Bush "Playing the 9-11 card" to force the Mukasey nomination through: Attacks Bloggers!
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 4:45pm(guest blogged by Bill W.)
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The message from Bush to the Democratically controlled Congress was simple: Approve Mukasey or we will all die, and it will be all your fault.
Bush: "The job of Attorney General is essential to the security of America" ... "Some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden, and the requests of our commanders on the ground, and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters."
(Nicole: Wow. How much more irrelevant can the President get when he starts adopting Fox News talking points instead of vice versa? You know the old Gandhi saying, "first, they ignore you..." Well, fellow bloggers, if the Spoiled Brat in Chief is any guide, we're close to winning.)
Who said this?
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
Or this?
"I don't know where he is. I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."
Or this?
"Deep in my heart I know the man's on the run, if he's alive at all...I just don't spend much time on it, really, to be honest with you."
And who disbanded the CIA unit dedicated to finding bin Laden?
Just checking.
UPDATE: The President has thrown a tantrum drawn a line in the sand: No attorney general if not Mukasey (h/t FSA in the comments).
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world's oldest toddler on the march. Crying to the Heritage bedwetters. Boo hoo his Pinochetist nominee hit a snag
"Bush is Playing the 9/11 Card". Like he never stops.
Anyone remember the last words uttered by the captain of the Titanic?
Me neither.
Yes, and we all know how well 9/11 references sell these days after the fire sale the Guiliani campaign's been having with them...
It is very sad indeed to watch the president once again play the fear card. It's the only play he has in his book. It's time for the timid Democrats to stand up to this idiot once and for all and remember why they were elected.
The Leader of the REPUBLICAN FASCIST PARTY! Time to call these bastards what they really are!!
If he isn't the dumbest fucking President in United States history...
Congratulations, George. You just mentioned Moveon.org by name and bought them another $10 million worth of free publicity--that's $10 million worth of people that will be smartened the rest of the country up to your lies and crimes.
Don't these morons realize all they're doing is giving that site free publicity and, in turn, opening more and more eyes to their incessant fuck-ups? Does the GOP really think that they're winning the blog wars?
It's doubtful Nixon himself would have been this incompetent and out-of-touch while trying to contend with the "Internets"....
Joementum @ 3:
That's because Captain Smith was alone--honorably going down with his beloved ship.
You better believe Bushie would've been in a wig and dress sneaking into a women-and-children only lifeboat....
Did he mention Clinton?
Now watch the democrats fall all over themselves to give whatever Bush wants. It's basically still the rubber stamp congress, only now they wet their pants before they use the rubber stamp.
worst president ever, shame on us for not doing something about this mad man!
Somebody get this guy a new deck of cards. This ones just about worn out.
The sad fact that this slime ball represents the United States Of America is so totally demoralizing that I can't believe it.
Here's the plan:
First Fire Cheney.
Second appoint Al Gore as Vice President.
Third: Impeach Bush.
THIS could actually restore some of the standing of our country.
How many other countries have had a Nobel Lauriet as leader of the country?
His diatribe was rich with irony, mentioning fascists like Hitler and Stalin. Sadly, he doesn't have the mental faculties to actually understand the irony.
It's a sad comment on the state of the nation when the so-called Leader of the Free World needs the Waahmbulance. And we've still got to survive 543 more days of this sorry-assed stuff.
In all fairness to the President, and his striking similarity to Giuliani, it must be admitted that he and Osama Bin Laden are polar opposites.
Osama appears intelligent, and competent.
Osama has won as many hearts and minds as Bush has lost, and that's a lot.
Osama has won the duel with Bush, Mano y Dummy.
I'll bet Osama's major regret is that Bush can't run for a third term, he'd be The Dummy's most ardent supporter, purely out of his own personal best interests.
This just in:
Bush is still a lying moron.
Webster's just updated their dictionary. When you look up "desperation" you now see a photo of herr dubyah.
Overwhelmingly the most embarrassing President in U.S. history = GWB.
They won't instill fear into the people of Iraq over a dam that is about to collapse but Monkey Boy will never miss an opportunity to be Chicken Little in this country.
hail satan!
