Steve Steven? i guess we are there! The only way we get the dems to wake up is- NOT A RED CENT! That is all they understand. These bastards are worse than the goopers. Yup- Worse!

is getting a workout today. sigh! :-(

It is time for Democrats to remember who got us in this mess, oppose them and not each other.

Well that tears it doesn't it...the dems are all Manchurian Candidates.  So now subponeas like the Constitution are basically gd pieces of paper.  You can't very well hold hearings if no one shows up now can you..or they refuse to testify under oath. Hearings, we don't appear at any stinkin hearings.

I was expecting this because if they didn't do anything right away about people refusing to testify I figured they never would hold anyone accountable. But just because I was expecting this doesn't make me any less sick to my stomach about the chickenshit dems doing nothing once again. Just how many times are they going to sell us and the American public out do you think?

It doesn't even make any difference to me if they happen to do something right once in awhile because that won't begin to make up for their caving in on just about everything.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

Senate scraps request for Bush's pre-Iraq intel briefings.

The Senate has scrapped its bid to obtain the archive of daily intelligence briefings given to the president on Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion.

That request was among several controversial provisions dropped from an intelligence bill, leading to the measure's unanimous Senate passage Wednesday.

thinkprogress

and this:

Beginning in February 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will implement their ¨Advance Passenger Information System (APIS),¨ the gist of which is that you will need permission from the United States Government to travel on any air or sea vessel that goes to, from or through the U.S. The travel companies will not be able to issue a boarding pass until you are cleared by DHS. This applies to ALL passengers, US citizens and visitors alike...

h/t idredit

and nobody can figure out why this is happening:

U.S. protests shrink while antiwar sentiment grows

Crowds at antiwar rallies in Washington have dwindled even as U.S. opinion has turned against the war in Iraq...

The thinning crowds stand in contrast to the antiwar protests of the Vietnam era, which grew as the war progressed.

reuters

looking back on that time, the 60's and 70's, it looks like democracy in action...today, they've got us all by the short hairs...and they know it. taking a cue from chimpy, et al, the approach is: whatta ya gonna do about it?....vote?! that worked out really well....BWAHAHAHAHAHHA!

fact: a fucking lot of good it'll do...contempt citations, subpoenas, oversight, accountability....all meaningless blather.  just another goddamned piece of paper to wipe their corpulent asses with and then rub in our noses.

bend over, grab your ankles, and kiss your ass and what's left of your freedom goodbye...we are well and truly fucked.

lTMF'sA!!!

lTMF'sA...the revolution will not be televised...Peace

Maybe we need a blogswarm directed at Hoyer and Emanual.

"Crowds at antiwar rallies in Washington have dwindled even as U.S. opinion has turned against the war in Iraq"

For pretty much the same reason the rallies in Myanmar have dwindled.

When the emperor no longer feels any need to obey the law of the land, and Congress feels no need to assert its legal authority, we are well and truly repeating the arc of the Wiemar Republic. If the White House need not obey this law, what law must it obey? Nader was right, but it's too late now.

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

I care more about the rule of law and due process of law as embodied in the United States Constitution than just about anything.  It is the foundation for everything this country is supposed to stand for.  I don't know what to do in the face of the ambivalence of our elected leaders to not only investigate the crimes that have been committed; but, more importantly, even standing up to protect the separation of powers and sanctity of the congressional prerogative.

I would not have the base from which to do it, nor the know how, But I wonder if some type of massive netroots/grassroots petition/action of some kind could be undertaken jointly by the leaders here at Booman, Open Left, Kos, FiredogLake, Atrios, TPM etc. to let them know how important, critical, we consider the enforcement of the subpoenas, real investigation of the BushCo offenses, and the need to do something meaningful about getting us out of Iraq.  All those concepts are intertwined to some extent and could go naturally in the same simple petition, letter, whatever; without making it long, overwinded or complex.  I.E. a nice, tight powerful statement.

Why "potentially"?

As John Dean has observed, Bush is the only president who has publically admitted committing a felony. Also, everybody knows that Bush started the Iraq war and that this war was unprovoked. That is a war crime by definition, according to the UN Charter, which has the status of US law under the Constitution because it is a treaty.

The Clintons represent the Republican wing of the Democratic party.

as i've been saying, they'll win big in 2008, but the victory will be for the party alone.   America will continue to get the shit end of the stick.

Brendan Calling John Mccain