One Month of Impeachment News from the Impeach Bush Coalition
It was a about a month ago that The Martian Anthropologist and I came up with the idea to start the Impeach Bush Coalition.
Oh, what a month it has been!
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CARTOON: Not-So-Secret Ad-Mier-er
Apparently religion is now a consideration for government positions. Anyone who’s ever read much about the Founders knows that they were far from the idealized Christians that Robertson, Falwell and Company present them as. In fact, weren’t a lot of them deists? Just imagine what the Religious Right would say about those guys if they came back today!
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Political Animals – Featuring an All-Nude Cast!
Miller, Cheney, Rove, Kelly and Propaganda
First of all, for all of you breathlessly awaiting RAW STORY’s scoop on whether Cheney is being investigated by Fitzgerald, their article, Vice President’s role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say, is now up.
Two officials close to Fitzgerald told RAW STORY they have seen documents obtained from the White House Iraq Group which state that Cheney was present at several of the group’s meetings. They say Cheney personally discussed with individuals in attendance at least two interviews in May and June of 2003 Wilson gave to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus, in which he claimed the administration “twisted” prewar intelligence and what the response from the administration should be.
Cheney was interviewed by the FBI surrounding the leak in 2004. According to the New York Times, Cheney was asked whether he knew of any concerted effort by White House aides to name Ms. Wilson.
Sources close to the investigation have also confirmed that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine Vice President Cheney’s role in the outing of Mrs. Wilson, more specifically, if Cheney ordered the leak.
Those close to Fitzgerald say they have yet to uncover any evidence that suggests Cheney ordered the leak or played a role in the outing of Mrs. Wilson. Still, the sources said they are investigating claims that Cheney may have been involved based on his attendance at meetings of the Iraq group. Previous reports indicate Cheney was intimately involved with the framing of the Iraq war.
All hat, no cattle? You decide.
What I find far more fascinating is this post by Digby who examines conservative blogger Robert George’s look at the timeline of the Plame outing and susbsequent events happening in the UK at the same time, including the “suicide” of David Kelly, “the source of BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan’s explosive report that the Blair government “sexed-up” its Iraq intelligence dossier.”
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Thursday Dog Blog (plus other non-cat blogging)
Once again, for your amusement, it’s “Luna-the-Downunder-dog.” Doing her hilarious best to manage living “upside-down” in the land-downunder.
More photos (as promised), featuring some of the wonderous (and really weird) critters of West Australia, just past the fold.
Read MoreReporters hound Scott McClellan with same question 23 times, still no answer
From It Affects You
Today’s press gaggle lasted 32 minutes. For Scotty, it must have felt much longer. You see, in that 32 minutes, reporters repeated essentially the same question twenty three times. For those wishing to calculate such things, that’s once every 83 seconds.
Reporters wanted to know why the administration is peddling Miers’ religious beliefs, and when he refused to answer, they asked again. And then they asked again. And then again. They kept this up practically from start to finish, 23 times, once every 83 seconds. They had to repeat the question 23 times, and still they received no straight answer.
That’s quite pathetic, and it brings avoidance to new levels. But that’s not really the interesting part, of course, because avoidance is why he’s there. What’s really interesting is reporters actually followed up. Rather than just letting it go, or worse dutifully reprinting the administration’s talking points, they hounded him 23 times.
Below the jump read the 23 questions Scotty refused to answer:
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