FOX NEWS: Neither Fair, Nor Balanced... And Deservedly NOT Hosting Democratic Primary Debate(s)!

Unless it's just Biden & Kucinich...
Everybody else has BOYCOTTED:
No Edwards,
No Hillary;
No... 'Bama!
No Richardson.
No Dodd? Nope.
"Fox 'News'?" NO THANK YOU!

The Politics Of Permanent Occupation -- Bush & Cheney, Deception, And Keeping U.S. Troops In IRAQ, Indefinitely.

A TPM reader sent Josh Marshall an email... We 'stole' a copy of said email... And a better summary of the Cheney/neocon Iraq-occupation masterplan [disaster], we have not seen... So, here it is:

I have believed, from the beginning – though I have always hoped to be proven wrong – that the Bush White House (i.e. Cheney) has had as its principal goal in Iraq the establishment of a permanent military presence in that country. The neocon dream of transforming the region (from the PNAC manifesto and elsewhere) has always envisaged such a military presence. These people see America’s long-term national interest in terms of (overwhelmingly, though not exclusively) energy security and therefore the control of energy supplies. This means control of the flow of oil from the Middle East. [Relying on a mutual-interest-between-sovereign-states approach, à la western Europe, is considered naïve when it comes to Arab countries.] Everything else – from the initial justifications for the war to the current rhetoric-of-the-day (we have to ensure stability, we have to fight them there or they’ll follow us here, etc.…) – is aimed at making such control, by means of long-term military presence, possible...

Cheney, in particular, is vicious enough
to contemplate a long-term presence
at the cost of a daily (human) toll
in the dozens or hundreds as well
as ongoing domestic opposition.
He’s convinced that the US needs to be there to keep an eye on – and always to be in a position to intervene in the affairs of the region, with particular attention to the the Arabian Sea oil fields, but also the Caspian Sea oil and gas fields. Bin Laden was the publicly accepted casus belli for the invasion of Afghanistan; but finding Bin Laden is irrelevant to the true purpose: to be on the ground, to have bases, to be able to project force in the region. [Remember that, within a month or two of 9/11, Bush and his people are known to have talked about going into Iraq in order to control the southern oil fields. This was explicit, and it has been widely reported, through seldom dwelt upon as explanatory of the whole enterprise.] Similarly with Iraq: WMD, democracy, removing a tyrant, fighting Al Qaeda,… all offered for public consumption, but none of any real importance to the White House and all irrelevant to the actual goal. When the public rationales evaporate, or when events make the achievement of any of the rationales still being offered in fact impossible of achievement, the White House will still keep troops on the ground – even when their presence makes the stated goals even harder to achieve (e.g. reconciliation between Iraq’s factions), the White House will find some other justification for staying, no matter how weak. Because staying is itself the objective...

(T)he creation and maintenance
of a long-term military presence is the only policy objective that unifies, aligns and makes sense of everything Bush has done. If any other goal is posited, his policies and actions are incoherent; but if this goal is posited, they all make sense. --END--

--Seems about right, to me. And pretty obvious when it's explained well:
Nice use of parentheses (and brackets
[to make his point{s}.])

Bush/Cheney White House indeed OUTED a covert CIA-operative & RECKLESSLY undermined national security, while the Nation was at WAR!

UNBELIEVABLE! UNCONSCIONABLE!CONFIRMED: The Bush/Cheney White House indeed outed a covert-operative for spite, and undermined national security in a time of war... They used Bob Novak as their errand-boy (douchebag!).

A newly disclosed court filing from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reveals that former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson was indeed a covert agent who had traveled overseas undercover when her identity was revealed by G.O.P. gossip-columnist Bob Novak.

But pundits on the right continue to defend Novak and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of perjury in the leak investigation...

...Republican pundits (have long insisted) that Plame was not a covert agent. Even White House spokesman Tony Snow told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly in February, "She wasn't a covert agent."
:::
According to Fitzgerald... Plame traveled "sometimes in true name and sometimes in alias -- but always using cover -- whether official or non-official (NOC) -- with no ostensible relationship to the CIA."

Joe Wilson exposed Bush-Cheney's IRAQ WAR LIES, so Cheney and the VP's Office attacked the man's wife. What's wrong with that?
...THIS: Dick Cheney is a pussy: He can't handle criticism. He lies without shame... He can't handle responsibility -- personal, professional, or otherwise. And if he's gonna lie to the Country, you better not tell anybody! He'll attack your wife, smear your family, torture your kids, kill your dog, and poison the whole city... just to show you! Damnit.--Ambassador Joe Wilson, w/ his wife Valerie--

"Crazy Jew" Joe Lieberman visits Baghdad. ...Brought to you by Depends Undergarments w/ Aloe!

