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RedditIt is likely -- though not entirely certain in these tumultuous times for the dangerously adrift Bush-Cheney administration -- that the next Attorney General of the United States will be a conservative.
The question is whether he or she will be a conservative who disregards the Constitution -- as did the disgraced and disgraceful Alberto Gonzales -- or a conservative who respects the document.
Richard A. Viguerie, the political direct-mail pioneer who has been referred to as "the funding father of the conservative movement," ought to understand the distinction better than just about anyone.
Viguerie has been at odds with the Bush-Cheney administration for the past several years -- arguing, appropriately, that the current president and vice president have abandoned conservative principles in order to expand the power and authority of the federal government.
Last year, Viguerie authored a smart book on the subject, Conservatives Betrayed -- How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books). This year, he signed on with an even smarter initiative, the American Freedom Agenda, an effort by conservative leaders to reassert basic Constitutional principles by prohibiting warrantless spying, restoring habeas corpus, banning extraordinary rendition and torture, barring presidential signing statements and renewing open government protections.
The American Freedom Agenda, led by Viguerie, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, American Conservative Union chair David Keene, Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein and Viguerie has bluntly assessed the failings of the Bush-Cheney administration when it comes to defending the Constitution and the Republic it serves. "Especially since 9/11, the executive branch has chronically usurped legislative or judicial power, and has repeatedly claimed that the President is the law," it declared. "The constitutional grievances against the White House are chilling, reminiscent of the kingly abuses that provoked the Declaration of Independence."
In April, Viguerie, Keene, Barr, Fein and their allies signed a letter to President Bush calling for the firing of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. "Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances. He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm," they declared. "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."
Now that Bush has fired Gonzales -- and, make no mistake, the timing of the Attorney General's exit on the eve of what will likely be Bush's roughest month as president, confirms that this is not a willing exit -- Viguerie is proposing a list of candidates to fill the nation's top law-enforcement job.
Disappointingly, most of the names of Viguerie's list are individuals who have sided with the Bush-Cheney administration in assaulting the Constitution. For instance, Viguerie suggests Chris Cox, the current chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But in October, 2001, when he was serving in the House, Cox voted for the USA Patriot Act. House Republicans such as Texan Ron Paul and Idaho's Butch Otter opposed the act because they recognized that it attacked basic Constitutional protections. By any reasonable measure, Cox failed the most critical Constitutional test of his congressional tenure.
The same goes for former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, a Patriot Act supporter in 2001 and defender in the years that followed. In 2006, Santorum also voted for the Military Commissions Act, which the American Freedom Agenda campaign has made a prime target of its criticism. From a Constitutional perspective, Santorum would be an atrocious choice to follow Gonzales.
Ted Olson, the Bush-Cheney administration's Solicitor General from 2001 to 2004, failed at every critical turn to defend individual liberties, as did former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, who chaired a congressional commission on terrorism that did a miserable job when it came to balancing security concerns and the duty to defend basic freedoms.
If Viguerie and other conservatives are serious about undoing the damage Bush, Cheney and Gonzales have caused to the Constitution, they need to come up with better choices than these.
Where to begin? Why not with Bruce Fein, the chairman of the American Freedom Agenda?
Fein is qualified. A much-published Harvard Law School graduate who served as an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982 and as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission, he has frequently been called on by Republicans and Democrats to help them sort through prickly Constitutional issues.
Fein is a true conservative, and he would serve as a very conservative Attorney General. But he would take his oath of office seriously, particularly the section requiring him to defend the Constitution rather than the political whims of the president and vice president.
So why did Viguerie refrain from proposing the name of Fein, a candidate who would do everything that Viguerie and other true conservatives know must be done to remake and renew the Department of Justice as an agenda that respects the Constitution?
Unfortunately for his own ambitions, Fein is an sincere conservative. As such, the man Ronald Reagan trusted to enforce the laws of the land has called, most recently in an appearance we did together on "Bill Moyers' Journal," for the opening of impeachment hearings targeting President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Additionally, he was working with a Democratic congressman on articles of impeachment against Gonzales at the time of the Attorney General's resignation.
Fein's willingness to put principle above politics undoubtedly disqualifies him from consideration by Bush as a successor for Gonzales. But Viguerie and other Constitutional conservatives owe their compatriot -- and their country -- better. Anyone who is serious about cleaning up the mess at the Department of Justice knows that the job will not be done by lawyers who have, by their actions, shown that they do not understand the basic intentions or values of the nation's founding document.
Bruce Fein's name belongs on the list of conservatives who would make appropriate replacements for Alberto Gonzales. Indeed, Fein's name should be at its top.
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John Nichols' new book is THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson hails it as a "nervy, acerbic, passionately argued history-cum-polemic [that] combines a rich examination of the parliamentary roots and past use of the 'heroic medicine' that is impeachment with a call for Democratic leaders to 'reclaim and reuse the most vital tool handed to us by the founders for the defense of our most basic liberties.'"
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er, three words, 'buckshot - hunting trip'...
"Notable published writings by Fein include articles advocating the impeachment of former U.S. president Bill Clinton and the current U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney and president George W Bush."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Fein
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/28/2007 @ 5:23pm
Fein is a true conservative, and he would serve as a very conservative Attorney General. But he would take his oath of office seriously, particularly the section requiring him to defend the Constitution rather than the political whims of the president and vice president.
This is why he would never be appointed, especially if Rove is making the call. Without, Rove, who knows?
Posted by Metteyya at 08/28/2007 @ 5:27pm
How about Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. I know she has retired but it is only for a little more than a year. She has independent legal credibility, Reagan appointment, well respected across the Board and she would know enough talented people to fill the vacancies at the top of the food chain.
Posted by kgenovese_jr at 08/28/2007 @ 5:27pm
Is there any reason to expect that the shrub will nominate someone other than another crony who holds utter contempt for the Constitution, and is slavishly devoted to his master?
Posted by ARCHANGEL_M at 08/28/2007 @ 5:27pm
I've also read scuttlebutt that Gonzales only resigned after Sen Ried green lighted his replacement, Chertoff. Do you guys believe this?
