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Digby reminds us that the fetid stench of Turdblossom still freely permeates the halls of the West Wing:
...But let's not forget what we know about our friend Karl Rove. There's no doubt he participated eagerly in the smear against Wilson, he just wasn't as stupid as Libby, nor did he have as much to cover up, what with having a half-wit for a boss who barely knows what day it is. And he got very lucky with the happy coincidence of a little sloppy gossip over drinks between blabbermouth Viveca Novak and Rove's lawyer that gave him a plausible explanation for his miraculous recovered memories. Cheney is even on record as being pissed that Rove was getting the protection of the president while poor little Scooter was hung out to dry....Libby did this thing out of loyalty. Rove did it out of sheer partisan hatred.
It's a shame that Rove isn't going to bed tonight a convicted felon like Scooter Libby is. The fateful loss of the mid-term elections and the complete collapse of the Bush administration will have to be his legacy. After all, Karl Rove is "Bush's Brain," the king of the Mayberry Machiavellis who thought he could run a nation like a dirty tricks campaign in South Carolina. He was in way over his head and now he reeks of the fetid stench of Bush/Cheney failure, for which he, probably more than any other single person, is responsible. I would be very surprised if any politician in the country will ever hire him again.
It's not what he deserves. But it's better than nothing.
I am still awaiting the answer to my question: why does Karl Rove, a man who has admitted to confirming classified information to a journalist without proper authorization, still have a high level security clearance in violation of his SF-312 agreement? Isn't it about time members of Congress started asking that question -- in the nation's best interest?
And what was Karl doing while his super-loyal patsy of a BFF Scooter spent the week awaiting the verdict of a jury of his peers?
President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush had dinner last night at the home of Karl and Darby Rove in the upscale Palisades neighborhood of Washington.When a pool reporter following the president's intown travel stationed outside dispatched an email to Rove inside, asking if the architect of the president's campaigns could spare a doggy bag for the press van, sure enough -- out came an emissary bearing a gift of sausage and quail wings.
The press had already called in a pepperoni-and-mushroom pizza from Domino's, but the host's contribution to the press van feast was the most excitement seen outside this residence in a while.
Why, dining on quail wings with President and Mrs. Bush, of course. And tossing out the scraps to the media outside. I suppose that "quail wings" are a step up from the usual cocktail weenies, although I do note that "sausage" of some sort was also on the press menu. (Nice that they can Blackberry in a personal request for scraps directly from Rove, himself, isn't it?)
One wonders if the "quail wings" were some sort of back-handed homage to Shooter on the eve of his former top aide's guilty verdict. But then, the Vice President and his wife weren't exactly invited to this private little soiree, were they? If I were Shooter, I'd be watching my back. I smell another Turdblossom Special in the works.
Of course, maybe Vice President Cheney has a new BFF to watch his back for him.
Why yes, that it Sen. Joe Lieberman. Good ole CYA Joe, always ready to stick up for his pals in a pinch. Funny how his pals all seem to be cronies of Dick Cheney, isn't it? (Photo by Stephen Crowley for the NYTimes. H/T to egregious, who appears to have spotted this about the same time I did.)
UPDATE: Steve T. makes a great point in the comments:
What struck me when I saw that photo of Cheney in the Times this morning was that he was described as being at the Capitol for the regular weekly Republican strategy luncheon. So what was Joe doing there?
Yes, enquiring minds and all that -- what WAS Lieberman doing hanging out around the Republican strategy luncheon? Hmmmm?
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Christy!
It was actually Quayle Wings with Roasted Potatoe.
Dan Quayle. From another era.
Yeah: “That’s not how you spell potato, son.” Then proceeded to misspell it. The kid had a 15-minute fame that week.
Literally begging for scraps from the table? Disgusting. Have some pride people!
Not at all. He knows damn well why he’s still in office and who is responsible for pulling those strings.
What kind of bird doesn’t fly?
1) Jailbird
2) Wingless quail
I ran across this yesterday and thought it reflected how wisdom has a very long shelf life.
“I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
Thomas Jefferson
give us some quail wings and we’ll be your stenos for another two years ……
Rove is having a dinner party with the Preznit and is checking his email at the same time? Bush must be a boring guest, not the goodtime fratboy we have been lead to believe.
