Don't DeLay

...sending him to the pokey!

U.S. House Majority Leader DeLay Indicted by Texas Grand Jury

As KoolAid says, "OH YEAH!"
Crooked bastid. Now onto this Frist character... Tom DeLay indicted

posted by Eric2 @ 1:51 PM 0 comments

Slap the cuffs on Martha

They are coming apart. Maybe this was the plan all along? Maybe the MSM said to its' collective self,

Self, lets stop working so hard and just let the republicans talk so much nonesense that they believe no one is listening. Then they'll get so confused with their own lip service to not being pieces of crap and slip up..."

CNN has the goods apparently that Dr/Sen/Mr Bill Frist DID in fact know, and got regular updates about his HCA stock. However he must have pissed in someone's cornflakes over there. Because they found the tape in 2003 when he said it's in 'blind trust' and he had no idea what was going on with it. And that THAT would be illegal. You know what? Bill, you are right. It is.

Also the SEC chair has recused himself. Wow. Cox, who'd given $1k to Frist' campaign in the past, recused himself

"...to avoid any appearance of impropriety in the commission's consideration of this case..."

That's odd. Ethical problems never bothered them before. What gives? orange jumpsuit

posted by Eric2 @ 1:27 PM 0 comments

Howard Dean and I are on the same page on SCOTUS

(from Salon.com) "[H]ow will we win any battle if we don't stand up for what we believe and speak the truth? More importantly, how will Americans know what to expect from a Democratic Congress and Democratic president if we don't fight for our values at every opportunity? Democrats can disagree with Democrats in good faith -- and many do on this issue. But when political calculations silence our conscience, we have abandoned our true values."

Feingold and Leahy can kiss my gnarley butt. I really don't care what their reasons are here. They are traitors. Pandering, worthless traitors.
SCOTUS
UPDATE: This is what I just communicated to Rus and Pat.

Thanks for locking step with the right wing on the SCOTUS nomination of John Roberts. As someone who has a child that will have to suffer the consequences of this abysmal nominee I just hope whatever deal you made helps you sleep at night. I know he was a shoe-in for this nomination, but it makes it hard to remain a democrat when you fold up on issues like this. For shame.

posted by Eric2 @ 9:41 AM 0 comments

Russ Feingold licks boots too

WTF?
Leahy.
Feingold.
John Roberts.
WTF?

posted by Eric2 @ 4:01 PM 0 comments

you know I like emailing assholes as much as the next guy...

But this is kind of ridiculous. I got this email from Barbara Boxer.

Dear Eric,

Do you know that the Bush Administration still hasn't turned over key documents about Judge John Roberts that were requested by Judiciary Committee Democrats more than six weeks ago? A narrow, targeted request for documents related to only 16 cases where John Roberts played a leadership role as Principal Deputy Solicitor General for the first President Bush?

How can the Senate fulfill its constitutional "advice and consent" responsibility and vote on Judge Roberts' nomination without having all the facts?

Only one person will be able to get the White House to release these key documents -- and that's Judge John Roberts himself.

Email Judge Roberts now, and call on him to urge the Administration to release these key documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee!

As my colleague Joe Biden characterized it, we certainly saw quite a "kabuki dance" when Judge Roberts testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings last week.

But a "kabuki dance" is not what the framers had in mind when they gave the Senate its "advice and consent" responsibility on the President's judicial nominations -- especially on a nomination as critical as Chief Justice of the United States. On issue after issue, Judge Roberts evaded Senators' questions as committee members probed his legal philosophy on behalf of the American people.

Well, John Roberts and the Bush Administration can't have it both ways. So if Judge Roberts is going to stonewall the Judiciary Committee during his testimony, then the White House needs to come clean and produce the information that the Judiciary Committee requested.

Urge Judge Roberts and the White House to release these key documents!

The stakes in this confirmation process are truly enormous. So before Senators cast their votes on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court bench, the American people deserve to know what kind of Chief Justice that John Roberts would be.

The events of the last few weeks have only crystallized the fact that inequality still exists in our society. The courts, and especially the Supreme Court, play a critical role in ensuring that all of our rights are protected regardless of race, gender or class.

We know that Judge Roberts has a brilliant legal mind. But what's in his heart? Will John Roberts truly fight to defend the rights and freedoms of every American?

