President Bush challenged lawmakers Tuesday to support the immigration overhaul bill, asking them to have the courage needed to approve comprehensive changes.They didn't have the courage to stand up to the weakest president in history. How could they have courage to do the right thing -- EVER?
I’m going home for awhile to try and be normalI bet she's never been normal. Certainly not now.
The detainees were also forced to listen to rap artist Eminem's "Slim Shady" album. The music was so foreign to them it made them frantic, sources said.CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.Then the administration fired back, calling Carter "irrelevant."
Carter said he was answering a question about the foreign policy of former President Richard Nixon, as compared with that of the current administration. He said he wasn't comparing the Bush administration with all those through American history. But in comparison to Nixon's, the Bush administration's foreign policy "was much worse," Carter said.
Wow! Cheney's lawyers have bigger balls than the Veep or they're just as stupid and arrogant as he is.U.S. District Judge John D. Bates asked: "So you're arguing there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- these officials could have said to reporters that would have been beyond the scope of their employment," whether the statements were true or false?
"That's true, Your Honor. Mr. Wilson was criticizing government policy," said Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil division. "These officials were responding to that criticism."
At the time, Comey — in Ashcroft's absence — had refused to certify the legality of Bush's eavesdropping program. Gonzales tried to go over Comey's head by appealing directly to Ashcroft, who lay in an intensive care unit recovering from gall bladder surgery, Comey said. Ashcroft rebuffed Gonzales, Comey said.The Attorney General lied under oath when he testified before Congress in 2006 when he said that there had been no serious questions about the NSA wiretapping program, which seems obviously against the law.
Democrats said his testimony appeared to contradict Gonzales' account in February 2006, when he told two congressional panels that there had "not been any serious disagreement about the program."If Ashcroft, then AG, Comey, then acting AG, Mueller, director of the FBI, and two senior members of the Justice Department, all who disagreed with the program -- in fact, called it illegal -- cannot be considered "serious disagreement" then I don't know what is.
And if McNulty truly is upset with the way Gonzales and Company treated him after the controversy broke, then it is possible that we will soon see McNulty come back to Capitol Hill for another round of testimony, this time as a private citizen given (I believe) a grant of immunity. If that happens, watch out.Dan Froomkin - McNulty Gets Knife in the Back - washingtonpost.com
"The recommendations reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names," Gonzales said while responding to questions at a forum on the Justice Department's Safer Communities Initiative.It will be interesting to see how McNulty responds.
Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom in explaining on Saturday why he said at a GOP presidential debate that an employer should be allowed to fire a gay worker.Thompson offers apology on gay comment - Yahoo! News
Famously loyal, Giuliani chose as his partners longtime associates, including a former police commissioner later convicted of corruption, a former FBI executive who admitted taking artifacts from Ground Zero and a former Roman Catholic priest accused of covering up sexual abuse in the church.In Private Sector, Giuliani Parlayed Fame Into Wealth - washingtonpost.com
Dick Cheney shrunk himself in order to sneak into and out of Iraq. Well done, Mr President!"He jumped up on her," Ector said. "She had to fight him off. She was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time."San Jose Mercury News - Squirrel enters S. San Jose classroom, attacks two adults and a student
"The whereabouts of the squirrel are unknown," Muyo said.
In June 2003, as we gradually moved under a Folsom Street supervisor ... the Geary Street technicians had a tour of the Folsom building, and one of the technicians on the tour pointed at a door and said, "That's the new secret room and only one guy is allowed in there."Spying in the Death Star: The AT&T Whistle-Blower Tells His Story
He did appeal to Missouri's senior senator to try to persuade the White House to allow him to remain long enough to prosecute a final, important case -- involving the slaying of a pregnant woman and kidnapping of her 8-month fetus. Justice officials rejected the request.What the story doesn't tell us is whether the crimes were ever successfully prosecuted.
Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart dared reporters in The New York Times on May 3, 1987, “If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead.” he said in The New York Times on May 3, 1987. The Miami Herald did, uncovered his romance with Donna Rice — including a tryst on a boat called Monkey Business — and sank his presidential hopes.This story proves one thing: Americans are forgiving and anybody can recover from (almost) anything. Gary Hart went from cheating man about town to respected terrorist expert; he's now almost a celebrity.
Well, President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact.Think Progress » Gingrich To Conservatives: Don’t Talk About Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, Attorneys, Or Bush
"I’ve always been personally pro-life, but for me there was a great question about whether or not government should intrude in that decision,” Mr. Romney said.