The extent to which this adminstration goes to NOT take any responsibility for what has gone wrong so far during its time in office, as well as to blame its detractors for all its failures, is exceeded only by its supporters' eagerness to continue to support a lying, losing executive team.
Failing to defeat the Taliban, he's probably hoping Code Pink will be a less formidable opponent.
What a clown this guy is.
His performance at the Heritage Foundation reminded me of the time I performed in Fiddler on the Roof in high school. I sucked so bad.(white baptist texans don't do jewish roles justice)
yet my parents and the audience clapped with such enthusiasm you would have thought that Topol himself were there.
Bush constantly contradicted himself, came accross as mean and uninformed, yet the Heritage audience clapped with the same entusiasm my parents had.
jack jett
www.yabbadabbahubbado.com
TOTAL.......INCOMPETENCE. The whole world is laughing at our predicament.
Dr. Matt @ 18:
Also see "Moron" and "Incompetence"
Bush's prior indifference to Bin Laden doesn't contradict his recent statement. He just feels that citizens who speak up like those in MoveOn and CodePink are a greater threat than Bin Laden.
Americans are asking, why does he hate us? He hates our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.
Both Bush and the Congressional Democrats recognize who the true US opposition party is: MoveOn. Congrats to their insurgent leadership and to local heros Code Pink. Be sure to check out Code Pink's hot t-shirts - well worth the donation.
Laughable. I think he might be early stage dementia. Nobody can really be that artless and be preznit.
Because I see his lips moving, but it's just nonsense coming out of his mouth.
On a side note, CNN and the rest of the MSM are just as much of a fixed propaganda machine as the administrations press conferences.
The Chimp should sit down, light up his crack pipe, drink a beer and calm down.
Take it easy George, our long national nightmare is almost over.
When Mr. Bush was asked whether he considered waterboarding illegal, he said he would not discuss specific methods used in the interrogation of suspected terrorists. “It doesn’t make any sense to tell the enemy whether we use those techniques or not,” he said.
“And the techniques we use by highly trained professionals are within the law,” the president said. “That’s what’s important for America to know.” If the techniques are with in the law, then what is stopping Mr Mukasey from stating that waterboarding is illegal.
Mr Bush said all techniques are within the law.
Sooner or later this blathering idiot is going to spawn a full blown riot with his fear mongering hate speeches..at least I hope so.
He left off part of a quote.......He said we are at war....(the part he left off) and I am the one who started it.
JohnnyBravo @ 27:
LOL. Too funny.
Oh, and how about this one: Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Can't. Stop. Laughing.
jack jett @ 25:
Great illustration. It really brings the point home.
Congress needs to get a back bone and impeach this increasingly belligerent immoral president.
We should tell Bush and Cheney that they won't be prosecuted for their war crimes if they will just step down now. The amount of damage they can do in the next 14 months will probably be the final blow for many of us.
When their on the ranch in Paraguary, the responsible portion of the American people will be cleaning up this catastrophe.
Hey Bush, where's Bin Laden?
"Judgement Day" is coming...and they might not like what it's gonna say.
With apologies to Senator Dodd: "A threat, an attack on patriotism, and 9/11."
What does it say when Giuliani has to dumb down Bush?
Preacher Boob @ 16:
To the Contrary!
Bush and Osama are twins seperated at birth:
1. both rich brats coddled by their families
2. both failed oil businessmen
3. both religious fanatics who have mobilized people through fear and loathing
4. both have no problem martyring other people's sons and daughters for their cause
5. both are still self-deluded assholes who believe they are doing God's will
Pah-leeze. They have both become the monsters they fight.
Both can will burn in hell!
ciu @ 43:
6. Each owes much of his power to opposing the other.
His diatribe was rich with irony, mentioning fascists like Hitler and Stalin. Sadly, he doesn’t have the mental faculties to actually understand the irony.
You know...imitation, flattery and all that.
I know it is a tragedy that he is president, but there are times where he makes me laugh out loud, and this is one of them.
May he enjoy as much success suppressing MoveOn and Code Pink as he has enjoyed finding Bin Laden.
