The Republicans so rarely get nabbed for things like this, which makes it interesting that the Bushes’ buttboy Sen. Mel Martinez, has ‘fessed up that a member of his staff wrote the notorious Schiavo memo. The fact that Shep just read a report about it on Fox News makes one wonder if this little scandalette might have have legs.
From Mark A. R. Kleiman (via Atrios):
Kevin Drum offers another good reason to move to expel DeLay right now. Kevin recalls correctly that DeLay was on Milosevich’s side against Bill Clinton. He doesn’t mention the extraordinary maneuver by which DeLay managed to send an encouraging message to the enemy while our men and women in uniform were in harm’s way, by promising Clinton a resolution of support for the air war and then arranging for it to come to the floor and fail. (Of course, DeLay wasn’t alone among Republicans, back then, in hating the President more than he hated the mass murderer the President was trying to rein in.)
And now we know, as Kevin points out, that DeLay was doing all of this as the beneficiary of largesse from the Russian security services. Taking an expensive vacation at the expense of the military of a foreign power to support America’s enemies probably doesn’t amount to treason under the Constitutional definition, but it comes close.
The debate on the motion to consider immediate expulsion should be well worth listening to: once Nancy Pelosi offers it, that is.
The new gay-bashing law has been passed in Kansas, now the American Talibs are vowing to move on to mandating government-enforced pregnancies and teaching myths about the origins of the earth as facts to school children. After that – outlawing adultery and gambling.
You asked for it, America. You got it. Enjoy.
George W. Bush is not worthy to shine Jimmy Carter’s shoes. But because Carter has been critical of Bush’s disastrous foreign policy, the Bushies dis-invited him from attending the Pope’s funeral.
It’s important to remember in all this adulation of John Paul II’s social conservatism (read: internalized homophobia, etc.) that he also opposed the Bush foreign policies, especially the war in Iraq. In all the wall to wall coverage of the Pope’s funeral, you never hear that John Paul II was very harsh in his crticism of the Bush Administration over Iraq. This fact simpy doesn’t jive with the MSM’s script on the funeral.
To hear Trump talk, he’s the only one
Who’s ever stood trial for crimes he’s done.
But instead of courtroom drama,
We get Trump in his pajamas,
That’s how he earned his new nickname: Don Snoreleone.
