Sweet Jesus’ General

Think this’ll come up during the State of the Union?

Gonzales Is Challenged on Wiretaps

Feingold Says Attorney General Misled Senators in Hearings
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 31, 2006;
Page A07

Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) charged yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing a year ago when he appeared to try to avoid answering a question [...]

Tough Talk

Wow, you really flamed NavySwan up didn’t you RV?! Problem is…, far from shutting any critics down, the Justice Department Memo has opened up more questions than it has answered. The same with General Hayden’s defense from last week:
According to Hayden, the reason the President wanted to bypass FISA was because [...]

School days.

- It all caught up with me this weekend. I love blogging, but school and work combined… I didn’t get a chance to order my books until last night. I saved about $150.00 using Amazon though. Hope I can get can get a weeks worth of work done in one night for four classes…LOL. Anyways, [...]

In the Valley of the Shadow

January 28, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Finding a Place for 9/11 in American History
By JOSEPH J. ELLIS
Amherst, Mass.
IN recent weeks, President Bush and his administration have mounted a spirited defense of his Iraq policy, the Patriot Act and, especially, a program to wiretap civilians, often reaching back into American history for precedents to justify these actions. It is [...]

A true Patriot

All you need to do in order to support the troops is put a bumper sticker on your car. No, really, straight from the mouth of asshat Senator Santorum himself. Do your part.

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-My thanks to
Tip of the Spear

Didn’t he say the same about Ken Lay at first?

“I don’t know Jack…”

Majority in U.S. Say Bush Presidency Is a Failure, Poll Finds

Jan. 26 (Bloomberg)

– A majority of Americans said the presidency of George W. Bush has been a failure and that they would be more likely to vote for congressional candidates who oppose him, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

-and [...]

Democracy on the March!

Afghanistan
Iran
Egypt
Iraq

As if the time hasn’t already passed for the U.S. to radically rethink it’s foreign policy, we can now add Palestine to the list above. If these parodies of the democratic process aren’t signal enough, what will be? The rise of radical Islam is directly tied to the oppressive governments that we have [...]

This is not a Democracy, it a Cheerocracy.

Update from:Daily Kos
They were for FISA before they were against it…
by kos
Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 09:15:47 PM PDT

The story doesn’t note it, but the argument the Justice Department used against expanding FISA to cover non-US citizens inside the U.S. was — get this — that it was probably unconstitutional.

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From: Unclaimed [...]

My names Bill Frist, and I’m a card carrying whiner

“Frist, the Tennessee Republican, opened what is expected to be a weeklong debate on Alito by saying the judge’s Democratic opponents are “smearing a decent and honorable man in imposing an unfair political standard on all judicial nominees.”

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