RobertPaul @ 13:
You act surprised, but Bush and the American people deserve each other. Proof of this comes in the form of the recent Zogby poll showing a majority of likely voters (52%) would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. This includes 41% of Democrats and 44% of Independents. There is no evidence that Iran is building such a weapon of course, but the American people have repeatedly demonstrated that they aren't very bright and are not about to let little details like that get in the way of destroying yet another country that hasn't attacked it.
As for a way forward (the plan as you put it), it is patently obvious that both major political parties are corrupt beyond reform and drunk with blood lust and hubris, and need to be completely de-legitimized and ultimately destroyed, and the entire Washington cess-pool of an establishment lobbyists and all needs to be pulled out by its roots and thrown in the trash.
Yes, and clearly Bush needs Bin Laden.
The Decider cannot win hearts and minds. His only option is to put bloggers in the same sentence as Osama bin Ladin.
"it ain't a lie if you tell it enough...no WMD's, well you know that's just TOUGH!"
-Wackiavelli
Oh blow it out your ass Chimpy... You're 9/11 terrorism boogieman story is waaay the fuck tired and worn out.. Just like all of us having had to put up with all your other bullshit for seven fucking years!! NOMINATE someone who isn't one of your frikkin lapdogs and maaaaybe you can get that kind of nomination thru... Of course you're just gonna have to accept that this type person is not going to buy or support your 'torture/it ain't torture if we do it nod nod wink wink' bullshit... Otherwise... if you can't see your way past that total obsticle to an honest AG appointment... Then fuck you and any tool you send for ANY POST...Far as I'm concerned, you and yer hissy fit bullshit is waaay dun! You need your ass hauled off to the Hague asshole. An honest AG ought to look into that......Which means I guess we just won't have an USAG as long as yer still parkin your punk ass in the oval office you two-bit dimestore prick...JD
The Shrub is getting pretty desperate right now, 2 failed attempts to alarm us in as many days!
That's a lot of air time for him, he usually keeps quiet lately.
Must be getting worried that nobody believes him anymore.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Hope he wets his bed tonight.
Shrub is sounding more and more mentally challenged these days. Grasping at the straws of fear once again.
Kucinich is looking more and more brilliant by questioning herr dubyah's mental health.
Marge @ 35:
Kudos Marge!
This is the greatest comment I have ever seen on this site. I love it
Fuck you, George.
He's the Alcoholic-In-Chief. I hate to diss alcoholics. I love drink as much as the next man, or woman. But this piece of shit needs some derision.
AIC BUSH.
yuk it up all you want, Bush's fear mongering always works, and I sadly doubt it'll stop working now. Dems will start to panic that, were this to be the ONE TIME they stand up to Bush, this will be the ONE TIME the tur'ists successfully strike, and everyone will believe it's because they struck down the vots on Mukasey, they spent too much time on health care, they tried to stop tax cuts for the wealthy, they forgot that we've always been at war with Oceania, etc.
Bush is waiting for 08 when this becomes someone else's problem..
The rest of the GOP is waiting for post-08, planting seeds of doubt as to the competency of the Dems, so when things don't become instantly better, they can say "See? Dems suck!" and then the mods will veer right again.
Dems are waiting for 08 under the assumption that there will be a rout and a Dem sweep.
And while they all wait, we all suffer. Some of us become crippled. Some of us lose our homes and/or healthcare. Some will die, naturally. Some of us will die needlessly.
the only ones who won't be saved if a mukasey or someone of his ilk isn't confirmed will be the administration traitors who declared war on the constitution and humanitarian treaties such as the geneva conventions.
bush and cheney and their croneys sense the proverbial noose of congressional oversight tightening and all too clearly fear the future prosecutions they harbinger.
ciu @ 43:
Wait a minute! I thought Bush and Ken Lay were twins separated at birth. Could Bush have been part of two sets of twins separated-at-birth? Does that explain his semi-manhood, half-wittedness?
This Bush guy is going to be an ass hole right through to the bloody end, isn't he? It seems like he wants to leave absolutely no doubt in anyones mind that he is the all time biggest dork to ever squat in the White House.
