My slightly unhealthy obsession with Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) is no secret amongst the Dogoods. I find his stance on capital punishment, the automatic pay increases of the House and Senate, among others issues, and his role as the sole dissenter against the so-called Patriot Act, admirable. He seems to exude good, Mid-Western, common sense, [...]
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Old Skool Republican Tells It Like It Is
LIMBAUGH: We’re going to go to Chicago. This is Charles. Charles, thank you for waiting and for calling. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, listen, I voted Republican, and I didn’t — really didn’t want to see Obama get in office. But, you know, Rush, you’re one reason to blame for this [...]
Posted in Heroes, Politics, Schadenfreude, Today in Crazy, Yay! Also tagged Army, GOP shills, moral high ground, Moral Majority, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot, USMC Comments closed
Schadenfreude Wednesday: The Gonzo Edition
Poor Gonzo can’t get a job, and like the rest of us, he’s blaming the economy.
However, unlike the rest of us, he has a few advantages, namely, as the Government’s former lawyer-in-chief, he should be highly sought after by think tanks and universities. Perhaps it’s because Gonzales’ time as AG made people inside (and outside!) the [...]
Posted in Politics, Schadenfreude Also tagged "ongoing investigations", Alberto Gonzales, Bush Administration, CIA, CIA black sites, crooks, DOJ, Former US Attorney General, Gitmo, injustice, jail, John Ashcroft, kangaroo courts, legal jeopardy, Mel Carnahan, Missouri Senate election, secret prisons Comments closed
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehn, Adieu…
The Dogood sisters are today kicking off their fortnight-long festival to bid goodbye, farewell, etc., to the President whom many are dubbing “the worst in American history”.
We think that might be a little harsh, unless of course you were one of the millions of people across three continents who were variously, murdered, tortured, bombed, rendered, [...]
Posted in Politics Also tagged bombed, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, President Bush, rendition Comments closed
Cheney Definitely Not the WORST Veep in History
(Note: In the original version of this post, I accidentally referred to Cheney as “President” throughout. What would Freud have to say about that?)
When I first read the news that 23% of those questioned in the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey said they believed Cheney to be the worst Vice President in American history I [...]
Posted in J'accuse, Politics Also tagged Aaron Burr, balance of power, Constitution, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Gitmo, Iraq war, liars, poll, Thomas Jefferson, worst vice president Comments closed
Impetus Grows for Bush Admin Inquiry
I shared a little dirt with you earlier this week about how Senate Democrats have very recently been discussing options for holding major Congressional hearings after they re-convene in January, intending to examine the misdeeds of the Bush Administration.
Reporting by the AP and the New York Times today adds greater weight to the sense that [...]
Posted in Dirt Also tagged Bush Administration, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Fred Fielding, George Bush, hearings, investigation, John D Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Senate, Senate Intelligence committee, Senate Judiciary committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, wiretaps Comments closed
Defining Torture, Defining Ourselves
Bush, Cheney et al deny using ever using torture, simply because they’d “rebranded” it as something else, as “enhanced interrogation tecniques”, which were declared “essential to the fight against extremism”, but now we know that it is we Americans who are the extremists, torturers and extrajudicial murderers, largely without our knowledge or consent, thanks to [...]
Posted in J'accuse, Politics Also tagged Addington, black sites, Bush, Cheney, Fleischer, Gitmo, oubliettes, Pokemon Comments closed
DoJ Lawyers Debating Charges for Bush, Cheney
Sometimes rumors sound too good to be true. That’s the feeling I had the first time someone told me recently that somewhere, somehow, deep inside the bowels of the Justice Department, lawyers were discussing options to charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney for some of the crimes of the past eight years.
But I’ve since [...]
Posted in Dirt, Politics Also tagged Bush Administration, crime & punishment, criminal charges, Department of Justice, Dick Cheney, George Bush, NSA, waterboarding, wiretapping Comments closed