Don't leave the Green Zone without yours:

Depends Adult Undergarments,
Now w/ Aloe & Leak-Lock(tm).

Monica-Gate... White-Trash Loser w/ 4th-Rate Education Outsmarts Republican Congressmen... Plays AN INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL!

Week-old story, new analysis...
Monica Goodling, at her Judiciary Committee Hearing, played innocent-little-girl after trashing the Justice Department for Karl Rove; And apparently, it worked...[Democrats are bullies; mean people.]

"At heart," she testified, "I am a fairly quiet girl, who tries to do the right thing and tries to treat people kindly along the way."

The G.O.P. dudes that questioned her didn't just treat her with-kid-gloves, they actually praised her (for showing up), & treated her like SHE was some kinda victim, after she admitted to routinely BREAKING THE LAW. The Dems were smart, and let their female Rep's ask the tough(est) questions.

LET US REMEMBER THE FALLEN & THE FAMILIES ON MEMORIAL DAY

As we try to forget...

...the words of Laura Bush from April 2007 that "NO ONE SUFFERS" MORE THAN GEORGE AND LAURA BUSH... watching the Iraq war (on Fox). No one(!)

God Bless The Troops, and Bring 'Em Home! Amen, Herb.

BIRD CRAPS ON PRESIDENT BUSH as he says, "I’ve got confidence in Al Gonzales." Coincidence, or A MESSAGE FROM GOD?

Just as Bush was praising his DISGRACED Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who politicized the Justice Department and the federal courts, and whose entire testimony to Congress has been contradicted, God sent a messenger from the Heavens* (a sparrow)...

Just as Bush said, "I’ve got confidence in Al Gonzales doin’ the job..."

Ha! Ha ha ha-ha. But seriously:
Praise the Lord, Herb.

*In the first pic [video-here!], the little white-spot on Bush's left-sleeve (right-side on pic)
is a big bird-sh!t...

"BIRD POOP," as the ABC News TV-caption says.

Monica Goodling, A Waste Of (Oxygen?) Good Immunity On A Bad Witness?

She admitted, rather matter-of-factly, to regularly breaking the law by hiring hack Republicans and excluding qualified Democrats in federal-prosecutors' offices across the country. Her memory was a bit Alberto-esque: "I don't remember," she said -- quite a bit for someone with immunity. Many of her answers were just meaningless, like my favorite: (paraphrasing)::

"different people said different things (about different stuff) at different times..."

SAY WHAT? (That happened to me, today!)

She pretended not to know
Karl Rove [Karl who?].
She said she regretted her (life) criminal activities: "I know I crossed the line; but I didn't intend to commit a crime." [that's nice!]
She thought her job was: "TO SERVE THE PRESIDENT." [She didn't mention the PEOPLE, the LAW, or the CONSTITUTION.]Someone oughta look into whether she should really be runnin' around (amuck) with a license to practice law... Let her (burn?) work at the RNC, after she serves her sentence...
Yeah, I know, Herb.

Karl Rove's U.S. Justice Department... SCANDALS, LIES, COVER-UPS, & INCOMPETENTS...

"BUSHIES"




Monica Goodling -- an inexperienced Jesus-freak, recently graduated from Pat Robertson's "Regent Law School" -- is testifying with-immunity to Congress Wednesday. She was Karl Rove's "bitch," hiring and firing(!) based on political party... like a Black Widow spider sucking out the insides, then spitting out the carcass (of the Justice Dept.!).

YESTERDAY'S NYT EDITORIAL, LINK BELOW

Young operatives like (Monica) Goodling were apparently allowed to hire and promote based on party membership. Political appointees cleared the way for laws designed to disenfranchise minority voters...
AND...
Rachel Paulose, a 33-year-old Republican activist with thin prosecutorial experience, was assigned to Minnesota. If (she) indicted a prominent Democrat tomorrow, everyone would believe it was a political hit...

Rachel Paulose, similarly, gutted our Federal justice-system... In Minnesota, as the inexperienced newly-installed Bush U.S. Attorney. She was such a hack that the entire career staff at the US Atty's Office in Minnesota QUIT, rather than stay and work under her... nice leadership!