It was the debate over cloning in his state that pressed him to change his mind, he said.
“I said, ‘Look, we have gone too far; it’s a brave new world mentality that Roe v. Wade has given us,’ and I changed my mind. I took the same course that Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush and Henry Hyde took. And I said I was wrong and changed my mind and said I’m pro-life. And I’m proud of that and I won’t apologize to anybody for becoming pro-life.
Three of the candidates — Mr. Huckabee, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado — raised their hands to signal that they did not believe in evolution.Not believing in evolution is akin (pun intended) to not believing in the sun, or photosynthesis, or genetics. Darwin was right. "Intelligent design" is a euphemism for magic.
The proposal states that "no action shall lie . . . in any court, and no penalty... shall be imposed...against any person" for giving the government information, including customer records, in connection with alleged intelligence activity the attorney general certifies "is, was, would be or would have been" intended to protect the United States from terrorist attack. The measure, which has not yet been filed, is contained in a proposed amendment to the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill.Bush and his cronies love to call investigation against them "fishing expeditions." They HATE it when their own investigations fall under the same criticism. But if ever there were a fishing expedition, this one takes the bait.
This time, I practiced beforehand with my overtired toddler. She'd shriek out meaningless invective, and I'd just keep talking calmly. It must have helped, because by my third O'Reilly appearance, I made it through with hardly a scratch. Bill, though, was spluttering madly.Very funny story about how "Bill-O" has fostered the creation of many thousands of terrorists, just by spouting off against fake enemies.
Law professor Frank Bowman writes in a New York Times op-ed: "If Alberto Gonzales will not resign, Congress should impeach him. Article II of the Constitution grants Congress the power to impeach 'the president, the vice president and all civil officers of the United States.' The phrase 'civil officers' includes the members of the cabinet (one of whom, Secretary of War William Belknap, was impeached in 1876).Whaddya know? Let's impeach them all.
The question is, who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? As you know, my position is clear – I’m the commander guy.President George W. Bush is a joke. If it weren't for the thousands of deaths and injuries for which he's responsible, I'd say this whole "Global War on Terror" (GWOT) is just one big joke.
"It's a curious contrast that leaders in the Department of Justice would slip a change into law to allow one U.S. Attorney to spend only a few days a month in his district and keep his job, while at the same time claiming to fire another for spending a few days a month away from his district to serve his country," Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a statement.WP: Dispute over U.S. attorneys grows - Politics - MSNBC.com
There is a difference, said Leonard Young, 19, of Fort Washington: Racists end the word with an "er," African Americans end it with an "a."First of all, if a person wishes to use that word -- any word -- he has every right. It's called the First Amendment or Free Speech. Nobody has to listen."I don't think it's offensive," said Young, a black computer science major at Prince George's Community College. "It hasn't been offensive since slavery. It's only offensive when people of other races use it."
Specifically, many insiders wonder why an administration that already has advisor Karl Rove and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would also need a “lying czar.”The Borowitz Report .com
On any given day, the Defense Department and the State Department will produce lies that are directly in conflict with each other, and that’s counterproductive,” one insider said. “A ‘lying czar’ would change all that.
In only the second veto of his presidency, Bush rejected legislation that would require the first U.S. combat troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by Oct. 1 with a goal of a complete pullout six months later.It's notable that he's vetoed the bill for a number of reasons. One, he obviously does not support the troops. Two, it's only his second veto. Three, his only other veto was in denying more federal funds earmarked for embryonic stem cell research. Four, this bill was at the President's request; the military desperately needs the money, according to Bush, yet he has just single-handedly prolonged the shortfall.
Without enough votes to override Bush's veto, Democrats are considering revisions to the bill that will fund the troops but not give the president a blank check. A likely option is demanding the Iraqi government meet certain benchmarks.F#@$^ benchmarks. The Iraqi government has had enough time to meet every benchmark imaginable. Benchmarks should have been in force since day 1. How were the imbeciles in the Bush administration going to know when we won the war if not for some demonstrable measures that were met or surpassed?
But he sure stood proud under that banner that his administration produced and gave to the sailors on the aircraft carrier.Overall, the United States declined 54 of 77 recorded aid offers from three of its staunchest allies: Canada, Britain and Israel, according to a 40-page State Department table of the offers that had been received as of January 2006.Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed - washingtonpost.com