And let us not forget,
jailbait aka San Quentin Quail.
I learned that joke from a Marx Brothers movie.
Big Jim @
8
Dodo…better know as an avid reader of The Pet Goat
Just who were these pathetic paupers that were standing hat in hand waiting for gifts from the king and his court.
My stomach is churning.
One can envision Mike Allen saying ‘Thanks Mr. Rove’ as he greedily wipes the quail grease from his face.
Sickening.
-GSD
Badwater @ 11
They were probably IMing with Mark Foley.
-GSD
What struck me when I saw that photo of Cheney in the Times this morning was that he was described as being at the Capitol for the regular weekly Republican strategy luncheon. So what was Joe doing there?
Just like the cute pooch in “Lady and the Tramp” begging for table scraps and coming up with delicacies. Hmmmmm, wish those “reporters” were as fictional as the dogs.
Love the title of this thread. One could also say “Wither, Karl and Dick!”
Rove, Cheney, Lynne Cheney, Rumsfeld, eating and drinking and spittling as they make fun of “liberals” and “unpatriotic Dems”: Disgusting bunch all. They couldn’t pay me to be at a cocktail party with them. (Not that I’d be invited.)
Badwater @ 11
He was probably too high on Laura’s stash to be much of a conversationalist. Ordinarily, I’m sure the fart jokes abound!
What is it with these people and quail?
There ain’t enough meat on a quail to make a decent sandwich.
You mean like OJ Simpson? After the trial he whined a LOT about not getting any endorsement deals. I hope that happens to Rove. It’s not enough, but it is a slower, drawn out form of justice I suppose.
Steve T. at 16 — That is a great question. And I’ve updated the post above to reflect it. Thanks much!
Christy - Can you give us the specifics on what we should pressure our democratic senators and congressmen to be doing in regard to “3g” or whatever it is that congress has to do to get ahold of Fitz’s materials?
It seems like it’s time for a call to arms and get people to start calling and emailing to pressure for an investigation, no?
…why does Karl Rove, a man who has admitted to confirming classified information to a journalist without proper authorization, still have a high level security clearance in violation of his SF-312 agreement? Isn’t it about time members of Congress started asking that question — in the nation’s best interest?
I have the same question. I see zero political cost and significant political benefit for this course of action.
(Not to mention that the whole nation would be more secure. I swear that if these dunces had power during WWII we would have lost the war because Cheney would have outed the D-Day invasion as payback to Ike for some imagined slight!!)
ReddHedd, what do we have to do? After leading the cowering Dems to the well, do we now have to put the water in our own mouths and vomit it into theirs????!!!
skimble @ 3
ROFLMAO!
It’s a shame that Rove isn’t going to bed tonight a convicted felon like Scooter Libby is.
there’s always a war crimes tribunal
I’ve never heard of quail wings before as a food item. I supposed they could do it, but quail are pretty small birds. A whole quail is really just a few bites. Maybe it’s kind of like crab claws, a tiny bit of meat on each one.
Great post, Christy, as usual.
From the BBC profile of Rove:
Can the rose drown out the quail and sausages? Absolutely not.
Indeed that is a good question about the schmuck named Joe. Wasn’t it a couple weeks ago we found out that Harry Reid stopped discussing Iraq at the Democrat’s luncheons becuase Joe was uncomfortable? Was this a strategy Joe discussed at the Republician luncheons?
priller at 28 — I was trying to figure out the point of that myself, frankly. Quail aren’t exactly substantial fare, and it seems to me that a quail wing is an exercise in food futilty — which, perhaps, sneds exactly the message that Rove intended on a platter to the press. (Or maybe he’s just some bastard who gets suckered by the caterer with fancy-sounding food items every time they have the boss over for dinner.)
What would’ve happened if Libby had told the truth from the beginning - that he talked about Valerie Plame with the VP in June and then told everything that ensued from there?
Thanks.
Elizabeth
Re: Quail Wings
Instructions: Attach the wing to dog dummy. Do not let dog chew on wing. If wings get wet, air dry.
http://www.gundogsupply.com/wildquailwings6.html
These are real Quail Wings. Great for scent training…
priller @ 28
I think that’s why you have to shoot an awful lot of them. Then, if you sprinkle in an occasional 170 lb human, you can really stretch the meat quite a ways…just ask Shooter.
