Send Karl Rove to Jail!
This sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action.
This sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action.
The courts have made clear that no one, not even the president, is immune from compulsory process. Any person who scoffs at the law and who has committed an offense should be put in jail.
Surely we can assume Karl still phones in ideas to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He may be gone, but he'll never be lobotomized.
Here are four questions I'd like someone to ask Senator McCain, and that I'd like him to answer -- without parsing, without equivocating, just answer.
The New York-born politico exploited DC's property tax exemptions. If this story sounds familiar, it should: Rove played the same game back in 2005.
By defying a subpoena to testify on his role in politicizing the Justice Department, Rove is thumbing his nose at Congress, legal precedent, the public's right to know the truth, and the Constitution. This is no petty partisan squabble; this is a fight about the foundations of our democracy. READ MORE Surge Amnesia: The Media's Newest Affliction Buoyed by a reduction in violence in Iraq, John McCain is running a "the surge has worked" victory lap and war supporters like Condi "I'm Proud to Have Overthrown Saddam" Rice are beating their chests. And the media are swallowing this triumphalist nonsense whole and washing it down with a pitcher of revisionist Kool-Aid. READ MORE Watch: Arianna Interviewed at Aspen Ideas Festival and Deliver Keynote at 2008 Women in Business Conference
Yesterday it became clear Rove and the White House believe they are in a class entirely by themselves -- a separate group that is above the reach of a subpoena and, consequently, above the law.
Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks.
Imagine the triumphant procession: Barack at the head; after him the hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the cat.
Call it what you want: arrogance, a jinx -- but let's be honest with ourselves -- this thing is over. McCain won't just be defeated, he'll be crushed in a way that redefines the political map for the next 25 years.
Schmidt's experience with Schwarzenegger tells him about the problems with the conservative base as the candidate runs a campaign aimed at independents.
Progressive social change in this country is never going happen as long as the Rush Limbaugh crowd is allowed to dominate our public airwaves.
So why is Karl Rove walking around free today? Because the Democrats talk a good game but when it comes to taking action, they fail time and time again.
By attacking Obama in a way that confirms every right-wing demagogic caricature of her own Party, Hillary has adopted the frames, lies, stereotypes and destructive clichés long embraced by the likes of Karl Rove.
Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.
Rove raises "historical revisionism" to new depths, what may become known as "hysterical Rovisionism."
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Sorry. That sentence about the meaning of liberal is out of joint because I kept having to remove words from my post. It was about double the allowed length.
Regarding John McCain and how he's changed, do you know that as Governor he was the last holdout on Martin Luther King, Jr. day? He prevented it from becoming a holiday for years.
I wonder what you think was so wonderful about him. He's a Republican. By definition, he is not wonderful, yet you were apparently surprised when he turned more rightward than Bush for this election. I am not surprised. Maybe you did not examine his actual record of legislation as closely as you should have before deciding, as many people erroneously did, that he was a maverick or a liberal Republican. He was not and has never been a great guy who changed when power beckoned. Like most leaders, he is ill with greed. Where's the surprise?
Don't mistake me, I think that your blog is a great thing and the fact that you changed so much is a great thing. Liberal used to mean a middle-of-the-road American.
The Constitution lies in shreds, no one is impeached, the Bill of Rights is a joke. Habeas Corpus, a much older law, is ignored by these torturing monsters. They don't deserve us. They do not represent us. Politicians, since the days of Rome,have been scoundrels and liars. They may not start that way, but they get power and it corrupts them. It is only us, working together, who can bring change to this suffering world. And I am afraid we are going to be too late.
John McCain has compromised himself on issue after issue. He is a "burned out shell of a man" who needs to be relegated to the musty dustpan of the past. We need 'Change we can believe in" and build on. Obama '08.
People dont care.....
Keep this post up for another 3 months and you'll break a thousand responses.
OC
I think that you are right about people not caring. At least, not enough of us. I care, as you should be able to tell from what I've said. And as a person who has been an activist since the mid-60s, I don't think I deserve the consequences of war in the Middle East or crimes committed by the Bush Administration, or Pentagon freaks who want to drop "little" nukes on Iran, or Hlllary Clinton, who is prepared to "obliterate?" was that it, Iran, if "necessary." No, I don't think I deserve any of that. I think I deserve a long and healthy life. But I probably won't get that. So I'm looking for painless forms of suicide. Any suggestions? If I have enough warning, I have no desire to die of radiation poisoning or global warming.
'Member when Dukakis was running, and Loretta Lynn was going around to her constituency saying, "You don't want to vote for no . . . . Doo-kacky or whatever his name is."
Worked 20 years ago, will work in November. Buy Euros, stockpile food, send your draft-age kids out of the country. And be prepared for your cell phone and Internet connections to become spotty or disappear altogether.
I'm afraid you're absolutely right.
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