Posted by MARYBRETBRAD 08/28/2007 @ 6:14pm
AIPAC owns the United States Congress.
Chertoff is an Israeli Mossad Mole
He's already wired the Homeland Security Department to Israel's service, and the Justice Department is next.
Reid, Pelosi, and a whole host of others...nearly EVER Senator and Congressman is 100% beholden to AIPAC.
If Chertoff becomes the AG, it is OVER!
You have no idea how close we are to losing EVERYTHING.
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 6:20pm
Of all journalists, only Christopher Bolly dared to expose the entire truth about Chertoff - and was attacked by Chertoff's goons for it.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/September2006/010906Bollyn.htm
BOLLYN'S ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bollynbeaten.htm
BOLLYN'S ARTICLES ABOUT CHERTOFF AND MOSSAD:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=66175
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=91721
http://www.rense.com/general64/moss.htm
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=68463
http://americanfreepress.net/html/ally_backs_assassination_netwo.html
http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-9-11-Controlling-the-Message.html
CHERTOFF DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/columnist.asp?ID=6
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 6:28pm
I'm getting a little pissed off that the CEO pay gap story is gone. What the hell, Nation?
Posted by MATTMAN at 08/28/2007 @ 7:06pm
I've also read scuttlebutt that Gonzales only resigned after Sen Ried green lighted his replacement, Chertoff. Do you guys believe this?
Grenn-lighted the worst FEMA director in history that failed miserably in the Katrina disaster?
Shame on you, Harry Reid! Chertoff should have never been confirmed at Homeland Security, let alone Justice.
Posted by Metteyya at 08/28/2007 @ 7:14pm
My suggestion is among 1) Senator Orin Hatch, 2) Ted Olson, 3)Joe Lieberman, 4)Larry Thompson, 5) Paul Clement.
So how would that work? Lieberman gets to be Attorney General and who fills his Senate seat - a Republican?
How would Reid explain that one to the Democrats?
Posted by Metteyya at 08/28/2007 @ 7:17pm
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/18-Aug-2006.html
A TOP GLOBAL CONSPIRATOR CONFIRMS THE GLOBAL CONSPIRACY
For the benefit of knee-jerk 'smart fellows' whose minds are befogged by 'slides' and who will be inclined to accuse the Editor of International Currency Review of being a 'conspiracy theorist', the following statement by one of the leading globalist strategists, Mr David Rockefeller, published in 2002*, will no doubt come as a shock:
'For more than a century ideological extremists [sic] at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicised incidents such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and over economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure ? one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it'.
As will be seen, David Rockefeller acknowledges that he is part of a secret cabal (synarchy) which works against the best interests of the United States. Why has he not yet been indicted, then, for conspiring against the United States under Section 371 of the United States Code, Title 18, 'Crimes and Criminal Procedure', which states that 'if two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both'?
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 7:22pm
No Katrina accountability for Chertoff (the Israeli) - thanks to Joe Lieberman, the AIPAC representative.
Joe Lieberman Betrays Hurricane Katrina victims after being elected in 2006, with the help of the GOP:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/60797/
A prominent Republican who chairs I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's legal defense fund in the CIA leak affair co-hosted a fundraiser Wednesday for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic party primary.
Mel Sembler, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman, helped organize a reception that raised about a "couple hundred thousand dollars" for Lieberman, who was in attendance. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/21/america/NA_POL_US_Connecticut_ Senate.php
So Israeli agent Chertoff is protected by Israeli agent Lieberman who was backed by Israeli agent Sembler - the former Ambassador of Italy during the time frame of the Niger Forgery being planted in Rome - http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_11_13_patriotboy_archive.html#113186 638454783857
The smoking gun of the lies that led to war: http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=June2002GhorbanifarM eeting
AIPAC's operatives, Ledeen, Rhode, Franklin (indicted for spying on behalf of AIPAC) Ghorbanifar, etc. were all present for this secret meeting.
AND Sembler was also the head of the "Save Israeli Agent Scooter Libby" defense fund.
And now the administration wants to put Chertoff in charge of the entire US Judicial System? Guess who Bush works for...AIPAC.
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 7:27pm
First....DRHAMMER convinced me...off to the Ignore List with "No election in '08" PLUNGER....
there, now that that is done. It took Mr Nichols almost 15 paragraphs or so to get to the KEY qualifier for Bruce Fein as AG....he'd impeach the President who nominated him!
heheh
Posted by Mask at 08/28/2007 @ 7:43pm
Posted by MATTMAN 08/28/2007 @ 7:06pm
It may return, MATT. Occasionally they're pulled for re-editing after a typo or other mistake is found.
Posted by Mask at 08/28/2007 @ 7:44pm
It may return, MATT. Occasionally they're pulled for re-editing after a typo or other mistake is found.
Posted by MASK 08/28/2007 @ 7:44pm
Well shucks, I won't enjoy it until tomorrow when there will be 200 posts on it. Good night everyone, I'm outta here.
Posted by MATTMAN at 08/28/2007 @ 7:47pm
Actually Ted Olson would be a good sympathy candidate. Every time he's mentioned as a "9/11 widower", it'd cut into the opposition. Democrats would get scared to vote down "a man who lost his wife on 9/11".
Other than that the nominee will simply be the "Robert Gates" of the DOJ.
Posted by Mask at 08/28/2007 @ 8:12pm
Sure, Mask has me on ignore, you bet.
Lying weasel.
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 8:20pm
Actually Ted Olson would be a good sympathy candidate. Every time he's mentioned as a "9/11 widower", it'd cut into the opposition. Democrats would get scared to vote down "a man who lost his wife on 9/11".
Other than that the nominee will simply be the "Robert Gates" of the DOJ.
Posted by MASK 08/28/2007 @ 8:12pm
Ted Olson is a 9/11 Co-conspirator.
How did his wife place a call to him from the aircraft?
Explain it Mask.
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 8:22pm
Acting AG "Clement" will likely resign within a week, Bob Livingston style.
Posted by conshame at 08/28/2007 @ 8:25pm
Ted Olsen using his wife could backfire if it's "to help Bush".