I see Millineryman uses Teh Google too…
twolf1 @ 34
Wings are not for human consumption.
Thank god it was only W and Turdblossom! oh, and the presscorps.
What is the name of the pool reporter who requested food from Karl Rover?
What organization does that reporter work for?
Brilliant blogmother Christy, funny smart commenters…….
I love FireDogLake.
Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean?
johnSwifty @ 37
They must have been training Lieberman.
Whatever happened to Bush’s promise to fire anyone involved with outing Plame. I know Americans have very short memories but now the malefactors are all laid out.
This quail wing story could bring these arrogant as**oles down a few more pegs, if we can get it out to the masses. The mouthbreathers do not want to know about Pasty Doughboy Rove and Chimpy eating quail wings and sausage. I wonder if the sausages were from France. You can bet your hiney the were gourmet items and not Jimmy Dean.
This story is sick - the media hunkered down in their work van (Escalade?) emailing? The Mayberry Doughboy and Chimpy from outside begging for gourmet bits?
Gag me with a pitchfork. Yuck! Can you say bootlicking sychophants?
Christy:
Perhaps, like his ornithological brethren the Lesser Yellowlegs, Holy Joe is migrating to his more natural terrain - which the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center helpfully lists, and includes swamps, bogs, & marshes…all appropriate muck for the lesser yellow-legged Senator from Connecticut.
A lot of commenters have posted frustration with the Democrats’ reactions. Hillary Clinton’s statement (at talkingpointsmemo.com) is a predictably ominous portent:
“While justice has been served in the Libby case, the real lesson to come from it is that we must be vigilant in ensuring that the intelligence on burgeoning threats to our nation is beyond reproach. Clearly, the Bush Administration wasn’t forthcoming about the intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq and as a result damaged the country’s credibility. We need to ensure that our intelligence is accurate, reliable and free of political influence”
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.....conviction
No mention of Cheney. More open-ended exhortations to reform intelligence (read: further punish the CIA dissenters and whistleblowers). Clinton is an unadulterated neoconservative, or at least her money is.
I think it would be just lovely if Reid would start scheduling the Democratic strategy luncheons at the exact same time as the Republican ones. What would Joe do then?
twolf1 @ 36
Indeed twolf1, I love my Google.
priller @ 28
It doesn’t say how many quails were part of their feast. Perhaps there were dozens!
Steve T. @ 16
Reporting on the last Senate Democratic Caucus strategy meeting.
JR @ 42
Bush loves to make tough-guy comments. He never follows through, but his supporters never notice.
twolf1 @
41
Do you think it might be said that Joementum, “begs at the knees of Dick Cheney’s sycophants like just another lap dog hoping for a few, paltry scraps?”
(I just love that line, from Christy’s previous post).
great read christy
this is what we must hammer…that rove is a moron, he is no genous except for fools
he is the man responsible for what looks like the greatest loss of power in American history, he accomplished something that anyone would have thought impossible, the republican repudiation by the masses in America
rove was a moron who destroyed the republicans position of power and the morons that continue giving him any say in their policy decisions in the future are only dooming their chanc es for any kind of headway
I used to HATE it when people referred to this idiot as some kind of genous, he is a moron plain and simple, the people that follow his moronic policy’s are idiots
that is what has been shown by his inept performance and that inept performance must be hammered and hammered at every oportunity
It makes me gag– sausage, quail wings and Domino’s pizza- yuck.
OT from Froomkin today:
Quail wings, hmmmph.
Remember Nouvelle Cuisine (have to be old enough to remember the 80s)? I used to call it miniscule cuisine.
Joe Lieberman is an enigma to me. One would think that he would understand that the Rethugs are going down and would at least want to be on the “winning” side of things, as it is a given that his career is all about Joe and nothing else (constituents, what are those?).
I can think of only 2 plausible reasons for his behavior.
1) He has a political death wish.
2) He is an Israeli agent, and is not *really* working for the american people but rather for some of the most regressive elements of the Israeli people…hence his cozy relationship for the neo-con Darth Cheney cabal….
