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You know…I thought the Walter Reed scandal would be pretty big, but since it’s obvious (or should be) to everyone that the Republicans in Congress do not support the troops, I bet they’re pretty happy that US Attorney’s purge is a bigger story. No one delving into their voting records there. Whew! At any rate, I try to be fair, but between the craptacular press and the simplistic imbeciles elected by the GOP loving dorks, it’s pretty hard. It’s well documented that I hate stupid people. Stupid people who say the following things:

1. “But no one’s talking about Clinton (it always comes back to Clinton for the brain-dead, ass-sucking, nincompoops who make up the 28% still loyal to Bush) firing 93 USA. “ Wanna know why fucktard? It’s because that’s a different thing all together. Presidents usually change out the USA when they take office. What they do not do is fire them in their second terms based on who’s pursuing cases built out of false loyalty and toeing the party line. Anyone who mentions this has an IQ of 3 (and that’s me being generous).
2. “This is just a personnel issue. I can’t believe Congress is having hearings over this.” Yeah, well…let’s invoke Clinton shall we? I couldn’t believe that Congress held hearing over his adulterous life. But they did. It was stupid, pointless, a waste of money and TMI, but they still did it.
3. “Why does Congress need a transcript if WH aides testify?” From the same idiotsticks who tell us, “If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t mind losing your civil liberties.” Really? Really. I’ve heard this 4 times today and each time, I tried not to laugh at the moron asking that, but I couldn’t help myself. I guess for those Republicans, they’re not interested in the truth.

What I find interesting about this case:
1. The fact that not one fucking person, besides the idiot President has come out in support of Gonzales. Too bad for Gonzales he isn’t white, there’s be a bit more support among the immigrant-bashing racist of that party.

2. There’s an 16 day gap in emails. The gap is unexplained. Since Le Shrub, Gonzales, Chertoff and most of these other criminals don’t use email, I’m really interested in what that gap has in it. Max Headroom has this to say about it today (you have to read the whole press briefing, imagine what it would have been like if those idiots asked those kinds of questions 6 years ago):

Q Okay. You keep saying the Justice Department, the response — that these emails, the 3,000 pages is unprecedented, is very responsive. Why, then, is there this gap from mid-November to about December 4th, right before the actual firings? Why is there a gap in the emails?

MR. SNOW: I don’t know. Why don’t you ask them?

Q Well, you’re the White House, the Justice Department serves under —

MR. SNOW: I know, but I’m not going to be the fact witness on Justice.

Q But you’re the one representing that this has been very responsive. Now when there’s a gap you say go to them.

MR. SNOW: Yes, and I’ve been led to believe that there’s a good response for it, but I’m going to let you ask them because they’re going to have the answer.

Idiot.

3. The fact that emails from georgewbush.com, gwb43.com, aol.com (and honestly, who with half a brain still uses aol?) and rnchq.com have been used to discuss this issue. The first two email domains are owned by the RNC. The White House has made it clear that the RNC and the WH are two totally different operations. Only those stupid enough to believe anything that comes from the WH buy that line. So, these people are discussing government issues via a partisan website. The masses (especially the Republican ones) are ho-hum about the whole thing, but it stinks to high heaven. What else are they discussing on the unprotected and completely hackable sites. They say they want to protect national security, but they use flippin’ AOL?

4. Executive Privilege. The waste of space occupying our House says that a non-transcript, non-oath-taking “interview” (this is what the WH is calling it, as opposed to “testimony” which is what Congress is calling it) with aides is best because of Executive Privilege. This one makes my head hurt because we have a couple of things.
Bush says that he needs his aides to be able to be open with him.
Bush says that his aides never discussed this issue with him.
If no discussion took place, then what secret conversations with the president are they hiding?

One more note on executive privilege and Max Headroom:
from Glenn Greenwald

Tony Snow - Op-Ed - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 29, 1998 :

(HEADLINE: “Executive Privilege is a Dodge”)

Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.

Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time.

One gets the impression that Team Clinton values its survival more than most people want justice and thus will delay without qualm. But as the clock ticks, the public’s faith in Mr. Clinton will ebb away for a simple reason: Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he is sworn to uphold — the rule of law.

I’d say that’s a big turn around from thinking Executive Privilege is the tool of the devil, so it’s pretty much okay today.

