“Politics is the art of the possible” -Otto Von Bismark
There are growing number of folks with a full head of steam about impeachment. There’s impeachcheney.org. There’s impeachbush.org. The blogosphere is abuzz with the idea. The mainstream media is starting to discuss it. There’s actual articles of impeachment against Vice-President Cheney in the House, submitted [...]

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Our political leadership, congressional and presidential, has turned the most urgent and critical issue facing our nation into a an exercise in sound bite governance and diplomacy. “Cut and run” and “stay the course” compete with “bring the troops home” and “support our troops” as empty slogans masquerading as policy. The nation deserves a well [...]

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Tony Snow bent over backwards during his July 3rd briefing to avoid saying that the President respects the justice system by proclaiming his faith in the “jury system”
But the President also believes, for those who were arguing on behalf of a pardon, that you need to respect the jury system. Scooter Libby was tried before [...]

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President Bush has never had a sustained increase in his approval rating since he took office six and a half years ago. There have been only three times when he has had a significant increase in his approval rating:

When the country came together immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent start of the [...]

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Those of you who read my July 2nd post knows that the Libby commutation was the final straw in my sincere, perhaps naive, hope that President Bush would rise above politics and bring something -anything- that I consider of value to his Presidency in the second term. I have also laid out where the President [...]

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During Tony Snow’s White House Press Briefing on Tuesday, June 3rd, he fielded 43 questions related to President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby and he failed to answer over 75% of them. What a dismal level of openness that the White House is displaying. How did Tony Snow manage to not answer 33 different questions?
Some [...]

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When I put my hand on the Bible that day in January 2001, I will swear — I will swear to uphold the laws of the land. But I will also swear to uphold the honor and the integrity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God.
-George W. Bush August [...]

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Loyalty to the Republican party apparently has begun to eclipse loyalty to the law. With Scooter Libby, VP Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, now convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, rallying around him has apparently started to become a litmus test of Republican loyalty.
Most of the Republican presidential candidates have avoided [...]

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I’ll admit it. I never understood how someone who is legally living in the U.S. can suddenly become an “enemy combatant” and held without charge in a U.S. Navy Brig. Isn’t there supposed to be due process? The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals thinks so.

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This from Bloomberg:
A resolution to express “no confidence” in Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush’s embattled attorney general, was blocked by U.S. Senate Republicans who called it a meaningless gesture… Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chided Democrats for “spending our time on a meaningless resolution about giving the president advice about who the attorney general [...]

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