Advice & Consent: What We Want!!!!!

We want the Senate to extract agreement from the next AG to:

1) Protect and defend the Constitution;
2) Honor and comply with Congressional subpoenas in a timely manner;
3) Completely de-politicize the DoJ;
4) Assure a full and complete investigation of the Duke Cunningham-related cases even into the CIA;
5) Clean out and clean up the the Civil Rights Division;
6) Investigate the possible Hatch Act violations represented by the Rove, et al, presentation at departments and agencies;
7) Set up a task force to investigate Iraq-war related contracting irregularities;
8) Aggressively investigate voter-suppression;
9) Investigate Congressional interference with US Attorney investigation activities;
10) Aggressively investigate allegations of perjury by Alberto Gonzales;
11) Investigate any cover up of the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame;
12) Make a full, thorough, and complete investigation of the firings of the eight or more US attorneys!

Note to My Senators: In re--Advice & Consent

The Rise of the Coneheads

Will Chertoff slide into home safely?

Farewell, So Long, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye

See ya on the other side, when you have crossed the bar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

再見! 安寧히! 左様なら！And good riddance!

Tongue Suppressors

" McConnell: FISA Debate Will Kill Americans"

" The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say. "

" According to a new survey, hundreds of government scientists say they have perceived or personally experienced pressure from the Bush administration to eliminate phrases such as “climate change” and “global warming” from their reports and public statements. One of those scientists -- NASA climatologist Drew Shindell – testified Tuesday before the Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform. "

" Bush Team Tried to Suppress Pre-9/11 Report Into al-Qa'ida "

" Citing legal documents obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) showing how “the Bush administration has reversed two decades of precedent and declared that important whistleblower protections in the Clean Water Act do not apply to federal workers,” the science journal Nature called the administration’s action “pernicious.” Nature says scientists could feel the chilling effect particularly strongly, and calls government whistleblowers “a key defence against further erosion of environmental standards.” "

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on . . . . . . . . . . . .

Just Call Me Dubya [Ahab?]

I was looking at some quotes on IMDB from the movie "Moby Dick" and they struck me with their 'universality':

Starbuck: "A captain who, from private motives, employs his vessel [i.e., the military] for another purpose [revenge against Saddam & crony capitalism] from that intended by the owners [we, the people], is answerable to the charge of usurpation, and his crew is morally and legally entitled to employ forceful means in wresting his command from him. "



Ahab: From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. [i.e., Saddam]

Starbuck: It is our task in life to kill whales, to furnish oil for the lamps of the world. If we perform that task well and faithfully, we do a service to mankind that pleases Almighty God. Ahab would deny all that. He has taken us from the rich harvest we were reaping to satisfy his lust for vengeance [i.e., revenge on Saddam]

Ahab: I don't give reasons. I give orders! [The Decider. not the Divider]

Ishmael [i.e., we, the groundlings]: Ehhhh, you can't fool us; it's the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he's got a great secret in him.

But from "The Madness of King George" came:

Queen Charlotte [i.e., Tom Hicks] : Come on, smile and wave. That's what you get paid for. Smile and wave.

Hello, Fisa

Maybe the Thai's have a good idea! Reid, Pelosi, and any Democrat who voted for the Bush Fisa power grab should have to wear a badge of shame in Congress!

The Ship of Fools

The Cowardly Lion and Dorothy, the captain and first mate, on the Congressional Ship of Fools, caved to the very popular president's every whim selling off our Constitution for a handful of magic beans while quaking in fear--Al Qaeda is coming! Al Qaeda is coming! Throw down your Bills of Rights and surrender to the aediles with their fasces!

It's time for a Progressive Party!

Infrastructure Terror!

Q: Where's the money for our infrastructure maintenance? [i.e., estimated 1.6 TRILLION $!]

A: Surging down a rat hole in Iraq!

Crony capitalism: You can't have war profiteering without a war!