Impeachable Treason: 2006-05-14

A Few Bad Men:
"BushCo. would ridicule Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. After all, George W. referred to the Constitution as 'just a goddamned piece of paper' ... Bush talks freedom but refuses to answer questions about the manner in which he provides it, or even if he's providing it. He prefers to be thanked, not examined ... (the Bush Administration) continue to deceive the electorate while they conduct clandestine business-dealings not only impacting lives but, also, destroying lives."

Progressives Advance; Bush Out To Lunch:
"... The uberhawks who have cost this country so much in blood, treasure, and tears are being attacked by a newly emboldened American majority of citizens. This is a big deal. Progressives are absolutely on the ascendant, and the right-wing is both shrinking and losing power ... Bush is out to lunch and out of touch ..."

Vacuum Cleaner Surveillance:
"... administration officials ... questioned whether the fruits of the NSA program ... have been worth the cost to privacy. And many Americans naturally wondered whether Big Brother was watching or listening in ways that are still unknown. There are hints, for instance, that the government has been fishing the Internet as well as the phone lines ... (NSA) tapping into massive volumes of Internet communication ... capability of 'vacuum-cleaner surveillance' of all data crossing the Internet."

Perceptive, Not Paranoid:
"One in four Americans think it is likely that the government has listened to their phone calls ... 26 percent of respondents thought it was likely their own communications had been tapped, while 63 percent thought it probable that the government had eavesdropped without a court order on citizens not suspected of terrorist links."

How The Media-Industrial Complex Failed The Public:
" ... subtle forms of bias prevented scrutiny (of Bush's drive to war in Iraq). Editorial influence of a few outlets over others; corporate consolidation over advertising markets; the perception on the part of powerful editors that they do not want to bring down a presidency; the recourse of journalists to an acceptable pool of sources; and the habit of editors to stay within a consensus - all these factors ... blunted the will and ability of American journalists to challenge official government policy ..."

Incalculable Damage:
"(The Bush) administration has quietly taken the view that waterboarding could actually be consistent with a ban on cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment. Now Gen. Hayden refuses in public to forswear the use of such barbaric treatment. The damage done by such silence to America's global standing and long-term interests is incalculable."

Incompetent, Corrupt, AND Unpopular ... Trifecta?
"It's not just the way he's doing his job. Americans apparently don't like President Bush personally much anymore, either ... Six public polls in recent weeks showed ... that Bush's personal approval ratings have dropped since he was re-elected in 2004."

Bush Wants Police State:
"Bush's plan to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border ... is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, a law established after the Civil War that prohibits the use of U.S. troops for domestic law enforcement. Passed in 1878 to prohibit federal troops from running elections in the former confederate states, it is considered a bulwark against the development of a police state."

Outsourcing Domestic Spying:
"... the government now makes so many requests for wiretaps, phone records and call information that an industry has sprung up to handle the load. Rather than respond themselves to requests from the FBI and others, a telco can sign up with one of these companies, give them access to their call records and equipment, and let that third party do all the hard work."

No Room For Truth In GOP:
"Specter caved to the White House and modified his already bad bill by taking out the provision which would have had the FISA court rule on its constitutionality ... Not a single Democrat should vote for this bill if it comes to the Senate floor ... It is an abomination and a slap in the face of the American people who simply desire to know the truth: is the government breaking the law or not? But there's no room for truth in this Republican Congress."

Indictment Speculation Heats Up: Rove Or Armitage?
"I'm sure Inman is wrong on Armitage. But I am also sure we'll hear more about Armitage's direct involvement. I am additionally sure we will hear about Armitage as a witness against Rove if he is indicted ... information provided by Richard Armitage is -- more than any other information -- what has put Karl Rove at major risk of indictment."

The Sound of Silence:
"We are all, Karl Rove included, waiting on pins and needles ... Today, will an Indictment be announced or will nothing happen?"

