Cheney Impeachment Documents

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Friday April 27, 2007 · 7:44 AM PDT

2007/04/27 · 07:44

Slashdot posted the articles of Impeachment on Thursday April 26, @09:40AM. I read them this morning.

I have had a least a dozen arguments with friends about whether or not we (the Dems) should be trying to Impeach. I think it is a diversion from investigations into what these guys are really doing, like voter suppression, corruption and the thousand other attacks on our country. They reply "but these guys are guilty."

My argument is basically a tactical one, that impeachment is at the bottom a political decision and the various legitimate investigations going on will build that case for the country as a whole and more importantly, for the Republicans trying to save some small portion of their fat asses in 08. With that in mind, I decided to see just what kind of a case Kucinich made and if that changed my mind.

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Impeachment

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Impeachment

cheney first

33 votes

let's get on with winning the war on the troops

1 vote

let um twist in the wind

4 votes

more important than anything

10 votes

I know they're guilty just shutup and get on with it.

6 votes

The Informed Source that is Juan Cole

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 7:39 AM PDT

2007/04/24 · 07:39

Juan Cole of Informed Comment has written a gem of an opinion piece, "As premier loses stature, radical cleric is gaining it" that resonated with me for a couple of key money quotes:

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Informed Comment

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Informed Comment

I read it every day

38 votes

Huh ?

5 votes

It denegrates Our Leader

1 vote

Thanks for the tip, my Arabic was getting rusty.

3 votes

Ford was a Republican Hack

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Friday December 29, 2006 · 7:19 AM PST

2006/12/29 · 07:19

And we shouldn't forget it. This post started with a comment on Jonathan Singers' post on Fortand his judgment on the Pardon:

In hindsight, his decision to pardon his predecessor, Richard Nixon, appears to have been the right one, even if at the time it cost him politically.

de mortuis nil nisi bonum aside Ford was a Republican Hack

It's important to understand him in his historical context. To compare him to Bush, Cheney, Foley, Frist, Delay and the current crop of GOPerverts is to be guilty of presentism which is judging a person in the past in present day terms, for example, having Tony Blair call American's traitors because of that unpleasantness around 1776.

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Sunday December 24, 2006 · 8:22 AM PST

2006/12/24 · 08:22

This article seemed like another fashion commentary trivializing Pelosi and the issues with which she is faced. Then I got to the end of the story where it became something other than what some might call a fecal fracas and more like separate water fountains, schools, and all the other separate and equal Republican things. Hat tip to Think Progress

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Saturday December 23, 2006 · 10:51 AM PST

2006/12/23 · 10:51

I want to testify about how Blogging Has Changed My Life. This will be a multi-part entry.

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I read

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I read

a few blogs a week

1 vote

1-10 blogs a day

6 votes

10 -30 blogs a day

2 votes

Shut up, I' m reading a blog in another tab

4 votes

what's a blog

1 vote

3.14159 blogs a day

1 vote

PDR: Bush Determined to Attack Mexico

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Thursday December 21, 2006 · 4:55 PM PST

2006/12/21 · 16:55

Surging into the Abyss By Vali Nasr illustrates how Bush would have responded to Pearl Harbor: Since Japan has no oil, he would have attacked Mexico.

via mydd.com

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It should be called

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It should be called

the surge option

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the spurt option

1 vote

escalation

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the santorum

4 votes

a neocon spasm

1 vote

a fracking delusional disaster

24 votes

NY Times reports Unsourced goes to Iraq

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Tuesday December 12, 2006 · 10:49 AM PST

2006/12/12 · 10:49

The Lead NYTimes story Iraqis Consider Ways to Reduce Power of Cleric seems to have suffered a Headline malfunction when the accurate headline, "After Snub of Bush, US Seeks Ouster of Iraqi President" seems to have been buried. Unsourced doubles him or herself and takes on the exciting identities of "senior Iraqi officials", "Officials involved in the talks", "Iraqi officials involved in the talks", and others. Unsourced goes to Iraq

More snark after the break

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 7:12 AM PST

2006/12/08 · 07:12

The Front Page story on the NY Times says Long a Laggard, Wages Start to Outpace Prices and the thesis in the lede is

wages for most American workers have begun rising significantly faster than inflation

Most people reading that would conclude that the story was "wages are rising" but the true story is buried in the small print.

