Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Declassify! Declassify declassify declassify!!!
Wouldn't it be GREAT if, immediately following Condi's testimony, all the Clarke correspondence and prior testimony became declassified? What joy we would have in comparing notes!
Don't think it's a possibility? Think again...
Condi is only here before us now but for the grace of enough people like us making a huge stink about getting her to testify under oath, and the resulting flow of bad press which ensued was enough to give the Bushies great pause.
We must now do the same on the issue of total declassification of the aforementioned! If we can make this a big enough issue, not only might it create another storm of negative press, but if Condi sees the possibility of the floor droppoing out from under her while she's on the stand, she's liable to be much more honest.
So declassify! Forcing Condi to the stand part of the battle, forcing her to be honest is the rest of it! Call your Congressmen/women!
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Wouldn't it be GREAT if, immediately following Condi's testimony, all the Clarke correspondence and prior testimony became declassified? What joy we would have in comparing notes!
Don't think it's a possibility? Think again...
Condi is only here before us now but for the grace of enough people like us making a huge stink about getting her to testify under oath, and the resulting flow of bad press which ensued was enough to give the Bushies great pause.
We must now do the same on the issue of total declassification of the aforementioned! If we can make this a big enough issue, not only might it create another storm of negative press, but if Condi sees the possibility of the floor droppoing out from under her while she's on the stand, she's liable to be much more honest.
So declassify! Forcing Condi to the stand part of the battle, forcing her to be honest is the rest of it! Call your Congressmen/women!
Condi will testify--what this means.
Even though many seem worried about what this will do to the developments thus far, I don't think this is all that bad.
I mean, granted, what's unsettling about this development is that it totally reverses the Bush strategy up until this point (i.e. attack, then abandon ship), leaving us scratching our heads as to what in hell is going on. Knowing how meticulous Rove is, we assume that they must have already figured out a way to fuck us over.
Not necessarily so. To me, the fact that the Bush team has been so adamant about Rice NOT testifying is a pretty good sign that, at worst, she may possibly neutralize some of the negative press they've been getting as a result of not letting her testify until now. Remember that putting her on to lie was ALWAYS an option, and if it would have been advantageous to do so, they damn well would have trotted her out already.
I think that, rather, they've been forced into this, and that their main goal is simply to neutralize bad press. They'll do that first by simply having Condi testify, a bold reversal that says, "Look, we're not deceitful and totally closed and secretive afterall!" and second, by continuing the attack on Clarke, which, frankly, won't be really any more defined by the press in that forum than it is already.
Wouldn't it be really great if, at some point right after Condi testifies, that ALL of Clarke's correspondences and prior testimony is declassified? I think we (the left) should make a really, really big stink about declassifying EVERYTHING, if for no other reason than to keep Condi more honest when she goes under oath.
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Even though many seem worried about what this will do to the developments thus far, I don't think this is all that bad.
I mean, granted, what's unsettling about this development is that it totally reverses the Bush strategy up until this point (i.e. attack, then abandon ship), leaving us scratching our heads as to what in hell is going on. Knowing how meticulous Rove is, we assume that they must have already figured out a way to fuck us over.
Not necessarily so. To me, the fact that the Bush team has been so adamant about Rice NOT testifying is a pretty good sign that, at worst, she may possibly neutralize some of the negative press they've been getting as a result of not letting her testify until now. Remember that putting her on to lie was ALWAYS an option, and if it would have been advantageous to do so, they damn well would have trotted her out already.
I think that, rather, they've been forced into this, and that their main goal is simply to neutralize bad press. They'll do that first by simply having Condi testify, a bold reversal that says, "Look, we're not deceitful and totally closed and secretive afterall!" and second, by continuing the attack on Clarke, which, frankly, won't be really any more defined by the press in that forum than it is already.
Wouldn't it be really great if, at some point right after Condi testifies, that ALL of Clarke's correspondences and prior testimony is declassified? I think we (the left) should make a really, really big stink about declassifying EVERYTHING, if for no other reason than to keep Condi more honest when she goes under oath.
Monday, March 29, 2004
"I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001."
-Sen. Bill Frist, on Richard Clarke
Some 170 bloggers, led by Atrios, are using the Amazon feedback to throw these words back in Frist's face--regarding his own book! Funny stuff!
Check it out...rate it yourself!
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-Sen. Bill Frist, on Richard Clarke
Some 170 bloggers, led by Atrios, are using the Amazon feedback to throw these words back in Frist's face--regarding his own book! Funny stuff!
Check it out...rate it yourself!
BILL FRIST BLOWS DEAD BEARS.
Are there media whores besides myself who are taking great sadistic pleasure in watching Richard Clarke WAIL ON BUSH'S ASS LIKE MOTHERFUCKING BRUCE LEE?!
'Cause I'm LOVING this.
Here's the play-by-play:
Clarke comes out, says (all quotations are 100% accurate): "Dubya is the biggest goddam PANSY on terrorism I've EVER FUCKING SEEN."
Condi says, "he's lying, he's lying! That's simply not true! And no, I WON'T come testify about it. That's...um...not...um...necessary or something."
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill ("What Have I Been Smoking") Frist comes out and says, "Richard Clarke is a liar. Why, I have documents that contradict everything he's saying! I can't SHOW them to you because they're 'classified,' but I HAVE them, goddammit."
Clarke responds, "So declassify, BI-OTCH!!! I declassified yo mama last night, MOTHAFUCKA!!!"
Or something like that. But that's where it stands so far...
Tune in next week for the stunning rest of the story. For your source in Fair, Balanced, and Totally Objective Journalism, this has been obietom.
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Are there media whores besides myself who are taking great sadistic pleasure in watching Richard Clarke WAIL ON BUSH'S ASS LIKE MOTHERFUCKING BRUCE LEE?!
'Cause I'm LOVING this.
Here's the play-by-play:
Clarke comes out, says (all quotations are 100% accurate): "Dubya is the biggest goddam PANSY on terrorism I've EVER FUCKING SEEN."
Condi says, "he's lying, he's lying! That's simply not true! And no, I WON'T come testify about it. That's...um...not...um...necessary or something."
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill ("What Have I Been Smoking") Frist comes out and says, "Richard Clarke is a liar. Why, I have documents that contradict everything he's saying! I can't SHOW them to you because they're 'classified,' but I HAVE them, goddammit."
Clarke responds, "So declassify, BI-OTCH!!! I declassified yo mama last night, MOTHAFUCKA!!!"
Or something like that. But that's where it stands so far...
Tune in next week for the stunning rest of the story. For your source in Fair, Balanced, and Totally Objective Journalism, this has been obietom.
Friday, March 26, 2004
La la la...is anybody out there? This feels pretty sad and pathetic these days. Oh well...someday, we too might be as cool as Daily Kos is.
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Thursday, March 18, 2004
Hey, I think I fit in this category... anyone from Modesto? what's up Tom?
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Welcome! I know that liberal safe spaces are a dime a dozen online, which I think is GREAT. I simply wanted to add my own, with a specific focus on how to deal when you live in the midst of a bunch of conservatives. Ah, those crazy high school memories...
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