Newsweek is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder is leaning toward appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush administration interrogation tactics and The New York Times is hyperventilating about Vice President Cheney allegedly giving a direct order to the CIA to conceal a program from Congress.
Four knowledgeable sources tell NEWSWEEK that (Holder) is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation practices, something the president has been reluctant to do. While no final decision has been made, an announcement could come in a matter of weeks, say these sources, who decline to be identified discussing a sensitive law-enforcement matter. ….”I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president’s agenda,” he says. “But that can’t be a part of my decision.”
Uh huh. Only Newsweek would repeat this propganda verbatim but, make no mistake,the official rehabilitation of Nancy Pelosi has begun. Does the timing of these revelations strike anyone as suspicious? Think for a moment about the Realpolitik involved here and focus on the fact that the Obama adminstartion would crawl over broken glass to distract the public’s attention from a failed stimulus, failed cap and trade, fading ObamaCare, sinking polls and a cratering economy. What makes me think this would have been front page news last weekend if Sarah Palin hadn’t made her announcement?
Let’s assume just for fun that AG Holder actually is operating independently. Who will be the actual targets of this investigation? George Bush? Not likely given the protections of executive priveledge. Dick Cheney? Not likely for the same reasons. President Bush’s advisors? Not likely either, for reasons that are protected by executive priveldge and lack of evidence (they did nothing wrong). Congress?…. (OK, that was a joke.) Which CIA do we believe, the one that sabotagued President Bush or the one that allegedly lied to Nancy Pelosi?
The entire torture prosecution meme, and the Potemkin Panetta “lying to Congress” Theatre, is all part of a two scene drama: the rehabilitation of Nancy Pelosi and the diversion of attention from a failing Obama policy in multiple areas. The torture debate was settled months ago but the egos in the Democratic Congress and a sinking Obama presidency require a new distraction now that Sarah Palin is off the front page.
well written and spot on, HughS!
I thought the exact same thing when the story surfaced last night.
The timing is obvious…and the Kibuki Theater laughable. But they WILL provide cover for the Obama Regime…because the media will lap it up!
The same Newsweek that published a Kennedy suggesting that Obama should replace the Pope as the spiritual representative of American Catholics?
They will lay it all at the feet of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. These two seem to be the fall guys whenever the left want to go after someone in the Bush admin.
After Rahm gets everyone worked up over the ‘sins’ of the past administration, and the economy is still in the tank, he can then go after those nasty CEO’s again.
I wonder if these deep thinking individuals like the AG have any idea they will be held to a standard they set. The next Republican administration (Palin’s) may have a reputation for cleaning up government corruption (they do) which will not bode well for members of this Administation.
#7 Zelsdorf
True, but these nincompoops should not be allowed to set the standard. They are turning us into 3rd world fodder just so Obama does’nt feel so guilty about His bro.
You know, the One living in a little hut on the prairie.
Michael Jackson is buried, so the left wing media needs a new distraction from Obama’s failing policies. Blitzer has spent the last 2 hours repeating ” Cheney” then “Cheney” and… you get the picture. A Democrat throws out something and the media tools carry their water.
But the media tools are democrats.
Unfortunately for Democrats they can’t divert the attention of the American people away from the weak economy and the steady stream of bad employment news. If Democrats are seen as being distracted by partisan motivated investigations while the economy stagnates it will cost them dearly in 2010. Obama is fine with that as long as they pass healthcare reform, cap and tax, card check, and other major liberal legislation before then. Republicans taking back the house in 2010 actually helps Obama in 2012. If Democrats need anything it’s someone else to blame when their policies become proven failures.
Obama visiting New Orleans will be great PR.
They’re probably saving that one for when they really need it.
Obama cheerleader ‘shot down’…
http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/07/cnns-don-lemon-gets-his-unprecedented.html
Note the body language.
Mr Hugh S, it is YOUR OPINION that the Obama administration “would crawl over broken glass” to distract from what, in YOUR OPINION, are failures.
This are not a “fact” as you so blithely assert, merely your opinion.
This “is” not a fact, not “are” not a fact. Sorry.
Bruce, did you miss the part where blogs are pretty much op-ed pages?
Bruce.. in light of all that’s wrong with America right now, could you explain why going on a witch hunt is a benefit to the nation?
I want Obama to do this. IT will bring him down faster then a lead sinker in water. Only the far left wants this show. ww
Sorry, I’m a nitpicker by nature. When someone writes “the fact that” this or that is happening is happening, it should be a fact.
