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Good Riddance To Them All by Joseph L. Galloway There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power. With former White House press secretary Scott McClellan spilling the beans on who told him to lie to the American people and cover up the White House’s responsibility for the criminal act of revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer, it clearly was time for some folks to begin drafting their requests for presidential pardons. McClellan, in a forthcoming book that will tell some, if not all, reveals that his 2003 statements absolving top White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of any involvement in leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame were untrue - and that the orders to make those statements came from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, Rove and Libby. McClellan’s revelation makes it ab...

FUNDAMENTAL BETRAYAL ACCORDING TO THE 'JERK AT THE PODIUM' Is this news to anyone? Really? If it is than either you are in total denial or have been confined to a cave since 2000. I hope Valerie Plame-Wilson will finally get some justice, too. Scott McClellan in Upcoming Book Ties Bush to CIA Leak Case -- Dodd Calls for Probe To no one's surprise in a world where top White House aides with any president eventually write a book about it, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan will be coming out with his volume in April. It's called "What Happened" and its publisher, Public Affairs, at its Web site now carries this brief excerpt -- which set off a media firestorm on Tuesday. It also led to a call for a full probe by a top U.S. senator and condemnation from former CIA agent Valerie Plame. E&P was first mainstream news outlet to report on Monday night that the McClellan excerpt reads: "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on ...

CONSIDER THE SOURCE My Nana, of blessed memory, would often sit and watch the news with me. She and I spent a lot of time watching the Watergate trials together one summer. She didn't debate or argue with anyone, she just watched and would ask me "what do you think?" I would tell her and she would think about it and tell me "good point" or nod her head. She wasn't YES-ing me - she was making me think. When something puzzling came up she'd smiled and say "Consider the source!" So when I saw this on my newsreader today I laughed. I love watching these pathological personalities shove their boots as far down their throats as possible. As if we haven't been paying attention the last 6 1/2 years! I could hear Nana saying to me: "Consider the source!" Bush insists Alberto Gonzales has done nothing wrong Filed by Michael Roston and David Edwards In a Thursday morning press conference, President George W. Bush insisted that there wa...

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THE CHIMP COMMUTES SENTENCE OF THE CHUMP WHY am I not surprised? I guess Dubya figures now that he's seriously circling the bowl, why give a hoot what anyone thinks of the Worst President ever? MORE HERE HAT TIP TO IDDYBUD PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME

SCOOTER THE KAPAROT (and who's next?) The saying, 'those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it' is one of the great truths of human existance. In this instance let me change that to: Those who do not learn from Torah, are destined to learn its lessons over & over until it sinks through their thick, self-involved skulls! The Torah is filled with violence, blood, death, sex and betrayal. It is also filled with redemption, unconditional love, self-sacrifice, altruism and belief in the face of odds we today can only imagine. But also, if we pay attention - the lessons of Torah are alive and well and walking the planet today. Different names perhaps but the same ethical dilemmas. Seems we've learned nothing. In Job, Job rails against God for causing his suffering and making him into a scapegoat. This last couple months, White House scapegoat Lewis "Scooter" Libby's defense team pointed a lot of fingers at who they considered the real...