Where’s the Outrage?

I’m speechless at the gall of the Bush administration.

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From CNN.com:

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by outed spy Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Bush administration officials.

Plame had accused members of the Bush administration of leaking her identity. To knowingly disclose classified information to unauthorized recipients is a crime, and Plame’s position was classified.

U.S. District Judge John Bates said the lawsuit raises “important questions relating to the propriety of actions undertaken by our highest government officials.” But in a 41-page decision, he found Plame and her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, failed to show the case belongs in federal court. (more…)

 

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OMG. Some undersecretary of something has written Hillary Clinton a letter blaming her for the Bush Administration’s failures.

Countdown - Transcript.

Here’s a portion of the Special Comment - Sen. Clinton has been sent — and someone has leaked to The Associated Press — a letter, sent in reply to hers asking if there exists an actual plan for evacuating U.S. troops from Iraq.

This extraordinary document was written by an undersecretary of defense named Eric Edelman.

“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq,” Edelman writes, “reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.”

 

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There is so much to say about this. Vitter came to office blowing all of that family values stuff. Personally, if you have to tell someone that you are for family values then you probably aren’t for family values.

Poor Senator David Vitter’s phone number has turned up on the DC Madam’s phone log. This can’t be a good thing for the family values Senator. More allegations about Vitter stepping out in Louisiana have been circling. So, Vitter and his wife, who said that she was more like Bobbitt than Hillary, held a press conference the other day. He said that God and his wife forgave him. She asked that the press some hounding her.

Now, in the South, and Louisiana is the south, when woman has to do something relatively formal, the pearls come out. Doing something formal with an adulterous husband requires some thought. One would figure that she would pick out something very conservative. No neck line. Nothing that reveals any hint of a figure but NOOOO, Ms. Vitter wears some clingy, plunging neck like thing. She is wearing something would cause a stir at one of those high brow country clubs. I’m sure that her choice reveals something about her and their marriage but I’m not going there.

Since both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report tackled the Vitter thang, I thought I would combine them into one video. Enjoy.

 

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The Daily Show has some fun with a serious subject - censorship and the Bush administration. It seems that the Surgeon General was prevented from going and speaking the Special Olympics because of the Kennedy’s family support of the Special Olympics. This administration will stoop to new lows to promote partisanship.

 

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Menica asks who’s afraid of a Black President. Then he wonders what a Black President would be like. This is funny.

 

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Keith has a few things to say about Sirius satellite naming their progressive channel Left and their reactionary channel Patriot.  I mentioned this earlier here.  I have also e-mailed Sirius.  You should too.

 

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We have been told and told that if we live Al Qaeda will multiply like rabbits and take control of Iraq. Once they control Iraq they would be able to launch attacks against the US mainland. Well, low and behold, the Army war gamed the scenario in which the US leaves and Al Qaeda does not set up a safe haven. They are in fact driven out. Again, these are the best military minds, these are the generals that President Bush keeps telling us that he is listening to. Basically, the most likely outcome if we leave would be more bloodshed and Iraq breaking into 3 countries.

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From WaPo:

If U.S. combat forces withdraw from Iraq in the near future, three developments would be likely to unfold. Majority Shiites would drive Sunnis out of ethnically mixed areas west to Anbar province. Southern Iraq would erupt in civil war between Shiite groups. And the Kurdish north would solidify its borders and invite a U.S. troop presence there. In short, Iraq would effectively become three separate nations.

That was the conclusion reached in recent “war games” exercises conducted for the U.S. military by retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson. “I honestly don’t think it will be apocalyptic,” said Anderson, who has served in Iraq and now works for a major defense contractor. But “it will be ugly.” (more…)

 

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I actually don’t have much more to say. I haven’t read the indictment. All I can say is that Michael Vick like Ray Lewis before him is fighting for his sports life. On one hand 10’s of millions of dollars on the other hand, pushing a broom at McDonald’s. That’s what Michael Vick is looking at.

The Sportswriter Michael Wilbon, who I greatly admire, devoted his column yesterday to Michael Vick.  Wilbon hits the nail on the head.

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From WaPo:

Until now, Michael Vick has treated bad judgment like a poor tackler. He’d feint, or sidestep, or dance away. A suspicious water bottle at airport security? Somebody will take care of it. Mike will outrun a water bottle, even one with a secret compartment. Until now, Vick tried to make us believe he had nothing to do with illegal dogfighting, even if it took place on property he owned. Until now, Vick would smile and say he didn’t want to let his coaches and teammates down. Vick’s boss in Atlanta, Arthur Blank, and the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, would tell Vick to come clean, tell them what he knew, deal with it all straight up. And Vick would jab-step, move, throw the spin move on everybody . . . until now.

Vick has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a dogfighting probe, and his career is in serious trouble. No burst of speed is going to get him out of this one. There are no linemen to follow toward the pylon.

David Cornwell, the noted sports lawyer and president of the Atlanta-based law firm DNC Cornwell, said yesterday after the indictment was handed down: “This is bad. You’ll hear people say there’s always the presumption of innocence, but it’s a lot better to be innocent and uninvolved than innocent and indicted. He put a $100 million business at risk. At the very inception of this investigation, he should have considered all the risks and, based on that, marched himself into law enforcement and explained what happened.” (more…)

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