I for one will be overjoyed once we're rid of this, this petulant little one dimensional dweeb once and for all.
Yahoo! News:
Bush: No attorney general if not Mukasey
I'll bet Bush looked deeply into Mukasey'e eyes, and instantly recognized the bond, the love, of two verbally-challenged, mentally-defective, incoherent psychotics, and decided he was 'The One' to continue the policies of the Bush DOJ branch of the Liberty University Law School's biblical commandments graduates, with Old Testament advanced degrees, following in the footsteps of Yoo and Gonzales, who made Ashcroft look good, no mean feat in itself.
Fascist States of America @ 61:
Wow. That film strip international video comes immediately to mind.
http://www.filmstripinternational.com/
Brilliant.
How the hell would Mukasey prevent a 9/11 anyway? Wasn't there an AG, Ashcroft, in place on 9/11? And he knew it was coming because he stopped flying commerical, and yet it occured anyway. Jesus, Mary, Joseph.
Preacher Boob @ 59:
ciu, one thing I think we can agree on. In many sets of twins, there is an 'evil' twin, and a 'good' twin. Any conceivable set of twins which contain a Bush, could only be called the 'evil twins'.
Jump in the Ring of Fire @ 64:
Hi Jump :)
What's with the 'Jump in the Ring of Fire' thing?
I was much more partial to 'Jump to the Left'
ya know? ;^p
"Move-On bloggers" WTF? Is he referring to Move-On members who happen to visit weblogs? Blog posters who happen to belong to Move-On? Does he even know WTF he's talking about? (that's a rhetorical question). Why is he so afraid of Code Pink? Afraid they'll 'out' him?
Is he even relevant?
So many questions...
Holding Justice Hostage = Terrorism.
justabill @ 67:
Oops, I forgot to change it back on this site. I was in the ring of CA fires and singing old Johnny Cash songs for my dad...
I'm back to the Left now.
;)
As Grampa Preston Bush was making the family fortune as Hitler's banker
You can't sit on your ass for 5 years and do nothing about someone like Osama, and then expect to be credible by claiming that bloggers and political groups are as much of a threat to us as Osama.
Honestly, can anyone remember the last frickin' thing bush ever did in a bona fide attempt to get Osama? I sure can't.
We are not at war...we are at fear!
Fear planted and fertilized by the republican party. It turns Americans into cowards that will buy into any authoritarian that offers a security blanket in trade for power and cash. It even turns Democrats into cowards.
Where is another FDR that can stand up and say that "All we have to fear is fear itself". That was a Democrat.
not stupid @ 71:
Good ole' Prescott Bush was involved in a fascist plot to overthrow the US government.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070725_bushs_fascist_pedig...
Straight Shooter @ 72:
I can.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/25/did-the-white-house-miss-a-chan...
He bona
fidef***ed up afain in Aug.Hey George! STFU!!! Nobody's listening to you...
Question to right wingers: Are there any waterboarding techniques that you would disapprove being used on our soldiers? If so, what are they?
If not, ok.
milkman @ 60:
You're not alone. Who does this guy think he is? "Make me dictator-for-life or suffer the consequences!"
Okay, all you "Move-On" bloggers", raise your hand if you remember this jerk from the 3rd grade. You know, the little whiney one who shot spitballs, beat up girls, smelled bad and was never reprimanded because his daddy was the principal.
Oh, and thanks for the timewarp, Bill W.
xo
Love the way you nailed gwb with his own damn words in this one.
:D
Wasn't it the REpublicans that were crying over the MoveOn.Org ads.
He is such a cry baby. No AG sounds better than Gozo or this current nominee.
So will the Dems FINALLY stand up to this skidmark?
My heart says yes. My head thinks not.
The President is throwing some tantrums lately. He is a baby. Too bad he is getting everything he wants. How did we let our Constitution get so screwed up by this administration? Why did we pass legislation like the Patriot Act? Why did we allow this madman to go into IRaq? Why are we being spied on? What allowed all this crap to happen?
Hi fellas, do not be so unkind to your President [he cannot help himself], he is our (Australian) Prime Minister, Johnie Howard's best mate and our Johnie needs to be re-elected in three weeks to keep up the war you lot started.