Posted by conshame at 08/28/2007 @ 8:27pm
Be a coward and RESIGN, CLEMENT
Posted by conshame at 08/28/2007 @ 8:29pm
He did, to be sure, waver on this point. CNN, which mentioned in a story posted just before midnight on 9/11 that Barbara Olson had used a cell phone to call her husband, reported in a more extensive treatment, posted at 2:06 AM (EDT) on September 12, that Ted Olson had told it that his wife "called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77."1 But on September 14, Olson said on Hannity & Colmes (Fox News) that she had called collect and therefore must have been using the "airplane phone"---because, he surmised, "she somehow didn't have access to her credit cards."2 On CNN's Larry King Show later that same day, however, Olson returned to his first version. After saying that the second call from her suddenly went dead, he surmised that this was perhaps "because the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don't work that well."3 On that same day, moreover, Tony Mauro, the Supreme Court correspondent for American Lawyer Media, published an account saying that Barbara Olson "was calling on her cell phone from aboard the jet."4 Two months later, however, Ted Olson returned to the second version of his story. In the "Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture" delivered to the Federalist Society, he said that she used "a telephone in the airplane to [make] those two telephone [calls]."5 This second version was repeated in March 2002. "[C]alling collect," he told the London Daily Telegraph, his wife "us[ed] the phone in the passengers' seats." She called collect, he again surmised, because "she didn't have her purse" and hence her credit card.6
This revised version of his story has evidently gone virtually unnoticed in the American press. A year after 9/11, for example, CNN was still reporting that Barbara Olson used a cell phone.7 Nevertheless, Ted Olson's statement to the Federalist Society and the Telegraph---that she called collect using a passenger-seat phone---was apparently his final word on the matter.
The claim that she must have called collect because she did not have her credit card, however, does not make any sense, because a credit card is needed in order to activate a passenger-seat phone.8 If she did not have a credit card, therefore, she could not have used a passenger-seat phone, whether to call collect or otherwise.9
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/amrarticle.html
Posted by plunger at 08/28/2007 @ 8:35pm
How about Sandra Day O'Conner?
Posted by masquerade at 08/28/2007 @ 9:06pm
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/28/2007 @ 8:16pm: So, you're saying then that the Democrats should reject Lieberman because he's a Democrat and it might cost them a seat in the Senate until the 2008 elections?
Nah. We're saying that the Democrats should reject Lieberman because he is a paranoid, fearmongering, fool.
Sorta like you.
Posted by masquerade at 08/28/2007 @ 9:11pm
"First....DRHAMMER convinced me...off to the Ignore List with "No election in '08" PLUNGER..."
Posted by MASK 08/28/2007 @ 7:43pm
(I think you'll be a better person for it.)
Posted by drhammer at 08/28/2007 @ 9:25pm
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/28/2007 @ 8:16pm
From Leiberman's own site:
"He remains committed to caucusing with Senate Democrats, but will be identified as an Independent Democrat."
http://lieberman.senate.gov/about/
Where Leiberman stands is easy to determine. Try looking at his voting record against Democrats.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/l000304/votes/agains t-party/
Or better yet, look at who funded his successful "independent" campaign. You'll notice that 80% of his funding came from out of state and much of that from sources that typically support GOP candidates. What kind of funding did the Republican candidate get in the race? Is it truly hard to see what happened here LVL?
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/geog.asp?CID=N00000616&cycle=2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/nyregion/20finance.html?ex=1311048000& en=8d70a979b63986ca&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
So, let's get some truth in advertising, shall we? Is Joe a Democrat - one that illustrates that there is no difference between the parties or is Joe not formally joining the party he should be part of? Perhaps Democrats, as usual, can't establish party discipline?
The fact that you like him and list him with this company says it all really. The evidence I supplied above is merely a few details supporting the obvious.
Posted by srjenkins at 08/28/2007 @ 9:28pm
mr bush will nominate someone who is Same Ol', Same Ol'
mr bush's choice will actually matter very little because the democrats will roll over and approve whoever.
remember, they've got their "agenda" and don't want to be seen as "wasting the country's time" (gotta look productive for the next round of the K-streetville Follies)
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/28/2007 @ 9:44pm
Sandra Day O'Connor would never take the job unless Bush and Cheney agreed to keep their greedy little hands off the DOJ. They are so willing to put politics above all that this will never happen. Sadly, for all of the dedicated career people there, they will need to wait for the next administration, while this one shreds the Constitution.
Posted by waters at 08/28/2007 @ 9:49pm
Posted by RIO BRAVO 08/28/2007 @ 9:56pm: Bush would be foolish to consider ANYONE that this litiney of naysayers whose practices are little short of demonic would recommend!
Lib, you're losing your touch. I thought you already established that we were demonic. Now, we're a little short of demonic. What happened?
By the way, have you considered "nattering nabobs of negativity"? It's been out of circulation for a while. You could probably get away with claiming you made it up.
Posted by masquerade at 08/28/2007 @ 10:13pm
Posted by MASQUERADE 08/28/2007 @ 10:13pm: Lib, you're losing your touch.
My bad. I though that FreeLove had written the last post. Sorry.
It should have read:
Brave River, you're losing your touch. I thought you already established that we were demonic. Now, we're a little short of demonic. What happened?
Posted by masquerade at 08/28/2007 @ 10:17pm
Ted Olsen using his wife could backfire if it's "to help Bush".
Posted by CONSHAME 08/28/2007 @ 8:27pm
Not to "help Bush", but to get himself the AG job.
Posted by Mask at 08/28/2007 @ 10:18pm
Posted by DRHAMMER 08/28/2007 @ 9:25pm
True, it was starting to take the air of the bad ol' pre-Dorothea Dix asylum days where people went to see the mentally ill for entertainment.
He's gone from sight and next "World War-3 and martial law starts next Tuesday" prediction...I think most people (except eternal kiss-ass LEWWELGE) will take it for what it's worth.
Posted by Mask at 08/28/2007 @ 10:19pm
Posted by RIO BRAVO 08/28/2007 @ 9:56pm |
Actually RIO...LOVE to hear who you'd like to see get the job?
Posted by Mask at 08/28/2007 @ 10:20pm
Here is something especially for Frankgrits and Bushfools (Frank because of his adoration of all thinkgs Clinton, and Bushfools for his endless postings of Bush Administration "corruption". This is from Progressive Review, hardly a rightwing site.
