Condi now can claim Executive Privilege? But she's not the Executive

Rice claimed on 60 Minutes and elsewhere she doesn't have to testify under oath due to "Executive Privilege", yet the Constitution bestows Executive Powers on one person, the capable President. As Rice is the NSC Advisor, she has no executive powers and therefore not executive priviledge.

Condi asserts her "rights"...

Condi will speak to any camera within reach, but not under oath...?

Should one assume that Dr. Rice is hiding something? Something she can say to the folks at 60 Minutes, but something she wouldn't say under oath. Doesn't make her very credible, does it.

It's unfortunate, as I believe Dr. Rice, like Gen. Powell has been tainted by the lies that this adminstration continues to feed the country. Sure, they both could leave this administration to support the principles I think they once possessed, but I'm sure they feel some sort of loyalty. It's sad really.

This is a defense?

He wasn't in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff," Cheney said in an unusual live interview with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. "It was as though he clearly missed a lot of what was going on."


Let me get this straight. The defense of this adminstration to charges that it didn't take terrorism seriously is that the administration didn't talk to the administration's chief counter-terrorism official about terrorism.

Seems to me that Cheney proves Clarke's point.

Clarke to become victim of Rove's Attack Machine

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/21/bush.terror/index.html

Obviously, Mr. Clarke, like Mr. O’Neill before him spent decades working for Republicans and worked himself into being in one of the US Government’s foremost experts in the area so that he could one day make John Kerry President.

Isn’t it amazing that this AMAZING Staff Bush put together (remember all the “great leader” comments made by some) keeps coming out with bad things to say. It’s not that these guys have sour grapes, it’s that they’ve had ENOUGH.

It’s actually quite the contrary, THE ONLY people that support the President are those that are still on the payroll and who knows if they’ve been threatened with being fired (MEDICARE COST ESTIMATES) for telling the truth or daring to disagree with the President (O’Neill).

Sour Grapes, me thinks not. Principled experts having enough of the Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rove Bullshit…that’s what it is.

Now, we’ll watch the Rove Attack Machine try to discredit this man. Proving once again, just how right he is.

Scalia won't recuse himself...

And then there is the 1994 case of Liteky v. United States, in which the Supreme Court ruling noted:


Subsection (a), the provision at issue here, was an entirely new "catch-all" recusal provision, covering both "interest or relationship" and "bias or prejudice" grounds, see Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp., 486 U.S. 847 (1988) - but requiring them all to be evaluated on an objective basis, so that what matters is not the reality of bias or prejudice, but its appearance. Quite simply and quite universally, recusal was required whenever "impartiality might reasonably be questioned."

Writing those words for the majority in that case was … Antonin Scalia.


Thanks to www.dailykos.com

Does this mean Poland is BACK in OLD EUROPE now?

WASHINGTON — President Aleksander Kwasniewski (search), a key Washington ally, said Thursday he may withdraw troops early from Iraq and that Poland was "misled" about the threat of Saddam Hussein's (search) weapons of mass destruction.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114585,00.html

Another Oregon County to license gay marriages.

Benton County, Home to the OSU Beavers in Corvallis is going to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.



Hooray, I say.

Benton approves gay marriage

I watched the ABC Nightly News tonight for the first time in a while and saw some very sloppy and UNLIBERAL journalism. In a story about Dick Cheney challenging Kerry's record on defense and security, the REPORTER stated that Kerry had said he has met with many FOREIGN Leaders who wanted Bush out. Now, this was on March 17th. Nearly TWO WHOLE days since the Boston Globe reporter corrected his story and stated that Kerry actually said "More" leaders.

You can find the email the reporter sent out on Drudge or many other blogs that quote from Drudge.

(EVEN THE GLOBE buries it way down in this story about the quote:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/076/nation/Charges_traded_on_foes_honesty+.shtml)


Again, Kerry's statement was pretty dumb, even with the corrected version, but for the "LIBERAL MEDIA" to continue to report things that have been retracted two days later is sloppy and lazy reporting.

Shame on ABC.

This sounds like good system?


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/international/middleeast/17CIVI.html?8hpib

For Iraqis in Harm's Way, $5,000 and 'I'm Sorry

Military officials say they do not have precise figures or even estimates of the number of noncombatant Iraqis killed and wounded by American-led forces in Iraq.

"We don't keep a list," said a Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell. "It's just not policy."

So, they give out cash and don't keep names? No chance for abuse there?

Say What?

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040316_10.html

Where was God while the car was getting hit? Or did he just appear on the scene as the child was thrown from the car?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540166/


Bush is demanding proof of Kerry's statements on other leaders wishing him success. That’s rich. This from the guy who said “trust me, we have PROOF of WMD in Iraq”. The adminstration that has secret meetings with Energy Companies and lobbyists and won’t tell anyone about it.

I think Kerry shouldn’t have made this claim, but why would he name names? These other leaders would never trust him. It would be great if one of those leaders stepped up and said “Yeah, I told him that”. It would vindicate Kerry and make Bush look bad, so if it were true it would be good for those leaders. It would make it hard to work with this administration, but if this WH has prooved anything that disagreeing with it will get you into trouble...unless of course you have something it wants. Then you can disagree or even sell nuclear weapons technology to other nations and you'll still have Bush's good graces.

Welcome to my Nightmare.