Finally, a congresscreep gets agitated about invasions of privacy. Of course, it takes an FBI raid on a fellow congressman’s office to make them notice:

Speaker Hastert protests to Bush over raid

As you read about Democratic Congressman Jefferson, and the money in the freezer aspect, ponder this.

They found the money last August. Almost a year ago, and haven’t indicted him yet. Methinks the justice department is attempting to deflect attention away from the rash of Republican corruption and attempting to paint it as bipartisan.

Nope. One jackass with funny money not a conspriacy make. Unlike these folks.

The New York Times tells us:

The after-dinner speech that refuses to go away has scored another distinction: top of the charts.

An audio version of the roast of President Bush by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central rose to the rank of No. 1 album at Apple’s iTunes store on Saturday, three weeks to the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner.

But remember, it wasn’t funny. Right?

In recent judicial confirmation battles, President Bush has repeatedly–and correctly–stressed fidelity to the Constitution as the key qualification for service as a judge. It is also the key qualification for service as the nation’s chief executive. On January 20, 2005, for the second time, Mr. Bush took the presidential oath of office set out in the Constitution, swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” With five years of the Bush administration behind us, we have more than enough evidence to make an assessment about the president’s commitment to our fundamental legal charter.

President Bush’s constitutional vision is, in short, sharply at odds with the text, history, and structure of our Constitution, which authorizes a government of limited powers.

Get a copy of the Cato report Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush here

Guess I’m late to this particular party, but I really like this Iron & Wine record.

The American public has been trained to obediently accept their government’s lies fed to them by their government’s handmaiden, the US Media. No statement or claim by a Bush Regime Official is too outlandish to be received with acceptance. Consider the claim by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary for War and Aggression, made to the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee on May 17, that Iran was to blame for the instability in Iraq.

The only person in the Senate committee room who spoke the truth called Rumsfeld a liar and was hauled off by the police.

Continue reading Paul Craig Roberts’ The Administration That Won’t Stop Lying

The present-day “religion” has little to do with Christianity. It is all bloody politics. The Republican party is little more than a fascist religious cult whose goal is to take over this republic and rule it by the cold compassion of the Old Testament God. For those who doubt that consolidating power and controlling politics is far more important to the religious right than saving souls, Katherine Yurica reports in her The New Messiahs text that Pat Robertson announced publicly on his 700 Club at a time when the religious right was gaining dominance, “We have enough votes to run the country — and when the people say, ‘we’ve had enough,’ we’re going to take over the country.”

And kill. The scent of innocent blood sends these guys into nearly as wild a frenzy as it does Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Falwell recently announced in trembling excitement, “You’ve got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I’m for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.”

Ouch. More here.

From the WaPo:

Confronting the worst poll numbers seen in the West Wing since his father went down to defeat, President Bush and his team are focusing on the fall midterm elections as the best chance to salvage his presidency and are building a campaign strategy around tax cuts, immigration and national security.

I’ll go ahead and say it now- if the GOP maintains control of Congress in November, one of two things has occured:

1: President Dimwit has started a new war, and put yellow ribbons on all voting booths or

2: They cheated. Again.

Actually, I imagine the majority of GOP congressmen would love to see Bush out, and if they could keep their seats to the big show, would love him to be impeached, so they might win in 08.

at Gitmo last week?

Camp officers said the incidents began early on Thursday morning in Camp 1, when an unconscious inmate was discovered in his cell. Nearly seven hours later, another detainee was found unconscious, both from taking anti-depressants which they had not been prescribed.

During the same period, another two men became ill - one from an adverse reaction to his medication and a second who over-dosed, allegedly in solidarity with the two unconscious men.

But he added that the First Amendment right of a free press should not be absolute when it comes to national security. If the government’s probe into the NSA leak turns up criminal activity, prosecutors have an “obligation to enforce the law.”

“It can’t be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity,” Gonzales told ABC’s “This Week.”

Alas, he was referring to people leaking information about his criminally deranged boss, not those in said deranged persons office who leak national security information for spite to sell an optional war.