Posts from ‘April, 2007’

Now he tells us. Now, in 2007 when he has a book coming out, George Tenet weighs in with details about how we were all set up for the murderous Iraq mess by George W. Bush and his unindicted co-conspirators, his merry band of neocon warmongers.

Watching Keith Olbermann rebuke Republican presidential wannabe Rudy Giuliani this evening was reminiscent of watching Dirty Harry Callahan take down a punk who had foolishly decided to make his day.



The trigger for Olbermann’s righteous wrath was a series of scurrilous remarks Giuliani made in a New Hampshire campaign speech.

We’re going to be off on a trip for the next few days, so posting may be irregular.
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We’re expected to believe the special counsel, a Bush appointee and loyalist, is going to go after a key member of President Bush’s inner circle, penetrating the most fanatically secretive — and systematically devious — White House in U.S. history.



We’re also expected to believe Bush, Rove and the rest stand ready to cooperate in every way with this investigation.

After more than six years of watching President Bush, his latest endorsement of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his satisfaction with the man’s embarrassing Senate hearing performance last week come as no surprise.

Coming in the wake of news about death and destruction because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the terrible massacre at Virginia Tech, this story seems sublime.

The likelihood — the virtual certainty — that Karl Rove and Harriet Miers are at the center of the U.S. attorney firings debacle, is precisely why the White House will throw Gonzales under the Senate Judiciary Committee bus before it will lift a finger to help the committee interview anyone.

It took a special kind of calloused selfishness to put Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho’s ugly video diatribe on the Internet for any and all to see, but YouTube.com had what it takes.
Which is to YouTube’s eternal discredit. But hey, a lot of sick puppies made for a lot hits on YouTube’s site.
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Lo and behold, Vermont’s diminutive senate has passed a resolution calling on the state’s congressional delegation to seek impeachment proceedings against President Bush.



What makes this interesting is that if Vermont’s state house of representatives were to follow suit, the U.S. House of Representatives would be obliged to consider impeaching Bush.

If there was the slightest doubt about whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales belongs in his position of great authority and crucial responsibility, he removed it today when testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.



News reports have focused on how a committee Republican declared Gonzales ought to resign. But the incisive, withering questioning of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., revealed Gonzales for the half-baked, Mafia-style consigliere he truly is.