Here:

Larry Johnson:

If a President can be impeached for lying about a blow job then by God a Vice President should be impeached for setting in motion the forces that destroyed an intelligence network during a time of war.

Bingo.

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johnson is a treasure. can we put him in office somewhere? please?

In today’s must-read, and must be repeated until even the densest can see the significance post, which he introduces with this clarion call:

It is time for the Democrats in Congress to step up and impeach Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney. Enough came out in this trial to make it clear that Cheney was deeply involved in the operation to smear Wilson. The vice president of the United States should not be in the business of outing CIA operatives! This was a high crime, and Congress could impeach if it desired. A conviction in the House of Representatives could, I believe, easily be gotten. The Senate would be more difficult, given the strength of the Republicans there. But Republicans would have voted to impeach Nixon. Why not Cheney?

Why not indeed?

Cheney must be removed, but it must be after investigation and exposure (icky though that thought is if taken literally.) Not through any “resigned for health reasons” bullcrap which would leave him free to continue his evil without even the effort of leaving home for the office. I trust it has escaped no one’s attention that this “blood clot in the leg vein” mystery illness cropped up just as the Libby sentence was coming down….

this is an entirely different set of treasonous acts. that aren’t getting any attention in the media, congress or the courts. hastert is the big name here, not that it would surprise me to know cheney has a hand in it somewhere.

our intel communities have been destroyed all right, and replaced. with cronies who use state secret privs to spy on their political enemies and hide their corrupt activity. which is often traitorous.

Why would I have?

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perhaps that will get your attention, lb. ;-)

Just a line that it’s “an apt description from a Kossak” isn’t enough….I check Kos multiple times a day and don’t read probably 1% of the material there because there just isn’t time. If you could give just a hint of a tease, either a quote of a few sentences or your own summary of WTF the item is about?

I mean, “sex, drugs, treason, corruption by the Republican former Speaker”…that’s a shrug-and-roll-eyes-and “so what else is new?” sort of item. Too many of them to keep track of. Recraplicans have really devalued the whole idea of political scandal, alas, by dumping them on the market faster than even the most devoted consumer can suck them up.

Sorry. But there it is. Now that it’s 7:35 p.m. and I have some time, and of course feel horribly guilty for criticizing a beloved blogmate, I shall go read after all.

:)

republican imprisonment, it’d be worth it. but it does not.

no one can read every link all good moonbats put up at this blog. let alone every blog we all should read. still…edmonds’ tale is one to make libby’s seem, well…tame. hookers and limos for WMDs? WFT???? this isn’t national news every night on every station???

that, to me, is the key issue. i’ve linked to lukery many times before, if for no other reason than vanity. hastert is one of 000s of republicans who are not only raping the treasury, but doing so via treason.

if your shame helps you remember this, i’m happy. but please, luv, don’t be shamed. it’s not like the “real” press has been informative about all this.

I don’t mind that Paris Hilton is a slut. I do mind that she’s an Aristocrat, and a conniving media saint to boot. Plus, she’s ugly and the smirk is a turn-off. But that’s not my point. Let me try to make it again:

Generally, if there’s no obvious reason for me to click on a link in a post, I don’t. I mean, there are many calls of “high treason” at Kos, and there are a lot of Kossacks. It’s the same problem as the Times post that started out “Garbage.” There’s a lot of garbage in the Times, so what’s new and different?

There’s a stylistic issue here, I think, with neither context nor the link text itself not providing an immediate and adequate warrant for a clickthrough — even though, apparently, the key information is not here, but in the post that we are assumed to have clicked through to.

That’s what I hear Xan saying too, in a much more nicer and more tactful way.

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…is Paris Hilton an Aristocrat. Just saying.

I’m an Aristocrat. And youze guys are welcome over there anytime for bourbon and Pabst. Blue Ribbon.

Blue Gal
http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com
http://ristocrats.blogspot.com

I mean this kind of aristocrat:

The idea of interpreting the Bush criminal regime as an embryonic, not-yet-aborted aristocracy is important, as Digby points out:

[Phil Agre writes that [T]he most central feature of conservatism is deference: a psychologically internalized attitude on the part of the common people that the aristocracy are better people than they are.

All the Beltway 500 code words—Civility, Dignified, Ungracious—for trashing Democrats and preventing them from saying what needs to be said have to do with Republicans reinforcing this fundamental aristocratic value of deference.

It’s the same deal with Centrist, Moderate, and Bipartisan: These are also code words for reinforcing deference, and often occur in context with Civil and its siblings.

That’s why it’s important to mock, belittle, insult, degrade and make Republicans laughable at all times and in all conditions. These are all tools for eliminating deference from our political discourse.

Always serious, underneath the jokes. (And yes, the movie reference is intended…) Paris Hilton is who and where and what she is exactly and only because she’s a scion of the Hilton clan. That’s aristocracy. It hasn’t taken deep root, yet, so maybe we can still rip it out….

BG, maybe could be, along with your blog, a Ristocrat?

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Or sometimes Ristocrat Mark calls us THE ARISTOCRATS all in caps, which also conveys a difference between us and the Beltway 500.

The Beltway 500 has nothing to do with Frank Zappa blogswarms, so there’s another diff.

Blue Gal
http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com
http://ristocrats.blogspot.com

thanks chicago dyke