Month: July 2007

Let us pause a moment to consider the patriots who founded this country, the immortal document that put forward their sentiments in words so plain and firm as to command the world’s assent, and the fact that not a single one of them felt the need to sign a fake name to it. It just wouldn’t have been the same if John Hancock had, in lieu of the moniker that would launch a thousand insurance offices, written “BEANEATER1776” large enough so fat George in England could read it without his glasses.

Happy Fourth everybody.

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AP has reported the following:

“President Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case. Bush left intact a $250,000 fine and two years probation for Libby, according to a senior White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been announced.”

Watch the Republican Prez candidates back away even further from the Bush Administration.

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UPDATED 7-3: THIS JUST IN…It has been announced that Scooter Libby will indeed go to jail since, as it turned out, Bush commuted the sentence in error: He thought he was guaranteeing no jail time for Phil Rizzuto.

UPDATED 7-4: Well, I have to admit, I underestimated the GOP candidates. Thus far, to my knowledge, they’ve lined up behind Bush. In fact, amazingly, they’re even managing to blame Bill Clinton. “Hey, Clinton pardoned people who the public thought shouldn’t have been, so why shouldn’t Bush?” The obvious answer is that because Bush set himself up as being morally superior to Clinton.

It seems that the GOP candidates are simply without shame. Or perhaps they want to preserve the option of extending clemency to their own people when they commit crimes.

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Katherine Keller, editor of “Sequential Tart,” has asked me to post the following challenge:

“If I get 40 emails (kadymae at operamail dot com) with a proof
of a donation of at least $25 to the CBLDF since 6/10, I will
personally hand Charles Brownstein a cheque for $1000 at San
Diego.

I’ve got 30 people so far, as well as an amazing co-offer. A
gentleman by the name of Carl Rigney has offered to match my
$1000 if I get the 40 emails.”

She has ten more to go. It’d be cool if the remaining ten came from readers of this blog.

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The conclusion of the X-Cell storyline. Whad’ja think?

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