Comments on: Is Dick Stealing from the US and Giving to His Friends, Again? http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:35:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: radiofreewill http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43601 radiofreewill Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:41:10 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43601 <p>Darth is getting-in one more Wringing of the Public Teat before he goes…and probably considers it his well-earned Corporatist Good Stewardship ‘Bonus,’ too.</p> <p>These Snakes in Suits - these white collar sociopaths of the GOP - with Bush at their forked-tongue head - can rationalize and ‘justify’ anything they decide they want to do. If they can construe their actions as furthering or protecting their Ideological Agenda, then that trumps other ’secondary’ considerations, like the Law.</p> <p>However, going pathological is a reduced function state - like having a ‘drunk’ sense of judgment - before you know it Systematic Torture, Wiretapping Citizens on Suspicion, Firing non-partisan USAs, Ideologically taking Control of the DoJ, Destroying Evidence, Compartmentalizing (hiding) Evidence, non-complying with Subpoenas, Outing a National Security Asset and Rigged Justice in Alabama - are going on in Secret all around.</p> <p>Welcome to the Kingdom of Bush, where the Rule of Law is an afterthought, at best!</p> <p>Allthough it’s only a question of time before such reckless Statecraft ends-up in the ditch of system failure, none of the Shamelessly Enabling Goopers will call Bush on his Failed Policies and Programs - at least, not while the gettin’ is good.</p> Darth is getting-in one more Wringing of the Public Teat before he goes…and probably considers it his well-earned Corporatist Good Stewardship ‘Bonus,’ too.

These Snakes in Suits – these white collar sociopaths of the GOP – with Bush at their forked-tongue head – can rationalize and ‘justify’ anything they decide they want to do. If they can construe their actions as furthering or protecting their Ideological Agenda, then that trumps other ’secondary’ considerations, like the Law.

However, going pathological is a reduced function state – like having a ‘drunk’ sense of judgment – before you know it Systematic Torture, Wiretapping Citizens on Suspicion, Firing non-partisan USAs, Ideologically taking Control of the DoJ, Destroying Evidence, Compartmentalizing (hiding) Evidence, non-complying with Subpoenas, Outing a National Security Asset and Rigged Justice in Alabama – are going on in Secret all around.

Welcome to the Kingdom of Bush, where the Rule of Law is an afterthought, at best!

Allthough it’s only a question of time before such reckless Statecraft ends-up in the ditch of system failure, none of the Shamelessly Enabling Goopers will call Bush on his Failed Policies and Programs – at least, not while the gettin’ is good.

]]> By: BlueStateRedHead http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43598 BlueStateRedHead Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:30:42 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43598 <p>Wow. Good for you.</p> Wow. Good for you.

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43589 JohnLopresti Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:00:54 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43589 <p>Leen July 17, 2007, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/07/18/GR2007071800236.html" rel="nofollow">WaPo article</a> and July 18, WaPo list of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/cheney_energy_task_force.html" rel="nofollow">attendees in the sequenced meetings</a> tokenizing environmentalist advocacy organizations without integrating the many voices into the actual leadership advisory sessions. Ew had more on this in a distant thread, as did Judicial Watch, which latter was much interested in a possible precedent that developed in a suitable forum long after the initial JW+SierraClu suit; though my notebook is still somewhere I have yet to rediscover. I am glad your interest is active, as some of Cheney’s early conceptualizing about what BushSr would have him do in BushJr’s service likely was helping set the tone of those planning sessions. One item which might seem distantly relevant, but which to me is part of the sector’s interest, resurfaced this week in USFS’s decision DoJ could withdraw the federal regulations fiat approach to <a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/01/doj-drops-appeal-of-decision-to-block.php" rel="nofollow">EIR-less revision of logging mining and mineral regs</a>; EarthJustice and others won that standoff in January 2008 after more than four years of skirmishes.</p> Leen July 17, 2007, WaPo article and July 18, WaPo list of attendees in the sequenced meetings tokenizing environmentalist advocacy organizations without integrating the many voices into the actual leadership advisory sessions. Ew had more on this in a distant thread, as did Judicial Watch, which latter was much interested in a possible precedent that developed in a suitable forum long after the initial JW+SierraClu suit; though my notebook is still somewhere I have yet to rediscover. I am glad your interest is active, as some of Cheney’s early conceptualizing about what BushSr would have him do in BushJr’s service likely was helping set the tone of those planning sessions. One item which might seem distantly relevant, but which to me is part of the sector’s interest, resurfaced this week in USFS’s decision DoJ could withdraw the federal regulations fiat approach to EIR-less revision of logging mining and mineral regs; EarthJustice and others won that standoff in January 2008 after more than four years of skirmishes.

]]> By: TheOtherGuy http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43588 TheOtherGuy Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:26:34 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43588 <p>EW: Please Google Bushgold for the mineral rape of Africa and South America. Related: Receding glaciers are revealing mineral deposits the big boys are jumping on.</p> EW: Please Google Bushgold for the mineral rape of Africa and South America. Related: Receding glaciers are revealing mineral deposits the big boys are jumping on.

