Letters to the Editor
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Excellent Work!
It is about time that someone pointed this out. I would not trust Rove as far as I could throw him. I am willing to wager he will lie to congress whether under oath or not. Of course, this assumes that the long drawn out court cases on presidential priviledge get settled in by the Supremes correctly. Unfortunately, I doubt he ever will be seen under oath. That doesn't mean the Dems shouldn't go forward all the way to the SCOTUS. It will not only keep the public eye on the Bushie's misdeeds until 08, it will also highlight the R's hypocrisy during the Clinton Impeachment.
P.S. Miss your weekly commentary on the Franken Show! You two made a great pair.
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'rubbernecking citizens'
I think this last phrase captures perfectly what has annoyed me about this debate; indeed it crystallizes it by giving it a clear name.
Given the scale of the corruption proposed here--that the US Department of Justice was purged of people who refused to be "loyal Bushies"--it is not good enough for the executive to offer, or for the legislative to accept, closed testimony.
We the people (as that quaint old phrase goes) have a right to hear about this from the horse's mouth. We are not 'rubberneckers'; we are citizens from whom power comes, not to whom decisions are announced. Our government is not an absolutist police state, where decisions are made in secret, in camera. We are a democracy, where government is supposed to be transparent and explained before cameras, especially when substantial breaches of public trust may have occured.
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UNDER OATH, BRIGHT LIGHTS, LIVE ON TV
That's how we need all this honest information from honest Karl. I should definitely be LIVE on TV..they could even use the War Music on CNN. And lots of people would tune in and they could sell some cars whilst they're at it. It's time for the Karl and Harriet Show! It might stay on the front pages too even if another suicide bomber kills another hundred Iraqis... or some more Americans. Live, on TV, bright lights...let the show begin.
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This Way Out
It's like a bad joke you hear again and again that gets boring and infuriating.
But that's not even the worst of it. The worst of it is trying to decide if it really matters. If they nailed Rove tomorrow, and Bush was forced to do something about him, does it really amount to much?
I don't want to appear the pessimist; I'm only asking. And I honestly doubt it. Where is the poll that tells how many voters care? Will it effect their vote?
It's only a technicality. It's business as usual in Washington. It's the Bush administration's time, just like it was the Clinton administration's time toward the end. It is easily rationalized even though the situations are entirely different. (Clinton's problem was his dick; not the way he ran the country.)
It's gonna take more--it's gonna take a lot more to reveal what this gang of bandits and bottom feeders have done to the country and will continue to do until they are shown the way out of town, and told not to come back.
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National security
Turd Blossom serves at the pleasure of the Shrub. As Joe points out, Turd is a demonstrated liar, but the American people don't see it that way because they're not paying attention. How about if the Democrat party pointed out some of the falsehoods of this clown going back to his early days? Most people haven't read "Bush's Brain," and most people won't care about Joe's column until it's revealed what Turd is all about. I think that the more they know, the more Americans would be repulsed by this man and start to pay attention to things like Joe is saying.
Just my two cents. Howard? Are you listening? Get Rove's bio out there big time!
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The One Thing That Worries Me. . .
. . . is that this takes the spotlight off of the more egregious scandal of this administration - that they took us into war under false pretetenses. Is Rove, perhaps, smiling somewhere -- at his ability to divert attention from this much bigger crime?
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Karl Rove
need not fear prison, nor even trial, so long as the Cheerleader-in-Chief can pardon him before leaving office, just as his daddy did with Caspar Weinberger.
I suspect that Rove regards this life as a mere tune-up or audition for his ultimate goal--that of managing Wretched M. Nixon's campaign for President of Hell. (By the time Rove gets there, it may well be a re-election campaign.)
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Because It Ain't Funny, Joe
Why didn't everybody laugh when he said that?
Well, Joe I think that nobody laughed because everyone's gotten tired of the joke. This was the gang who promised to "bring integrity back to the White House" during the 2000 campaign. Of course anyone who cared to look at Bush's record as governor of Texas knew what a load of tripe that was.
But not enough people bothered to look, so we got a bunch of second-rate hucksters and grifters who thought that government was the best opportunity they'd ever seen to con the rubes. Well, enough rubes finally noticed that they were getting flim-flammed and decided to break the Republican circle-jerk by installing someone to check into things.
But, as I mentioned, the Bushites are second-rate. They haven't noticed that they've been rumbled, the last set of elections notwithstanding, or that the rules have changed. They're still playing the same game, and it's worn awfully damn thin.
As Barbara Boxer said, elections have consequences, and one of them is that the Congress is starting to turn the rocks over to see what scuttles around and what shrivels in the sunlight. One hopes that Karl's a shriveler.
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auditions for ultimate goals?
I suspect that Rove regards this life as a mere tune-up or audition for his ultimate goal--that of managing Wretched M. Nixon's campaign for President of Hell.
Maybe he tried to slip his squeak-toy into a us attorney slot in Arkysaw because he had plans to do some consultin' work for Huck-a-bee 2008? ... just sayin'.
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Rove and the Republican Judicary Senators
Listening to Tom Coburn's impassioned plea for the Senate Judiciary Committee to not let "politics triumph over politics," in reference to the issuance of subpoenas for Turdblossom, et al, I was almost persuaded that he was sincere.
Almost:
Coburn Praises Senate Passage of Terry Schiavo Bill
March 17, 2005
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), a practicing physician, today applauded his colleagues for passing a bill to prevent the death by starvation of Terry Schiavo, a Florida woman on life support. A Florida court declared recently that Schiavo’s feeding tubes can be removed Friday at the request of her husband even though Schiavo never consented to the removal of her feeding tubes and her parents oppose that course of action.
“As a practicing physician, I have dedicated much of my life to protecting the sanctity of life at all of its stages. Taking innocent life at any stage is cruel and immoral. I’m proud that the Senate had the courage to be a voice for one woman who cannot speak for herself but deserves the right to choose life,” Dr. Coburn said.
S. 653 reaffirms the essential 14th Amendment “due process” right. The bill prevents the unlawful killing of incapacitated persons who, while having capacity, did not grant written permission for others to withhold or withdrawal food or fluids in the event they became incapacitated. Convicted murderers and other criminals already have this right.
“This bill merely demands that our courts give the same rights to incapacitated persons that are currently enjoyed by common criminals,” Dr. Coburn said. “I urge my colleagues in the House of Representatives to consider and pass this bill at their earliest opportunity.”