5. 3 months. They’ve had 3 months to get a plausible lie going and nothing…these are the people we’re supposed to believe are able to run a war (okay, we know they can’t but still). 3 months. They need to enlist the help of some 8 years olds. 3 eight year olds could come up with 23000 different plausible lies in 30 minutes.

6. 8 US Attorneys were fired for not buying into the party loyalty thing. They were actually upholding the law. That means 81 other US Attorneys were pursuing partisan politics from the bench. Now. I knew from the beginning that when irrelevant goons like Cheney or Scaife say things about how liberals will be partisan from the bench that they were projecting like they do on so many other things. If I were an US Attorney right now, I’d be pretty miffed that I didn’t lose my job. Those who got to stay are nothing but hacks and every case they decided should be gone over with a fine toothed comb.

7. Speaking of the fired US Attorneys, many of them were starting or had started investigations on other Republican lawmakers. Lost in this shuffle is the fact
that we do not know what’s going on with those investigations. I haven’ t seen any reporter or so-called journalist ask about those investigations. I’m curious. Have then been dropped?

And that ends my rant for the moment. I’m sure this whole situation will reveal even more stupidity coming out of the WH, but for now, these questions and concerns are big enough that any reporter worth his/her salt should be going after them.

Okay, so we bought a house and I’ve fallen down on the blogging front. Mea culpa. What with fixing the house and all the DC scandals, I’m amazed I’m even able to shower at least once a week.

The house is coming along. It’s been painted, stuff has been planted, boxes have been unpacked. That info is ready to be posted on my house blog, I just need to hit ‘post’.

What’s been going on with us. We’ve all been sick. The baby’s been sick for two months. First with horrid butt runs, then a cold, then the butt runs came back. Then he started teething, which gave us high fevers, constipation and a slightly unhappy baby. On top of all of that, he broke out in a rash. Today he’s much happier, fever and rash free. His butt is happy too. He’s growing so big. 16 mos. he’s almost 27lbs. and 34″ tall. Today he woke up from his nap with longer, skinnier legs. I swear he grew an inch.

The little girl is doing fine. She’s lost most of her baby talk, even though the other day this lady acted like she was talking in a Mandarin/Portuguese language. She’s flippin’ huge. I swear by the end of the year, she’ll be as tall as me. Ms. Ilia is all girl. Everyday she wants to wear a dress and ‘fancy shoes’. In the mornings, at bath time, she’s Ariel. When she gets dress she’s Cinderella. She’s decided that we need to go to Disneyland…grumble, grumble school grumble…We (by ‘we’, I mean ‘me’) like to pretend that GOP-loving shithole doesn’t exist and she wants me to actually spend my money to go there. No sweetie, we’re going to the zoo. Or anywhere else.

I guess now I have to pretend to be the mom who likes other people’s kids and cares what their parents have to say. She has two invitations for birthday parties next month. I’m still trying to bribe the old ball and chain to take her, but so far it looks like I’m stuck making small talk with people I don’t know about things I don’t care about. To make matters worse, she wants to invite her whole school to her birthday party (what birthday party?). I think I’ll take her to SeaWorld instead, kill two birds with one stone.

I’ll post some pics soon, but for now you can feast on this:

You know…I thought the Walter Reed scandal would be pretty big, but since it’s obvious (or should be) to everyone that the Republicans in Congress do not support the troops, I bet they’re pretty happy that US Attorney’s purge is a bigger story. No one delving into their voting records there. Whew! At any rate, I try to be fair, but between the craptacular press and the simplistic imbeciles elected by the GOP loving dorks, it’s pretty hard. It’s well documented that I hate stupid people. Stupid people who say the following things:

1. “But no one’s talking about Clinton (it always comes back to Clinton for the brain-dead, ass-sucking, nincompoops who make up the 28% still loyal to Bush) firing 93 USA. “ Wanna know why fucktard? It’s because that’s a different thing all together. Presidents usually change out the USA when they take office. What they do not do is fire them in their second terms based on who’s pursuing cases built out of false loyalty and toeing the party line. Anyone who mentions this has an IQ of 3 (and that’s me being generous).
2. “This is just a personnel issue. I can’t believe Congress is having hearings over this.” Yeah, well…let’s invoke Clinton shall we? I couldn’t believe that Congress held hearing over his adulterous life. But they did. It was stupid, pointless, a waste of money and TMI, but they still did it.
3. “Why does Congress need a transcript if WH aides testify?” From the same idiotsticks who tell us, “If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t mind losing your civil liberties.” Really? Really. I’ve heard this 4 times today and each time, I tried not to laugh at the moron asking that, but I couldn’t help myself. I guess for those Republicans, they’re not interested in the truth.

