Steven wrote about it earlier. The Bush administration has basically pulled a coup. Congress has the ability to fight back. They must fight back. Conyers’ office is saying that they are waiting for someone from the administration to ‘say it to their face’ before they respond. I’ll tell them how to respond right now. Arrest Bolten and Miers. Arrest them and hold a trial. Convict them. Anything less will be a total betrayal of the Constitution.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Now we are on the same page, eh Boo? This is soooo far more than just about partisanship. The whole fucking republic is at state.
It’s the endgame. And if responsible Democrats and Republicans do not at now, we will have no legal recourse tomorrow. I think we all know what that means.
Sounds good to me. Anything less would just yield more of the same.
Coup? The Bush crime family pulled off a coup on December 12, 2001 when the Supreme Court installed Georgie as President. No one seemed to notice then. Too late now. There was nothing convincing or compelling about the Supreme Court’s so called decision which cannot be considered a precedent. Of course it must not be considered a precedent, because the regime they installed is meant to last forever. Even sweet, old grandmothers got in on the fun: Sandra Day O’Connor. Yes, I’m bitter.
Yup, pretty much. I can literally see the edge of the cliff from here. Reminds me of when we got caught in a hurricane down in Mexico as a kid, put all 8 anchors out to stop from being dragged out to sea, end of the storm we still ended up sideways on the beach but at least it was dry land. Let him fight all of us!
Serious question: Does anyone really think any of this group will comply with the law. If Chuckle Nuts says No, we ain’t playing with you guys, then they will not appear, they will not be arrested, and I highly doubt that even impeachment proceedings will phase them, they just will not participate. There will be no election 2008. . .”I’m a War Time President” will just make sure there are “reasons” that we just can’t have one. He has all the Power now. . .why if he doesn’t intend to use it?
hope that I am some stupid nut case that is wrong, wrong, wrong about this. . .but things are not adding up. Why the continued power grabs if they don’t intend to use them?
under no circumstances are you a ‘stupid nut case’ – i have first-hand knowledge of this fact.
Ah Manny. . .I love you son! Love you mucho grande!
How hot is Tuscon these days? It has been steady high 90’s here for weeks, 15-20 degrees above normal all summer. I am not enjoying it much. LOL
Hugs and smooches handsome guy.
Shirl
it’s been hovering between 100-110 the past few weeks, but today is supposed to be in the 90s. The monsoon is in full force, we got a heck of a storm last night with more on the way this evening (rinse and repeat till September).
Missin’ ya, hope you’re doing well! paz
While here is So Tx we have had nothing but rain, rain rain. My desert landscape has become a jungle, and my cat is freaking out from all the bug choices she has to chase each morning. I am gonna say it out loud, I wish for my reliable droughty summer again.
“Conyers’ office is saying that they are waiting for someone from the administration to ‘say it to their face’ before they respond. I’ll tell them how to respond right now.”
Ahh, so they pulled the same line on you as they pulled on me?
Seriously: this shit has gone on LONG. ENOUGH.
Arrest the criminals. Lock them in that basement closet that Conyers had to hold his PATRIOT Act hearings in. Leave them there alone and in the dark until they’re ready to talk. Maybe in one of those “stress positions” they like so much.
I just called Salazar’s office and they have no clue that anyone is upset. I asked for Salazar to come out and support impeachment and the aide said Bush and Cheney haven’t done any impeachable offenses. I mentioned this, threw in illegal wiretapping and other things. Her response?
They’re still investigating.
I asked how they could investigate when they are refusing congressional subpoenas. Apparently Salazar has voiced dissapointment.
Way to fight for the constitution, impotent dipwad.
well, it;’s Salazar, who’s about as useful as functioning testicles are to the pope.
you know, I saw something last night that has since been stricken from the congressional record.
Salazar has an amendment that it was the sense of the senate that Libby not be pardoned.
Byrd, Pryor, and Lincoln voted against it and it failed 48-49.
At first I couldn’t figure out why the Arkansas senators voted against it. (I figured Byrd had some institutional reason).
Then McConnell brought forward a scathing amendment about Bill Clinton’s pardons of puerto rican terrorists, Mark Rich, his brother-in-law etc., and I understood why the Arkansas senators were skittish.
Somehow Reid convinced McConnell to withdraw the amendment and then had the Salazar amendment stricken.
Anyway, I was surprised Salazar brought it up in the first place. Good for him.
fast, and, if it isn’t or doesn’t, it needs to, desperately…
glenn greenwald, in a typically excellent piece lays it out quite well…
Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state
Muriel Kane
Thursday July 19, 2007
“Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies.
He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts — a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War — by quoting the “strong words” which open Roberts’ latest column: “Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney,
a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.”
“I don’t actually think they’re very strong,” said Roberts of his words. “I get a lot of flak that they’re understated and the situation is worse than I say. … When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order] … there’s no check to it. It doesn’t have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. … The American people don’t really understand the danger that they face.”
Roberts said that because of Bush’s unpopularity, the Republicans face a total wipeout in 2008, and this may be why “the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush’s follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year’s election.”
However, Roberts emphasized, “the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling.” Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party.
“Something’s in the works,” he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.
“The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists … are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events,” Roberts continued.
“Chertoff has predicted them. … The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. … You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda’s not going to do it, it’s going to be orchestrated. … The Republicans are praying for another 9/11.”
Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn’t about to happen.
“If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it,” Roberts replied.
However, he added, “I don’t think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective,” pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media.
“Americans think their danger is terrorists,” said Roberts. “They don’t understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. … The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren’t able to perceive that.”
Roberts pointed out that it’s old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan who are the diehards in warning of the danger.
“It’s so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power,” he said. “There’s no belief in the people or anything like that.
They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. … Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. … A person like that would do anything.”
Roberts final suggestion was that, in the absence of a massive popular outcry, “the only constraints on what’s going to happen will come from the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military. They may have had enough. They may not go along with it.”
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