Please show me where in the Constitution it says the Vice-President may give an order to ANYONE, let alone the CIA.Just like "financial conservatism" and "compassionate conservatism", their principles do not exist.
The CIA "withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees."I can't wait to hear more about this. Could it be Big Dick's executive assassination ring? Cheney truly is the most evil man in America. The conservatives' Unitary Executive Theory really was a disguise to give Cheney free reign to run the White House. Bush was just the gullible "face" of the mega-secret, Constitution-shredding, neo-con movement.
"The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy."
Four knowledgeable sources tell Newsweek that Attorney General Eric Holder "is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices."Pelosi vindicated. Liberals vindicated. Democrats vindicated. Let's see if we have the balls as a nation to bring this vile person to justice.
"Her history does not need to be rehearsed at any length. Ten months ago she was embraced with friendliness by her party. The left and the media immediately overplayed their hand, with attacks on her children. The party rallied round, as a party should. She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be. She was hungry, loved politics, had charm and energy, loved walking onto the stage, waving and doing the stump speech. All good. But she was not thoughtful. She was a gifted retail politician who displayed the disadvantages of being born into a point of view (in her case a form of conservatism; elsewhere and in other circumstances, it could have been a form of liberalism) and swallowing it whole: She never learned how the other sides think, or why.Is this the liberal media bias Palin talks about? Rupert Murdoch's WSJ?
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying."
"Two-thirds of Republicans want Palin, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2008, to be "a major national political figure" in the future. ... Let me get this straight. The woman QUITS because of ETHICS complaints files against her by her CONSTITUENTS and that makes her MORE Presidential?In the end, this is great news for Democrats. The Republicans drape themselves in her failure, blinded by her MILF/Cougar looks. How else can you explain the devotion?
I knew the GOP was in bad shape but this is absolutely unbelievable.
Every single thing that happened to Sarah Palin, was caused by SARAH PALIN!"
"The Earth has been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn’t been done away with. We need to get the uranium here in Arizona, so this state can get the money from it," - Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen (R).Discover Magazine points out:
"The irony, of course — and there’s always irony when creationism is involved — is that she’s talking about uranium mining, and it’s through the radioactive decay of uranium that we know the Earth is billions of years old."The modern Republican love affair with creationists and their anti-science bravado is one of the biggest attacks on human intellect in centuries. Ignorance is not bliss, it's a waste of all our times.
"CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers in a recent briefing that the intelligence agency he heads misled Congress on "significant actions" for a "number of years," a group of Democrats revealed on Wednesday."And to all the dickish conservatives and Republicans who went off on Pelosi:
"Nevertheless, the late-evening stories provide a boost to earlier claims from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she was drastically misled by the CIA when it was briefing members about the Bush administration's enhanced interrogation techniques."Let the Bush and Cheney crime trials begin.
"That explanation is lamer than the duck."-- Alaska Daily News, on Sarah Palin's claim she was resigning because she didn't want to be a lame duck governor.
"Today, most Americans get their health coverage from private insurers. A public health insurance option would create a competitor to private insurers that could potentially drive down costs across the board. I support the concept of a public plan, because if it's done right, it means introducing exactly the kind of competition our system needs."Cue the socialism smears from the right.
"It’s also notable that conservatives are, in practice, more forgiving of their politicians’ sins than liberals. John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer ended their political careers; Ensign and Vitter are still in the Senate, and Newt Gingrich is out there on the Sunday shows, speaking for the GOP. Why? Because where liberals see gross hypocrisy, conservatives see men doing the Lord’s work — which partially excuses their own failings. Liberals think that a man who has an affair is worse if he preaches moral values; conservatives think he’s better."I guess that is the difference between democracy and theocracy. You can also add Larry "Wide Stance" Craig [and to a degree Ted Haggard] to the list.
Although 69 percent of voters nationwide say Americans should have the option of government-run health insurance, only 28 percent would choose to be covered by it, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.Not saying people will use, but they want the option. Even 50% of Republicans support it.
"One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends."I can see the backlash coming. Try explaining those photos you thought were private.
The Sun of London report painted a tragic picture of a 50-year-old man so frail he weighed only 112 pounds and whose stomach contained no food - just semidigested pills.Source: NY Daily News
Several of Jackson's ribs were broken in the frantic attempt to pump life back into his heart. Four needle wounds were near his heart, apparently from failed efforts to restart it by shooting adrenaline directly into the organ.
Jackson had lost most of his hair, and his haggard face was disfigured by 13 plastic surgeries, The Sun said.
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"NBC News' Chuck Todd notes this morning that the five conservative members of the Supreme Court engaged in some legislating from the bench in yesterday's Ricci ruling."Joe Scarborough has absolutely no comeback, mouth agape as if blind-sided by Todd's simple observation, claiming he was being polite and would need an hour to explain himself. That's nice. An hour to defend one sentence.
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