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Monthly Archives: July 2007

House votes contempt, but …

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolton in contempt. The vote was along party lines. Yet more evidence that the system of checks and balances has been all but destroyed. One must wonder whether the White House has conveyed more than brilliant legal arguments to the House Republicans in […]

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Another impeachment target

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

So many criminals, and always the same excuse: so little time. Apparently the news networks were obsessed with the fact that soda can be harmful to your health, so they didn’t give much coverage to the serial perjury being committed by the Attorney General of the United States. There is extensive coverage at TMP Muckracker. […]

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Debating impeachment

Sunday, July 22, 2007

There is a fascinating exchange in the comments at Ezra Klein’s blog. Klein advocates impeachment, and quotes from the Paul Craig Russell column to which I linked recently ctblueblog.com/?p=307, and the possibility of a coup or coup-like denouement to the Bush Administration, possibly in the form of a “temporary” seizure of power after a conveniently […]

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Great moments in the law

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Upper Darby Township in PA is being sued by an 82 year old man whose civil rights were violated when he protested a visit by George Bush. Defense attorneys have filed a motion seeking to preclude the mention of Bush’s name at the trial, arguing that Bush is so unpopular that mentioning Bush’s name would […]

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Told you so

Sunday, July 22, 2007

As most people know by now, Joe Wilson’s lawsuit against Cheney, et al. has been dismissed by a right wing judge. So far it has played out pretty much as I predicted when it was filed. First, they couldn’t have gotten a worse judge . Judge John D. Bates is a former Ken Starr deputy […]

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Brownback’s friends on the web

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Okay, I’ll admit it, it took me a while to figure out whether this was a parody site or not (Baptists for Brownback). The fact that I found this post, on Tammy Faye, through a link from Jesus General, put me somewhat on notice, but I had to ponder hard and long nonetheless. The design […]

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Satan’s minions, Bronx Division

Sunday, July 22, 2007

A Yankee Fan admits the obvious, in a very funny article in the New York Times: [E]very baseball season is a narrative, and this would have been much too early an exit for the villain of the piece. What is “Othello” without Iago, after all? That’s “Othello” the play, not the character. Othello the character […]

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Another call for impeachment

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so it shouldn’t really be surprising that a former Reagan official and former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal Editorial page would be so right about impeachment. Via the

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Art Show, History Lesson and Frog

Saturday, July 21, 2007

No politics today. It’s not because Cheney is acting president. Situation Normal there. My wife and I went to Art on the Groton Bank, a fledgling Art Show held on the grounds of the Bill Library on Groton Bank. Our friend (and good Democrat) Audrey Heard, seen here with her paintings, is one of the […]

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Another Friday Night Concert

Friday, July 20, 2007

Well, I started by looking for Donovan doing “Catch the Wind” (maybe some other week) which linked me to Donovan doing “Universal Soldier” where I found this video of Buffy Sainte-Marie doing that very same song. I decided on this one because I loved the intro, illustrating once again the great way in which music […]

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