Month: October 2005

Crossposted from Dameocrat Blog

I know I am on everyones shit list because I dislike kos, but I do cover issues hardly anyone else gives a shit about. Here is just one issue that I think the Democrats should prioritize that is absolutely not on the kossack or mainstream Democratic agenda.  For years the republicans have been able to undercut social programs by portraying the poor as morally inferior. They have even gotten mainstream economics departments at Universities to put out this kind of stuff.  The mainstream news often reports these kinds of “spun” statistics without recongnizing that they are really carefully disguised op/eds, rather than careful research.

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Raw Story reports that LIBBY IS INDICTED.

We’ll post the names and links of the documents submitted by Patrick Fitzgerald on his Web site.

Your analyses and questions will be important while we review the documents and wait for Fitzgerald’s press conference at 2pm ET/11am PT. C-SPAN will air the press conference, as will all major television networks (I would expect).

Update [2005-10-28 12:49:21 by susanhu]: Libby is indicted on FIVE counts — obstruction of justice, on perjury (two counts), and making false statements (two counts). CNN. (Docs still not up on Fitz’s site.)

Update [2005-10-28 12:54:41 by susanhu]: NEW THREAD ABOVE.

NOTE: All earlier updates are now below the fold.

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Cross Posted at Media In Trouble

OK folks, I have a challenge for the blogosphere.  The famous blogsphere that found naked pictures of a low life nobody reporter posing as a prostitute (or was it vice versa).  The famous blogosphere that can dig up more dirt on Plamegate than the MSM.  

It is obvious by reading her column that Ann Coulter doesn’t believe in a simple constitutional right to privacy legitimized by Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade.

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Seattle’s The Stranger offers a look into a recent speech given by Joe Wilson at a Seattle event:

People told [Wilson] over and over: “Thank you so much.” They were thanking him for writing an Op-Ed in the New York Times in July of 2003, titled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.”

It showed that the Bush administration’s pre-war claims about Iraq trying to purchase “yellowcake” uranium from Niger were bogus, or as he put it, “twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.” By undercutting a central rationale for the war–that Iraq was on the verge of sending a nuclear “mushroom cloud” to America–Wilson’s Op-Ed began a cascade of events: Retaliation from the White House, the outing of his CIA-agent wife by columnist Bob Novak, the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the outing, the jailing of Times reporter Judith Miller as part of that investigation, and now, reports say, a raft of imminent indictments that could shatter the Bush administration.

Not only does the article provide some insight into Wilson’s role in carrying the mantle against Bush’s violations of power, but it also provides a good summary (above) of the bigger story to Plamegate: the White House lied about its reasons for going to war is now paying the price.  Too bad over 102,000 Iraqis and Americans had to pay with their lives, but at least some justice may be coming for those most repsonsible.

Cross posted: Political Porn

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this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters

cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.

image and poem below the fold

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