]]> By: CTuttle http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43586 CTuttle Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:09:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43586 <p>Heh, didn’t he advocate for ‘wag the dog’ tactics and took out an Aspirin Factory and empty training camps… *g*</p> Heh, didn’t he advocate for ‘wag the dog’ tactics and took out an Aspirin Factory and empty training camps… *g*

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43583 Leen Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:55:57 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43583 <p>ot</p> <p>Juan cole’s latest on the latest count on dead Iraqi’s and the Lancet<br /> <a href="http://www.juancole.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.juancole.com/</a><em></em></p> ot

Juan cole’s latest on the latest count on dead Iraqi’s and the Lancet
http://www.juancole.com/

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43578 Leen Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:41:58 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43578 <p>James Woolsey’s investments<br /> <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/woolsey.html" rel="nofollow">http://home.earthlink.net/~pla.....olsey.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,953563,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://observer.guardian.co.uk.....63,00.html</a></p> <p>James Woolsey and his security clearance<br /> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/james-woolsey-should-lose_b_43844.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....43844.html</a></p> <p>I was able to ask James Woolsey a question at the Baker Peace Conference here at Ohio University after the invasion. (I have not idea why he was th e quest speaker at a peace conference. I asked him if he thought the Office of Special Plans and those who cooked up the false intelligence that took this nation into an unnecessary war should be held ACCOUNTABLE. He got so pissed off with my question he told me to sit down. I laughed and asked him the question again. He was so pissed off I thought he was going to jump off the stage and try to take me out.</p> <p>He did not answer that question.</p> James Woolsey’s investments
http://home.earthlink.net/~pla…..olsey.html

http://observer.guardian.co.uk…..63,00.html

James Woolsey and his security clearance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..43844.html

I was able to ask James Woolsey a question at the Baker Peace Conference here at Ohio University after the invasion. (I have not idea why he was th e quest speaker at a peace conference. I asked him if he thought the Office of Special Plans and those who cooked up the false intelligence that took this nation into an unnecessary war should be held ACCOUNTABLE. He got so pissed off with my question he told me to sit down. I laughed and asked him the question again. He was so pissed off I thought he was going to jump off the stage and try to take me out.

He did not answer that question.

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43572 JohnLopresti Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:48:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43572 <p>Hurried. Where @12 was going to end was the northwest passage opening, but also northslope tundra heavy exploration equipment impact is minimized by conducting it only during cold surface rigid season, which since the Valdez spill has shortened from 200 to only 100 days; saw this in some of the polar bear extinction circumvention by USFW last week. MBW should have more on the mms, should she happen by.<br /> And I know I must have the link for Leen; the energy taskforce serial meetings rosters were released during the Libby turmoil; I need to find that and put it nearby. Will let you know; I think ew will remember this, as well.</p> Hurried. Where @12 was going to end was the northwest passage opening, but also northslope tundra heavy exploration equipment impact is minimized by conducting it only during cold surface rigid season, which since the Valdez spill has shortened from 200 to only 100 days; saw this in some of the polar bear extinction circumvention by USFW last week. MBW should have more on the mms, should she happen by.
And I know I must have the link for Leen; the energy taskforce serial meetings rosters were released during the Libby turmoil; I need to find that and put it nearby. Will let you know; I think ew will remember this, as well.

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43571 JohnLopresti Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:36:18 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43571 <p>There is a Patriot side of this, perhaps; I noticed a while back a helpful litigator visited a thread and mentioned the energy corridor; <a href="http://www.sw-center.org/swcbd/press/southwest-energy-corridor-01-10-2008.html" rel="nofollow">Bodman and company are facing a new suit in that matter</a>, as well. It turns out in MX fossil fuel pollution regs are lax, so the plan was to import from generators south of the new borderfence. I look forward to what a few local writers have to say about the oil inequities. In the article about AK ew wrote a while ago, there was more about MMS oversight. Maybe I will have a moment to return to those notes; that red dog mine website, for one, seemed like the contract was a honed instrument to extract only in a way that would favor the entrepreneurs but return to the native peoples only a token share of the take. Though, now with arctic warming, and people realizing the world is going to recognize that global warming has taken its toll upon the Iditarod which March 1 no longer can begin in its usual starting place because there is no snow, instead the media relations people have to truck in snow for the staged beginning of the race, then rebegin the race 100 miles north in Willows, where there is real dogsled snowcover.</p> There is a Patriot side of this, perhaps; I noticed a while back a helpful litigator visited a thread and mentioned the energy corridor; Bodman and company are facing a new suit in that matter, as well. It turns out in MX fossil fuel pollution regs are lax, so the plan was to import from generators south of the new borderfence. I look forward to what a few local writers have to say about the oil inequities. In the article about AK ew wrote a while ago, there was more about MMS oversight. Maybe I will have a moment to return to those notes; that red dog mine website, for one, seemed like the contract was a honed instrument to extract only in a way that would favor the entrepreneurs but return to the native peoples only a token share of the take. Though, now with arctic warming, and people realizing the world is going to recognize that global warming has taken its toll upon the Iditarod which March 1 no longer can begin in its usual starting place because there is no snow, instead the media relations people have to truck in snow for the staged beginning of the race, then rebegin the race 100 miles north in Willows, where there is real dogsled snowcover.

]]> By: TeddySanFran http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/comment-page-1/#comment-43570 TeddySanFran Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:35:40 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/10/is-dick-stealing-from-the-us-and-giving-to-his-friends-again/#comment-43570 <p>Yes.</p> Yes.

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