The Serious Damage The Bush Administration Has Done To America Must Be Repaired...

"Why This Scandal Matters"
Editorial, NY Times
--- 21 May 2007 ---

As Monica Goodling, a key player in the United States attorney scandal, prepares to testify before Congress on Wednesday, the administration’s strategy is clear. It has offered up implausible excuses, hidden the most damaging evidence and feigned memory lapses, while hoping that the public’s attention moves on. But this scandal is too important for the public or Congress to move on. This story should not end until Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is gone, and the serious damage that has been done to the Justice Department is repaired.

The Justice Department is no ordinary agency. Its 93 United States attorney offices, scattered across the country, prosecute federal crimes ranging from public corruption to terrorism. These prosecutors have enormous power: they can wiretap people’s homes, seize property and put people in jail for life. They can destroy businesses, and affect the outcomes of elections. It has always been understood that although they are appointed by a president, usually from his own party, once in office they must operate in a nonpartisan way, and be insulated from outside pressures.

This understanding has badly broken down. It is now clear that United States attorneys were pressured to act in the interests of the Republican Party, and lost their job if they failed to do so. The firing offenses of the nine prosecutors who were purged last year were that they would not indict Democrats, they investigated important Republicans, or they would not try to suppress the votes of Democratic-leaning groups with baseless election fraud cases.

The degree of partisanship in the department is shocking...

It is hard not to see the fingerprints of Karl Rove...

Justice Department headquarters has become deeply partisan. Young operatives like Ms. Goodling were apparently allowed to hire and promote based on party membership. Political appointees cleared the way for laws designed to disenfranchise minority voters, and brought litigation to remove Democratic-leaning voters from the rolls.

The department’s integrity lies in tatters. As a result of the purge, Tim Griffin, a Republican operative and Karl Rove protégé, was installed as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Arkansas. Rachel Paulose, a 33-year-old Republican activist with thin prosecutorial experience, was assigned to Minnesota. If either indicted a prominent Democrat tomorrow, everyone would believe it was a political hit.

Congress has to save the Justice Department, something President Bush shows no interest in doing. It should pass a resolution of "no confidence"
in Mr. Gonzales,
and push for his removal. But it also needs to insist on new leadership that will restore the department’s traditions of professionalism and impartiality, and re-establish that in the United States, the legal system does not work to advance the interests of a political party.

Thank you! Let's hear it for the "Old Gray Lady!" It's nice to see the media call a spade a "spade."

BUSH Defends Al Gonzales for DISGRACING the U.S. Justice Department & NEUTERING the Federal Courts; He Dismisses Any Inquiry as "POLITICAL THEATER"

Bush & Gonzales: Definitely a TRAGEDY...
It's not funny.Partisan prosecutors pursuing political prisoners?

THE FOLLOWING IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE:
Hypothetically... If I were a Democrat, and I got a summons or subpoena from the Federal District Court in my state -- for any reason -- I would write a letter to the Judge, explaining why I would not be responding. I bet that Judge would be furious, at somebody!

Maybe, in this hypothetical, I'd appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, where I'd ask Alito & Roberts to recuse themselves from the case, for obvious reasons.

That could get messy, Herb.

NOBODY Wants To Work In Alberto Gonzales's DISGRACED Justice Department... NOBODY!

Workin' with a bunch of Regent Law School Jesus-freak rookie-attorneys, and (bonus!) getting blamed for stuff when your crooked, incompetent, loser boss gets caught lying?That sounds swell... What, no takers?

[T]he Justice Department needs to find a new Deputy Attorney General for a lame-duck administration (George W. Bush), under a scandal-plagued Attorney General (Alberto Gonzales).
:::
And now no one wants the gig? Who would've guessed?

These guys are good! But, Al's... 'bout to lose his battleship, I 'spect, Herb.

-- GENERAL HOSPITAL - I.C.U. --

More on the Ashcroft-incapacitation-exploitation, in March 2004... Bush, desperate to continue his illegal domest spying program.
I wonder why (monitoring John Kerry's calls?).
The Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004...

No one is asking Mr. Bush to talk about classified information, and no one is discounting the terrorist threat. But there is a serious question here about how far Mr. Bush went to pressure his lawyers to implement his view of the law. There is an even more serious question about the president's willingness, that effort having failed, to go beyond the bounds of what his own Justice Department found permissible.
:::
The president would like to make this unpleasant controversy disappear behind the national-security curtain. That cannot be allowed to happen. [END]

Q: WHAT'S WRONG HERE?

