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When they say it's not about politics ..

... it's about politics.

The Republican Justice Department offered same lame excuses today for the hurryup ouster of a bunch of U.S. attorneys, including Bud Cummins of Little Rock, for reasons that sometimes had suspicious provenance. Cummins, for example, seemed to be widely liked. His possible misstep was investigating a case of Republican corruption in Missouri. Or maybe it was just that Karl Rove wanted his eager former lieutenant and poltical hatchet man, the  hungry Tim Griffin, in a high-profile, high-paying job in Little Rock as a platform to do mischief with Democrats or simply to build a base for a future political run.

That's mostly old news. The current Justice Department lie is that the Bush administration has no intention of bypassing the normal Senate confirmation process.  If that's so, why then did they bypass the confirmation process? And when, pray tell, do they intend to submit to the confirmation process?

We'd like talk to Griffin about all this. But he apparently gets his public relations advice from Mike Huckabee.

Comments

It really is a sad state of affairs when no reasonable person can believe anything that comes from the current administration.

Anyone who believes anything this lame duck administration says is as delusional as the people making the statements. Look and listen to the tape of Bozo Decider justifying the lying budget he sent to Congress yesterday. If the country can survive until 2008, these clowns will insure a totally populist Democratic government. The Middle Class is much more than a slogan or spin to real people with real votes. Keep it up Republican Senators - you are writing your own political death sentences. And there won't be many folks at your wake!

Oh please Allah...please please please Allah..don't make us wait until 2008! It's time for the Democrats to throw down and clean the nest of vipers out of the White House.

We just passed 3100 dead in Iraq late last night. At a hundred a month that means 2300 more good Americans will die in Iraq.

Only Allah knows how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will die and left alone, Bush will be waging war on Iran by summer. We can't wait 23 months to be rid of these murdering bastards!

Voting them out of office is a reward for all the evil they've done. There are people doing time in prison for stealing a chicken.....the Bush Crime Family must be put behind bars or Bush will hand them all the Medal of Freedom in early 2009 and they'll walk away with their oil and war profits and start planning for future evil.

Where would we be today if Hitler and his henchmen were merely VOTED out? We'd have to go to a museum to see a Jew and they'd count back our change in German. The whole planet is looking to the Democratic Party for justice. Let's get jiggy!

Where to start? War crimes trials? Sedition trials? These people have a lot to answer for, and as Deeb fears, by the time justice catches up to them it may be too late for any of use.

The harm is already irreparable.

It's not much (compared to their crimes), but Henry Waxman grilling Bremer on the tons of cash he handed out in Iraq was sweet TV today. (Almost as good as the Libby trial updates.) And what was Bremer's response (paraphrased, of course): 'War's hard'...'Fancy things like accountability and paper trails wouldn't work'...'I had to improvise'...blah blah...'I love America.'

The pictures of monkeyboy's thugs wallowing in all that cash reminded me of the Abu Ghraib photos. The American saviors of Iraq drunk on power, unlimited cash and no one watching (and stupid enough to take pictures). Iraq never stood a chance with these greedy incompetents in charge. Hell, we'll be lucky if we survive em.

Yeah zelda, but it's small potatoes though. AssWipe Bremer is wearing the Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck and over 8 BILLION dollars are missing from his watch.

Don't ya think old Breamer is buying fresh young hookers right and left and then killin them when he's done? It must be great to be a neo-con Republican and do Bush's bidding in Iraq.

Let me have my share of 8 BILLION and you can grill me on Capitol Hill every day for the rest of my life. War is hard, but staying alive in Iraq during Bush's War for Oil is a lot harder. How can we sleep at night?

"How can we sleep at night?"
Not very Well........
We should be ashamed at what our country has done because we are scared that someones going to come and get us.


I really think impeaching bush is not an option. Only because who would replace him. BUT the congress really needs to work on the rest of the bunch.
Cheney should not only be impeached but brought up on criminal charges. Carl Rove too. They have clearly broken the law. (talking about Libby trial). This adminsration needs to be cleaned out. Obviously
bush didn't get the message last november.

Clinton was impeached for lying about consensual sex; How can we NOT IMPEACH BUSH?

You're right, DBI, the accountability bar is so low these days that I'm thrilled someone official is even asking questions. Heck, I'll be ecstatic if anyone from this administration is actually held accountable (as opposed to getting a medal). Who would have ever thought that our accountability standards were so askew that one president could be impeached for an affair while another rides God's un-investigated coattails right past a failed, based-on-lies war and pisses all over Constitutional minutia like habeas corpus.

I don't remember her name, but another of those judges who got the boot was the one who convicted Duke Cunningham.

But it's not political. Honest.

Obviously everyone was OK with this when it was in the Patriot Act, because as I recall all of our senators and representatives voted for that bill.

So stop whining. It's called democracy. The American people elected Bush and we deserve what we have gotten. I didn't see any riots in the streets or monks burning themselves. I saw fat happy dumb Americans taking vacations, watching TV and surfing the web.

We have no one to blame but ourselves so we should either 1) do something or 2) shut up.

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