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Category Archives: Republican Corruption

Lots of Republican dogs eat lots of ballots in Ohio

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. I have always been averse to conspiracy theories, though Lord knows I’ve been proven wrong in some cases. I remember back in the ’60s when people were accusing the CIA of all kinds of crazy things, and lo and behold, almost all […]

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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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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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Candid advice to Democrats-no charge

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Harriet Miers, she who would have been a Supreme Court justice (could we have done worse than we did?) is going to refuse to even appear to a Congressional hearing to which she has been subpoenaed, because George Bush has invoked “executive privilege” and instructed her not to appear. Congressional Democrats are outraged. After all, […]

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The Steve Martin Defense

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

You.. can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes! You can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes! You say.. “Steve.. how can I be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes?” First.. get a million dollars. Now.. you say, “Steve.. what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and […]

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Impeach Dick, then George

Friday, July 6, 2007

A new poll finds that 54% of Americans favor impeaching Dick Cheney, against a mere 46% that favor impeaching Bush. There’s something to be said for going after Dick first. He’s so massively unpopular. That 54% number could easily increase if it was tied to the argument that impeaching Cheney was a way to put […]

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Olbermann outraged

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Keith Olbermann on the Libby pardon: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmrcpDiv_ac[/youtube]

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I’m outraged, how about you?

Monday, July 2, 2007

George Bush has commuted Libby’s prison sentence because two and a half years in prison is excessive for merely perverting the course of justice and committing perjury. This is merely the last in a “long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinc[ing] a design to reduce [us] under absolute Despotism.” . […]

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