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 9:25 AM PST

2006/12/01 · 09:25

The new proposed more relevant citizenship test questions for documented immigrants, obeying the D-squared test has answers that are 1) Irrelevant 2)Questionable 3)Wrong

I had a boss who would give me an assignment, and when I asked if he has any predisposition about how to handle it, say "You handle it, use your judgment" When I would come in having investigated, negotiated and come up with a position, he would pull a memo out of his desk and say, "Did you consider this ?" I called it the secret memo style. I transfered out as soon as I could.

So I decided to look at the the new questions,
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Sunday November 19, 2006 · 12:31 PM PST

2006/11/19 · 12:31

So the lead story on today's NYTimes is
"Democrats Split on How Far to Go With Ethics Law"
After the initial sinking feeling, I asked, wait is this like "Democrats in Disarray" or "Al Gore Wears Brown Suits for Women's Votes" or "WMD's Found in Iraq by Man in Baseball Cap" or is it (hold the snigger) real reporting.

Let's look at it, looking for 1) unattributed sources, 2) false construing ("that's not what he said") 3) and unsubstantiated reporter's opinion masquerading as fact. (we need an acronym for this stuff other than BULLSHT)

Update: More Crap, Bottom Line, Rahmbo should have been given power.
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Monday November 13, 2006 · 3:57 PM PST

2006/11/13 · 15:57

Got what I assume is a kiss of death recommendation from the DLC.

Democratic Leadership Council <admin@newsmail.dlc.org>
to msobel

3:36 pm (1 hour ago)

Al From: Hoyer for Majority Leader

Last Tuesday, Democrats won back control of the House in a stunning
reversal of the 2004 election. The Democratic victory represented a
striking repudiation of a Bush administration and Republican Party
that has so often subordinated problem-solving to power seeking,
competence to ideology, honesty and integrity to corruption and
cronyism, and the politics of national unity to the politics of
polarization.

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What were they thinking ? Rove, Lieberman and the Dems Take 2

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 8:19 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 08:19

(This is a substantial rewrite of a diary entry based on some great comments from kenlac,droogie6655321, clyde, Delaware Dem, NoMoJoe, relentless which boil down to Failure to Communicate.)
Introducing the Cui Bono theory of politics. "Cui Bono" means who benefits and is a method of criminal investigation using motive to look for crime suspects. Two months ago, in a draft for a diary entry, I wrote the following:

The Joe Lieberman Weakly asks Does Ned Lamont's victory mean McGovernism has returned? I dunno ? Does Joe Lieberman's Defeat Mean the Return of the Dixicrats Or Did They Never Leave ?

It was to be a post about the racism of the Republican Party as evidenced in comments about the Lieberman/Lamont Primary talking about African Americans as servants. Now the morning after what Chris Bowers rightfully calls an historic victory, I find the Enigma of Lieberman to be worth discussing. There are a lot of questions about an incumbent Democratic Senator who got most of his money, staff, and votes from Republicans.

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Cheney Impeachment Documents

The Informed Source that is Juan Cole

Ford was a Republican Hack

It's Not Just a Fecal Fracas

The Path To Blogism Begins with a Single Link I

PDR: Bush Determined to Attack Mexico

NY Times reports Unsourced goes to Iraq

Wages Go Up Because Gas Prices Go Down

Citizen Test Designed like the Secret Memo

Is The NYTimes Distorting Again ? Democrats Split on How Far to Go With Ethics Law

I guess the DLC is trying to sink Steny Hoyer's nomination

What were they thinking ? Rove, Lieberman and the Dems Take 2