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Pat Buchanan actually has an excellent article titled Broken Army, Broken Empire here: http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10193
Meanwhile, it's a sad day when Pat Buchanan is the voice of reason in the Republican Party. He comes off as a slightly liberal moderate on McLaughlin Group.
Any Bushie who wasn't going to stay until the end of Bush's term was told to submit their resignation by Labor Day. Tony Snow even said, "I think that probably…as Josh said the other day, he thinks there are probably a couple coming up in the next month or so."*
Highlights since June alone:
I suppose everyone has their limits and even a hack like Gonzales couldn't take another year and a half of hearings, evasions and villification.
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*Think Progress has a list of key resignations since last November: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/16/more-resignations-to-come/
I keep a George W. Bush doll on my desk, too.
It's a voodoo doll.
But really, of course Bush loyalists will be the replacements. Not just because Bush always picks Loyal Bushies (TM). I mean, who else is he gonna get? Who else will enlist to be a media whipping boy for a lame-duck president with approval ratings hovering in the low 30s who's entire administartion is under investigation and who's vice-president isn't even running for president?
That's an act of love, man.
Or utter stupidity.
I can see the job listing for Attorney General now...
HELP WANTED (desperately)
Live the American Dream and experience a Remarkable Journey as the lame-duck Attorney General to a beleagured President! Must be willing to obfuscate, lie blatantly under oath and suffer convenient amnesia. Must swear loyalty oath to President and pucker-up for serious ass-kissing. Some travel required: the occassional midnight trip to dissenters' hospital bedsides while dissenters are under heavy sedation. No experience with integrity required.
Even your worst days as attorney general will be better than your father's best days (if your father was a migrant worker in Texas)!
Only Bush loyalists need apply (EEOC non-compliant).
Robert Franklin and debpet knocked it out of the park with those comments. Awesome.
Says Bush of Gonzales,
The Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and other important laws bear his imprint…. As Attorney General he played an important role in helping to confirm two fine jurists in Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.*
Why is Bush reminding everyone of just what and whom bears the stink of Alberto Gonzales?
Ah, Gonzo, who’s “quaint” and “obsolete” now?
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*http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070827.html
CT Voter, I’ll go you one better: is it “knowing” if “in your heart of heart” you know something isn’t true? [See Maliki’s statement that Iran is being constructive and Bush’s response that “I don't think he, in his heart of heart[s], thinks they're constructive either.”]
I’m sure Clement knew in his “heart of heart” that our executive doesn’t use torture, not in the U.S., because we’re better than that.
Or at least we used to be.
Clement, in his short forty-one years, has a achieved an impressive Conservative resume:
Says Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, “There is no indication in this guy's record that he's an independent thinker or has any sense of balance.”
Says, Paul Clement himself, “If you've got a statute to defend, it doesn't much matter how you would have voted on the statute if you were a congressman… Your job is to marshal the best argument for the defense of the statute or the policy that gets the job done.”
Paul Clement, a man who’ll do what Bush tells him to do. With a smile.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1073944820670
New Deal Democrat is right on the money.
I don't care about the sexual peccadilloes of consenting adults behind closed doors. I care a little about sexual peccadilloes in public bathrooms generally because I'd hate to be the person in the next stall.
This isn't about tarnishing Republicans with "The Gay." It's about taking people to task for their hypocrisy, hypocrisy that affects other people.
Craig worked as a politician to craft anti-gay policy and law. This isn't about his private (or semi-private) sex acts. He made his sexuality public when he worked to legislate others' sex acts and orientation (he also made his sexuality public when he solicited sex acts in a public bathroom).
As far as showing Craig some compassion, many of us were already doing so by fighting against his own anti-gay policies and working for equality. We don't owe Larry Craig anything else.
"But second, female readers, can we discuss for a moment how terrifying this behavior would be in the women's room?"
This is quite a stretch to give this issue a Broadsheet angle.
Neo-American writes, "If it's repaired too quickly it looks like racism."
Interesting point. Although, frankly, many people already agree there was a racism component to the Katrina slow and non-response. Kanye West's "George Bush doesn't care about black people" resonated with a lot of people.
However, a failure to examine and monitor the thousands (?) of other structurally deficient bridges nationwide will be considered another Katrina failure--failure to listen to the engineers who'd been warning of disaster for decades.
I-35 is nowhere near Katrina in the scale of disaster. In some ways, it's a distraction from our already distracted Katrina efforts. New Orleans is no longer under water, but it's still been drowning for two years. But we also ignore I-35 at our own peril.
Interesting subject matter, yes.
So interesting it's already being covered elsewhere on Salon.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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