The Bush Administration, hard-at-work, ruining the U.S. Government one incompetent-crony at a time...

The Commerce Department's inspector general, who is supposed to look into complaints of wrongdoing by government officials, committed "egregious violations" of the federal law
that protects whistle-blowers by retaliating against two subordinates, a government investigation has concluded.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel found that Inspector General Johnnie E. Frazier wrongly demoted the two employees during an investigation of his spending, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Washington Post. It concluded that Frazier's actions violated the Whistleblower Protection Act...

A: NOTHING'S WRONG; IT'S HOW OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT "WORKS" NOW. DUH, HERB.

March, 2004: Heavily medicated and recovering from major-surgery, A.G. John Ashcroft gets a visit, in Intensive Care, from Bush White House THUGS!

Odd... Bush doesn't wanna talk about ordering his brownshirts to the Intenive Care Unit to exploit John Ashcroft's incapacitation following surgery... (so the W.H. could continue spying on the Kerry/Edwards campaign, right?):

[The Bush] White House
has mainly used 'classification' as a way to keep embarrassing information out of public view...

(Hateful) Political-preacher, Jerry Falwell, dead... Eternity with Tinky Winky for ol' Jerry?

Where he's goin', divisive Mr. Falwell may just be forever haunted: by the ghost of a gay cartoon character he made up, and tried to SCARE HIS FLOCK WITH. ...Booh!

FLASHBACK, BBC...

The Reverend Jerry Falwell, a former spokesman for America's Moral Majority, has denounced the BBC TV children's show. He says it does not provide a good role model for children because Tinky Winky is gay!
Cheerful Tinky Winky, the purple character with the triangular aerial on his head, carries a handbag - but apart from that seems much the same as his friends Laa-Laa, Dipsy and Po...
:::
In an article called Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet, he says: "He is purple - the gay-pride colour; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay-pride symbol..." -END

And if you're thinkin' he wasn't so bad recently: In an April 2007 interview (recently!),
Falwell said this:

"I have an 'ABC' philosophy:
Anyone but Clinton..."

Jesus, Jerry, you sound like Lucifer...
And.. curtains! Good-riddance, Herb.

What happened to the respected, fair, impartial American JUSTICE SYSTEM and the Federal Courts?

THE BUSH-ADMINISTRATION RUINED IT...
THEY SIMPLY DESTROYED THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM*... AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE LAST FEW NATIONAL-ELECTIONS...
AS WELL AS...
OUR SECURITY,
OUR MILITARY,
OUR TREASURY,
THE C.I.A.,
F.E.M.A.,
AFGHANISTAN,
AND IRAQ!
HEALTH-CARE,
GAS PRICES,
FOOD SAFETY,
THE ECONOMY,
THE RESERVES
& NATIONAL GUARD, AND THE WORLD BANK; THE ENVIRONMENT; OUR REPUTATION, POSITION-OF-STRENGTH, AND STANDING IN THE WORLD... GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY, ETC., ETC.

WE NEED TO REPLACE ALL BUSH'S STOOGES & HACK-POLITICAL HIRES/APPOINTMENTS...
Damnit, Herb.

*Political prosecutors, political trials [for Democrats, minorities], criminals not pursued[Republicans, cronies, contributors: "Bushies"]; Political judges; Karl Rove as "acting A.G." politicizing Justice Dept. policy? ...Jesus Christ! (And Gonzales, sleeping behind the copy-machine? ...He's worse than Ashcroft!)

Gonzales rolled-over and let Karl Rove CONTAMINATE the Justice Department with incompetent POLITICAL HACKS & FLUNKIES...

The whole Federal Court system is ruined, I think: They've completeley FEMA-ed the Justice Department with stooges, hacks, and cronies. From Al Gonzales at Attorney General, to hack Federal prosecutors, to entry level (attorney) interns. The damage is compounded because experienced, nonpartisan employees at Justice have been leaving in droves, after working under these FAILED LEADERS...

We'll need to reverse and/or redo EVERYTHING these BOZOS have done, starting with those "tax-cuts."

True Blue Liberal, summarizing a McClatchy story:

[B]efore the midterm Congressional elections of November 2006, presidential political advisor Karl Rove orchestrated a large-scale effort to suppress voter turnout among potentially Democratic constituencies, leveraging
Department of Justice resources in the process...