However, point taken, SCSI. Not really a constructive criticism on my part.
Carry on.
Bruce Henry
“Mr Hugh S, it is YOUR OPINION that the Obama administration “would crawl over broken glass” to distract from what, in YOUR OPINION, are failures.
“
You mean like posting things on the net for 5 days before it is voted on?
You mean like not taking over the auto industry?
You mean like ensuring a quick trial for people in GITMO?
You mean like not holding people who we cant convict of a crime?
You mean like not having lobbyists in the administration?
YOu mean like not going over 8 percent unemployment if the stimulus is passed?
BTW for all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
SCSIWIlly
“Bruce, did you miss the part where blogs are pretty much op-ed pages?”
As are the front pages of the NY TIMEs, Chicago tribune, LA Times, Miami Herald, Boston globe, as well as the “News reports” of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, along with other publications such as “News”week.
RM, I was wondering when you’d attempt to oh so heroically confront me again in a blog’s comment section. You’re a real he-man, dude.
To answer your questions, no, I meant only what I wrote, no more and no less. And, if you look up, I already implied I probably should have just left it alone. It really was kind of petty nitpicking on my part, and I apologise to Mr HughS for even bringing it up.
Just so you know, RM, nobody elected you to speak for “all the military who have given their lives.” Just because you call yourself “retired military” on a blog’s comment section means NOTHING. If I start posting under the screen name “ExGreenBeretNamVet” will that give me credibility? For all I know, or anyone knows, you could be the world’s biggest Tom Clancy fan and not a vet at all.
Now I understand you took offense at something I said long ago about military service looking good on a resume. Do you deny that military service does indeed look good on a resume? That some people join the military because of that, or the educational benefits, etc.? Because if you do, you are undercutting the Nation’s recruitment effort!
Now, what I wrote back then may have been phrased in a provocative way. It’s called “hyperbole”, dumbass. Look it up.
Bruce Henry: “…to distract from what, in YOUR OPINION, are failures.”
You get ’em, Bruce!!
Obama’s “stimulus” was projected (by, um, HIM) to cap unemployment at 8%…and then have it start declining! It’s 9.5% unemployment and on its way to 11+%. How DARE Hugh call that a “failure!”
The “G8 plus 5” were gonna get in line behind Obama’s “Global Emissions” plan. But China and India the two BIGGEST polluters on the planet said “no thanks!” (In Indian and Chinese, one imagines). Though his plan was DOA, Obama pronounced it “A-OK!” How DARE Hugh call that a “failure!”
And that’s just within the last 7 days!!
With “successes” like these, Bruce, that erection of yours just might last more than 4 hours! Be sure to seek medical attention if it does!
Bruce Henry
I saw that you had responded back. I was just showing how poorly of a point you had made.
I never claimed that anyone “appointed” me to speak for anyone.
And I understand that a title on a blog really doesnt mean anything. However, in my case it happens to be true. Not that I care if you believe it or not.
“Now I understand you took offense at something I said long ago about military service looking good on a resume”
No I took offenseat your implication that people were joining the military to improve their resume at your taxdollar expense and the implications behind a statement like that. As I stated before do you go around and proclaim to cops that you “pay their salary”, to teachers “my tax dollars are the reason you have a job”, etc. THe inherent arrogance in your statement and the meaning behind it is abhorent to me but sounds like a typical liberal view of the military.
“Dumbass”
I leave that to the experts like you.
BTW for all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
Mr.Henry,
What’s wrong with Mr.Clancy?
retired military, I don’t know about you, but all through Boot Camp, Infantry Training Regiment and deployment I was thinking: “this is gonna look SWEEEEET on my resume!!”
8 years later I actually DID write a resume, and yes, Brucie, it was on there. It meant I had to explain to prospective employers why a young man ENLISTED in the Marines in 1971…DURING the VietNam war WITHOUT being drafted into it. Always took a while to explain that I just figured I owed my country something.
Yeah.. what’s wrong with Clancy?.. (Ex Green Beret Nam Vet 67-68)…*S*
OH!.. 27 year Law enforcement!.. you paid my salary TWICE!
Look, people, like I said, this was on a thread from several months ago. Perhaps the self-apponted Spokesman For All The Military Who Gave Their Lives would care to link to the actual quote. I don’t even remember what the thread was about.
I’m pretty sure that if he/she does, it will show us engaged in a rather heated discussion. Anyone here ever go just a little over the top to make a point? Again, it’s called hyperbole, something that occurs somewhat frequently on this blog and many others.