MA.
keith @ 77:
Actually, waterboarding techniques are being used all the time on our soldiers.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004617.php
Orangutan. @ 83:
To quote Rudy Guiliani: nine eleven
MA @ 84:
3 weeks huh? I'm so jealous.
I'm so hoping you all turn out that fool.
For the cost of ONE BULLET Bush could've put and end to Bin-Ladin....
America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn’t
By Col. David Hunt, Oct. 25
…We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
The current “boneheads” in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about - just for a moment - acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent.
The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan
Katie Couric, Brian Williams are too afraid of upsetting their Republican masters to report this story!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304306,00.html
Bin Laden has been dead a log time. That's why Bush disbanded the CIA unit on him. That's why Bush doesn't think about him any more. But Bush wants YOU to think about him, and keeps this lie going for whatever political capital he can squeeze out of him.
Lamer than lame,this jerk-in-chief makes a comment,then looks around for the approval that he so desperately needs,and when he gets it (like,duh,dude,your at the Heritage Foundation) he`s happy.I`m just kinda shaking my head and thinking "What`s up with this place?At least we used to be mediocre."Oh,the hell with it;I`m going to go watch Survivor China.
Copy of an email sent to reporter Laurie Kellman about her article linked in the story:
Think I'm out of line?
Boosh acts like a fifth grader? He's unable to admit failure or stupidity?
The answer must be to mainline Imitrex straight into the skull. Let the gibble jabble mix with the willy nilly, then you'll find him going down the drain. Through the twists and turns, then you'll come out doing the back stroke down the great, green, greasy Limbpopo River, if you know what I mean. Well, then everything will make sense. Especially as you give Laura a well-oiled and bemused grin. Her arms will wave and her gums will flap non-sensically as if they were tied by strings, just like Boosh, and being pulled by an unseen puppet master some where in the dankest recesses of some clandestine diabolical bunker, three miles below the low-tide mark, where scum sucking zygotes and lower forms of humanity hide their worthless asses from the light of reason and reality. But you will not be afraid of her or his madcapped gesticulations and giggling genuflections, for you are the annointed one. The one which has been annointing hiz sef' all afternoon with the bubbly carbonated incantations of the Mead of the Druids. Some call it Breesky, some calls it Suds, you may even call for the Bud. Newts, salamanders, and mud puppies alike will all march past not only in astonishing formations (the judges liked what they saw!), but in impressive numbers, despite being dispirited over the lingering Korean black dog meat boycott still in effect. And that nasty, nasty stick of butter never materialized until it was time to retire for the evening.
Medford Tim @ 91:
Because most of todays reporters do have the brains to pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the leg.
The Chimp is insane. That's all there is to it. He's a man-child, a 6-year-old in a 60-year-old's body, who throws fits and calls people names when he doesn't get exactly his way.
Bush about to be impeached for treason and war crimes and crimes against humanity is a little worried that his appointee to the post of AG is going to be flatly rejected for not renouncing the bush admins use of torture (e.g. waterboarding) and that bush and cheney and their crooked cronies find themselved on the other side of an International War Crimes Tribunal facing serious charges. Rummy has already been charged, and bush and blair were found guilty in abstentia.
I expect bush and cheney to flee the whitehouse to his newly purchased plot in Paraguay sooner than later, after their crimes are fully exposed to the public.
Already 61 percent of those polled in Vermont want bush impeached, and 64 percent want cheney impeached.
The heat is on, and you 8 percenters still support these traitors? WTF!
I am so sick of that smirking mentally ill dry drunk freak!
"Some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden"
Isn't that what this moron should have done in August of 2001 when the CIA informed him that al Qaida intended to strike the US?
Frybread @ 94:
...And it's why I hate rich kids. Most of 'em have a bullshit sense of entitlement and are absolutely clueless to how the real world works.
Layne @ 7:
Moveon and CodePINK just got another donation from me. Thanks for the commercial Chimpy!
IMPEACH!
Gore/Kucinich/Obama/Big Bird/ANYONE but Bush '08
When ever a Republican is in danger of losing something they always turn to the old stand by 9/11 or Bin Laden for help.
raymond @ 26:
Apart from the ones getting murdered by the US ....... the rest go between being pissed of and laughing at the absurdity of it yes.
Urban Sombrero @ 97:
He wouldn't of gotten in 2nd time around if he didn't let it happen though.
Let me paraphrase here...
"If you don't give me what I want, then the terrorists have already won."
Does that sound about right?
1984 + 2007 = HELP!
What's sad and infuriating is the Dems cave after these Chimp tirades. Nevermind how ridiculous and immature they make him look to us and the rest of the world.
When Bush sees real democracy taking place(in our own county that is) it just annoys the heck out of him. It's amazing how thin-skinned this guy is. But I'm amused that bloggers can have this much impact with the White House. And the 9/11 reference: so lame.
jimijazz @ 106:
He's so thin-skinned because he is massively insecure. In other words, the Chimp knows he's a loser and dimwhit and is where he is because he was born into money.
Frybread @ 94:
"That`s not true.I am the Decider.Sure I need approval desperately,and I hate derision,But I am not insane.On the contrary,I`m sane .I`real sane. I`m just an evil fuck."
"Someday, all those cocksuckers will get caught."--Frank Zappa,1988
Layne @ 7:
Nixon was just crazy ... I don't believe he was incompetent.
Bush is crazy AND incompetent.
What a threat!
No attorney general if not Mukasey! If the Senate doesn't do it Dubya's way, he's going to take his ball and go home. And we won't have an attorney general to protect us from bogeymen -- in a time of war!
Well, we went the entire Gonzalez years without an attorney general, or, really, an AG of negative value, one who made us less safe. And yet, somehow, the republic survived. The republic survived because the AG is simply not necessary for getting the legal and law enforcement services that make up the DoJ to do their jobs. A good AG, in fact, like Janet Reno, does the opposite of being a good player on the President's team, because it is absolutely critical to proper functioning of the legal and law enforcement services of the DoJ that they be protected by a strong and independent AG from political influence. This President doesn't want, and probably wouldn't survive long in office, with a strong and independent AG, which Mukasey has proven himself not to be by kowtowing on the question of whether or not water-boarding is torture. I'm sure Al Capone didn't want a strong and independent DA in Chicago either. But what any President wants should not be the last word on who becomes AG, and what a criminal President wants should not be allowed, under any circumstances, to have any influence on who becomes AG.
The Congressional Dems should see and raise. When they pass the re-authorization for DoJ, they should omit all of the political appointees. DoJ will do just fine with career attorneys running things until this President leaves office. If there are technical personnel issues that would keep DoJ from being run for 18 months by civil servants without political appointees, these can be addressed in the CR that establishes this regime. DoJ will perform just as efficiently at doing its job, and, better yet, we will all be able to sleep better at night knowing that the legal and law enforcement arms of DoJ are infinitely less likely to be used for political ends. I would trust most career public servants over most Bush appointees for competence, and any career public servant over any Bush appointee for fidelity to the Constitution.
Frybread @ 105:
It's quite a surreal experience from the relatively normal confines of Canuckistan to see The Chimpenfuerher speak ... about anything.
It's no longer a matter of his credibility but his sanity.
No AG?...Good.....just another way that shows how F#!!#*^ STUPID he is.........it sounds like a 7 year old saying "It's my ball and you can't play with it".......and this moron got away with stealing the Presidency.......the next year+ can't go buy fast enough.....
don't hate me @ 88:
Bin Laden was handed to the U.S. government on a silver platter. Not just once but mulitple times. One of my dad's client was inolved in one of these cases, where information was provided in advance as to his whereabouts. The story got more press in Europe than it did in the U.S. I think the U.S. media was covering a story about Paris Hilton's panties or something. This was around the time that U.S. military chieftans were telling people that bin Laden was not really the objective after all. And it was because of "imcompetence." lol. Right.
And the Democrats are not really corrupt and complicit in all of these war crimes themselves. They're just "afraid" of the Republicans.
And oh yeah... I won't cum in your mouth either.
And about that check... it's in the mail.
