The sad thing is, the USA doesn’t win, the Democrats don’t win. These white collar thugs have penetrated so deeply into all levels of government, it’s like hosing down a pile of sewage. You might get the scum and garbage off the top. But that just exposes more of the same vile filth that’s beneath the surface.
The fact is, we on the left have a toehold here, an opportunity to start the Herculean task of shifting the river to clean out the king’s stables. We have to stay on this issue as aggressively as possible. We have to stay on message. We have to keep asking tough questions. We have to get the democrats in the house and senate to stand united, to not allow the right wing echo chamber to weaken or distract from the message. We have to support the usually pathetic mainstream media, since it appears they are finding some dregs of courage and integrity. Maybe once they remember what it feels like to do their jobs, they’ll start doing more of them.
Rove is a traitor. He belongs in jail and so do the people who protect him. He must have his security clearance taken away from him immediately and he must be thrown out of the Whitehouse. Anything less is treachery and failure to follow the responsibilities of due diligence any responsible public officer must be held to.
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Yes Rove is a liar. But you know who has been getting away with more through this whole scandal is Robert Novak. Now reporters who are flag waving patriots say they stand behind doing the right thing and observe the law...then go and print classified information... tells me they are hypocrisy makers to the max.
Why is the Press so called above the law on these matters of revealing American spys? Seems to me they hold and share a sense of responsibility to the people they serve.
To constantly sidestep Robert Novak and his original commentary on the Plame disclosure is to not get the whole truth. Rove and Novak deserve to share time together.
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Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 934 comments)
on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 11:12:09 PM
I certainly believe that this incident is simply business as usual in a political climate where Dick Cheney stated that since they won they can damn well do as they please. For five years now this sort of hatchet job has been modus operendi for those deemed disloyal. If one goes back to the Clinton years remembering the nonstop slander and dishonesty it is quickly evident that these scumbags care little for honesty, morality or political civility.
My credulity is reserved for how little these actions have affected the Bush loyalists. I work amongst the very red, and listen to their comments about how Plame was a desk jockey and not really outed, how Rove didnt say her name, how this is just more of the sour grapes from the "liberals and leftists" still sore about continually losing to the right. I see an occasional flash of shame when I note that outing Plame may have endangered operatives in the field, or that the law is very specific about publicly sharing classified information, which is certainly the case here, and makes actual reference to naming CIA operatives by name or by inference. But these guilty looks are fleeting indeed and they quickly retreat to the talking points so readily and quickly spelled out for them by that class A felon, Rush Limbaugh, by that arguable psychotic Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the fully armed talking heads that fill our airwaves with Bushs' crap.
Thus the problem ,as ever, reverts to the lack of a concerted effort by the Democratic Party to get a coherent , specific, accurate and on message response out to the vast audience that, lacking any balance whatsoever in the news they are exposed to daily, believes that biased drivel.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 at 10:25:32 PM