I know, total tin foil stuff, but there is something very strange about that man that just doesn’t add up. He is not being very pragmatic at all in terms of his own political hide.
Like Darth, here’s Rove, the true patriot, ready to bear arms to defend his country:
that is the question that the democrats have to ask at every waking oportunity, every public appearance, every broadcast, every interview
the president made a pledge, his pledge was not predicated on a finding in court, rove admitted with no douby that he revealed classified information and the president has a pro active responsibility to remove this man from his administration
Just goes to show that draft
dodgersdeferment takers don’t like service people.From over at the DKos:
President Bush fires employee for serving in the Reserves
by skymutt
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....5828/22888
Steve T. @ 46
The same Harry Reid who just let Lieberman 4 Lieberman party Holy Joe post a Democratic response?
Bustednuckles @
21
Especially a wing! My gawd, if that is true then reporters cannot recognize an insult as direct as a hard slap in the
drivewayface!I said this from the start…from the very beginning of his new tern in the senate
the democrats had to force his hand, demand a vote on behalf of democrats that they knew would be difficult for him to make, and if he didn’t cast him from the party
he is a judas sheep, he leads our children to follow him thinking he is a democrat
we need to cast him off and declare him the traitor he is so no more children are persuaded by his judas sheep strategy
I have a frozen package of quail in my freezer for about 2 months now. I imagine if I was having a president over for dinner this is not what I’d be serving.
I mean quail? I make some really good quail cacciatorie too….
Did you all catch that the Wilsons are moving out of DC?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....42848.html
Good for them, I say.
perris @ 52
Rove was in high school a master debater. One of his tricks used to intimidate and flummox his opponents was to haul in massive amounts of file boxes containing thousands of blank cards. His opponent assumed that Karl had had a tremendous amount of research on hand to support his positions and refute those of his opponent. Karl has always been about the tricks - not the substance (hence, President C plus Augustus).
Shooter has the wings taken of the quail so that they are an easier target - he sells them wholesale to Rove!
Robert Paehlke @ 49
If that’s the case, I have little sympathy for them. If you’re going to open a Democratic strategy meeting to non-Democrats, you shouldn’t be surprised when non-Democrats find out about your strategy.
Christy, way late to the previous thread, but..have to say, everyone thinks Cheney wanted to punish Wilson, wouldn’t it be more accurate to say he wanted to threaten and intimidate him? Another thing, conventional wisdom is that Scooter is trying to protect Cheney. If his only concern were the conspiracy to smear the Wilsons, he might not have perjured himself. Maybe he lied to protect the original sin of manipulated intelligence, and taking the nation to war under false pretenses. If this occurred, it stands to reason that Libby was involved up to his eyeballs with the VP in making the case for war. Would this not be a much more serious charge for Libby and incentivise him to lie about the smear, thereby deflecting scrutiny of the underlying issue of how the country was lied into war?
Please call your congressmen, and Nancy Pelosi and ask that hearings be conducted over this question:
“I am still awaiting the answer to my question: why does Karl Rove, a man who has admitted to confirming classified information to a journalist without proper authorization, still have a high level security clearance in violation of his SF-312 agreement? “
The switchboard number is: 202-224-3121
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 58
Yes, THAT Harry Reid. The same one you’ll see in the dictionary if you could look up “GutlessRolePlayingDemocraticPantyWaste”
I am still awaiting the answer to my question: why does Karl Rove, a man who has admitted to confirming classified information to a journalist without proper authorization, still have a high level security clearance in violation of his SF-312 agreement?
What makes you think Rove still has his clearance?
Boudica @ 66
Food for think: Many of us have never been completely convinced that Wilson was really his target. It’s possible that he was after Plame, and Wilson was just his excuse to betray her identity.
I’m having a hard time believing that Rove’s subtle menu joke is going over people’s heads.
Quail on the menu is a reminder of Cheney’s quail hunting accident in which he shot a friend in the face. Quite appropos on the day that another friend is getting shot in the face for Cheney. And serving it to the Prez & First Lady. I have to give Rove some credit for that one.
Frank Probst @ 70
Yes, I’ve heard that too. But perhaps that just became an afterthought, sort of like - hey - we get a bonus. Nothing would surprise!