Enough of this ASSHOLE! He should be impeached. It is lone over due. Where are the "no courage" democrats? MIA!
If bush promises to resign along with dick tomorrow, I'd be happy to go WITHOUT ANY PRESIDENT for the next 14 months. That will prove just how IRRELEVANT Bushco has made the Executive branch.
I find it amusing that Bush thinks it's unfair to ask Mukasey about techniques on which he has not been briefed. Bush says that Mukasey doesn't know whether they use waterboarding or not ... as if that's relevant to the issue.
Mukasey is being asked on his opinion of the legality of it. Not whether or not he thinks the administration broke the law. That is another issue, which can be considered separately.
Nice try though, Dubya.
I hope I live longer than he does.......just so I can celebrate the day he dies....I know that sounds horrible.....it's just that I'm so sick and tired of this moron and what he's done to this country...
Oh talk a great REMINDER ... thanks buck fush!
I just rememebered, gotta send another check$$$ to MoveOnOrg to help them again.
bush ... MoveOnOrg #1 fundraiser!
:-)
My hair stylist and i were just saying how embarrassing it is to have this MORON for a president. No free speech under George W!
Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf .....From a wolf in sheeps clothing
i just finished watching "NO END IN SIGHT."
it made me physically ill.
This government took those towers down. They have an agenda. They have a goal. They know what their doing. They stand to reap $30 trillion dollars in oil revenue if successful. Follow the money.
bush had saddam sent to the gallows and saddam handled it like a man. Does anyone think that bush would handle it like saddam? i think bush would be sniveling coward at the gallows.
tr @ 123:
You're almost absolutely right. Bush is already a sniveling coward, and he's not even at the gallows yet.
Fascist States of America @ 61:
Same old, same old. We've not had an Attorney General, by any sane person's definition, since Bush's inauguration.
Marvin El Canucki @ 109:
Nixon was crazy.
Bush is mindless, thus stupidly ignorant and incompetent. A shell. And a shill, an excellent on for MoveOn et.al. Thank you Jaysus, and your disciple, The Dummy.
Have no fear..........Democrats will eventually give Bush everything he wants. Oh sure, they'll complain a bit; and maybe whine and cry foul. But rest assured, in the end, they will give him everything he asks for; and get absolutely nothing in return.
We've seen it play out this way too many times, and it always ends the same way. It would save everyone a lot of time and aggravation if they just vote to give it to him now.
It's so frustrating that 25% of the population sets the agenda for the rest of us, and there is not a damn thing anyone can (or will?) do about it.
I used to get energized by the comments on blogs like this one..........not any more. Same shit, different day.
JHR @ 127:
ditto
Off-topic, but this just occurred to me...
Has anyone checked George's Huggies lately? He might be overdue for a change. This might explain his ornery gibberish...some nonsensical rant about bin Laden and Code Pink.
A noun, a verb, 911...now if I don't get my way I will hold my breath until I turn blue. The 24%ers fall for it everytime.
I think Dubya is drinking and doing drugs.
A vote FOR Mukasey is a vote FOR torture and will not be forgotten.
PS - Put impeachment back on the table.
justabill @ 63:
Many thanks for the video. EVERYONE should watch it and sing along. Great stress relief.
What a piece of shit this psycopathic ass-hole is.
Well, I am getting pretty fed up with our president and his
supporters blaming war protestors and Democrats in Congress
and liberal judges, and Moveon.org for our current
troubles. And intimating that if you don't support his
agenda, YOU will be responsible for another 9-11.
But the way I see it...
If he and his administration had done their jobs before
Sept. 11, 2001, and paid heed to all the warnings that were
clearly shown to them, we never would have had 9-11.
Somehow he escapes blame....well I blame him.
Lenny Laks
Mendocino, CA
Bush is now reduced to the equivalent of stealing candy from babies. If he had the nation's and his own best interests at heart he and Cheney would resign, letting Pelosi run a caretaker government, and then leave the country for a well deserved exile in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis took in Idi Amin, so they probably would be willing to accept the deluded duo.
"No Attorney General if not Mukasey"?
Good.
Less damage.
