I'm surprised no one on this thread (that I saw, anyway) has pointed out the other punchline to this story: Goodling did her undergrad work at Messiah College. In other words, this poor benighted soul had been indoctrinated to believe that God is on her and her preznit's side for at least 7 years before joining the Justice Dept., where the message was only shoved even further down her throat for 6+ years.

No wonder she's caved like a house of cards at the first sign of pushback from a newly-liberated Democratic Congress: she's only recently learned that everything she knows is wrong.

(Google the Wikipedia page for Messiah College - it's been seriously messed with. Not by me.)

Wonder where she went to high school...Kingdom Come High?

Sorry, I know I should leave this alone - there are so many other neocons to expose - but take a look at Monica's "Friends" page. First, I wonder if those folks still WANT to be publicly known as her friend, and second, is there something just a wee bit....ummm...pathological in the tone of some of her comments about them?

I'm just sayin'...

This is not news. How long have we known that the Bush White House is the most secretive in American history?

How many others, from years back, have told us that to the Bushies, everything is political? That they are engaged in a permanent campaign mode? That they like to be in power, but they're not really interested in governing?

It's not news. Everything that's coming out now was not only predictable, it was predicted! And now we're all wringing our collective hands, saying, "Ooh, how awful those Bush people are! We never knew it before!"

Baloney. There are literally hundreds of thousands of articles and columns and blog posts that have said all this - that the Bush administration is filled with corruption and cronyism and gives not a tinker's dam for America except insofar as it can enrich them and their plutocrat friends - and these things have been said from the beginning. From the very BEGINNING of this stinking venture into rank venality and utter soullessness, it has been observed and commented on - and then promptly ignored by the largest news outlets in the world, those we call the MSM.

We knew - we KNEW this would be the result of a second Bush term, because even with the trauma of 9/11 obscuring our vision, we saw what Bush et al. had done in the first term, and we knew that without even the need to pretend they cared about America and Americans in a second term, because they didn't need to run again, they would be even worse.

And they were. And they are, and they will be, because I don't think we've even YET seen the worst of them.

And that's why I say, and many others as well, that Bush and Cheney and their subdemons need not only to be impeached - fired by the people who hired them - but also to be tried, not allowed to resign, to be publicly humiliated and punished to the full extent of the law.

Because if we - the PEOPLE, remember us? - don't take these steps to show that there are genuine and inescapable consequences to actions of the sort that Bush and his thugs are committing, then in another 20 or 25 years, another tinpot dictator will come along and see that Nixon and Bush got away with it, so why can't he?

They HAVE to go to prison. They can't be allowed to resign and then after a few years rehabilitate themselves into "elder statesmen", as Nixon managed to do. We MUST demonstrate to our leaders that if they try this crap again, they will suffer for it.

In the meantime, Mr. Blumenthal - you're not the worst of the lot because you are one of the ones who has been trying to blow the whistle too - but articles like this one will expose only the tip of the iceberg. We have no idea YET how evil these people are. And I say again, we haven't yet seen the worst they are capable of.

He's Not Leaving.

http://logicalnegativism.blogspot.com/2006/06/hes-not-leaving.html

Believe it - whether he'll succeed or not, I can't say. But will he try it?

I'd bet on it.

In the first news conference yesterday with the Tech president, one of the questions came from an off-camera voice that sounded remarkably like a reporter for the college paper or radio station, saying much the same thing as Derbyshire: I think I would have been brave enough to rush the guy, or words to that effect. When I heard it, my first reaction was, this kid's been watching too many Bruce Willis movies.

Same reaction to Derbyshire's remarks, except presumably he's old enough to know better.

I mean, seriously, what the hell is WRONG with people like Derbyshire? Didn't he get a big enough body count yesterday? He wanted some college kid whose most pressing problem that morning was whether he was gonna get laid this weekend to actually take note of the caliber and documented accuracy of the shooter's weapons, count the shots, figure out when he was reloading, and then take the guy out?

There are none so bloodthirsty as those who are using other people's blood.

Yeah, General. John Derbyshire: hero.

Not.