We still don't know the answer to that question. And that's why I urge you to join me in calling for the release of these key documents, to shed more light on Judge Roberts' true legal philosophy.

Tell John Roberts to produce the documents from these 16 key court cases during his service as Principal Deputy Solicitor General!

In Friendship,
Babs

Now come one. That freakhead doesn't give a rip if I or 10 million doombilly's email him. I just don't see the point. Especially when you find out that Pat Leahy is backing him for SCOTUS. WTF!? You know if the democratic senators can't even muster the backbone to say no, I don't think an email from me is going to make a whole hell of a lot of difference.
So I wrote back (excerpted)

By the ways Babs;
What the heck does Pat Leahy mean by this:

"Judge Roberts is a man of integrity. I can only take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda."

If you wonder why the left is splintering read that quote by your fellow democratic senator. I know you don't have any control over Pat's actions. But damn, it does make me want to call him and ask him if he's been huffing furniture stripper or something.
doomy as ever,
Doombilly
file under Leahy makes a deal

posted by Eric2 @ 1:26 PM 0 comments

John Kerry just sent this to me. And well a bunch of other people...anyway, I thought this part was particularly amusing.

Katrina Administration

Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do. Michael Brown -- or Brownie as the President so famously thanked him for doing a heck of a job -- Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what George Tenet is to slam dunk intelligence; what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what Tom Delay is to ethics; and what George Bush is to "Mission Accomplished" and "Wanted Dead or Alive." The bottom line is simple: the "we'll do whatever it takes" administration doesn't have what it takes to get the job done.

Katrina is the Bush Albatross

posted by Eric2 @ 1:48 PM 2 comments

hard rain's gonna fall

storm warnings

posted by Eric2 @ 8:03 AM 0 comments

resign pig, resign

Chertoff sat on his hands for a day and a half before he let the (former) F.E.M.A. head Mike Brown have the authority to act. So... he sounds like he needs to SPEND MORE TIME WITH HIS FAMILY TOO.

a memo obtained by Knight Ridder, Chertoff didn't shift that power to Brown until late afternoon or evening on Aug. 30, about 36 hours after Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. That same memo suggests that Chertoff may have been confused about his lead role in disaster response and that of his department.

Katrina | Chertoff | Brown | Bush

posted by Eric2 @ 3:56 PM 0 comments

Impeach Bush Coalition

Jump on the bandwagon and ride it to Pennsylvania Ave...
http://impeachbushcoalition.blogspot.com/

jail the president

posted by Eric2 @ 12:20 PM 2 comments

That's what I'm talkin' about

Link.
responsibility

posted by Eric2 @ 4:12 PM 0 comments

pinch me

To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility... GW Bush 9/13/2005

Good then let's get on with the impeachment before Roberts gets in. Impeach 'im | Katrina

posted by Eric2 @ 2:01 PM 0 comments

plastic sheeting and duct tape

So the old FEMA boss Mike Brown was unskilled and petulent about his job. The new guy, is the DUCT TAPE GUY. Henceforth he will be referred to as DTG.
Presidential Malpractice

posted by Eric2 @ 9:55 AM 0 comments

Ophelia

OK, Brownie has been sent packing back to DC.
I suspect as this continues to heat up this weekend he'll announce HIS decision to resign. W will act all incredulous and faux-begrudgingly accept.
Next up? Tropical Storm Ophelia. Note: Most of the worst hurricanes hit in the autumn. There are two and a half months left in the season.
stormy

posted by Eric2 @ 2:03 PM 0 comments

This says it.

Now spread the word...

UPDATE: Unfortunately that pic was taken down. Too bad.
Can the W

Main Entry: 1im·peach
Pronunciation: im-'pEch
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English empechen, from Middle French empeechier to hinder, from Late Latin impedicare to fetter, from Latin in- + pedica fetter, from ped-, pes foot -- more at FOOT
1 a : to bring an accusation against b : to charge with a crime or misdemeanor; specifically : to charge (a public official) before a competent tribunal with misconduct in office
2 : to cast doubt on; especially : to challenge the credibility or validity of
3 : to remove from office especially for misconduct
- im·peach·able /-'pE-ch&-b&l/ adjective
- im·peach·ment /-'pEch-m&nt/ noun

posted by Eric2 @ 11:15 AM 3 comments

MSNBC_Poll

VOTE: Poll, Should Mike Brown be fired?