The Clintons, to adapt a line from Dr. Johnson, were not only corrupt, they were the cause of corruption in others. Yet seldom in America have so many come to excuse so much mendacity and malfeasance as during the Clinton years. Here are some of the facts that have been buried.
Clinton Legacy [prorev.com]
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/28/2007 @ 8:22pm
This is absolutely laughable, coming, as it does, from Shrub's 'Hoover.'
Posted by skeletonman at 08/28/2007 @ 10:26pm
Posted by RIO BRAVO 08/28/2007 @ 10:29pm
pero cuando se rompe la piñata, todos los muchachos pueden recoger muchos dulces.
esta piñata sólo está llena de mentiras y odio
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/28/2007 @ 10:43pm
Matt Lauer and James Carville are "liberals"?
Let's see, a guy that gets to play Waldo and ask soft-ball questions to celebrities? A liberal? By what criteria?
And Carville? He wouldn't know a liberal if he stepped on one while running to the bank with his consultant fees. Try checking out Our Brand is Crisis. He is no more "liberal" than Karl Rove is "conservative".
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/our_brand_is_crisis/about.php
Posted by srjenkins at 08/28/2007 @ 11:18pm
Posted by FRANKGRITS 08/28/2007 @ 11:00pm
Can't say the prospect of a Clinton White House thrills me either.
Posted by srjenkins at 08/28/2007 @ 11:19pm
I wish Nichols could write one column in which the subject of impeachement doesn't eventually come up......What will Nicholas write about when Dubya leaves office??????
Can we at least drop the subject after the election????
Posted by davebarlett at 08/28/2007 @ 11:43pm
What will Nicholas write about when Dubya leaves office??????
Posted by DAVEBARLETT 08/28/2007 @ 11:43pm
how much better things are!
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 02:20am
Sorry for going off topic but that was outrageous.
Posted by FRANKGRITS 08/28/2007 @ 5:29pm | ignore this person
Here's another for you, worse I think.
"One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.
Or worse.
For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods."
Full story here
?
Posted by V at 08/29/2007 @ 03:25am
Rich Lowrey of NRO said it best; "Alberto Gonzales became intimately familiar with what departing White House adviser Karl Rove calls "the mob" -- the howling mass of Democratic members of Congress, bloggers and media commentators who despise all things Bush. His tenure as attorney general, and now his departure, represent a triumph for the mob."
Bush would be foolish to consider ANYONE that this litiney of naysayers whose practices are little short of demonic would recommend!
Posted by RIO BRAVO 08/28/2007 @ 9:56pm
RIO, You are just afraid of what an honest attorney general might do to Bush as are Bush and Cheney. When are you going to pull your head out of your ass and realize that you and the rest of the bible thumping conservatives have been played like a fiddle by Bushco.
What about that fine republican Senator Craig folks. There seems to be a consistent theme in the republican philosophy...don't do as I do, do as I say.
Posted by Wolfgang1 at 08/29/2007 @ 07:27am
Unfortunately for Democrats, Conservatives sunk her before Ried could get her confirmed.-MARYB
How about some more truth in advertising? Is that too much to ask from the "moral" side of the ship of fools? Yes it is.
The republicans sunk Meirs. The dems had no power when her name was floated.
I love this: The American Freedom Agenda, led by Viguerie, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, American Conservative Union chair David Keene, Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein and Viguerie has bluntly assessed the failings of the Bush-Cheney administration when it comes to defending the Constitution and the Republic it serves. "Especially since 9/11, the executive branch has chronically usurped legislative or judicial power, and has repeatedly claimed that the President is the law," it declared. "The constitutional grievances against the White House are chilling, reminiscent of the kingly abuses that provoked the Declaration of Independence."
SO much for the sheep theory that only dems and far out lefties hate Chimpy McFlightsuit. Or is this a sign of the power of "the left"? It is sweeping up cons again.
Things have gone so far into American Taliban territory under Chimpy that even a right winger like Fein would be a good choice. Better than just about anybody working for Bush that is not already convicted or leaving in disgrace.
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 08:26am
Posted by RIO BRAVO 08/28/2007 @ 9:56pm |
Actually RIO...LOVE to hear who you'd like to see get the job?
Posted by MASK 08/28/2007 @ 10:20pm
Who is the AG in Saudi Arabia or Turkmenistan?
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 08:27am
Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 03:25am
sick shit. Any real American should be concerned, if not outraged.
I went on a little vay-cay, I return to glorious ChimpyCo deflating . HAR!
Craig, taking offering his junk in a mens room, Gonzo run out on a rail, the neo-cons floundering to represent their mullahs.
hahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhahhahahahahha.
hehehehe.
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 08:32am
What will Nicholas write about when Dubya leaves office??????
Can we at least drop the subject after the election????
Posted by DAVEBARLETT 08/28/2007 @ 11:43pm
what will Bruce Fein write about? Why do you leave out Rayguns man in your complaining, whining bleatings?
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 08:35am
Yet seldom in America have so many come to excuse so much mendacity and malfeasance as during the Clinton years. Here are some of the facts that have been buried.
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/28/2007
till now. Rev, have you checked out the number of convicts patrolling the halls of ChimpCo, or the number of convicts lead out of the WH?
HELLO!
*********
Want to see what real FREEDOM looks like?
http://www.adn.com/photos/readersubmitted/plates/v-photo_gallery_12/
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 08:40am
Posted by FRANKGRITS 08/28/2007 @ 11:00pm
Reagan/BUSH, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, .....Clinton?
It's un-American, wrong, wrong, bad, unacceptable.
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/28/2007
Libby, Griles, Safavian, Allen, Stillwell. Then on to repubs in general, Abramoff, Ney, Craig, etc etc.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
By Blaine Harden Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page A03
KALISPELL, Mont. -- Until he was arrested this year in his underwear in a motel room with a nearly naked young woman who was behind in her payments to his finance company, no businessman in this town was more respected than Richard A. Dasen Sr.
He had won the "Great Chief" award, the highest honor a local business leader can receive from the Chamber of Commerce. A nominating letter for the award described him as "the epitome of the reason we all want to live in the Kalispell area."
When police asked Dasen how many of these women there had been, he said there had been too many to count.
Dasen apparently lost count, too, police say, of how much money he paid all these women.
Investigators counting his checks -- he paid by check, in amounts of $1,000 to $6,000 per encounter, sometimes as much as $130,000 a month -- now estimate that Dasen spent at least $5 million, said Charles Harball, the city attorney.
"He pretty much single-handedly funded the methamphetamine trade here in Kalispell for a number of years," Harball said, as women used the money Dasen paid them to pay for their habits.
Since Dasen's arrest the flow of money to local methamphetamine users seems to have dried up, Harball said, adding that there has been a "flood of petty crime from addicts seeking cash for their habit."
Buwahahahaha.
Hey RIO, hows them apples ?
Sheep.
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 09:00am
Hey RIO, hows them apples ?
Sheep.
Posted by CRABWALK 08/29/2007 @ 09:00am
Crab, We're wasting our time with the likes of Rio. If a train was running down the tracks in Rio's direction and someone from the Bush administration told him the train really wasn't there, he'd sit there until he was a bloody pulp. Some people just refuse to wake up and smell the coffee, or in this case, hear the train whistle.
Posted by Wolfgang1 at 08/29/2007 @ 09:07am
Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 03:25am
I read about this a couple of days ago. Yet again, it saddens me to see what my country has become.
Welcome to the Bush administration, the nexus of unfettered capitalism and sociopathic greed.
Posted by drhammer at 08/29/2007 @ 09:30am
Posted by ¬v¬ 08/28/2007 @ 8:22p
er, would this record have something to do with having one of the most corrupt repub congresses in history and their record of failed witch hunts?
(Tom Delay party animal: Public documents reviewed by The Associated Press tell the story: at least 48 visits to golf clubs and resorts; 100 flights aboard company planes; 200 stays at hotels, many world-class; and 500 meals at restaurants, some averaging nearly $200 for a dinner for two.)
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 10:06am
Why have another AG? With hsuB/cHeney still in office anyone placed in that position will be suspect unless they allow independent investigation of the unitary exec branch. With moves for hsuB/cHeney impeachment, lets see anyone hsuB puts up say-- 'sure', I'm up for it, lets see if there's enough there... Thus a catch 22.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 10:15am
Posted by WOLFGANG1 08/29/2007 @ 09:07am
don't tease.
Posted by crabwalk at 08/29/2007 @ 10:16am
The catch is who will the nominee be lying to... to hsuB or to the senate?
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 10:19am
The catch is who will the nominee be lying to... to hsuB or to the senate?
Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/29/2007 @ 10:19am
HSUB, Since Bush is appointing him, the answer would have to be the senate. Like you said, it's a catch 22. The new AG is going to have to fall in line unless, of course, Gonzo hasn't already destroyed any and all evidence that might implicate Bush and Cheney before the new AG takes office.
No evidence, no impeachment proceedings.
Posted by Wolfgang1 at 08/29/2007 @ 10:44am
Think Hatch would lie to the senate or to hsuB?
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 10:52am
Senate won't go with anyone they think is lying to them now, neither will hsuB, but hsuB isn't on familiar ground there... hsuB's too used to being the one doing the lying.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 10:55am
Senate won't go with anyone they think is lying to them now, neither will hsuB, but hsuB isn't on familiar ground there... hsuB's too used to being the one doing the lying.
Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/29/2007 @ 10:55am
You are right of course, but there is one little trick in W's bag of tricks he's used time and time again to get around this sort of thing. He can just keep choosing people he knows the senate will reject until the senate takes a recess. Then, he can appoint an AG in their absence. He's done that 2 or 3 times and gotten away with it every time.
Posted by Wolfgang1 at 08/29/2007 @ 11:04am
Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 03:25am
Hey, V gave me an idea......
Lyndon LaRouche for AG!
Posted by Mask at 08/29/2007 @ 11:04am
I think hsuB may bend on an AG that will allow an independent prosecutor as the first time hsuB throws up a hack, congress will move a lot faster on impeachment... don't need an AG for that. cHeney first though.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 11:15am
"...congress will move a lot faster on impeachment... don't need an AG for that. cHeney first though."----Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/29/2007 @ 11:15am
How do they move faster than....2 months from now?!?!? They only come back from recess next week!
heheh
Posted by Mask at 08/29/2007 @ 12:23pm
Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 03:25am
wow, thanks for going off topic.
this is the most telling line:
The Justice Department declined comment.
wonder why?
The Justice Department declined comment.
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 12:33pm
And someone who will not avoid their duties for 'the sake of the nation'. I'm sure we will all be able to handle the investigaations, trials and ultimate punishments for every last one of them. We'll try to keep the parties down to a quite roar "WE'll BE DANCING, DANICNG THE STREETS- IT'S AN INVITATION ACROSS THE NATION"
Posted by Kimmy B at 08/29/2007 @ 12:36pm
http://www.adn.com/photos/readersubmitted/plates/v-photo_gallery_12/
Posted by CRABWALK 08/29/2007 @ 08:40am
that's a brave soul, being in alaska and all
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 12:36pm
Lyndon LaRouche for AG!
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 11:04am
well, at least mr. larouche is a man of conviction. (and convictions)
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 12:46pm
Posted by FROSTY ZOOM 08/29/2007 @ 12:46pm
V is a LaRoucher (denies it then launches into vehement defenses of Lyndon). He "oddly" declines to appear on threads where LaRouche's (and his) opinion differ from the mainstream liberal view of "The Nation" (global warming, feminism, etc.).
And for goodness' sakes...don't ask him his opinion of The Beatles!.....heheh
Posted by Mask at 08/29/2007 @ 1:51pm
How do they move faster than....2 months from now?!?!? They only come back from recess next week!
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 12:23pm
One month is obviously shorter than two...
Lets watch and see. There gots to be some very interesting conversations right about now.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 2:23pm
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 1:51pm
For the benefit of Mr. Bush
There will be a show tonight on CNN
The bin Ladens will all be there
Late of the Carlyle meeting, what a scene
Over mullahs and mosques, ladies and gents
Lastly through a hospital of real fire!
In this way Mr. B. will challenge the world!
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 2:25pm
The celebrated Mr. B.
Performs his feat on Saturday at Natanz
The Saudis will dance and sing
As Mr. Bush flies through the ring don't be late
Messrs. B and CH. assure the public
Their production will be second to none
And of course Harry Reid dances the waltz!
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 2:25pm
The bang begins at ten to six
When Mr. B. performs his tricks without a sound
And Mr. CH. will demonstrate
Ten nukes he'll obliterate through solid ground
'ving been some years in preparation
A splendid time is guaranteed for some
And tonight Mr. Mao is topping the bill.
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Bush
THE BEAT'EM-UPPLES
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/29/2007 @ 2:28pm
How can one expect an incompetent such as hsuB has repetedly proven himself to be to pick someone that 'is' competent-- in what insane universe can one imagine that that would be an expectation?
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 3:37pm
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/29/2007 @ 3:51pm
But LVLIB...as HSUB will explain quite easily...
Conyers just means RIGHT NOW, in less than 60 days...he'll have all the votes he needs and then some!
Posted by Mask at 08/29/2007 @ 4:25pm
Lol, Mask you are such a sad, pathetic, sack of sh*t. After some thought, it occurred to me that I could not wish on you worse than what you all ready are. Attorney's do what you "accuse" me of, all the time, it has, as foreign to as the far side of Mars ... to you, it having something to do with the truth. So, of course, for someone who idiotically ... attempted to "prove" in a medium geared towards the written word, no less, that one can use quotes to "quote" someone, without actually using their words. Which is lying to anyone who understands middle-school English, and not a morally compromised whore (Ok you win, I know I said you were too cheap. But far be it from me to have such earnest effort go unrewarded ...). So, defending someone against what was successfully and without refutation (I might add), shown to be lies, would by definition earn your obsessive, idiot, attention.
I could entertain, the rest of your excreta, just as thoroughly, but that would mean dignifying your little piggy, cretinous existence, beyond, and aside from pointing your continued obsessive, dysfunctional lying. Which is something I said I would not do.
Posted by V at 08/29/2007 @ 5:49pm
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 4:25pm
Yep.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:12pm
And thus the pressure of the people on congress, Frita does not quite understand, except for her own straw dildo usage.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:14pm
(One can just replace what's being said below about hsuB's AG Frito with the name cHeney...soon)
Pols to Bush: Don't pick a pal for attorney general
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Wednesday, August 29th 2007, 4:00 AM
WASHINGTON - President Bush's next pick for attorney general will be speedily confirmed if the nominee is seen as a respected caretaker for the Justice Department and not a political crony, experts said yesterday.
Senior Democrats and Republicans, veteran federal prosecutors and legal analysts agreed that Bush will become bogged down if he taps anyone as underqualified as his pal Alberto Gonzales.
"Any crony is doomed," a Senate Democrat close to the confirmation process told the Daily News. Gonzales was a real estate lawyer whom Bush recruited as his counsel in Texas when he was governor and then at the White House. He resigned as attorney general in disgrace on Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/39b3os
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:20pm
(Or would you prefer cHeney being explained this way by the GOP just like Craig...):
GOP Senators Say Craig Should Resign
DAVID ESPO | August 29, 2007 06:13 PM EST |
WASHINGTON -- Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's political support eroded by the hour on Wednesday as fellow Republicans in Congress called for him to resign and party leaders pushed him unceremoniously from senior committee posts.
The White House expressed disappointment, too _ and nary a word of support for the 62-year-old lawmaker, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge stemming from an undercover police operation in an airport men's room.
Craig "represents the Republican Party," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the first in a steadily lengthening list of GOP members of Congress to urge a resignation.
http://tinyurl.com/yunhdq
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:31pm
Notice how Bushfools ignores Conyers latest comments?
Posted by ¬v¬ 08/29/2007 @ 6:28pm
Conyers just means RIGHT NOW, in less than 60 days...he'll have all the votes he needs and then some!
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 4:25pm
Notice how ¬v¬ ignores Frita's comments I said "Yep" to...
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:34pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5odPAK17hOI
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:39pm
http://tinyurl.com/26rntj
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:41pm
HsuB picks Harry Whittington to replace Frito.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:42pm
http://tinyurl.com/yqferr
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:43pm
http://tinyurl.com/2ajply
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:45pm
http://theointment.com/?p=430
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:50pm
http://tinyurl.com/2k58pz
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 6:52pm
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807G.shtml
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 7:00pm
http://www.veracifier.com/episode/TPM_20070801
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 7:07pm
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/29/2007 @ 7:10pm
In the same essay, Emerson also states: "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater."
Posted by srjenkins at 08/29/2007 @ 7:41pm
Posted by ¬v¬ 08/29/2007 @ 7:19p
Not too much happening upstairs in ¬v¬'s head now is there...
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 7:45pm
... impeaching Bush and Cheney will be ... successful lives of blessing and prosperity ...
Posted by ¬v¬ 08/29/2007 @ 7:10p
Those two parts are the only parts that are true.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 7:50pm
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/29/2007 @ 8:01pm
Indeed. I also understand that self-reliance doesn't mean leading "successful lives of blessing and prosperity" - particularly when this prosperity was purchased with my tax money and kick-backs in the form of deferred compensation.
Make no mistake about it, you can't fund your little war on Islam without tax money. But you seem to forget about this when you make comments about not relying on government.
So, you want to lecture me on self-reliance? I'll be more open to hearing what you have to say when you start passing the collection plates for F-22s and stop asking me to foot the bill.
Posted by srjenkins at 08/29/2007 @ 8:48pm
Posted by ¬v¬ 08/29/2007 @ 8:06p
Notice how Bushfools ignores Conyers latest comments?
Posted by ¬v¬ 08/29/2007 @ 6:28p
Conyers just means RIGHT NOW, in less than 60 days...he'll have all the votes he needs and then some!
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 4:25p
And thus the pressure of the people on congress, Frita does not quite understand, except for her own straw dildo usage.
Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/29/2007 @ 6:14pm
Notice how ¬v¬ ignores Frita's comments I said "Yep" to...
Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/29/2007 @ 6:34pm
Too bad ¬v¬ is another Frita straw dildo maker/user, can't believe in evolution either... per the frictional damage and addiction.
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/29/2007 @ 9:33pm
Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 5:49pm
V, it's easy, if you're not a LaRouche follower but a "free thinker"...name 2-3 things you think LaRouche is wrong about?
Posted by Mask at 08/29/2007 @ 9:52pm
Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/29/2007 @ 9:33pm
HSUB, you answered this question three hours ago....
what IS it about that stuff from Conyers that FORCES you to KEEP answering it?!?!?
Posted by Mask at 08/29/2007 @ 9:55pm
"Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 5:49pm
V, it's easy, if you're not a LaRouche follower but a "free thinker"...name 2-3 things you think LaRouche is wrong about?
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 9:52pm | ignore this person"
It's even easier than you think.
"As I said I wear my own colors, and as a free thinker, am sufficient to my own causes. Mask is a lying fraud. And hereinafter unless he spouts new lies in need further refutation, ignored.
Posted by V 08/16/2007 @ 11:38pm | ignore this person" "So, aside from time to time pointing out that you are a not overly bright shill (your "point" about Cheney having fear based limits in wanting war with Iran, while information to the contrary is posted almost on a day to day basis of him as being primary war with Iran, cheerleader, comes to mind). That you lie, and because of the compromises in character the above entails, somewhat of a whore (though there still is the disqualifying issue of cheapness), and referencing this link. So that yes, people can research for themselves. I'm pretty much done with you.
Posted by V 08/25/2007 @ 4:57pm | ignore this person "
"I'm pretty much done with you.
Posted by V 08/25/2007 @ 4:57pm
Oh good, I was afraid I was going to have to download some Beatles' music and drive you away. (LaRouche Youth Movement Chorus joke)
Posted by MASK 08/25/2007 @ 7:41pm | ignore this person"
So, what ... you lied about downloading some beatles, too? Or do you do now as you obviously, (as it borders on almost two weeks, of you following me from thread to thead, "driving me away" by applying the same, tantamount to stalking, "tactics" observed in this one), did then, "play to the crowd?" What crowed? Perhaps one night I might, in sleepwalking (being sufficient effort therein, so, simple minded the thesis) disabuse you of the last axiom of your longed for interrogative salvation. Don't hold your breath though. You have long ago, forfeit the right to ask me questions Mask. And answered none of my mine, even as here, in your own defense of the refutation of your lies. It is well past such, but perhaps it'd be best if you let what little is left of well enough alone, and moved on?
I neither suffer, nor debate, fools, or ignorance. You wanted a few things Larouche and I disagree on? There's one. Don't say I never gave you anything.
Posted by V at 08/30/2007 @ 12:57am
"Posted by V 08/29/2007 @ 5:49pm
V, it's easy, if you're not a LaRouche follower but a "free thinker"...name 2-3 things you think LaRouche is wrong about?
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 9:52pm | ignore this person"
It's even easier than you think.
"As I said I wear my own colors, and as a free thinker, am sufficient to my own causes. Mask is a lying fraud. And hereinafter unless he spouts new lies in need further refutation, ignored.
Posted by V 08/16/2007 @ 11:38pm | ignore this person" "So, aside from time to time pointing out that you are a not overly bright shill (your "point" about Cheney having fear based limits in wanting war with Iran, while information to the contrary is posted almost on a day to day basis of him as being primary war with Iran, cheerleader, comes to mind). That you lie, and because of the compromises in character the above entails, somewhat of a whore (though there still is the disqualifying issue of cheapness), and referencing this link. So that yes, people can research for themselves. I'm pretty much done with you.
Posted by V 08/25/2007 @ 4:57pm | ignore this person "
"I'm pretty much done with you.
Posted by V 08/25/2007 @ 4:57pm
Oh good, I was afraid I was going to have to download some Beatles' music and drive you away. (LaRouche Youth Movement Chorus joke)
Posted by MASK 08/25/2007 @ 7:41pm | ignore this person"
So, what ... you lied about downloading some beatles, too? Or do you do now as you obviously, (as it borders on almost two weeks, of you following me from thread to thead, "driving me away" by applying the same, tantamount to stalking, "tactics" observed in this one), did then, "play to the crowd?" What crowed? Perhaps one night I might, in sleepwalking (being sufficient effort therein, so, simple minded the thesis) disabuse you of the last axiom of your longed for interrogative salvation. Don't hold your breath though. You have long ago, forfeit the right to ask me questions Mask. And answered none of my mine, even as here, in your own defense of the refutation of your lies. It is well past such, but perhaps it'd be best if you let what little is left of well enough alone, and moved on?
I neither suffer, nor debate, fools, or ignorance. You wanted a few things Larouche and I disagree on? There's one. Don't say I never gave you anything.
Posted by V at 08/30/2007 @ 12:57am
greenpower [tinyurl.com]
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/29/2007 @ 8:11pm |
well, what do you propose?
let's have a drink of gasoline together and talk this over.
Posted by frosty zoom at 08/30/2007 @ 03:04am
Posted by MASK 08/29/2007 @ 9:55pm
Frita and straw dildos go together like, a dog and it's fleas, an elephant and it's peanuts, a cat and it's mouse, a picnic and it's bugs, ...
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/30/2007 @ 08:10am
Bush and Cheney however will continue to lead successful lives of blessing and prosperity while you shake your fist in the darkness.
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/29/2007 @ 7:10pm
I am sure they will continue to bring failure to all they touch. Neither man has done squat outside of guvt, and they have even managed to bring the US guvt down to the level of dictators and petty thugs like Bin Laden and Mugtatda al Sadr.
Posted by crabwalk at 08/30/2007 @ 08:56am
LUVSDESPOTS, self reliance?
Don't you live in a parsonage?
Posted by crabwalk at 08/30/2007 @ 08:57am
Halliburton would be bankrupt without the influx of taxpayer money. Maybe we should drown IT in the bathtub.