[T]estimony and statements to Congressional investigators made clear that the decision to proceed with “voter fraud” charges in a series of dubious cases resulted from direction from partisan political operatives in the White House, including Rove.
:::
[W]eeks before last year’s pivotal midterm elections, the White House urged the Justice Department to pursue voter-fraud allegations against Democrats in three battleground states, a high-ranking Justice official has told congressional investigators.

[Twice] in October 2006, President Bush’s political adviser, Karl Rove, or his deputies passed the allegations on to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ then-chief of staff, Kyle Sampson...

WHY THE HELL NOT?

Why not?

CNN Traded CREDIBILITY For RATINGS With O'Reilly-Immitator Glenn Beck... They Ended Up With NEITHER!

An idiot; A bigot; A moron with an opinion:

CNN's "Headline News," -- more like Oprah-meets-Limbaugh-and-Nancy-Grace-is-born -- in prime-time... No headlines, not much news.

What 'appened, mate? Eh? [Blech!] Eh, Herb.

Except For Wealthy (& Halliburton), Economy SUCKS!

I think I'm a "peasant" now...
Well, okay then. TPM:

Welcome to the new American economy: general consumer activity down, sales at Saks Fifth Avenue up...

BUSH & CHENEY FAILED!

CHENEY & RUMSFELD'S NEOCON DISASTER...
"The consequences of FAILURE in Iraq," Bush warns, as if HE hadn't already DONE that.
'Blame Hillary? Thank you, Herb.

Bush's CLUELESS vice president, Big-Time Dick Cheney, sneaks into Bagdad, FOR ONE DAY! ...What's his HURRY?

He should be left alone, outside the Green Zone, with a rifle, and a map! ...Maybe a cantene?NO! No cantene. He can drink out of the Tigris and catch dysentary like the rest of us. 'Shameless death-peddler!
"Last throes." Right, Herb.

New Poll: Public-approval for BUSH at ALL TIME LOW!

DOWN, Down, down...* [28 percent.]
Big-Time Dick must be in single-digits by now... No? These guys really suck.

Isn't this when George Bush Sr., the father, has his Saudi-friends purchase what the son has ruined (for an inflated price)? Maybe we should do that now.*Just like where they've dragged the country!
EDIT: Speaking of "drag,"
(and we'd rather not) a friend of the publisher, who we'll call, "Barney," was shocked to hear that America's-mayor, Rudy Giuliani has a creepy habit of dressing up as a woman. Well, Barney: ........JUDY RIULIANI!
There (s)he is. Welcome to the jungle, Herb.

GOOGLE SUCKS!

Sorry... I just, uh, needed to blow off some steam. Oh, Microsoft too, w/ the "Explorer" thing... They also suck! Thank you, Herb.

Ladies and Gentlemen: H.R.H.The Queen Of England... "God Save The Queen!"

OH WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES... THE OLD BIRD DITCHED "BIG-TIME" (see post below), AND NOW SHE'S HAVIN' A BALL:

Queen Elizabeth II, at the Kentucky Derby Saturday.

God, I love the lady! Especially after seeing that look of disgust/disdain she had for Dr. Evil, in the post below, Herb.

Did The W.H. Make The Queen Spend The Day With DICK CHENEY? An Insult? "Big-Time!"

Oh my God! I hope she forgives The People...H.R.H., Her Royal Highness, the Queen makes a very rare visit to The United States... George Bush's White House sends Darth Chaney -- laughing-stock o' the world for his absurd public-comments on the destruction of Iraq -- to host the event... Why?
SHE LOOKS PRETTY HAPPY ABOUT IT!!

George Bush Jr., the president, is an unqualified IDIOT!

From the WH website! [via Americablog]:
President Bush said the following, trying desperately to make a point about something...

"I talk to a lot of families who have got a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in this global-war-on-terror, and they are in constant communication with their loved one. That's amazing, isn't it.(?) You've got a kid in Iraq who is emailing mom daily, talking about the realities of what he or she sees.

Information is moving -- you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets. It's amazing how many emails I see from people that are writing in what they think and what they hear..."

"The INTERNETS?" Jesus Christ...
Which ones? ...Oh, okay. (Daily reality checks?
If they work for "mom," perhaps the president should try them...)

Remember back: When the pundits thought he would be a good president, in 2000, because they said, "he's the kinda guy you'd wanna have a beer with..."?

No. He's not, Herb.