Department of: "It's about damned time!"

Via ABC News: we learn that the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling for a special counsel to investigate Gonzales' testimony in congress this week. They are asking to look into the possibility that the AG perjured himself.

This administration is so fucked that even the AG can't be trusted to uphold the rule of law. If anyone comes close to suggesting that the Republican party is a party of Law and Order, they are going to get shouted down by me... These people have blackened the name of the USA both here and abroad.

What a disgrace.

The Kristol has cracked....

In his Op-Ed "Why Bush Will Be A Winner" At the washingtonpost.com Bill Kristol holds his distorted lens once more up to the harsh light of reality and sees... exactly what he wants to see.

As one of the principal architects of the deeply flawed and disturbingly reality-free Iraq Policy, he is in no position to change course now. He at least gave himself a bit of a way out in the lede:

I suppose I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one.

Ahh Bill, how we always expected that kind of thing from you. It's almost cute now....

Things we knew were happeingin but couldn't prove till now...

Agence France Presse runs a great story featuring the formaer US surgeon general Dr. Richard Carmona who is blasting the administration this week for hiding major studies on passinv smoking and downplaying others.

For a long time I have known that the Bush administration has been skewing their science and sometime outright lying about nedical and scientific information, but I never thought that a Bush appointee would come right out and say it. Wonder of wonders! I stand amazed.

Miers just ain't coming...

In this article Laurie Kellmanstartes

"Manning, in turn, notified committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., that Miers would not show up Thursday to answer questions about the White House role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors over the winter."

Heh! I didn't know you could just refuse to show up!

(hint to Miers: you can't! They call that Contempt of Congress...)

Touche David Vitter!

The Nations David Corn on the recent outing of David Vitter, one-time Clinton impeachment advocate and strong Family Values candidate for utilizing the services of the famous DC Madame.

The big point:

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In considering impeachment, Vitter asserted, Congress had to judge Clinton on moral terms. Decrying the law professors' failure to see this, Vitter observed, "Is that the level of moral relatively [sic] and vacuousness we have come to?" If no "meaningful action" were to be taken against Clinton, Vitter wrote, "his leadership will only further drain any sense of values left to our political culture."

Strong words. Now that Vitter, who entered the House of Representatives in 1999 after winning a special election to fill the seat of Representative Bob Livingston (who resigned after being caught in an adultery scandal) and who was elected senator in 2004, has admitted he placed a phone call to the so-called DC Madam, his constituents can only wonder if he will hold himself to the same standards he sought to apply to Bill Clinton.

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Makes me grin just a little. :-)

Thompson just a talented actor? I think not!

In this interesting piece for The Boston Globe Michael Kranish brings up some interesting history that I was totally unaware of.

Fred Thompson (yes that one) tipped off the Nixon administration several times that the Watergate investigators were getting close to certain people or things. In fact he may have been the reason for the the notorious gap in the tapes that we have all heard so much about. It seems that the existence of the tapes and their value to the investigators was leaked to the administration a day before it was made public. This gave them all the time thry needed to get rid of the evidence.

Does that sound presidentail to you? If you are a Republican, you bet it does!

From the files of "Who couldn't see this coming?"

WAPO says: President Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence Nothing to see here! Go back about your business!

I just thought it might have been given a little more time, you know just to give the semblance of legitimacy... Oh yeah this is the Bush administration we're talking about here... I forgot.