This saga continues thanks to a literate judge with cojones.  Bushees may sill have to produce…

Dear Gomerspile.I know that it sounds good to say they hate everything about us.It just happens not to be true.They have a quaint notion that the land they were born into should be controlled by the people who live there.They could give a shit about us if we did not have troops stationed there.The only reason we have troops there is oil.Israel can more than hold it’s own.I hope the new administrtion tests my theory.Get our troops the hell out of the middle east and let the people there decide what government they want.They will still sell the oil.The only difference will be that Exxon Mobil will not be making 40 billion dollars a year.Ronald Reagan sent troops over there that were car bombed and he thought quite rightly “what the fuck are we doing here"and pulled right out.I could give you a history lesson of how we have stuck our noses in the middle east for oil but that would be too long.I advise you read from the end of ww2 to now and you will find our involvement in the middle east for oil disgusting.By the way take your time when you read how we dislodged the elected government of Iran and installed the Shah for 40% of the company that was drilling for oil in Iran.One more by the way.Our involvement and support for Israel allows us to keep our greedy little fingers involved in that region.When the oil runs out none of the ruling class will give a shit about Israel.Those of you who think Israel is leading us around have it all wrong.Iguess it helps you sleep at night blaming the Jews for everything.

#120597 by `jbart

Jbart, we are definitely ideological birds of a feather on this…

• As far as I’m concerned, the “only” religion that has, historically, been proven accurate, and predictable, is mine.  That’s belief in “Mother Nature” or atheism.

Yep, for sure.

However, you and Karl Marx are right about the ‘opiate’ and that’s the real trouble. I’d be willing to bet there are far more people running around stoned out of their minds on religion NOW, then there even was a decade ago.

Meantime, I had to giggle at this…sort of just fit right in…though I’m thinking you probably didn’t do it interntionally:

• “….either Cayholic, Cristian, Jewish, or Muslim….”

Cay-Holic, huh? That is too funny. Let me know if it was a typo, or intentional. (since Christian is missing it’s h). Never mind, you don’t have to. It’s still funny.

(I used to be a Cayholic, so I can laugh without feeling like I’m doing it disrespectfully).

Truthdogdotorg, #120650 by 911truthdotorg

I did sign that petition. I think it was Friday. And, I sent it along. I’m glad it’s had such good response. Now, we’ve gotta get to it. Based on the piece by Chris Hedges, Dick Bush could STILL hit Iran, without going back to Congress for another approval. And, I personally have no doubt that they would.

So, impeaching the bastards is the only way to keep that from happening.

Here is is again…

• http://www.WexlerWantsHearings.com
(NO thanks to Ron Paul)

Please sign Rep Wexler’s petition to impeach Cheney.

http://www.WexlerWantsHearings.com

Blue Gal posted Rep. Robert Wexler’s video yesterday, asking for citizens to sign the petition on his website in support of impeachment hearings for Vice President, Dick Cheney. Wexler was hoping to get 50,000 signatures and it didn’t take long — it took just 24 hours to meet his goal and the signatures are still rolling in. If you haven’t signed the petition yet, you can find it here.

More from OpEd News:

As of Sunday morning, 54,000 people had signed the petition at WexlerWantsHearings.com calling for action now. And names are being added at a rate of one every one or two seconds!

Wexler has said he wanted at least 50,000 signatures. But why stop there? If people get behind this, and if the impeachment movement spreads the word, he could easily get closer to 500,000 signatures over the next few days. Read on…

The more signatures Wexler gets, the more clout they’ll have with members of the Judiciary Committee who are on the fence.  Let’s show Wexler the power of the netroots to get behind and support elected officials who are representing our values and desires.

It is not about being Jewish.  Is Bush Jewish?  It is about money and ego.  Whoever pays the most gets it.

They go wherever the money is. 

And our Congress could care less about torture.  They care not for what would happen if a citizen of the United States were kidnapped and sent on a rendition trip.  If they cared about the citizens of the USA they would realize what they are doing. 

It would stand to reason that if one of our soldiers murders an Iraqi that he cannot be tried by our courts because all we have to do is use the President’s reasoning that if we torture somewhere else, we (The Prez and his minions) can’t be held accountable.

And our WHOLE Congress goes along, Republicans and Democrats.

It’s power, money and ego.  Not Jews.

And I don’t believe what the Jewish State is doing to the Palestinians is right either.  But that is a long and complicated story.