Here’s the draft-dodger on “left-wing peaceniks”:
Makes me wonder what they did to the food before sending it out to the press…
Think about it if any of you in the press pool are reading this. Would you trust Rove not to spit on the leavings before sending them out? Picture a big plate of quail on the table, and Bush and Rove tearing the wings off to send them out. They would totally spit on them first (or worse).
Stick with Dominos, guys.
Congrats Marcy, Christy, Jane et al
In his chat today, Dan Froomkin just called your coverage of the Libby trial — and I quote here - “transformative” for the way journalism is done in America today.
He’s right.
If Libby has to pay a fine (say the $1 million max) and is later pardoned, is the money returned to him?
Huh? Surprised? Washungton Post part covert intell operations connections that go way back:
www.petitiononline.com/6725/petition.html
The instigators of MOCKINGBIRD were Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham. Graham was the husband of Katherine Graham, today’s publisher of the Washington Post. In fact, it was the Post’s ties to the CIA that allowed it to grow so quickly after the war, both in readership and influence. (8)
MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency had recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA propaganda. At least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA payroll, according to the CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church Committee in 1975. (The committee felt the true number was considerably higher.) The names of those recruited reads like a Who’s Who of journalism:
Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post)
William Paley (President, CBS)
Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine)
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times)
Jerry O’Leary (Washington Star)
Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News)
Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal)
James Copley (Copley News Services)
Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor)
C.D. Jackson (Fortune)
Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post)
ABC
NBC
Associated Press
United Press International
Reuters
Hearst Newspapers
Scripps-Howard
Newsweek magazine
Mutual Broadcasting System
Miami Herald
Old Saturday Evening Post
New York Herald-Tribune
Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies. Its location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its own bureaus around the world, rather than relying on AP wire services. Owner Philip Graham was a military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became close friends with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and Richard Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose father owned it.
After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the Post. Seduced by her husband’s world of government and espionage, she expanded her newspaper’s relationship with the CIA. In a 1988 speech before CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, she stated:
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things that the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics for its belittlement of democracy and its admission that there is a political agenda behind the Post’s headlines.
AJ @ 75
Yes! That was my question. Dan rules.
Primordial Ooze @ 74
And they would be busting a gut laughing. You know the sense of humor our jolly president has. Looking under the table for WMD! Fart jokes. He’s a hoot - that guy!
“I would be very surprised if any politician in the country will ever hire him (Turdblossom) again.”
For that to happen your administration has to be totally exposed and brought down with attendant consequenses. I can’t see that possibility.
switch parties already you filthy lieberpunk…joey!
#77 edit. Ist line read ‘Washington Post’ and ‘partner in’.
Does anyone else have a funny feeling we might have been had? I started yesterday afternoon on a high from the conviction that slowly descended into vague questioning that something doesn’t feel right.
Fitz spent 4 years interviewing everyone involved, some multiple times. We are led to believe even assume that given Fitz’s superman-like reputation that the evidence to go to trial could only be marshalled against Libby. The complicit media is a footnote. The rest of the culprits exonerated. Congress so far and most likely will not accept the challenge by Fitz to request the evidence and pursue the investigation.
In essence it is all buried. Most likely Libby will be pardoned. Does anyone else have the a gnawing sense that maybe we have been had?
Okay, I admit, sometimes I am a cynic.
SoCal | 03.07.07 - 2:17 pm | #
Enough of feeling bad for Libby, oh so loyal Libby. Even folks on the left are expressing sympathy for him. Please.
He’s an American. As a lawyer, he’s an officer of the court. If he’d been loyal to those higher ideals, instead of those embodied by Dick Cheney, the world might be a much better place, and a lot of people who were killed in the last 4 years might not have been.
Picture: the bunch sitting around on lounges pulling quail wings and hummingbirds out of the stomach of a roasted eagle. The worst images we might imagine of the last days of Rome!
I would NEVER put anything from his table in or near my body!
As pleased as I am about the Libby conviction, stories like this and the ongoing spin about why this trial was stupid and not concerning criminal activities and none of them are criminals and all the rest of the crap literally make me ill.
If quail is on the table, why not imPEACHments?
clb72 @ 84
WORD!
