pres got the blue meanies?

[jimboloco]

lets see
the presidunce says Iraq is getting uranium ore from Niger
in his state of the Union address in Jan, 2003

former Ambassador Wilson is then dispatched by an independent group
to discern the quality of this statement and he concludes
first, the quality of the uranium ore in Niger is too weak to make nuclear fissure material
second, there was no ore going to Iraq

then Valerie Plame is outed as a CIA agent, thereby destroying her career and it happens that her husband is Ambassador Wilson, whose research threatened the presidunce's credibility in making the case for war

then the leaker is revealed to be Scooter Libby, aide to both the vice-presidunce snd his non-reflective boss

he will not say anything revealing in court so is convicted of obstructing justice

the presidunce commutes his jail sentence
the veep pays his fine

what am i missing here?

oh yeah
the repukeblickin strategists are saying that clinton pardoned others with far more egregious crimes

and Libby's family is happy

[stilltrucking]

Pass go collect two hundred dollars and don't forget your



He is the lamest duck there ever was.

He has nothing to lose.

[jimboloco]

He likes being a lame duck.
They are untouchable.
like the card, very playful.

[stilltrucking]

I am waiting to exhale in November of 08

who the hell knows what he will pull next

Interesting article in Harper's Magazine last month called UnDoing Bush.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/06/0081545

I buy back issues at the library for a dime.

Sometimes I get lucky and score a copy of The Ecconomist or Scientific American.

I got not much money but life is sweet.

[jimboloco]

very nice of you to post
i got my assignment
will shut up and read
ps just made a subscription to the Nation

On Thursday, June 6, 2002, FBI agent Coleen Rowley testified before Congress that 9/11 might have been avoided had her agency been better organized to manage the clues it had in hand. The whistleblower’s assertion reverberated all that weekend, threatening to flip the post-9/11 narrative from one of vigorous counteraction by manly officials to incompetent snafu by Republican bureaucrats.

By Monday, though, Americans would forget about Coleen Rowley. Her story was sidelined after then Attorney General John Ashcroft called an emergency press conference from Moscow to announce that federal agents had seized Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla and foiled a plot to set off a radioactive “dirty bomb.” The deliciously terrifying phrase immediately filled our airwaves and nightmares. And it redirected the news cycle’s focus from Rowley’s blonde hair to Padilla’s dark face, from talk of constructive government criticism to plots of urban mass destruction. A few people did stop to wonder why Ashcroft was making such a fuss, all the way from Moscow, about a man the United States had been holding in custody for a good month already. But back then, in 2002, most Americans still reacted skeptically to the Cassandras who suggested that Padilla was dragged out of obscurity precisely to shove Rowley’s story from the top of the broadcast. It is only today, after scores of similar examples, that Americans can look back at those moments and see the earliest beta tests of the Bush media-management model. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/06/0081552