Comments on: Bush’s Cover-Up

By: Rickbrew9x

Rickbrew9x — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:11:22 +0000

After WW II we declared that the SS was a criminal organization, so that membership in that organization was a crime.

The Republican Party needs to be similarly declared a criminal organization based on its support of torture and war crimes.

What if the Hague made such a declaration, and every American who traveled abroad was asked at each port of entry “Are you or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?”

By: Rickbrew9x

Rickbrew9x — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:53:28 +0000

The Bush hope, then, is that the Washington political class will treat his “peccadilloes” the same way they treated the Iran-Contra affair - by sweeping it under the table when he is out of office.

I’d say that the Bush people are making a good bet. Odds are in their favor.

Damn!

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:20:26 +0000

Jon Stewart has Suskind tonite.

By: MeDaVinci

MeDaVinci — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:00:08 +0000

minnesota chuck at #5 wrote:

One of the tragedies of Pelosi’s impeachment-is-off-the-table stance is that it is a walk away from the best venue for doing this.

Nancy Pelosi, at least, will pay for her cowardice as faux Speaker of the House. Cindy Sheehan just qualified to run for Pelosi’s Congressional District 8 seat in NoCal as an Independent.

During the Democratic Primary for Pelosi’s seat, a total unknown without finances or grassroots backing — a former educator named Shirley Golub — snagged 11 percent of the Dem primary vote from under Pelosi’s deaf-dumb-blind nose. A VIRTUAL UNKNOWN TOOK 11 PERCENT FROM PELOSI’S ENTRENCHED PLATE.

Indie candidate or not, Cindy Sheehan is neither Unknown nor without grassroots, veteran or contributor donation means.

Pelosi, at least, will pay for ignoring the will of the people. Very good start.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:23:54 +0000

Your facts and the then would be senators PR don’t match up. I’ll take your facts. Progressives can only hope that the Senator does too, and that he now helps clean up the mess he voted for when passing the MCA.

By: VJBinCT

VJBinCT — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:19:49 +0000

Ban the GOP? The Turkish supreme court nearly did ban the islamic-oriented ruling party in Turkey; so why not try.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:17:55 +0000

17 – Ohio is my next door neighbor and voting against the MCA wouldn’t have lost Brown anything. No one in Ohio had the MCA as a vote changer – no polling, no press, nada. Like most of the country, hardly anyone in Ohio knew a gobble about the MCA and they cared less. Brown won with a 56/44

By: SmileySam

SmileySam — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:47:29 +0000

It appears to me that Yoo is getting scared. It is dawning on him that he too may have his day in Court. His travel is already restricted, as a important yet minor player I wouldn’t put it past another government to arrest and try him in much the same way Bush used Hamden, a test case. I would make the popcorn for that trial, real butter included.

By: Minnesotachuck

Minnesotachuck — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:56:38 +0000

I agree that it is an attribute of many Congressional Democrats as well, Pelosi at the head of the pack among them. However there remains an element of upholders of Constitutional democratic governance in the Dem party. This element is strongest at the grass roots, but there are some in influential Congressional positions as well; e.g. Feingold, Waxman, etc. By contrast, their counterparts in the GOP have for all practical purposes been pushed out of the party. This has resulted from the different kinds of people at the grass roots. GOP activism at the local level has been taken over lock, stock and barrel by people who define themselves primarily by their religious perspective (various forms of Christian fundamentalism to be more specific), and their commitment to the support of our Constitutional forms is limited by the extent to which those instutitions can help realize the furtherance of their god’s kingdom on earth. The Dem grass roots also contains its share of religiously motivated people, but they tend to be more ecumenically minded. It also contains a large element of basically secular people who view the workings of our founding fathers as one of mankind’s greater accomplishments.

By: john in sacramento

john in sacramento — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:54:39 +0000

Besides, a very wise Booz Allen Hamilton (company of interest in the European investigation of illegal rummaging through and siphoning off of SWIFT information) officer, who sometimes holds an Exec branch title, told the Dems (after testifying so credibly and reliably about how under ”old FISA” no one could listen in to overseas communications for days and days when soldiers were kidnapped) that we will all die if we don’t kill the Constitution first.

Rhymes with McDonnell