Posted by crabwalk at 08/30/2007 @ 09:00am
Posted by V 08/30/2007 @ 12:57am
I noticed you didn't answer the question, V? If you're a "free thinker" and "no LaRouche follower", name some political issues that you DISAGREE with ol' Lyndon with?
Posted by Mask at 08/30/2007 @ 09:19am
Posted by HSUBFOOLS 08/30/2007 @ 08:10am
HSUB, "impeachment by Halloween, as well as Gore announcing for President" is worse than "straw dildos"...it's a HOUSE of straw.
And a strong wind (or Big Bad Wolf in the form of John Conyers) is about to blow....only 2 months left!
Posted by Mask at 08/30/2007 @ 09:22am
Nichols, as usual, does the skimpiest of research before launching another one of his 'I know it all' columns. Bruce Fein may be good on FISA, but he is a reactionary of the worst sort. During the 1980s he was a lobbyist for Renamo, a Mozambique terrorist group financed by the apartheid government in South Africa. You want him for AG, Nichols? You can have him.
Posted by nationwatch at 08/30/2007 @ 2:37pm
Posted by LVLIBERTY1 08/30/2007 @ 2:59pm
FRANK has made that case many times, LL. That Hillary, despite being "the best and ONLY choice", is free and clear to do any and everything she wants to win.
FG is in a bit of a pickle. I've said I'll vote for her if she's the nominee, but he actually SUPPORTS her. Which means he catchs fire from both Left (who hate her as "Republican-lite") and Right (who think she's some "closet Commie lesbian").
Of course just as FRANK may be a "Hillary does it or says it, it's okay with me" type....there are those on the Right who say "Bush does it or says it, it's okay with me" as well.
Posted by Mask at 08/30/2007 @ 3:59pm
Posted by NATIONWATCH 08/30/2007 @ 2:37pm
Just to be clear (in simple terms) you are "to the Left" of "The Nation"?
(BTW, what do you think of Lyndon LaRouche?..."V" Nick Change detector activated)
Posted by Mask at 08/30/2007 @ 4:00pm
Posted by MASK 08/30/2007 @ 09:22am
If I'm using straw, it's not a house-- it's a poll and one a lot of political professionals share. No straw dildo heads in the bunch.
And as for a wind blowing, what it's blowing away is the house of cards the hsuB/cHeney admin built. cHeney's holding on by a thread, er, or is it a straw d....
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/30/2007 @ 4:47pm
"The Reagan era "boom," which left the rich richer and the rest of the country poorer, has long since faded. But for many of the shock troopers of the Reagan Revolution, the good times are still rolling.
Take Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general to Edwin Meese between 1981 and 1983. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Fein played a big role in formulating the Reagan administration's policies on civil rights, school prayer, abortion and crime. He backed the failed bid to grant tax-exempt status to Bob Jones University, which does not accept black students.
After leaving government, Fein linked up with right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. He also cashed in on his government experience by lobbying for foreign clients. Though Fein was a strong critic of leftist governments, like Nicaragua's Sandinistas, he had no qualms about taking money from peace-loving nations such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Fein hit the jackpot in 1991 when he signed on to represent Mozambique's notorious guerrilla army, RENAMO, which was seeking to overthrow its country's leftist government. When Fein came on board, RENAMO's reputation has hit bottom. This was just a few years after the State Department had issued a report denouncing the guerrillas for the wholesale slaughter of civilians, using such methods as "shooting executions, knife/axe/bayonet killings, burning alive, beating to death, forced asphyxiation, forced starvation, forced drownings and random shootings."
Even the Reagan and Bush administrations kept their distance from RENAMO, despite their anti-Communist rhetoric. So reviled was the group and its president, Afonso Dhlakama, that Reagan held several face-to-face meetings with Mozambiques's president to demonstrate his support for his Marxist government!
Fein, however, eagerly signed up to flack for Dhlakama's terror army. Like most foreign lobbyists, he bilked his client for huge sums of money while performing virtually no work. Fein's chief endeavor was writing The Dhlakama Papers, a collection of the wise leader's theoretical musings, and RENAMO's constitution. The latter document is a loose plagiarism of the U.S. constitution with a few pet projects of Fein's - the death penalty and privatization - thrown in for good measure."
Full story here.
Posted by V at 08/30/2007 @ 8:48pm
In July of 2006, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on July 24, in a Senate Floor speech, that former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein and his own staff are preparing a bill which would give Congress standing to sue the President in Federal court, to obtain judicial review of Presidential signing statements and have them declared unconstitutional.
"While some Republican Party voices, including former Reagan Justice Deparment official Bruce Fein, former Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan, and retired CIA officer and American Conservative columnist Phil Giraldi, all have demanded Cheney's immediate ouster to stop an Iran fiasco, GOP leaders have so far failed to come forward to confront President Bush and force Cheney's ouster. And Congressional Democrats have chosen to dodge the Cheney bullet and opt for impotent gestures, like the all-night Senate debate over Bush Administration Iraq policy, in which Cheney's name was not mentioned once. The ultimate cowardly act was the Democratic Senate capitulation to the "Buckleyite Damn-ocrat" Joe Lieberman's Iran war gambit. Such cowardice and opportunism, LaRouche has frequently warned, could bring about the doom of the American republic and a global "permanent war" that would engulf the planet for several generations to come."
Ful l story here
Though such acts as those noted above could be seen as, marginally, redemptive. I would say that there has to be someone with a better record-history, and therefore better suited for office of Attorney General.
Posted by V at 08/30/2007 @ 9:01pm
If Bruce Fein holds dual citizenship with Israel and the USA, I would not support him for Attorney General. Current government policy has be hijacked by persons of Israeli-USA citizenship or strong sympathizers of Israel. He may be conservative but is he a neo-conservative. It's about time the majority of main-line Americans take their turn in bringing proper governance to the USA.
Posted by JDonald at 08/30/2007 @ 10:14pm
http://www.usalone.com/impeach_cheney_cap.php
Posted by hsuBfools at 08/31/2007 @ 11:26am
I would say that there has to be someone with a better record-history, and therefore better suited for office of Attorney General. ----Posted by V 08/30/2007 @ 9:01pm
Is LaRouche available?....heheh
Posted by Mask at 08/31/2007 @ 1:43pm