I'm for jailing the idiot myself. Oh and, IMPEACH BUSH. - Fire/Jail Brown

UPDATE: Now over 30,000 responses and the FIRE BROWN folks are up to 87%

posted by Eric2 @ 10:21 AM 1 comments

GOP on GOP

Yahoo: Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, the moderate Republican who led the independent panel known informally as the September 11 commission, and his Democratic vice-chairman Lee Hamilton said the response was undermined largely by a lack of command.

It is always more damning when they point out their own failings.

Yahoo:"The same mistakes made on 9/11 were made over again, in some cases worse," Kean said. "Those are system-wide failures that can be fixed and should have been fixed right away."

Remember it took some brave republicans to get Nixon out.

Source: On Saturday, July 27, the House Judiciary Committee approved its first article of impeachment charging President Nixon with obstruction of justice. Six of the Committee's 17 Republicans joined all 21 Democrats in voting for the article.

impeach him

posted by Eric2 @ 3:19 PM 0 comments

I've had enough

How about you?

MoveOn.org, an organization I respect, sent me a petition to ask president bush to stop "blaming the victims" and get down to helping them. Well...come on people. He does not care. His white ass aint running for office again. But I didn't want to NOT sign the petition. So my personal comments (that they instruct you to enter) are in bold below.

TO: President Bush
FROM: ME
SUBJECT: Stop Blaming the Victims, Help Them
__________

Dear President Bush,

Actually I don't think you are capable of caring for any of these unfortunate souls. Please resign your office.

In the immediate days after Katrina, we saw the best of America as millions of people stepped forward to offer help. Meanwhile, your administration failed at its most important job: keeping America safe. The federal effort was too little, too late and the fact that you would blame state and local officials after they had begged for help is appalling.

You must stop blaming the vicitms and get to work helping them.

RETIRE BUSH

posted by Eric2 @ 3:51 PM 0 comments

no sh1t

The President really said this:

"The good news," said the president, "is that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubble of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's gong to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."

Quoted from HuffPo
the talking rectum

posted by Eric2 @ 2:36 PM 0 comments

Dear Doombilly

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Your generous support means the most to the families who rely on Red Cross to help them through some of the most difficult times of their lives.

Please continue to visit us at http://www.redcross.org/ to see how we’re using your 2005 Hurricane Relief Fund donation to make a difference, and for the most current disaster updates and stories about the people being helped.

Together, we can save a life.

American Red Cross
give early, give often

posted by Eric2 @ 8:05 AM 0 comments

what if?...

This becomes a big storm. What if it is followed by more? It happened last year. You think our efforts are strained now? What if it's just the run-of-the-mill tornado/wildfire/flood/mudslide/earthquake? How do you think we'd fare?
Natural Disasters Cannot Be Planned BUT The Can Be Prepared For

posted by Eric2 @ 2:58 PM 0 comments

"federal funds have dried up"

Which is what they were saying in NOLA last year about the necessary maintenance funding of the levee system.

The levee board noted in October 2004 that the feds were also now not paying for a hoped-for $15 million project to better shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

That was in lieu of the 2004 hurricane season. You remember that? It was one of the worst on records. So basically Washington told them to go CHENEY themselves. Despite drastic evidence that this was a sincere concern. It's almost like the federal gov't shrugged it off and said, "ah how bad can it be?" Now we know because,

...the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history.

And there were growing concerns that if a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane had hit NOLA that they'd be SOL. So a study was proposed. The Times-Picayune paper reported that,

the cost of the Iraq war forced the Bush administration to order the New Orleans district office not to begin any new studies, and the 2005 budget no longer includes the needed money

Which is kind of like the way the POTUS seems to be viewing all scientific study. I am kind of reminded of the way my old office building used to be maintained. See, they knew they were going to sell it eventually and it'd be torn down. So necessary maintenance was not budgeted for. When the air conditioning failed they didn't know what to do. And for months last summer, we went without until they begrudgingly replaced it. I think that's how W looks at the world he's playing with. I mean, if Jebus is coming back to get all of his folks soon, what's the point in fixing stuff?

"The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House. ... In its budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need."

NOLA MS Katrina

posted by Eric2 @ 11:40 AM 0 comments