Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Bush chooses Anti-Choice Judge to replace Sandra Day O'Connor

The President chose right leaning Judge John Roberts to replace the retired Sandra Day O'Connor.
Did anyone really believe that Bush would choose a moderate judge?
While Moveon.org was quick to declare war on the Presidents nomination, others from the left want to know more about Roberts.
One thing that stands out is Roberts belief that Roe should be overturned. He also helped win the case that gagged Doctors from even discussing abortion with their patients. He opposed clean air rules and worked to help coal companies strip mine mountaintops. He tried to stop Congress from strengthening the Voting Rights Act. He worked to keep injured workers from receiving disability. And no wonder, he’s regularly been associated with corporate, far right legal groups in America -- the Washington Legal Foundation, the Federalist Society, and the so-called National Legal Center for the Public Interest.
This is just what Karl Rove and Bush wanted to divert attention from the Rove scandal by creating a controversy that will take Rove out of the media spotlight.
More to come.........

My Latest Letter To The Editor

Karl Rove Should Be Forced To Resign

Even with the sideshow some Republicans have been making about Joseph Wilson's credibility over who sent him to Niger. The real credibility issue lies with the White House, especially Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby by intentionally leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the media in retribution to Wilson's op-ed column in the NY Times which claimed that the Bush administration was manipulation intelligence in order to push its war agenda in Iraq.
Whether Rove is charged with a crime or not, he should be forced to resign, and President Bush must look past protecting the party and do what he swore to do in his oath as President, to protect the security of the United States.

Lomstradamus
St. Paul

Sent to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
July 20th, 2005

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Bush Flip Flops on Plame leak "standards"

On Sept. 30, 2003, Mr. Bush said he was eager to find out if there had been "a leak" from his administration about Mrs. Wilson. "I want to know who it is," he said. "And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of."
Just one day earlier, Mr. Bush's spokesman, Scott McClellan, had stated a more categorical standard. "The president has set high standards, the highest of standards, for people in his administration," Mr. McClellan said. "He's made it very clear to people in his administration that he expects them to adhere to the highest standards of conduct. If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."

On June 10th 2004 when President Bush was asked whether he would fire anyone who had anything to do with leaking Mrs. Wilson's name.
"Yes," Mr. Bush replied, and his spokesmen have reiterated that stance repeatedly in the months since then.

Now on Monday July 18th, 2005 Bush comes out with this statement ""If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," Mr. Bush said in response to a question, after declaring, "I don't know all the facts; I want to know all the facts."

Now that Rove and Libby "Scooter" Libby have entered the picture in the leek investigation, Bush is having a bit of a meltdown.
The fact that Rove wanted to attack Joseph Wilson's credibility because of his op-ed column in the New York Times charging that Bush was manipulating intelligence in order to push the war in Iraq is reason enough to fire the him from the administration.
The right-wingers have been trying to sidestep the real crime by claiming that Plame made the decision to send her husband to Niger as if it were a conspiracy against the Bush administration. They have claimed that Wilson is a partisan "peace-nick" who was attacking the administration for partisan gain. The real fact is that the Uranium purchase from niger by Saddam was proven false in the end, and the claim that Bush used in his State of the Union address was a lie.
The real story here isn't about the outing of a covert CIA agent, it is the Downing Street Minutes which document that the Bush administration had made intelligence claims to fit their agenda for war with Iraq.
I think when all is said and done the Bush administration has been running away from the Downing Street Minutes.
Karl Rove is a traitor and an enemy of our country, and the Bush administration is more interested in retaining political power than protecting our country. The administration supports our troops by allowing high ranking officials to oust covert intelligence agents putting many other agents in harms way, and also threatening our national security.
This is all going to unravel but unfortunately Rove will more than likely get away with this, and Bush Co. will not hold anyone in its administration accountable because the corruption runs deep at the White House.