Deep Throat emerges...

DeLay Upset Over 'Law & Order' Line

Don't we have more important things to worry about? What a hypocrite. This guy gets upset about a fictional television comment. L & O has been doing this for years - raw talk from characters who make comments about anybody and everybody - celebrity and politician alike. Lighten up buddy; you will be in jail soon enough. Besides, it is DeLay, with his many indefensible actions, that has done a "great disservice to public discourse."

Ask CPB Chairman Tomlinson to Stop Playing Politics with Public Broadcasting - Common Cause

Filibuster deal is called a blow to Frist's ambitions

While I still believe that the Dems should have stood up to this nonsense, especially now that extremist nominee Brown will eventually be confirmed, it does seem that cooler head have prevailed, led by a gaggle of moderates. The Senate is a body of deliberation and debate. It was created to ensure that radical notions and laws, proposed by the powerful few, don't overtake our democracy. In this case, the filibuster, being a bedrock of Senatorial structure, is spared temporarily for the sake of procedure.

Some say this is deeper than that, even as the right-minded side of the Gang of 14 attempts to minimize rifts in its own party.

Only time will define 'extraordinary circumstances'...

"The heart of the fight was a dispute over whether federal judges would need to overcome a 60-vote hurdle to win confirmation or whether President Bush would be able to appoint whomever he and his fellow Republicans choose.

That question has not yet been answered. "

Yep... Crisis averted temporarily. Right? Or is it a misstep in the attempts of BushCO to exert extreme power upon our "bipartisan" Senate body?

Democrats strong-armed by BushCo

It seems that BushCo's reign of terror and fear prevails again in bullying the Dems to "compromise" into voting for extremist activist judges. Beating his chest, Frist stated "This agreement announced tonight falls short of that principle...” The Times noted, "He said "bad faith and bad behavior" would force him to bring back the nuclear option." What compromise? Holding the carrot for another day, I guess. This is shameful and undemocratic. Repubs and Dems disgraced the Senate, led by religious radical right-winger like Frist and DeWine. This type of extortion is unconscionable, especially when these extreme nominees will be ruling on policies for decades to come - anti-minority, anti-immigrant, anti-choice and pro-corporate...

Bill Moyers' speech to the National Conference for Media Reform

"We’re big kids; we can handle controversy and diversity, whether it’s political or religious points of view or two loving lesbian moms and their kids, visited by a cartoon rabbit. We are not too fragile or insecure to see America and the world entire for all their magnificent and sometimes violent confusion. “There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by,” John Steinbeck wrote. “It was called the people.”"

Now is the time...

Shoot the Messenger

Newsweek 'scandal'. Some perspective, anyone? from Observer Blog.

Is it possible that BushCo is nailing the final nails in the free press coffin with this latest tactic to kill Newsweek? It is a coincidence that this corresponds with the attacks on Bill Moyers and PBS's NOW program. This Newsweek thing is getting out of hand. The type of abuse and desecration to the Quran has been reported many times in the past with much to do about nothing. Why the sudden blowup? Could it be that a mainstream American news source finally made a move to call out BushCo atrocities? Is it that the foreign press and independent rags don't count? See, this all makes perfect sense - deflection, distraction, and denial.

DailyKos noted this statement from Press Secretary McClellan today (from Reuters):

The White House said on Monday an inaccurate Newsweek report based on an anonymous source had damaged the U.S. image overseas by claiming U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay. . . . “It’s puzzling that while Newsweek now acknowledges that they got the facts wrong, they refused to retract the story,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. “I think there’s a certain journalistic standard that should be met and in this instance it was not.”

“The report has had serious consequences,” McClellan said. “People have lost their lives. The image of the United States abroad has been damaged.”

Thanks Scott, for your hypocritical remarks and your lecture on journalistic standards. And the bad and false information that led to the Iraqi war?? Where many, many people died and still dying? I am at a bit of a loss here...

Oil-for-food: Galloway vs. Norm Coleman

BushCo is trying its deflection tactics on foreign officials now. Give the continuing exposure they are getting from the Newsweek article, this carefully planned attack on British Parliament member, George Galloway, is backfiring. This is obviously an extension of gratitude to the PM Blair for sticking with the BushCo pack of lies and deception.

FAKENews and BushCo lackey, Norm Coleman try to paint a picture of Galloway as the corrupt organizer of this so-called Oil-For-Food Program in Iraq. BushCo already tried with Kofi Annan, unable to fool the rest of the world. The problem with BushCo's agenda here is that the US Corporatocracy is very involved and it might push them out into the limelight. What would it matter? It is not like some of these folks had any misgivings when they did business with Iraq or Iran when the sanctions are in place, anyway?!?

After week of riots, Newsweek admits it got Qur'an story wrong

The fallout for Newsweek is huge, but the Pentagon and BushCo should not go unscathed. They are just as much a part of this incendiary situation as the writers and editors in Newsweek. Theories abound, of course. Was this information planted by neo-cowards in the Pentagon, before retracted to push Newsweek over the edge? Could be? Why, this sounds like conspiracy theory... But, nowadays, I would not put it past this administration. Is nothing sacred? What if "this senior Pentagon official" who leaked the info had been compromised? Is it a plant then? Is this official a pawn? Has BushCo threatened Newsweek into submission? All this on the religious back of Islam… What a disgrace? God forbid we desecrate Christianity this way? Wait, some in BushCo, already have - using it to push their agenda by taking advantage of people who expect their religious freedom. The ironic - wait, more sad - part of it is that those oligarchs and powermongers in the Islamic world seem never to use Jesus and the Bible is acts of manipulation - they focus on leaders and people - the ones who do the killing. But, this statement would mean that Newsweek may have found something and it would not be a good thing… for anyone.

The Empire Strikes Bush

The slow dismantle of democracy is the parallel we will see in Star Wars Episode III with BushCo. The film represents..."a reminder of how democracies can give up their freedoms too easily..."

Is it coincidence or connection? Or is it just possible that the war in Iraq, the loss of American security and liberty, the hijacking of patriotism and power, could be on everyone's minds and it is time to remind ourselves, in all aspects of life, what we have and that a small group of US oligarchs have no right to take our freedoms...

Bolton vote send for the Senate...

...But not after a biting debate. Smoking George Voinovich, the Republican, Republican love to hate, spoke his mind. Big V called Bolton "the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be..." He voted for him anyway, for fear of BushCo's wrath. If only...

Lincoln Chafee, who has been waivering about the vote, deferred to BushCo - The latest defeat for the sane and moderate conservative movement.

Bolton is a plain bully, and an idiot. I will make no bones about it. I can care less what "those folks" say about his intelligence. This is the guy who put us into Iraq and gave the most deceitful excuse as to why we went in. He has absolutely no respect for other nations and will likely create more problems than we have now. Fine. Maybe it will wake up Americans to the fact that these people are playing with out safety and lives. We want leaders that fight for peace, not destroy everything in their path (including us).

And now back to the Jim West... Morford style

My Totally Gay Boy Scout Leader / The tormented Republican mayor of Spokane might have molested young boys. Boys like, well, Mark Morford

Yep

I feel blue today. Tom Ridge agrees...

West's public policy conflicts with private life

Really? Meet Jim West - mayor? of Spokane. This guy is a real piece of work - hypocrite of the BushCo best. I mean, it takes some nerve to rail against the rights of others, then hides behind public office to propistion sex. Hmmm? And, we spent how much money trying to destroy Bill Clinton over a blowjob?

Coalition of the Dwindling Redux?


Bouncing Blair and Italian investigative journalism - all lending to an increasingly dim outcome for BushCo from its "closest partners." Iraq is plagued with violence ans the lies are coming home to roost. How long will Blair last? Berlusconi's government has already crashed and picking up the pieces is not that easy...