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h/t ThinkProgress via Truthdig
You may have already seen this, but it bears re-posting far and wide: The inimitable Seymour Hersh gave truly disturbing details, during the Campus Progress journalism conference in July, expounding upon his article from that month’s New Yorker about the Bush administration’s attempts to find a cause for war against Iran in [...]

The good news: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers will convene an impeachment hearing at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 25th. The hearing will address abuses of power by the Bush administration.
The bad news: This hearing has been described as “preliminary” and “informational.” As Rep. Conyers put it, “We’re not doing impeachment, but [...]

The first line of The Nation article linked below reads, “…even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred…”
That gave me pause to reflect on Paul Mero’s comment this morning, “…and if congressional lefties (and spineless Republicans) would allow the domestic production of oil and gas…”
If career right-wingers are now looking [...]

AP | BEN FELLER | July 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM
WASHINGTON — In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress [...]

Via Glenn Greenwald, here’s a glimpse of the Joys of Washington Bipartisanship as President Bush rejoiced in yet another humiliation of the Democrats this afternoon in the Rose Garden.
This one is special, signing the bill keeps Bush from being prosecuted on multiple felony counts for at least 30 violations of the Foreign Intelligence [...]

Allegorically speaking, to a political junkie such as myself, C-Span and C-Span 2 are the uncut heroin of political news. If you’re somebody who doesn’t really need to be told what you just saw with your own eyes, C-Span provides the perfect information gathering vehicle to understand what is going on in Washington politics, but [...]

Accept the ones that will hang if he talks. Thats how the Republicans are. They suck up to the guy in power, in the moment…and bail at the first sign of trouble. We are presently witnessing the desertion of Bush. But where ever will they run now? Certainly not McCain.
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I watch TV, I read a newspaper every day. Yesterday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich read 35 articles of impeachment for President Bush on the floor of the House of Representatives, as a privileged resolution. It took five hours. Uh huh. Yesterday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich read articles of impeachment for President Bush (PDF) [...]

Large lies fries anyone?

After four years of delays, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has finally released its Phase II report. In a sweeping review of the administration’s pre-war case for invasion, the Committee found that the American public was being fed information at odds with the truth about Iraq.
The lies came directly from President Bush, [...]

Congratulations to Ken Bingham for having his work posted on Michelle Malkin dot bitch.

Ken, you are truly talented. I’m so glad the two of you found each other. She needs friends.
I think it would be really funny to do something for Sen Tom Davis’ comment,
“The Republican brand is so bad, if it [...]

From ABC News:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved the torture of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency. The advisers were members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, which in 2002-2003 included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor [...]