Ex-President George W. Bush, his vice president, Dick Cheney, attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, and top political hack, Karl Rove, have 22 million reasons to be nervous, thanks to the tenacity of two watchdog groups that went to court seeking “lost” e-mails.
The two private groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National [...]
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Twenty-two million uh-oh’s for Bush & Co.
Lawmakers opt to censure adulterous governor
Gov. Mark Sanford is in no danger of joining the ranks of the unemployed, thanks to a legislative subcommittee’s vote to censure rather than impeach him.
Seems the wages of sin and misuse of state travel funds are getting off light in the God-fearing, Republican stronghold of South Carolina.
The House judiciary subcommittee’s 6 to 1 vote [...]
Texas plans to politicize textbooks
the conservative Republican way
You’ve got your five-star hotels, four-star generals and three-star restaurants. Then there’s Texas, your Lone Star state — and it’s no wonder.
Here, from the Houston Chronicle by way of Think Progress, is the latest evidence Texas doesn’t deserve the one star it’s got.
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since [...]
More Republicans starring
in one life to live — badly
As if to provide comic relief from Sanford’s self-inflicted travails, Bachman held forth in a TV appearance, ragging on the object of her latest paranoid conspiracy fantasy: the U.S. Census Bureau. Yes, really.
Torture issue shamefully Broderized
Be advised, when an advocate applies sanitizing euphemisms to practices as brutal as suspending naked people from the ceiling and banging them into walls, for waterboarding and for forced enemas, that person’s case is fatally flawed — and on some level they know it.
Whitewash-for-brains senators
advocate no torture prosecutions
Never mind about those silly old Geneva Conventions. The rule of law? Oh, hey, that’s subordinate to a power-abusing president’s freedom to cherry-pick for shysters who will give him legal opinions made to order.
Torture memos make case
for having truth commission
The president is no doubt reluctant to trigger a distracting, divisive, years long sideshow when he’s seeking some semblance of bipartisan cooperation in dealing with myriad, extremely difficult problems. . . . But considering the future of this nation, his reluctance is shortsighted and not good enough.
Marginalized zealots pose danger
Quote: “Lately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic. . .”
Conyers should ignore Bush privilege claim
It’s hard to say which is more unbelievable — that ex-President George W. Bush is actually trying to perpetuate executive privilege for his cronies after leaving office or that congressional Democrats are going to court to fight Bush’s nonsense.
Rove gets invitation he better not refuse
Let’s hear it for Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who today subpoenaed Karl Rove, former White House political adviser and worse.
From a statement at the committee’s home page:
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. issued a subpoena to Karl Rove requiring him to testify regarding his role in the [...]
