Dear rmp,

This sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action.

All we have to do is pressure the 40 members of the House Judiciary Committee, make them hold Rove in contempt and send him to jail. We've never had such a direct opportunity to hold Rove accountable. No, this is not enough punishment for his years and years of crimes, but it's a huge start, and will send a very clear message to the entire Bush administration.

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i'm SO glad someone is calling this out. I was screaming at my television watching this when neither Abrams nor the other panelists corrected that statement.

Are they stupid or afraid? man, that shit is frustrating.

Excellent -- I never watch those news shows because they infuriate me but as I surfed, I happened to catch Abrams berating the Dems in Congress about not doing anything substantial against all this lawlessness -- which caused me to stop and watch.

Then when I saw that idiot say that about the AG and no one contradicting him, I started violently yelling at the TV. How one of those talking boobs could not set the story straight was beyond me. It reaffirmed my decision just to stay away from those news programs -- mainly for my health (blood pressure) -- but also because it is so depressing that they get people on that have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and the corporate owned media seems to not care.

The worst is the Race for the White House simutaneously broadcast on Air America in the first hour of the Rachel Maddow Show. Love Maddow, but the inanity of that show is beyond me.

When I was active duty, I noticed that most of the "scandals" resulted from bad JAG advice.

Base and large unit commanders have JAGs assigned to them - so called staff judge advocates. Too often I'd see those SJAs scrambling for legal justification for their boss to do as he or she wished instead of advising him or her on what was the right thing to do. It got more than one senior officer in hot water.

I've also been unfortunate enough to seen military prosecutors forget they must above all be proponents of justice. Too often in their zeal to "win" they became government hacks and were no longer neutral arbiters of fairness.

For a while, I thought those failings were due to inexperience, but then I saw senior JAGs up to the same crap.

For what it's worth, the Justice Department GG describes today seems similar. They fail to understand their true mission is not to toady for their boss, but to do the right thing.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, would someone in the peanut gallery like to remind me why we don't hear much about the actual leakers of Plame's station? You know, Armitage and Novak?

This wouldn't be an exercise in political kneecapping would it? Heh. Jeff Gillooly would be proud of you folks.

I've had experience with this sort of Bush "giveaway" before, starting with Poppy...

Read - his - lips, JoeMommaSan. Who alone can hold at bay the jack-booted thugs of nefarious groups such as the IRS and the EPA, lest they wreak havoc upon hard-working Americans like shooter, visiting upon them the tyranny of taxes and ecological accountability?

Who alone stands for the little guy, the true American - the noble small business owner bravely persevering against the elitist FDR-worshiping bureaucracy in spite of the card-carrying members of the liberal media?

Who else, besides the dissembling progeny of an offshoot of the East Coast aristocracy, whose arms-dealing family fortune saw increase under Poppy principally through oil exploitation in his adopted Texas?

The reason Mukasey and all the other Bush/Cheney toadies are able and readily do this is the spineless Democrats -- there is simply no deterent. Had they not allowed Mukasey to become AG in the first place -- on his lack of statement of waterboarding being torture alone -- this would not be an issue. But because they succumbed to the threat that this is the best the Dems were going to get for a nominee, this is the result of another Dem capitulation.

That and those other two justices on the Supreme Court.

Look, what you have is a very smart attorney general who's trying to protect his client and that's the president of the United States, an executive privilege.

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Why am I not surprised by any of this; [1] the brazen assertion itself, and [2] that fact that it will not even register as noteworthy with in the MSM.

She came from Pat Robertson's Regent University (where John Ashcroft now teaches.) "Regent" as in a Lordly ruler. The Bush administration has filled our government with people from Regent ... a university run by people who do not believe in democracy, but in authoritarian rule by a "regent" of the Lord.

”I know, in the grand scheme of things, I shouldn't let something like this bring my blood to a boil, but for some reason, it really gets under my skin.” -- The Reality Kid

OT but you’re right to be angry about it. I’m not aware of other high-caliber writers or artists (Joyce, Lawrence, Blake, Rimbaud) being reflexively “modified for our protection” the way they do with Lennon... the stigma of being a ‘mere rock n roller’, I guess.