Bush Seeks To Allow Staffers To Pretend To Testify

President Bush, yesterday, offered to allow “interviews” of 4 administration officials, past and present, including Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, on the firings of 8 U.S. Attorneys. The catch is that that the interviews must be private, the administration will allow no transcripts to be made, and none will testify under oath. Basically it […]

Impeachment, continued

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Yesterday, I stirred up some reaction around the web with my post, “Impeachment in all but name.” Mostly, I heard from the “throw the bum out” crowd, suggesting my approach is too incremental at best. Many believe that a full-blown impeachment is the only correct course. One went so far as to suggest […]

Impeachment In All But Name: Scandal in the Bush Administration

The new Democratic Congress is finally getting down to some of the business for which it was elected. I don’t want to make light of the things already accomplished. There were business items long overdue that had to be taken care of in the first few weeks. To a large degree, these items were “low […]

Sen. Chris Dodd Calls For Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

This appears to be a campaign message, but I don’t doubt Dodd’s sincerity. Because of perceived hawkishness, I’ve never thought of him as being liberal in the broadest sense. It’s fitting that he makes a credible hawkish argument for ending discrimination against gays in the military.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, by the way, was a bad […]

Chuck Schumer Connects Dots on Gonzales: Video

The video is long, but worthwhile. Listen for cute “Schurmerism” trying to say “Arkansas.” The issue seems esoteric but it’s important for people to understand. This goes to the heart of the administration’s abuses of power and shows how this particular power grab was orchestrated by the president’s closest advisors. It’s hard to imagine how […]

More White House Malfeasance Exposed In U.S. Attorney Firings

From reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post today, it’s clear that the firing of 8 U.S. attorneys was purely political, demonstrating a coordinated attempt by the Justice Department and the White House to further politicize prosecutions in the United States.
More specifically, it’s clear that some of the firings were prompted by […]

I Am A Liberal, Really!

I expect that among my 2 or 3 readers I will confuse some people, trying to figure out where I’m coming from. I supprise myself with my own moderation. It’s funny, I listen almost exclusively (actually embarrassed to say) to liberal and progressive voices. I have so little patience for the O’Reillys and Coulters of […]

Gay Pornstar Rod Majors aka Republican Darling Matt Sanchez Exposed on Olbermann

The interview on the video with Max Blumenthal was not the first mention of Sanchez’s past, which seems to substantially have come out in the blogosphere. Sanchez acknowledges working as “Rod Majors” on the blog, Joe. My. God. He now claims to be straight, or in his words “bad at being gay.”
I don’t fault […]

Sad For Scooter Libby, Sort Of

The airwaves have been filled with the ubiquitous juror Denis Colins describing the feelings amongst fellow jurors as sympathetic to Libby and how they did not relish the job they had to do. I’m not ragging on Collins: it’s our news culture. He seems bright, careful and sincere. Interviewers and commentators were happy to jump […]

Reprehensible Ann Coulter Video With Alternative F-Bomb

Here’s the video. Somehow I thought she might have some charisma or something that contributes to her minor success. I guess I was wrong.
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Expletive Deleted: Coulter Attacks John Edwards

I suppose I should be more enthusiastic about John Edwards now that Ann Coulter has called him “a faggot.” I feel a strange, sympathetic bond toward the candidate who is attacked with the same word I’ve sometimes been attacked with. It seems the haters in the world are actually trying to push that word to […]

McCain and Obama Apologize Needlessly for Saying Lives Wasted in Iraq

Why do good men fall all over themselves to apologize for telling the truth?
On Letterman Wednesday night John McCain while announcing his run for the presidency said:

Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be,” McCain said about the Iraq War. “We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American […]

Talk of Bush - Clinton Dynasty is a Big Fat Red Herring

All over the blogosphere I keep reading the phrase “Bush - Clinton Dynasty,” especially in readers’ comments to blogs. WTF? When were these two families combined? It’s hard to believe the two families are of the same species, let alone sharing some genetic lineage. I wanted to find out who manufactured this particular bit […]

With Oscars, Hollywood Leads America to an International Vision

As the U.S. continues to “go it alone” in the world with regard not only to neocon-style hegemony but also regarding environmental treaties, war crimes treaties, weapons bans, land mines, and transmitting any other number of insults to critics and allies alike, there is a large moneyed faction of “ordinary americans” seeking to take up […]

Craig Ferguson’s President’s Day Confessional

If you’ve been following along, you’ll know I try and do something just a bit different on Sundays. I’ve seen this video posted around a few times but didn’t really know Ferguson and his work or the nature of the video. I’d read that he was saying to cut Britney Spears some slack. I tended […]

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