The Acorn Doesn't Fall Far From the Hypocrite Tree
Liz Cheney, former VP Cheney's daughter was adament about how unnecessary and partisan it was to call for investigations into the Bush/Cheney regime's torture decisions, or Darth Cheney's secret meetings with oil companies and other pollutors to develop their Energy Policy. But, let Joe Sestak, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama have a discussion regarding Sestak's Sentorial plans and a full-blown investigation of the highest order is necessary.
"There is a lot here that just smells funny", she says in the interview. If the smell test is her criteria, it's good she finally had that olfactory surgery to get her nose working again. It seemed to malfunction for eight years.
Another splinter in their fragile case against Obama
Viet Dinh, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and one of the authors of the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. (it has nothing to do with patriotism) Act, gets big applause at CPAC for trashing President Obama for (you won't believe this) "killing too many terrorists".
Darth Cheney, Rudy "a verb, a noun, and 9-11) Giuliani, Ann "The Slobber Goddess" Coulter, and others are repeatedly suggesting the President is "soft on terrrrr".
The dissonance in their positions comes as no surprise.
First, the former Governor of Minnesota confirms water boarding is torture to Larry King. "Give me Dick Cheney on a water board and one hour and I'll have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murders."
That wasn't enough so he eats Elizabeth Hasselbeck for lunch (or would that breakfast?) on The View. "It seems we only water board Muslims."
Faux News wants a shot at him so he graciously eviscerates Brainless Kilmeade. "Why don't you serve then?", he asked the bumbling sidekick.
And, of course never seeing a parade he could jump in front of, Joe Scarborough talks tough as long as Jesse's not around.
The Wrong Wing will keep up the attack until the are convinced the public has been successfully duped or until the public lets them know it's not working. With the Republican Party's poll numbers at the lowest since 1983, may the public is starting to let them know.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said the CIA "misled congress". The CIA said, "The CIA doesn't mislead congress".
"The CIA doesn't mislead congress" is interestingly different than "The CIA didn't mislead congress". While it may certainly be the policy of the CIA to not mislead or lie to congress, it is not improbable that the CIA Director under the direction of the "already proven liars in the Bush/Cheney" White House did mislead congress.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney crawled out from under his rock to take a shot at Dubya's former Secretary of State, Colin Powell. He said he thought Powell has already left the Republican Party.
On Face the Nation, he was asked about General Powell's suggestion that the Republican Party needed to move more to the center.
"I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican," Cheney said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Vice President Cheney, of course, is merely following the lead of the Republican Party's Fearless Leader, Rush Limbaugh who in a recent radio address told Powell to "close the loop and become a Democrat".
Wanda Sykes was the comedic entertainment at the Press Club Dinner Saturday night. There were a couple groans out of the audience, but overall she was quite funny. She took cheap shots at Limbaugh's oxycontin addiction, and Cheney shooting friends in the face, but got a lot of laughs from the politicians and media folk in the crowd.
When she blasted Limbaugh and got a groan, Sykes bantered with President Obama, "Too much?", she asked. "Ok, but you're laughing on the inside, right? You know you are!"
Scott McClellan: "I passed along false information"
George W. Bush:
"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of...If somebody did leak classified information," (September 2003)
"If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," (July 2005)
Well, the truth comes to light at last, as if there were any doubt. In a book by former White House spokesman, Scott McClellan sheds light on the Valerie Plame affair and those responsible for her outing as a CIA covert operative.
McClelllan's book, WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington, is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2008. Its publisher, Public Affairs, has an excerpt on its web site.
McClellan writes:
"The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.
"There was one problem. It was not true.
"I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself."
Geez, this tidbit is a little late, isn't it Scotty? Here's the thing "What should'a Happened".
Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be ‘stuck’ precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is no ‘exit strategy’.
Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves. That is more than five times the total in the United States. And, because of its long isolation, it is the least explored of the world’s oil-rich nations. A mere two thousand wells have been drilled across the entire country; in Texas alone there are a million. It has been estimated, by the Council on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220 billion barrels of undiscovered oil; another study puts the figure at 300 billion. If these estimates are anywhere close to the mark, US forces are now sitting on one quarter of the world’s oil resources. The value of Iraqi oil, largely light crude with low production costs, would be of the order of $30 trillion at today’s prices. For purposes of comparison, the projected total cost of the US invasion/occupation is around $1 trillion.
Who will get Iraq’s oil? One of the Bush administration’s ‘benchmarks’ for the Iraqi government is the passage of a law to distribute oil revenues. The draft law that the US has written for the Iraqi congress would cede nearly all the oil to Western companies. The Iraq National Oil Company would retain control of 17 of Iraq’s 80 existing oilfields, leaving the rest – including all yet to be discovered oil – under foreign corporate control for 30 years. ‘The foreign companies would not have to invest their earnings in the Iraqi economy,’ the analyst Antonia Juhasz wrote in the New York Times in March, after the draft law was leaked. ‘They could even ride out Iraq’s current “instability” by signing contracts now, while the Iraqi government is at its weakest, and then wait at least two years before even setting foot in the country.’ As negotiations over the oil law stalled in September, the provincial government in Kurdistan simply signed a separate deal with the Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company, headed by a close political ally of President Bush.
On April 26, 1999, at the dedication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) facility named for him, former President George H. W. Bush said: "We need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country....I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources.They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Remarks at the Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence (Apr. 26, 1999).
You should have told that to your kid, Poppy!
Here is the complete text of the lawsuit. (4M PDF) So folks, buck up. The fun ain't over yet. Could there be further chances of perjury charges? Don't know, I ain't a lawyer. This will be interesting regardless.
"Today, we discovered that everything we learned in U.S. government class was wrong. Evidently, the Vice President does not consider himself a part of the executive branch, and therefore believes he can obstruct meaningful oversight and avoid being held accountable. If the Vice President truly believes he is not a part of the executive branch, he should return the salary the American taxpayers have been paying him since January 2001, and move out of the home for which they are footing the bill."
Where was he hiding his testicles when it was time to demand getting out of a War of Choice? Was he playing pocket pool with his testicles when our civil liberties were given away? We elected a Democratic majority to be THE MAJORITY and to start holding these bastards accountable. Rahm has wagged his mighty finger like Harry Reid does. Now, let's see if there's any bark in the bite.
Liz Cheney, former VP Cheney's daughter was adament about how unnecessary and partisan it was to call for investigations into the Bush/Cheney regime's torture decisions, or Darth Cheney's secret meetings with oil companies and other pollutors to develop their Energy Policy. But, let Joe Sestak, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama have a discussion regarding Sestak's Sentorial plans and a full-blown investigation of the highest order is necessary.