GOP Bribery Scandal Deep And Wide:
"... court papers indicate that the investigation that snared Cunningham -- in which the California Republican, now serving a 10-year sentence in federal prison, admitted that he took millions in bribes -- and led Wade to take a plea deal could go much deeper. At least three other federal investigations involving members of Congress are also underway, linked to questions about whether lawmakers traded the power and influence of their offices for hefty campaign contributions and lavish gifts."

Call To Action:
"This is your chance America. This is your chance to be rid of Bush and his gang of cronies forever. They remain in power only because they have conned you out of your own democracy. They remain in power only because we have not yet all spoken out at one time, all at the same time, to finally throw them out."

Bush's Willful Ignorance Crippling Iraq Effort:
"...the administration's war on internal dissent has crippled the CIA's ability to provide realistic assessments from Iraq. 'The system of reporting is shut down ... You can't write anything honest, only fairy tales.'"

Too Much To Ask? It Is Their Job, After All:
"If they want to avoid being buried under a November avalanche, Republican lawmakers might want to rouse themselves from their passive partisan slumber. The Senate Intelligence Committee, for example, still hasn't completed a probe it promised two years ago into whether the White House manipulated intelligence on Iraqi WMD. Is it asking too much to do this probe before, say, the Bush team hypes "incriminating" satellite photos of Iran?"

White House Knew RNC Paid To Defend 2002 Election Criminal:
"The former chairman of the Republican National Committee remembers telling someone at the White House that he had decided to have the RNC pay the legal defense bills for convicted phone-jamming conspirator James Tobin ..."

Former NSA Chief: Bush Domestic Surveillance Illegal
"Admiral Bobby Ray Inman ... the highest ranking former NSA official to speak out about the program ... disputed the Bush administration's claim that Congress authorized the secret spy program ... also said the program clearly contradicts the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act..."

Armitage Indictment in CIA Leak Case?
"What Inman shared with some of us -- and this was a repeated assertion from comments that I have confirmed that he made in Austin -- is that the person in Patrick Fitzgerald's bull's eye is Richard Armitage."

Did Bush Ignore 9-11 Warnings?
"My sources also told me at that time that there had been ... a lot of talk about an impending attack ... part of the reason that I was being told of what was going on was that the people in counter-terrorism were trying to get the word to the president or the senior officials through the press, because they were not able to get listened to themselves."

Hijacked?
Anybody know what's up with Crooks & Liars? Site seems to be hijacked by "Zia Space" webhosting ...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Your Privacy, Part II:
"AT&T, Bell South and Verizon have all issued statements denying that they’ve handed over phone records to the NSA ... But a presidential memorandum signed by the President on May 5 allows the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, to authorize a company to conceal activities related to national security."

White House Concealing Abramoff Visits:
"If Judicial Watch, or anyone else, wants to find out how often Jack Abramoff visited the White House, they'll have to FOIA (and then probably sue) the Executive Office of the President. All they'll get from the Secret Service are Access Control Records, which ... don't tell you very much."

Moral Dilemma of Rumsfeldian Proportions:
"Don Rumsfeld admits that the pentagon is still weighing whether they need to treat "unlawful combatants" humanely or whether our military can be depraved barbarians and make them walk around on all fours and bark like dogs after sitting in their own vomit, excrement and feces for hours on end ... it is a moral failure of epic proportions."

Propaganda Minister Reveals Allegiance:
"White House press secretary and former Fox News radio host Tony Snow suggested he was still a member of the Fox News team -- describing a senator's interview with ABC's 'This Week' as being on a 'competing network.'"

Republican Leader Sentenced for 2002 Election Crimes:
"A former Republican National Committee official was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months in prison for his role in the jamming of New Hampshire Democrats' telephones on Election Day 2002..."

Happy Flying ... Air Marshals Disintegrating Under Bush:
"A damning investigation of the Federal Air Marshal program is set to be released by Congress next week ... Sensenbrenner said officials of the Air Marshal program "stonewalled" his staff and retaliated against air marshals who tried to reveal problems."

Lies, Damn Lies, and Your Privacy:
"Well now it turns out that there was one specific type of domestic call the government was keeping tabs on. All of them ..."