Dana Milbank today included this bit in his article.
My question is, who’s the “them” Libby’s wife wants to get? The prosecution? The jurors? The Wilsons? I’m not foolish enough to hope she meant Cheney and the neocons, even though that’s who she should be angry with.
After they finish gutting this country, Turdblossom will jet off to Paraguay with the rest of the gang. He don’t need no more steenking jobs. The eagle has landed. To our demise, Rove landed his biggest turd ever in the WH. Mission Accomplished!
From White Talk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01347.html
Ann Arbor, Mich.: Dan, you are the best thing about The Washington Post in my opinion. Can you comment on the role of bloggers in this trial? Were you very impressed with firedoglake and their coverage? (Yes, shameless plug.)
Dan Froomkin: Thanks. I think what firedoglake.com did with this trial was not just impressive, it was transformative. By offering the public live-blogging of this very important trial, you not only put the MSM to shame, but actually became a must-read for journalists who couldn’t attend the trial, but wanted to get a better and faster sense of what was going on than they could from their own colleagues.
I’m not saying that the MSM should emulate everything bloggers do — far from it — but the blogosphere’s enthusiasm for this story was something to behold, and admire.
=====================================
The kudos keep on coming! Go FDL!!
Ack! Here’s a creepy thought: Cheney resigns, Lieberman gets a promotion to VP. After all, he’s an independent now, he could use that disgusting spin about working across the aisle and people will buy it just like they did in CT (remember, most people outside of CT *like* Lieberman). Then Jodi Rell appoints a Republican to Joe’s seat and voile!, the GOP screws up the senate for the next 2 years as if nothing in 2006 ever happened.
There’s a strategy for ya’.
Let me guess - was Fred Hiatt the bootlicker requesting a doggie bag?
Mark at 83. Yes, I’ve had that thought,too. No reason to stop fighting, though.
hackworth @ 88
Thank you hackworth, this actually answers a question I have been pondering. Similar to, “What came first, the chicken or the egg,” I have been struggling with the notion of, “What will be left last, the turd or the blossom?”
I believe you are correct, it is the turd and it has been left at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
OT — Christy, I recall that the Peanut was wearing a dinosaur outfit on the day before the verdict, and I was expecting to hear a huge ROAR yesterday. Was there one?
scarecrow @ 94
Yeah. How ’bout a picture of that? The kid’s outfit was instrumental to the guilty finding, no?
Froomkin is up:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00879.html
brendan @
45
I know I feel demoralized about the dem response. I envision bush, cheney and rove being really rattled about the investigation and then the Scooter trial, and certainly the verdict.
But I also envision the criminals sitting down last night and all collectively expelling a huge sigh and a big hearty LAUGH and many exclaiming:
“Good lord…the dems really and truly aren’t going to act on this! Yet again. I don’t know what we were all worried about. We can do anything we want. This is Nirvana. It really, really is.”
Yes, I think the neogoons are actually surprised how easy it is to be criminals and traiters.
Folks, the only way to boot these criminals and thugs out of Washington is for the People to literally do it. I feel very strongly that ‘electing dems’ is fecking futile. This, after 25 years of being involved in every election.
Just had to vent…
Looks like the UK’s MI6 or as worldy Bill O’Reilly wrongly refers to it, M One 6, has ripped the lid off of a secret.
The US has been using an old Soviet era secret base in Poland to carry out the CIA dirty works.
How damn fitting.
And the people who claimed that the use of the term “gulags” was beyond the pale.
-GSD
Mark @
83
Someone on Countdown (Dean?) noted last night that the reason that Fitz didn’t pursue other charges for IIPA is because the WH would have said all of the evidence was classified. It would have been nearly impossible for Fitz to get anywhere on the charges. But didn’t Fitz say that Congress could have the information from the investigation if they asked for it? That suggests that Fitz has the goods on Cheney and others but he can’t nail them in court for technical reasons.
Impeachment is a political act. Congress has to summon up the courage to open an investigation into Cheney’s role, ask for the investigation data from Fitz and try to sort out the truth.
I’m optimistic that the American public is getting a clue. Let’s keep up the pressure and see what happens.
source on that secret base in Poland, GSD?
Froomkin takes to task the WaPo Editorial board: