i'm glad you'll be off... hopefully fewer turkey posts will make it in here (yes, I said it... not a fan of your work)...

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NSA technology can be used to target those who have aided illegal activity: Former and current WH counsel.

losing faith @ 1:

i'm glad you'll be off... hopefully fewer turkey posts will make it in here (yes, I said it... not a fan of your work)...

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Jesus, losing faith, you've got a lot of gall. Man, let us know where you work so we can come and tell you are how shitty you are at your job.

Angela @ 6:

Anyone following this story? Iraqi government involved in arms trafficking in Italy?? So, are we going to invade Italy too? And what about the arms we gave away--the 190,000 missing guns? Maybe we need to invade ourselves.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_operation_parabellum

Angela, could you send that to john directly. This story is friggin scary.

Now all we need is the power to elect a President of our choosing. The media has already decided on Hilary; that did that over a year ago.

On the subject of the cartoon--I don't think Hillary having all that unfettered, unoverseen power (and that thought scares me to death) is an unintended consequence. Hillary is a not-so-secret neocon. All that anti-Hillary stuff Cheney has been spouting is a form of psy ops to encourage lefty people to vote for her. He knows how much he's hated and the theory is if he says bad things about her, liberals will vote for her. She really is Cheney in a pantsuit. By the way, my son, who to my eternal regret is the hardest of hard-core neocons, says none of the GOP field appeals to him, but he can see a lot of good in Hillary, so he's going to vote for her.

You have to see this video!

http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/video-surfaces-of-cheney-in-1994...

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Maybe there's hope after all.

Below is excerpted from George Will's (who's not generally in our camp) column in the August 13, 2007 issue of "Newsweek" - and well said, I might add.

Contrary to the Constitution's mandate that the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," the current president, much more than any other, has issued "signing statements"—essentially, line-item vetoes, which are unconstitutional—to tell the executive branch that some provisions of bills he signs into law need not be enforced for constitutional or policy reasons. As Savage writes, "If a president has the power to instruct the government not to enforce laws that he alone has declared to be unconstitutional, then he could free himself from the need to obey laws that restrict his own actions."

Contrary to the Supreme Court's rejection of President Truman's 1952 claim of an inherent power as commander in chief to seize steel mills to prevent a wartime strike (Justice Jackson concurring: "No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a president can escape control of executive power by law through assuming his military role"), this administration claims not merely inherent but exclusive presidential powers to:

Treat all of America as a battlefield on which even American citizens can be declared "enemy combatants," seized and held indefinitely, and intelligence can be collected by any means the president orders.
Disregard—or interpret into nullities—provisions of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture or U.S. law that inhibit the president from acting as "sole organ" of the nation regarding national security.

It would be the role of a constitutionalist candidate who promises that, as president, he would prune from his office much of the grandiosity it has acquired from audacious recent assertions of uncircumscribed powers.

Indigowatcher @ 14:

Slightly OT, but I've been reading on a few blogs and even in the American and British MSM that there is talk of bringing the draft back. Could you imagine?!? The moment they reinitiate the draft this war will be OVER! And it's about time, Jesus...

Yeah! Once the draft starts the Iraq war will be OVER! In the wink of an eye! Just like Vietnam!

Ummm...errr... Uh oh....

Yes! That cartoon is awesome. What doesn't get talked about with all this ever-expanding governmental power is why anyone thinks that it will improve with a Democrat in power. Power is hard to give up. I would like to think that we would go back to where we were before GWB but I'm pessimistic.

I'm voting for Kucinich. Like just about everyone in Washington, he knows damn well JFK was taken out, as was (in all likelihood) Wellstone, but he still keeps plugging away.

While Obama's trying to overcompensate for his inexperience and his racial insecurities by squawking like a hawk and endorsing preemptive war of aggression, and while Hillary's sucking up to the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Larry Silverstein, Kucinich is introducing articles of impeachment for the Big Dick.

At this point, I'd rather vote for the guy with the guts to do the right thing, rather than settle for a stopgap gatekeeper.

Kucinich probably can't win, and things are probably going to have to get a whole lot worse before they can get better, but I say let's air it all out and get it done with!

It's American political tradition... when you're leader's a real scumbag, hit 'em below the belt.

The left came up with "Tricky Dick", and the right came up with "Slick Willie"...

Karl Bauer @ 23:

I'm voting for Kucinich. Like just about everyone in Washington, he knows damn well JFK was taken out, as was (in all likelihood) Wellstone, but he still keeps plugging away.

While Obama's trying to overcompensate for his inexperience and his racial insecurities by squawking like a hawk and endorsing preemptive war of aggression, and while Hillary's sucking up to the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Larry Silverstein, Kucinich is introducing articles of impeachment for the Big Dick.

At this point, I'd rather vote for the guy with the guts to do the right thing, rather than settle for a stopgap gatekeeper.

Kucinich probably can't win, and things are probably going to have to get a whole lot worse before they can get better, but I say let's air it all out and get it done with!

im voteing for kucinich allso and i say if folks dont want good government only someone they think will win even if were no better off were screwed,

GMFORD:

Yes, I know, Paul's a Republican. My point is, those are the only three patriotic American's running. And, not coincidentally, they're the three candidates who scare the hell out of the corporate globalists the most,

I blog there:

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/index.html

We ran off most of the wingnuts.

Dear Nicole,

Hope you enjoy your trip and just wanted to say that I enjoy your postings and especially like to hear your tidbits from the world of music, I can only dream! I hope you dont take any of the comments to heart, as these comment threads are increasingly flamey. Which is also what I was driving at in another thread in case any of you C&Lers thought I was having a go at you.

All the best!
m.

Bill Orally reviews The Bourne Ultimatum, apparently seeking to prove that he's not only a tool, but also a dolt.

Poor guy doesn't understand the difference between fiction and propaganda...oh wait, that's right, he works at Fox Opinion Channel. Silly me.

"If you were in your office right now, we'd be having this conversation face to face."

Video Surfaces of Cheney, in 1994, Warning That An Invasion of Iraq Would Lead to 'Quagmire'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

may i propose a toast to baby jesus? god bless you, little amigo!!!

Moonsha, i saw that video the other day...

Given the nasty rumors surfacing re: Madame Palfrey, all I gotta ask is...

"Got Blackmail?"

Or, is Dirty Dick really just bats-in-the-belfry bonkers?

a guy @ 42:

Tucker needs a hug...

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Tucker_concerned_gays_more_important_than_0810.html

and a very large dildo

Karl Bauer @ 38:

#34 getalife:

exactly. the video here is what makes this site (and thinkprogress) so damn effective.

i just wish all of us who despise neocons would stick together a bit more. that is to say, i wish sites like c&l would be less antagonistic toward sites like prisonplanet, and vice versa.

alex jones is kind of a nut, but he's a good nut, and he's totally unafraid to do the dirty work.

c&l is a bit afraid to take on the dirty work, but they chisel away at neocon insanity on a daily basis in their own way.

my point is, those of us who are essentially on the same page should stick together....

that is to say, let's all make this a slightly better america than the one we inherited...

Alex Jones, I tried downloading Farenheit 911 and ended up with a video of how the gop are going to use the war on terror to steal our freedom.

Most of the video has turned out to be spot on.

I think kos is onto something big with the Netroot Nation.

I think all left wing sites and movements should use the people movement to attack the neocons in the political arena.

the cartoon......it's going to be interesting to watch the repugs SNAP when a Dem gets in office net time(08)..to see them make complete hypocrites of themselves trying to remove all those powers from a Dem....

have a safe trip Nichole......put down a few pints for me.

"All crime is rooted in hate," - Tucker Carlson

What a typically parasitic thing to say.

Change is rooted in hate (rationalized hate, but hate for the status quo of a thing, none the less).
Crime is based on personal insecurities stemming from the inability to compete in society on a social, economic, political or spiritual level.

mudshark @ 47:

the cartoon......it's going to be interesting to watch the repugs SNAP when a Dem gets in office net time(08)..to see them make complete hypocrites of themselves trying to remove all those powers from a Dem....

I would love nothing more than to see them get all tongue tied and red faced. Unfortunately, this is an issue of defending the American people and above all else the Constitution. Regardless of a Dem or Rep president, we should keep up the pressure to remove every signing statement and fight to put more strict guidelines surrounding executive privilege.

Don't worry, Hillary or Obama or another Dem would never abuse power, no-sir-ee.

If Hillary becomes Madam President, would that make Bill John President?