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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
SFGate: "Rep. Dennis Kucinich's single impeachment article will get a committee hearing - but not on removing President Bush from office.
The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send his article of impeachment - for Bush's reasoning for taking the country to war in Iraq - to the Judiciary Committee, which buried Kucinich's previous effort.
This time, the panel will open hearings. But House Democratic leaders emphatically said the proceedings will not be about Bush's impeachment, a first step in the Constitution's process of a removing a president from office."
It figures. Congress is compromised.
AlterNet: "This, no less than the defiling of the Constitution, is the legacy of an administration that not merely rationalized the immorality of torture but shackled our national security to the absurdity that torture could easily fix the terrorist threat.
That's why the Bush White House's corruption in the end surpasses Nixon's. We can no longer take cold comfort in the Watergate maxim that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This time the crime is worse than the cover-up, and the punishment could rain down on us all."
BringItOn: "It's sad that future generations may not be able to learn all the cautionary lessons of the Bushonian era. What they do see will be stained by truthiness as George and his apologists spin it. The minutia of day-to-day governmental operation will have evaporated into the ether and we'll probably never know how many of his fiascoes really played out behind the scenes. Still, the truthy mash-up he has left will give a relative, though incomplete, accounting of his legacy.
I'm confident that record will be enough to see him as the crapweasel he is."
Don't worry. George W. Bush will go through history as the Nero of our age. The capitalist system is straining under his weight and revealing the truth that the 'free market' does not work and is not free, that the self-regulating market does not exist, that freedom and democracy are empty words in a neocon economy.
Just listen to his words (watch the video and see how he knows he is lying):
"White House: Q "And banking - do you think the system is in trouble?"
THE PRESIDENT: "I think the system basically is sound, I truly do. And I understand there's a lot of nervousness. And - but the economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but - and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move. That's one thing about this administration, we're not afraid of making tough decisions. And I thought the decision that Secretary Paulson recommended on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was the right decision."
Bernanke has just warned us more trouble is ahead. And Bush tells us everything is hunky-dory.
If you wonder what the above image is doing here, you should know by now that some people in the administration knew that hijackings were being planned before 9/11. Strangely enough on that precise day the whole defence system of the east coast was incapacitated, doing exercises elsewhere or simply not reacting. Coincidence? Don't think so. It was the coup that allowed George W. Bush to push Congress aside and take over some of its constitutional rights.
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Britain is under threat. Creepy crawlies are invading the country and they are alien.
"Worm-eating slug found in garden."
"Mysterious insect baffles experts."
So it's gooseberry time again.
But there is another pest in perfidious Albion.
NewStatesman: "Gordon Brown's announcement that he and his acolytes have drawn up a £3m plan to give Margaret Thatcher a state funeral is a disgrace and an unforgivable betrayal of the millions of Labour and trade union people who have constantly cast their votes for the party."
Somehow all the fuss in Britain about this horrible Mr Mugabe comes over as a bit overwrought. They are not so fussy about other dictators. Then I remembered the case of Mrs Thatcher's son, who was involved in a military coup in Equatorial Guinea.
BBC: "Sir Mark Thatcher has left South Africa after pleading guilty over his involvement in an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea."
Polity: Zimbabwe had grounded the plane and seized the weapons.
And, of course, Britain was involved in all this, that explains the grudge against Mugabe. And it's so easy to frustrate a dictator. His undemocratic reactions are exactly what you want. Britain supports other dictators, but at least those don't thwart Britain's illegal coups.
And why do you think Britain wanted a coup in Equatorial Guinea? It's the oil, stupid!
11:25:59 AM
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