#120524 jbart:  Is there a Christian influence on our politics?

It must be painfully obvious at this very late period in the game that the “game” is firmly out of our hands.  Betrayal usually extracts an ultimately high price.  What goes around comes around.  I should hope there will soon be a reckoning; my fervent hope is that we survive it.

#120474 by cyrena on 12/15 at 6:10 pm
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“So yeah, we can blame Feinstein and Schumer as part of the ‘clique of Jews’, but what are the excuses of the others? They could have prevented this confirmation.”

As a self described “woman of color”; how do you justify that blatantly bigoted comment?  No response to me is necessary as I’m not Jewish.

troublesum:

There a quite a few here who occasionally let their swastikas slip into view.  I don’t exactly know how they managed to slip amongst those on the left, but somehow they have, and they blame israel and the jews for everything from 9/11 to a lack of healthcare in this country.  It is a sad thing, but at least it helps you spot the insane ones rather quickly.

I didn’t know Schumer was Jewish and I doubt that has anything to do with it.  The racial stuff is creepy here sometimes.

Hey Feinstein and Schumer, open widely your damned eyes when voting “YES” for that guy. Your votes were stupid.

Some thoughts on the blame of Feinstein and Schumer, (who clearly deserve it, because as Village Elder has said, they’re all of the same club, and we aren’t). But, while they stand out as the main culprits in this, because they are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, let us remember the OTHERS…

So yes, they allowed the muckraker, main clique member to proceed to a FULL SENATE confirmation vote, let’s remember that Mukasey was STILL confirmed by the lowest majority ever. (kind of like Clarence Thomas in his Supreme Court confirmation). SO, where were the OTHER dems of of the Senate, in casting a vote from the full chamber?

Well, neither Obama nor Clinton even CAST a vote. (where were you Senators?) I don’t know what Biden did, so maybe somebody can look that up. Still, there were other dim Senators that did vote to confirm him. Are they in the clique, or just stupid, and…as the Village Elder has pointed out about the CIA, never ever bother to consider the long-term results of their stupidity? (or, they just don’t care).

Would it have made a difference, since the Senate has only a one person democrat majority? I don’t know. Shouldn’t it have required a minimum of 61 votes to confirm him? We know that other dims DID vote for him. (the Senator from Louisiana – Landrieu) I don’t know which others off hand.

So yeah, we can blame Feinstein and Schumer as part of the ‘clique of Jews’, but what are the excuses of the others? They could have prevented this confirmation.

#120446 VillageElder:  Yes it is a surprise when the Attorney General of the US will not do his sworn duty.  Nixon’s AG, Elliot Richardson, refused to do Nixon’s dirty work during the Watergate scandal, as did William Ruckleshouse(sp?)the assistant AG.  Both resigned rather than carry out Nixon’s orders.  We’re a long way from Watergate.

We are surprised because ....?  This is Bush’s appointee.  Did you think Bush would suddenly have an attack of conscience and appoint someone whom might not approve of his and his henchmen’s actions?

These folks are all members of the same club, they only differ by the clique they are in.  They are still loyal to the club.  We are not in the club and the club isn’t really concerned with us.  The dem clique will make noises about handling some of our favorite issues.  Remember universal health care has been discussed since before WWI.  Everyone wants better education.  Who is the last candidate, you remember who campaigned saying, “I’m against the family!”

Seasonal Salutations!

Unlike the Waterboardgate Scandal & Cover-Up, Nixon at least didn’t destroy all the tapes.

re: #120423 by troublesum on 12/15 at 11:02 am:

Schumer didn’t just support Mukase to kiss up to the Republicans. Schumer is actually in ideological agreement with the entire pernicous concept of the “war on terror”, which makes a fetish of “security”, to be achieved through wars of aggression abroad, along with arbitrary suspension of civil liberties at home. He may be relatively liberal on economic and social issues, but when it comes to the “war on terror”, he might as well be a neocon.

It was Shumer who persuaded Feinstein to change her mind on Mukasey.  She has a history of this - no backbone whatsoever.  Highest bidder.  Shumer has made a career on kissing up to republicans to show that he is a nice, non-partisan type of guy.  He gave Newt Gingrich a blow-job on c-span book talk just a few weeks ago before Gingrich announced he wouldn’t run for president.

