of the Iran Contra criminals are part of the Bush administration?

Comment by God Help Us

I can’t let this one slide by without comment.
Iran Contra was not a hate-filled investigation. The President (Reagan) the Vice President (GHWB) and many high-ranking administration officials were involved in an illegal conspiracy that gave arms to a terrorist nation (IRAN) and avowed enemy, while also dealing in drug trafficking, illegal arming of rebels in Nicaragua, and violating a specific act of congress which forbade the arming of the Nicaraguan rebels.

The guilty either got immunity (like Ollie North) or pardons (from Bush). Caspar Weinberger got his pardon before there was even a trial.
Cover ups, contempt of congress, drug dealing, arms dealing, aiding and abetting a known terrorist nation in the acquisition of misslies and other weapons.
No hate filled investigation. Just another right wing RICO racket, swept under the rug of history by a complicit and culpable president.
Next falsehood please!