Tom Belt @ 134:
And talking to the heritage foundation no less, some of the most hateful people alive, figures ......
I wonder if this stupid bastard even has the minimal intelligence to realize that in 14 months, there will likely be a democratic president, senate, congress, and oh yes, attorney general too!
And that the new president could spend their first 72 hours in office unsigning all his statements, disbanding his mercenaries, defunding his cronies, freezing their stolen assets, and holding them all accountable under the law - without the executive privelage B.S. card at their disposal any longer.
Not to mention the mood of the country when the recession is officially announced - along with the passing of the middle class. I believe there is going to be some serious karma dealt out to these clowns, and it couldn't happen to a bigger bunch of scumbags. The only good thing about a president Hillary I can think of, is that she may nail these pricks as payback for what they did to Bill back in 98'; and she's just the person to dish it out.
Fuck this repulsive sick little puke and anybody who supports him. I'm so sick of the fucker. I have never disliked anybody so much. God I'll be glad when this menace is gone after Jan. 2009.
Having Mukasey would be the equivalent of having nothing, so let the bastard go down in flames. Anyone who George of the Bungle nominates would be a mental defective anyway, so nothing seems like a good thing to me.
None of this shit this son of a bitch says scares me. He started the fucking war, he's a damn war criminal and that is how history will see the piece of shit.
Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed by Scott Hennen, host of the Hot Talk radio program on WDAY AM 970 in Fargo, N.D., during the White House Radio Day, Tuesday, October 24, 2006.
QUES: ...And terrorist interrogations and that debate is another example. And I've had people call and say, please, let the Vice President know that if it takes dunking a terrorist in water, we're all for it, if it saves American lives. Again, this debate seems a little silly given the threat we face, would you agree?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I do agree. And I think the terrorist threat, for example, with respect to our ability to interrogate high value detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, that's been a very important tool that we've had to be able to secure the nation. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed provided us with enormously valuable information about how many there are, about how they plan, what their training processes are and so forth, we've learned a lot. We need to be able to continue that.
The Congress recently voted on this question of military commissions and our authority to continue the interrogation program. It passed both Houses, fortunately. The President signed it into law, but the fact is 177 Democrats in the House -- or excuse me, 162 Democrats in the House voted against it, and 32 out of 44 senators -- Democratic senators voted against it. We wouldn't have that authority today if they were in charge. That's a very important issue in this campaign.
Are we going to allow the executive branch to have the authority granted and authorized by the Congress to be able to continue to collect the intelligence we need to defend the nation.
QUES: Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It's a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President "for torture." We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in. We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we're party to and so forth. But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture, and we need to be able to do that.
And thanks to the leadership of the President now, and the action of the Congress, we have that authority, and we are able to continue to program.
A vote for Mukasey means immunity for Bush and Cheney on torture that they clearly condone.
kingston @ 142:
And that is what is so crazy about it. Georgy Boy is bullying the Congress into giving him what he wants for a war he started (and has since screwed up) all by his little old himself. What sucks is the boy-king will be gone after 2008 and the country and a future president will have clean up this little boy's mess.
Frybread @ 144:
I don't think the world is going to let chimpy and co slip off into hiding after all the death and distruction they have unleased. ;) but it's going to be up to the US to make sure they don't skip town :D
I'm running out of adjectives.
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"Some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama Bin Laden"
You cannot make that shit up. Precious.
F*UCK YOU
BUSH
HEH...
Bush cares more about what Bin Laden thinks than what the bloggers and protestors (you know, actual Americans) think.
You heard it here first.
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Dear George,
If you aren't that concerned about Osama, why should Americans be worried about him?
To you he's bin Forgotten.
On torture; Is torture EVER an American Principle? This is what you argue for.
So to clear it up, you Dictate to us what America does and doesn't do. You've gone as far as forbidding Congress to weigh in by denying them the oversight needed to gain clarity. You're obstruction of Justice will come to bite you and your weenie conspirator, Dick. Usurpation of Congress, the American people and your Oath to our Constitution and numerous violations of the Laws derived from it, is never, treated kindly by history. Especially when they are as public as they are.
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