Then And Now, And Why And How:
"In November 2004, voters didn't know that ... the president's campaign had received hundreds of thousands of dollars through a corrupt lobbyist named Jack Abramoff ... didn't know that (Bush and Cheney) had ordered the leaking of classified—and highly misleading—information ... didn't know that (Bush) had authorized a massive and probably illegal domestic wiretapping operation ... The public was unaware of these facts ... for one overriding reason: (the Republican-controlled) Congress ... (was keeping) a lid on investigations."

No End In Sight To GOP Congressional Scandal:
"Cunningham briber Mitchell Wade really does appear to be becoming a gold mine of information for federal prosecutors. His cooperation may even rival Jack Abramoff's in the number of players he helps bring down."

Shredding Constitution = Impeachable Treason:
"Bush has failed in his most important responsibility "to preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution and, thus, is in violation of his sworn oath of office ... Treason is betrayal of country. And what defines country? In the United States the Constitution defines country. The Bush regime's assault on the Constitution is an assault on America."

He's Watching Your Cellphone & Internet, Too:
"We should be terrified that Congress has not been doing its job and because all of the checks and balances put in place to prevent this have been deliberately obviated ... the NSA and White House went around all of the checks and balances ... 20 years from now we, as historians, will be looking back at this as one of the darkest eras in American history. And we're just beginning to sort of peel back the first layers of the onion."

Rumors of Rove's Demise Slightly Premature:
"From everything we've seen in public reports, it's very possible Rove will indeed be indicted this week. In fact it's looking more and more likely he will be ... Nevertheless, something just isn't adding up. I don't pretend to know what it is ... My concern ... is that Leopold's ubiquitous reporting has set expectations very high in the blog community."

Where Was Bush During Watergate? Nixon Could Have Used Him:
"... the FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters' phone records in leak investigations ... It is a chilling scenario. Had this alleged power been used during the Nixon administration, Deep Throat would have been exposed before Watergate erupted ... and Nixon's illegal activities could have been covered up forever."

But God TOLD Me To:
"President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, .George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.' And I did.'"

So then what ... God told him to go pry into private citizens' phone records? God told him to wind up a racist base to attack Latino immigrants? God told him to attack Iran with nuclear weapons? Sure doesn't sound like the voice of the God I know ...

This is Just Too Creepy ...

Bush Appointee Emasculates Taxpayers:
"Chief Justice John Roberts, formerly a corporate lawyer, said in the official opinion that 'State taxpayers have no standing ... to challenge state tax or spending decisions ...' In other words ... state taxpayers throughout the country now have no legal right to challenge the decisions of their bought-and-paid-for elected officials who are selling off our government to the highest bidder."

Out-Roving Rove:
"If indicted, Rove will send Bush's favorability levels to astounding lows for the self-proclaimed "war-time" President. But while distracted by legal matters, Rove will no doubt likely to lurk behind the scenes of Republican grand strategy for some time ... The best way to beat Rove is to out-Rove him and Bush's fellow travelers, but there is scant evidence that that is happening yet."

Note to GOP - Blue Tsunami Gonna Git You, Sucka:
"In forty-seven states, Bush has a negative approval rating. In seventeen states, Bush's disapproval rating doubles his approval rating. In fifteen states, his disapproval rating is lower than any disapproval rating ever achieved my Nixon nationally ... It is a blue nation. I'd love to see these map on television and in newspapers for a little."

Remedial Education:
Okay, for all of you who have had a conversation about immigration reform in the past month ... STOP. Repeat after me: the issue we need to be talking about is the incompetence, lies, and treason that the George W. Bush administration has visited on this country. Nothing else matters until we finish dealing with that. Karl Rove wants you to talk about immigration - when you should be talking about his indictment for revealing the identity of a CIA operative. George Bush wants you to be talking about immigration - when you should be talking about his illegal wiretapping. Stop being such suckers, you ... suckers. Start demanding answers.