Laugh While you can, Monkey Boy

Now that his republican enablers, protectors and beneficiaries no longer can illegitimately block or otherwise forestall letting the sun shine on governmental actions, Turdblossom is scheduled to be interviewed as part of a criminal investigation into the politically driven firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush Administration. It's about time this devious slimy malevolent smarmy asshole was called to account for his crimes. I only hope the fucking democrats have enough spine, balls and other body parts to effectively turn on the lights to make the roaches scurry.

By Any Means Necessary

Why did Condoleezza Rice, John D. Ashcroft and at least 10 other Bush officials review and approve in the summer of 2002 the use of torture on people kidnapped and held by the bush administration at secret prisons? To protect the homeland? To stop attacks on our troops overseas?

No.

The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees to find nonexistent evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime. A former senior U.S. intelligence official said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration. Interestingly, Condi Rice gave her approval to torture two weeks before (current Federal Judge) Jay Bybee completed his memo allowing the CIA to torture Abu Zubaydah, so the notion that the Bush torture regime was doing so pursuant to legal authorization is yet another lie.

From the horse's mouth:
There was no actionable intelligence gained from using enhanced interrogation techniques on Abu Zubaydah that wasn’t, or couldn’t have been, gained from regular tactics. In addition, I saw that using these alternative methods on other terrorists backfired on more than a few occasions — all of which are still classified. The short sightedness behind the use of these techniques ignored the unreliability of the methods, the nature of the threat, the mentality and modus operandi of the terrorists, and due process.


Many in government and the SCLM are resisting the notion of investigating the torture policies of the United States during the Bush years, arguing that no one knew any better. This “we all failed” stuff is just bullshit.


There are plenty of dirty fucking hippies who opposed the craziness every step of the way, Including the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, who pulled his men out of the field and told his people that they would not participate in these tactics, showing that some in law enforcement still respect the law; and that doing so is a prerequisite for others to do so as well.

Oh, and this guy:
"The United States is committed to the world-wide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture and in undertaking to prevent other cruel and unusual punishment. I call on all nations to speak out against torture in all its forms and to make ending torture an essential part of their diplomacy."

Robbie the Robot Blows the Oath Of Office

It's one sentence, and he practiced all week, but he still got his lines wrong. This is the best that Republican jurisprudence has to offer? The Federalist Society must be proud.

Cornhole

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) placed a hold on Hillary Clinton's nomination to be Secretary of State. Cornyn, an asshole, trumps up a pile of right wing Clinton mythology bullshit to justify his conduct, but the essence is that he finds it more important to play political games than to permit the US to immediately regain some credibility in internation relations after years of Bush sending around feckless idiots like Conduhleezza Rice. Although the Senate eventually confirmed Clinton anyway, Cornhole's perfidious conduct shows him for the dick that he is. Cornhole continued his obstructionist ways by putting a hold on Eric Holder's nomination as Attorney General because the Corndog doesn't want the Bushies who tortured prisoners in our secret prisons or those who devised, implemented and approved those actions, up to and including the highest levels of the Bush assministration, to be held accountable for their conduct.

Remember When Lying was the Worst Thing on Earth?

Gonzo, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, Bradley Schlozman - has any Bushie appearing before Congress told the truth in any fashion?



To Bradley Schlozman, career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights and voting rights divisions were "mold spores," "commies" and "crazy libs."



Schlozman was the loyal Bushie who supervised them from from 2003 to 2006.


He hoped to get rid of the "Democrats" and "liberals" because they were "disloyal" and replace them with "real Americans" and "right-thinking Americans."Of course, that's illegal, and so, when busted for his illegal actions and called before Congress to explain himself, he lied about it. Under oath. In probably its last action as the legal wing of the Bush Crime Family™ the Bush Justice Department declined to prosecute him for it, maintaining their perfect record of zero Republicans held accountable for their crimes against this country.

I'm sure he meant it in the nicest possible way

On Christmas Eve President George W. Bush rang up a North Carolina man who is assigned to the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Neil Ambrose, answered the call at the remote Navy base in southeast Cuba. The president stuck to a template of thanking Ambrose for his service, a White House tradition, and then broke from the script.

"How's the weather down there?" Bush asked.

"It's warm," Ambrose replied. "How would you like to join us?"

A few words can say a lot

Yeah

that’s

right.

So

what?

Swear Words

"So when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, I will swear to uphold the
honor


and

dignity



of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God."

Going to Yellowstone? Don't forget your bulletproof vest!

It's common for administrations to issue a spate of regulations just before leaving office. Among the new rules Bush is cramming down the nation's throat before he leaves is a new rule that allowing loaded, concealed weapons in national parks.



Also, any nutjob fundamentalist "christian" healthcare worker who objects to any medical procedure or service can now legally refuse to perform it or take part in any way. Unlike older "provider conscience" laws, which deal largely with the behavior of physicians and nurses, the new rule would apply to any employee who has a hand in the healthcare delivery process, including menial tasks such as washing medical instruments. Such workers could legally object to performing their duties if the utensils were to be used in a way the worker deemed morally objectionable. The far-reaching proposed rule has the potential to interfere with every aspect of patient care, according to Anne Davis, M.D., an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.


Bush's White House issued another executive order that bars workers at five federal departments from joining a union because they are engaged in intelligence gathering, investigations and other national security work. Colleen M. Kelley, president of the NTEU, said ATF workers were stripped of labor rights for no justifiable reason, including bargaining agreements reached in April. ATF employees "have had collective bargaining rights for more than 30 years and there is no indication that having those rights interfered with their mission before," Kelley said in a statement, vowing to work with President-elect Barack Obama's administration to overturn Bush's order.


In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia.


Heckuva job, Bushie!!

Ape CEO

We still do not know how intelligence operatives, acting in the name of the United States, have interrogated suspected terrorists, and how they are interrogating them now. We do not know how many Americans’ phone calls and e-mails were scanned by the National Security Agency. We do not know—although we can guess—who ordered the firings of the U.S. attorneys who didn’t comply with the Bush administration’s political agenda, and we do not know who may have been wrongly prosecuted by those who did. There are large gaps in our understanding of the backstories to everything from pre-war intelligence in Iraq to the censoring of scientific opinion at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior.