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breaking at thinkprogress: reid and dems to force filibuster on iraq vote.

From Reid’s speech:

Republicans are using a filibuster to block us from even voting on an amendment that could bring the war to a responsible end. They are protecting the President rather than protecting our troops.

They are denying us an up or down — yes or no — vote on the most important issue our country faces. Read the rest of this entry »

wait… actually, you don’t got to be shitting me–we saw this coming all along. still, the blood boils.

President Bush commutes the prison term of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

must be rough to be a criminal in the white house these days.

it surprises me, though, that this was done today and not on a friday at 2am or something like that.

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sitting here, pondering executive power and the bush administration, a thought came to my mind. if president bush were convicted of a crime while still serving his office, do you think he would claim the right as all-powerful-commanderguy to pardon himself? and do you think the washington post would tell us he’s absolutely right? and further… do you think barrack and hillary would parse their words and let him do it, so as to not upset our fickle “democracy”? Read the rest of this entry »

I know I was just as confused when I saw that as well. Luckily the Washington Post was able to clear it all right up for me.

In Iraq, when Tony Lagouranis interrogated suspects, fear was his friend, his weapon. He saw it seep, dark and shameful, through the crotch of a man’s pants as a dog closed in, barking. He smelled it in prisoners’ sweat, a smoky odor, like a pot of lentils burning. He had touched fear, too, felt it in their fingers, their chilled skin trembling. Read the rest of this entry »

use it or lose it.

I am told by a source who knows the head count that we are within a slim margin on the habeas restoration amendment — and that the vote could still go either way. It is a razor thin margin right now, which means there is no Senator whose vote can be taken for granted. Read the rest of this entry »