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The New York Times reports on March 19 that whereas the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to the congress as a $50 billion investment, the actual costs are more like–
1.) ultra-conservative Pentagon estimate: $600 billion and counting
(note: this Honest Abe estimate categorically excludes “extras” such as operations in the war zone, [...]

Remember the Bush administration’s Big-Brotherish Total Information Awareness (TIA) program? It was the brainchild of Admiral John Poindexter, who is probably best known for his part in the Iran-Contra conspiracy. When TIA became public knowledge, it was immediately obvious that everything about it was unconstitutional and even totalitarian. In February of 2003, [...]

Alright, I wasn’t prepared for this. President Bush pumped up the fear all week, he cried wolf again and again. He repeatedly made the claim that “the lives of countless Americans depend” on whether Congress gives him and his partners in crime an immediate get-out-of-jail-free card for breaking the FISA law to do [...]

Via ThinkProgress:
Last night, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) took to the House floor to urge the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings into Vice President Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors. Wexler, who has already acquired nearly 190,000 supporters through his website, explained his next steps:
Tomorrow, I will deliver these names [...]

I have little editorial comment on this new development other than to say, fuck you Bush! And a holiday prayer that The Real America vis-a-vis our principles come crashing down on his coke head.
Happy Holidays!
From The Nation Lawyers Stepping Up
Katrina vanden Heuvel

We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have [...]

h/t Crooks and Liars  A Crippling Legacy
By: Nicole Belle
Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we — and our children and their children — will pay for the last eight years of Bush/Cheney economics.
The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be [...]

The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unnecessary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings.
Over 50,000 signatures just this [...]

Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the House Judiciary Committee have been a huge disappointment. Conyers talked a good game about impeachment when the Democrats were in the minority. Since becoming chairman, he has refused to hold any impeachment hearings.
The House Judiciary Committee has before it a resolution introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) [...]

Seven years later, at least the cable media is beginning to pull their noses out of Bush’s ass and do their job.
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Many scandals ago, with each new one, I would think it couldn’t get any worse. Today I believe we will continue to uncover [...]

Randi Rhodes of Air America, speech to the 50th Anniversary party of “PEACE ACTION of Michigan” on November 11, 2007.
DO not miss this. It is the most honest REAL discussion of what is really happened over the past seven long years.

I’ve written on the law of presidential impeachment for appoximately thirty-five years. Some of these writings are available on OneUtah.org I’m so dreadfully tired of preaching to the choir. And such a choir. We seem, dear friends, to be a quartet. I’m even more sure you’re tired of my rant. But [...]

This is a refresher for those of us who went into shock when George W. Bush lost the 2000 presidential election and went to the White House anyway. I think we can be forgiven, given our state of mind at the time, for not following all the details of the U.S. Supreme Court’s judicial [...]