Wes Clark needs to step up.

Wes Clark is going to be stuck with this job at one point or another anyways  so he might as well put the screws to Bush, get some serious legally guaranteed power, remind us that a Czar, for all intents and purposes had all the power of god back in the day and start now.

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Now that the voting is over.... and Kossacks have proven themselves to be a major political force...

What's next? The Dem's have shown that they can really suck sometime. They would probably all still be hiding from Karl  Rove if it wasn't for blogs.

Some questions for the Democratic leadership below the fold... Solutions (hopefully) in the comments.

be happy teaching creationism in fucking religion class.

I hear stories like this and I am very happy not to be American. If I was American I would have left long ago simply to avoid having a fucking aneurism trying to get my head around American fucking politics.

This is just a short rant so don't bother flipping unless you want to VENT.

This morning I woke up to find something odd in 2 different tabs on my firefox browser. The Madman's GBCW diary was the latest in a nasty series of meta-diaries that broke out from a diary by Armando, ironically on the subject of 'voter fraud' conspiracys being discussed on dKos.

This is ironic because the Madman's GBCW diary had a poll on the reinstatement of a user who banned from dKos and the results appear to have been altered somehow during the night.

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According to Juan Cole and, apparently Robert Dreyfuss, the United States government's neo-con ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, is seeking to enter into negotiations with many of the insurgents in Iraq as well as the Iranian government. This, according to Juan Cole "suggests a new pragmatism by the Bush administration in Iraq. These policies sound more like traditional State Department policies, and not at all like the kind of hard line that the civilian leadership of the Defense Department keeps pushing."

It's been a slow day for Plame fans. Those who need a fix can go read a great, blood-boiling item by the ever eloquent digby.

Being a post by digby i don't have anything to add but if anyone needs a fix it is a good read. great stuff... there's a quote on the flip. Enjoy.

The corruption runs so deep in this administration it is sickening.

Billmon has a frightening post this morning about the hatchet man Bush has appointed to keep Fitzie leashed.

Okay, so it's Sunday, a slow news day on the Plame front. An interesting piece appeared on Reuters today though that comes  closer to flat out stating that indictments are coming than any other wire service story I have read to date.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be laying the groundwork for indictments this week over the outing of a covert CIA operative, including possible charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, lawyers involved in case said on Sunday.

Top administration officials are expected to learn from Fitzgerald as early as Monday whether they will face charges as the prosecutor winds up his nearly two-year investigation, the lawyers said.

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After a long dark period for the NYT it seems they have nailed it here:

The way in which the leak investigation is being pursued is becoming a symbol of who was right and who was wrong about the war," said Ivo H. Daalder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who worked at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. "The possibility of Libby being indicted, and the whole Cheney angle, is all about proving in some sense that they were wrong and therefore that those who opposed the war and never thought the intelligence was right have been proven correct.

The article makes a good introduction to the story for anyone who thinks you are obsessing too much.

John Bolton, along with such potential war criminal states as Russia, China and Algeria are blocking Juan Mendez, the UN special advisor on the prevention of Genocide from delivering a report to the UN security council on the situation in Sudan.

According to a story at reuters.

The reason why Michael Brown was brought back into the FEMA tent should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to the news this evening. He is Plan E.

This is a demonstrated by Lou Dobbs in tonites quick poll

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