Again, my apologies for being off-topic here, but people DO enlist for a variety of reasons. Most, perhaps, primarily out of patriotism and a sense of duty. Others, at least partly, enlist for the educational benefits, the chance for adventure, because they don’t know what else to do with their lives, or, YES, because military experience will look good on a resume. See, THAT”S WHY RECRUITERS TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS. And it is not an insult to say so.
And I’m a Tom Clancy fan, too, or at least I was until he got “co-authors.”
And, Dude, ex-military or not, you should know that the last blowhard who said “F**k You” to my face regretted it. Not “Screw you,” only a pussy would say that, especially on a blog comment section.
Bruce, your last paragraph undermines your veil of formality.
Wanna fight about it?
(That’s a joke.)
Justrand
I didnt say that military experience doesnt look bad on a resume. On the contrary I believe just the opposite. The education, training, etc IMO looks very well on the resume.
As to Bruce Henry
The comment was not made in a discussion with me but in a discussion you were having with someone else.
I am sure you can find the comment if you try hard enough (why should I bother looking for your inane ramblings).
I dont give a damn if you were using hyperbole, lying or anything else. IMO you dishonered the service of millions and I am calling you the asshole which I believe you are for doing so. As I stated do you go around and proclaim to every govt worker, “my tax dollars go to your training and the only reason you do what you do is to enhance your resume. You meant it as an insult in my opinion and that is how I continue to take it. You can try to dismiss it as my holding myself up for fallen members of the military or not. As I said previously I could care less.
As for the last part of your statement. I live in Killeen Tx. The Site operators can confirm my IP address. I will gladly meet you in front of the Killeen mall military recruiting center.
You called it, do you have the balls to follow it through?
Funny how you are just now getting worked up enough to even post your baseless threat since this is only about the 30th time I have said it.
BTW for all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
retired military, Dude…I got your back! 🙂
I was just tugging “Superman’s” (Bruce’s) cape!
And I’m nowhere near Texas…but I’ll fly down to act as your 2nd! 🙂
Justrand
Thanks but I wont need it. Bruce is a typical liberal, full of hot air and a coward.
Oh Bruce Henry
I forgot when I said
” I will gladly meet you in front of the Killeen mall military recruiting center. “
to add
You name the time and date. I will gladly take off from work for this.
BTW
For all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
And I live in Raleigh, NC and use my real name, tough guy.
When shall I expect you?
Well you challenged me.
I get to choose the battlefield.
If I come to Raliegh I will happily look you up however.
As I said, you issued the challenge. Are you prepared to come here and back it up?
BTW
For all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
Dont tell me Brucie you are going to make a threat and then not be prepared to back it up?
Come on now guy. Dont stop now. You opened your mouth and stuck your foot in it.
BTW
For all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
Dude, all I said was, “The last blowhard who said ‘F**k you’ to my face regretted it.” If you call that a challenge, you’re kind of a hothead. It wasn’t a challenge, it was a fact.
But I guess that’s what I should expect from someone who thinks typing “SCREW YOU” in all caps –repeatedly — constitutes “winning the argument.”
I was just trying to help you out, there, pard. Because, see, if you go around in real life, not just on the internet, screaming “SCREW YOU” to everybody who pisses you off, one day somebody might kick your ass.
It’s comforting to know you’re only brave enough to holler “SCREW YOU” in the comments section of your favorite blog. Now I know you probably won’t wind up with your ass beat.
You’re the one who’s angry, tough guy. Put up or shut up.
Bruce Henry
“Dude, all I said was, “The last blowhard who said ‘F**k you’ to my face regretted it.” If you call that a challenge, you’re kind of a hothead. It wasn’t a challenge, it was a fact.”
ANd you sound like a p*ssy calling someone out and then running around yelling that isnt what I meant.
“But I guess that’s what I should expect from someone who thinks typing “SCREW YOU” in all caps –repeatedly — constitutes “winning the argument.”
Once again I could give a flying flip about winning an argument. I didnt know there was an argument to win. I am simply expressing my feelings toward your inane liberal ramblings.
“I was just trying to help you out, there, pard. Because, see, if you go around in real life, not just on the internet, screaming “SCREW YOU” to everybody who pisses you off, one day somebody might kick your ass. “
Well it is obvious to anyone reading your post that that someone isnt going to be you.
“It’s comforting to know you’re only brave enough to holler “SCREW YOU” in the comments section of your favorite blog. Now I know you probably won’t wind up with your ass beat.”
