Ana, ask Swampdad to think about the effects of impeachment: If successful, you get President Cheney. If unsuccessful, you get a latter day precedent–any President, and especially the next President, is more likely to be impeached than not. Impeachment was cheapened by Republicans in the last administration; it shouldn’t be cheapened by Democrats in this [...]
A SwampDad weighs in on Joe’s anything-but-impeachment column: I really like his article – even tho he says in the blog he is not calling for impeachment. [Then] what the f**k is he calling for? Love, Sam Over to you, Joe.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, with typical judiciousness, gets the Pelosi trip quite wrong. First, George Logan was not a member of the Congress when he made his “pacifist” trip to France. (He was elected to the Senate three years later, in 1801.) Second, Pelosi did not make the trip to negotiate with Assad, [...]
The Washington Post today is a feast for those who believe that the now-infamous neo-conservatives who brought us to ruin in Iraq deserve comeuppance, if not something far more grave. Cheney was — and still is — the godfather of the push for war, but his team of enablers included, of course, his former chief [...]
Dana Milbank writes about a gathering of anti-Hillary wingnuts in DC, and I’m ashamed by my reaction–which isn’t so much, Jeez these people are mortally dreadful, but more like: Jeez, if Hillary wins, are we going to have all these zombies in our faces yet again? They represent a moment in time–the ’90s–that I’m not [...]
That Saddam and al Qaeda were not actually working together comes as a surprise to exactly one person: The report’s release came on the same day that Vice President Cheney, appearing on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda was operating inside Iraq “before we ever launched” the war…Cheney cited the alleged history [...]