What I find interesting about this case:
1. The fact that not one fucking person, besides the idiot President has come out in support of Gonzales. Too bad for Gonzales he isn’t white, there’s be a bit more support among the immigrant-bashing racist of that party.

2. There’s an 16 day gap in emails. The gap is unexplained. Since Le Shrub, Gonzales, Chertoff and most of these other criminals don’t use email, I’m really interested in what that gap has in it. Max Headroom has this to say about it today (you have to read the whole press briefing, imagine what it would have been like if those idiots asked those kinds of questions 6 years ago):

Q Okay. You keep saying the Justice Department, the response — that these emails, the 3,000 pages is unprecedented, is very responsive. Why, then, is there this gap from mid-November to about December 4th, right before the actual firings? Why is there a gap in the emails?

MR. SNOW: I don’t know. Why don’t you ask them?

Q Well, you’re the White House, the Justice Department serves under —

MR. SNOW: I know, but I’m not going to be the fact witness on Justice.

Q But you’re the one representing that this has been very responsive. Now when there’s a gap you say go to them.

MR. SNOW: Yes, and I’ve been led to believe that there’s a good response for it, but I’m going to let you ask them because they’re going to have the answer.

Idiot.

3. The fact that emails from georgewbush.com, gwb43.com, aol.com (and honestly, who with half a brain still uses aol?) and rnchq.com have been used to discuss this issue. The first two email domains are owned by the RNC. The White House has made it clear that the RNC and the WH are two totally different operations. Only those stupid enough to believe anything that comes from the WH buy that line. So, these people are discussing government issues via a partisan website. The masses (especially the Republican ones) are ho-hum about the whole thing, but it stinks to high heaven. What else are they discussing on the unprotected and completely hackable sites. They say they want to protect national security, but they use flippin’ AOL?

4. Executive Privilege. The waste of space occupying our House says that a non-transcript, non-oath-taking “interview” (this is what the WH is calling it, as opposed to “testimony” which is what Congress is calling it) with aides is best because of Executive Privilege. This one makes my head hurt because we have a couple of things.
Bush says that he needs his aides to be able to be open with him.
Bush says that his aides never discussed this issue with him.
If no discussion took place, then what secret conversations with the president are they hiding?

One more note on executive privilege and Max Headroom:
from Glenn Greenwald

Tony Snow - Op-Ed - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 29, 1998 :

(HEADLINE: “Executive Privilege is a Dodge”)

Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration. Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything. He would have a constitutional right to cover up.

Chances are that the courts will hurl such a claim out, but it will take time.

One gets the impression that Team Clinton values its survival more than most people want justice and thus will delay without qualm. But as the clock ticks, the public’s faith in Mr. Clinton will ebb away for a simple reason: Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he is sworn to uphold — the rule of law.

I’d say that’s a big turn around from thinking Executive Privilege is the tool of the devil, so it’s pretty much okay today.

5. 3 months. They’ve had 3 months to get a plausible lie going and nothing…these are the people we’re supposed to believe are able to run a war (okay, we know they can’t but still). 3 months. They need to enlist the help of some 8 years olds. 3 eight year olds could come up with 23000 different plausible lies in 30 minutes.

6. 8 US Attorneys were fired for not buying into the party loyalty thing. They were actually upholding the law. That means 81 other US Attorneys were pursuing partisan politics from the bench. Now. I knew from the beginning that when irrelevant goons like Cheney or Scaife say things about how liberals will be partisan from the bench that they were projecting like they do on so many other things. If I were an US Attorney right now, I’d be pretty miffed that I didn’t lose my job. Those who got to stay are nothing but hacks and every case they decided should be gone over with a fine toothed comb.

7. Speaking of the fired US Attorneys, many of them were starting or had started investigations on other Republican lawmakers. Lost in this shuffle is the fact
that we do not know what’s going on with those investigations. I haven’ t seen any reporter or so-called journalist ask about those investigations. I’m curious. Have then been dropped?

And that ends my rant for the moment. I’m sure this whole situation will reveal even more stupidity coming out of the WH, but for now, these questions and concerns are big enough that any reporter worth his/her salt should be going after them.