Thank you Senator Feinstein and other kiss ass Democrats. 

And forget about baseball.  We already know they cheat and they only hurt themselves.

This is about hurting others and liars.

Maybe we should call it the Waterboardgate Scandal.

The TortureGate Scandal has similarities to Watergate:  tapes, cover-up, etc.

We have Shumer and Fienstein to thank for this.

I’m a management-type worker (yes, some people in management actually work, still, in this country...), though I rose through the worker ranks all the way from blue-collar beginnings as a late teen.

I have seen, over and over and over, that the attitudes of workers and the type of work they do almost always, with very little deflection from this path, reflect the attitudes and work ethic of those for whom they work.

Where is the surprise that Mukasey turns out to be the person we now see or takes the actions he now displays? This country’s organizations, while this is a democratic country, are not democratic (I’m talking functionality, not parties here).

If the style of top management is democratic, middle management workers display democratic values, display more freedom and honor the democratic base of their positions. Autocratic, dictatorial — corporate-model — top management will reveal middle-management types submitting to their autocratic or dictatorial rules.

Maybe we can feel buyer’s remorse that Mukasey is now doing what should have been predicted from the start: He works for a dictator, gives his stiff-arm salute, and dutifully circles the wagons around all his top management dictators to protect them from paying the price for the clear breaking of clear laws.

Yes, the writing was on the wall when he, a lawyer and a judge, could not state with certainty that the intentional, usually non-lethal drowning of prisoners was either torture or illegal.

At the very least, since we tried and, in one case I’m aware of, successfully convicted at the end of WWII Japanese soldiers for practicing this exact torture on prisonsers. It’s clear and now established in US case law. It’s illegal and it’s torture.

So where is the surprise? He is not the problem. Duh. Our American Fuhrer, Bush, and all his minions are the top-down problem and Schumer and Feinstein are complicit.

The top management needs to change first. But, since they clearly have been breaking law after law, they need to be pursued, maybe even from 09 forward if no one has the spine to enforce the law now, to finally see that US law finally gets upheld.

How come in this report there are no quotes from Schumer and Feinstein on how pleased they are with their votes.Let’s go press hold these pompous arrogant assholes responsible for their actions.Maybe in the next go round of confirmations someone would think twice before qualifying someone for a cabinet post just because he is better than the worst attorney general in history.

This should come as no surprise, especially to the posters here.  It is however one more nail in our coffins.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey; please shock me!

#120285 by waxman

You’ve definitely got a point waxman. I don’t wanna give W any more ‘chances’, but some drugs might not hurt at this point, just to get us by until we can figure something out.

This just scares the holy crap out of me, even though it’s not a surprise. We knew Mukasy would do this. So now, we don’t have a Congress, or a Judiciary, or an Executive branch.

It’s just one big miserable DICTATORSHIP!!

Welcome to the United Police States of America. Pass the drugs, it won’t hurt as bad.

We can thank Schumer and Feinstein for this guy.

This was on the apnews hours ago.

It is no surprise that the first time Muckman is put to the test he failed miserably. Didn’t he say he would uphold the Constitution of this country, even over the presidents wishes and the first thing he does is break the rules. Yep, another true Bush suck up. Since he has proven he cannot do the job he promised to do, it is time to fire him from this job. Forget all this special privilege crap these dishonest crooks claim they have. They are supposed to work for the people of America. WE THE PEOPLE should be the ones to decide if he was elected to that job as well as fired, the congress critters are to disinterested in taking care of the country-a job they were chosen to do-and should not be given the power to decide who gets what job. They should also be treated like the general population- no job security for job failure, poor performance=being fired,with no unemployment, false information given to obtain a position=firing, taking too much time off the job you are canned. America needs people who really want to help the country, not themselves and since they are public servants, or service workers if you will, they are only entitled to minimum wage, no benefits, if you don’t work you don’t still get paid, unlike they do now.Things would change in a hurry.

LETS CANCEL THE ELECTION FOR 2008....THINGS ARE SO SCREWED UP NOW THAT ONLY A CABINET AS SCREWED UP AS THIS ONE HAS A CHANCE ACCIDENTLY GETTING THINGS RIGHT.....GIVE W ONE MORE CHANCE.  A FEW DRUGS MIGHT NOT HURT EITHER--FOR US THAT IS, MAYBE IF WE WERE STONED THINGS WOULD LOOK BETTER.....