Again Killeen Mall, Killeen Tx Army recuitment center. You name date and time. You opened your mouth, you got called on it and now you are acting like a scared little girl.
“You’re the one who’s angry, tough guy. Put up or shut up.”
Funny reading your last post I think just about anyone would disagree.
And as far as tough guy, again you are the one who talked about making someone regret it when they say screw you to your face. I am all to happy to oblige you on these boards or in person as I have made more than clear.
You are once again a typical liberal. A coward who spouts crap and when they get called on it run around saying “It isnt my fault, the mean man is being ummm mean to me”
Now go cower indignantly in the corner and come back when you think of another way to try to save face.
In the meantime
For all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
*Bowl of popcorn.. watching Bruce do the “Moonwalk”*.. Suspecting RM has probably been in combat, watched brothers die, changes the equation 200%..pretty sure he’d take an a$$ whipping and STILL say SCREW YOU! Just a guess..*S*
Bruce, that little flacid thing in your right hand is your dick…you might consider its impotence as a reflection of your own, and avoid pissing off real men.
jus’ sayin’
Justrand..LMAO!..BRUTAL!
Real men? Like you?
Real men who conjure up mental images of MY DICK? Those real men?
Real men who type “SCREW YOU” on their favorite blog?
Real men who are too afraid to use their real names on the internet? Who want me to travel to Killeen Fucking Texas to teach them a few manners?
If the self-appointed Guardian of the Dignity of Fallen Veterans is so incensed by my trash talk, he can come to me. Like I said, I’m right here in NC, and I use my real name. No help from IP addresses required, just a phone book.
Otherwise he, and you two cheerleaders, can GET OVER what I said months ago.
You can convince yourselves all you like of my cowardice or lack of it. RM’s the pissed-off one, it’s up to him to be a Real Man and do something about it.
thx, Ran. We shouldn’t take pleasure in batting about the weak and helpless…but God DID put them upon the Earth for our pleasure…eh? 🙂
Justrand, promise me you’ll stop fantasizing about my dick, flaccid or otherwise. It really creeps me out.
Bruce Henry
I already did something. I also said if I was ever in Raliegh I would gladly look you up so you can impress me with your way of making someone regret saying Screw you to your face.
Real men dont trash talk on the internet and then go running and hiding when someone tells them to back it up.
Example:
I say “screw you”
You say
“And, Dude, ex-military or not, you should know that the last blowhard who said “F**k You” to my face regretted it. Not “Screw you,” only a pussy would say that, especially on a blog comment section.
“
So I said Screw you again and now I say (apologies to other readers) what I said when you originally posted your crap “Fuck you”
Which in general dictates saying or doing something more manly than saying (and I paraphrase)
“Well umm I really wasnt talking about you I was umm talking about the last guy who said it. You know that wasnt really a challenge. You seem so angry and I dont know why. Would you like a latte or a caffiene free tab?”
That is called trash talking and then running like a scared little girl.
BTW my name is Bill Sauer so stop with your whining about “I use my real name, I use my real name”.
Directions to Killeen Mall. It is the one marked A on the google map.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=killeen+army+recruiting&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=vIFaSoiLLqWEmQeg7qXyAg&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=1
“RM’s the pissed-off one, it’s up to him to be a Real Man and do something about it.
“
I am not pissed off. I only call a spade a spade and a liberal asshole a liberal asshole. In case you are wondering which one you are it is the liberal asshole.
I already did something about it. I called you on your cowardly statements.
Now go run and play with the girls until you think of something else to say.
Oh BTW
For all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
I just watched the news clip davidt linked to. Wow. Did you see that guys face fall when she told him the welcome Obama received in Ghana was by no means “unprecedented”? And using Bush’s visit as a comparison was priceless. Don Lemon’s at home crying right now. He was so sure … but now … poor sap.
Besides, I have it covered fantasizing that I actually have one instead of the ball-less Ken doll action I have going down there.
Bruce Henry actually speaks the truth for once.
BTW Bruce
For all the military who have given their lives so that you can spew your leftist crap and accuse them of enhancing their resume at the cost of your tax money, I wholeheartedly say
SCREW YOU.
Gee the liberals are coming out of the woodwork now.
BTW I hate Taco Bell.
For poster 49 and any other liberals who wish to actually contribute something try watching this first
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting
Whereas it wont put make you look like you actually know what you are talking about your posts will be better recieved than they are now.