Boxer asks presidential scholars about John Dean’s statement that Bush admitted to an ‘impeachable offense’

Tom Daschle says White House lied  

Jay Rockefeller: No congressional oversight possible in spygate

Bush lied during his press conference when he said Congress had approved his domestic spying program

We in the antiwar movement have been saying for years that Bush, the neocons, and the Pentagon have consistently been lying to the public. When we said this three years ago, we were called "radicals", now it’s a mainstream view. Glad y’all could make it to the party. Better late than never. Welcome!

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Why the Democrats are clueless

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.

Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq.

Polls show the populace now opposes the war. Yet the Dems still can’t stand up and fight on an issue the people support them on. This isn’t ’strength’, this is idiocy. Well, it’s complicity too, most Congressional Dems favor the war. It’s up to us, the people to demand they end it.

A political party with actual savvy would seize the war as a major issue, ram it down Dubya’s throat, then romp to victory in 2006. Hey liberals, given this Democratic non-opposition to the war, should they somehow take Congress in 2006, you think they’ll be ending the war anytime soon after that?

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Links to Abramoff worry politicians

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Socialist coca farmer Evo Morales has claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential elections.

Morales has vowed to be "Washington’s nightmare", exerting more state control over South America’s second-largest natural gas reserves and ending the US-backed campaign to eradicate the coca plant.

He counts Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez among his friends, along with socialists in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay who have gained power at the ballot box this decade.

While the neocons do much cocky strutting about how tough they are, the truth of the matter is they’re really just a bunch of incompetent yahoos, inexperienced in foreign affairs, and too arrogant to learn from anyone. Hence they’ve managed, through their exceptional stupidity, to turn most South American nations into adversaries. Which actually is good news for the planet! 

As I’ve said here before, Bush’s days are numbered. There’s just too much sleaze, corruption. torture, wars gone wrong, allies turned into enemies, etc. for him to last in office. I don’t know how or when, but here’s the Polizeros Prediction - Bush will not last out his term in office.

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 George W. Bush says the U.S. is "winning the war in Iraq"

Perhaps Dubya is so bubble-wrapped and insulated that he actually believes what he is saying, or perhaps he’s lied so often and for so long that he no longer knows there is a difference between lies and truth.

Historical note: We heard the same blather for years during the Vietnam War. Presidents and the Pentagon trumpeted loudly that, by golly, the good ole US of A was about to kick the ass of the godless commies in Vietnam. And of course, they lost that war too.

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The United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan as recently as last year, torturing detainees with sleep deprivation, chaining them to the walls and forcing them to listen to loud music in total darkness for days, a human rights group alleged Monday.

Does anyone still think the US doesn’t torture? What must the rest of the world think, looking at what the US does, which is in jarring contrast with the values the US claims to believe in?

It’s time to take back the country from the ultra rightwingers who currently run it (and who are doing a terrible job of it too, considering that practically no one anyone believes their lies any more.) Their kingdom is crumbling. Now is the time to crank up the organizing and mobilizing. Don’t give them time to regroup.

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