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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Arvin Hill
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For all we know, Rosen's anonymous source could be Joan Walsh's new pet, The Anonymous Wingnut.
But, hey, if there's one thing Salon readers need, it's a weekly reminder that Walsh sees absolutely nothing wrong with extending anonymity to a former Bush Administration henchman whose sole mission is to catapult the propaganda from a secret hidey-hole somewhere in The Fatherland.
Thank goodness Joan Walsh has so much integrity that she is capable of shouldering the burden of The Wingnut's identity on our collective behalf, thereby sparing the provincial readership from such an awesome responsibility.
Who can it be. Rove? Gonzales? Cheney? Condi? Rummy? Yoo? Only Joan knows for sure! Tune in later this week, and in the months to come, for more clues!
It's like The Da Vinci Code with even worse dialog than Dan Brown's.
We can all sleep better tonight certain in the knowledge that "civility" is such an awesome liberal virtue.
Anonymity: It's The New Transparency.
The real question one should be asking--if politicians are indeed the craven reeds-in-the-wind equivocators we know them to be--is how can our leaders resist this kind of pressure?" ~omooex
Because they do not believe they will incur any penalties for their behavior.
They're right.
After eight years of barely summoning even the appearance of opposition to Bush-Cheney, Inc., Democrats were richly rewarded at the polls.
Reeds-in-the-wind equivocators are a dime a dozen. An awful lot of 'em are self-described "progressive" voters.
Funny how we never get a progressive government, though.
What a smarmy, condescending asshole this guy is.
Any president who lectures and finger-wags the people he claims to serve about the rule of law while doing everything in his power to prevent its application gets zero respect, much less support, from me.
Not that he needs it. It's abdundantly clear where his power comes from, and how he intends to use it. It has been since the FISA and telecom positions he staked out before he inherited the crown.
Leave it to the loyal Democratic Faithful to bestow praise on this fraudulent, parasitic husk of citizen.
As homicidal, sociopathic and bat shit crazy as Dick Cheney is, his audacity is front & center for one reason and one reason only: Barack Obama is absolutely committed, heart and soul, to assuring the "rule of law" is never applied to Bush, Cheney and their unindicted war criminal support system.
Obama, who lies every time he opens his duplicitous mouth, bears the blame for doing everything in his power to make sure the rule of law applies exclusively to the most powerless citizens. The governing elite are free to do as they wish, how they wish, when they wish. The rest of us are chattel.
So, by all means, condemn Dick Cheney. He deserves it.
And, while you're at it, reserve some contempt for the other serial liar who has repeatedly excused the crimes of the worst of the worst by obstinately refusing to uphold his oath of office. That isn't spinelessness. It takes a lot of spine to tsk-tsk-tsk citizens for asserting that all men are equal under the law.
To hell with Dick Cheney and the rest of the cabal, including Obama and his myopic disciples.
The Republic is deader than Thomas Paine. And no American citizen owes its replacement a single goddamn thing.
The attempted terrorist attack that was stopped yesterday in Newburgh New York is a prime example. They were americans that converted to Islam while in prison. Does anyone have a better reason for not placing potential terrorist trainers in our prisons?
It's pretty clear that felonious muslim types, potential or actual, should be sent to The United States Air Force Academy, where they can become God's True Crusaders.
That'll fix 'em.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071107_the_cancer_from_within/
When there are no consequences for those who devise and implement torture policy, human beings will torture.
President Obama, with the full force of the Democratic Party Leadership, continues to assert that crimes involving torture, at any level, do not rise to the level of prosecution.
Add it up, people.
All the pretty talk about transparency and rule of law is just that: talk.
Actions speak louder than words.
Barack Obama is a fraud.
A round in the head of democracy.
Crowing about the rule of law while attempting to shame the electorate into believing the governing elite, including everyone in the chain of command responsible for torture, is above the law.
It's bullshit.
And I'm not surprised to see you glorifying it since you concur.
All this transparency and rule of law.
Lies.
But gratitude that Obama isn’t Dick Cheney can’t blind us to the ways he’s not living up to his promises to restore the rule of law.
Sounds like you wrote that on a beta blocker.
When Obama haughtily lectures Americans about the rule of law only to assert - again and again - that we who demand its fair and just application are nothing more than petty, revenge-loving sadists who look to the past and point fingers, he's doing more than "not living up to his promises to restore the rule of law."
Obama is, in fact, actively subverting the rule of law. That he is doing so while going full hog in Afghanistan should provide a clue or two as to what he has in mind.
There is plenty of evidence torture has continued on Obama's watch. He has made it crystal clear that no one who tortures is to be held accountable. Ever.
It is repulsive to see Democrats rally around this con man.
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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