I agree with your post, but nothing is going to happen in this or the next Congress because of our broken, two lets-party, system :-[

Posted at May 14, 2008 5:22 PM in response to Conyers to Rove: No

It's shocking to me, that Bond, a wing nut in my book, would propose such a bill. To vote against the specifically banded treatments, if the bill gets to the floor, would be very hard for Senators to justify. Of course they'll just attach bilious amendments to kill it! My bad.

Posted at May 8, 2008 6:26 PM in response to GOP Senator Floats Compromise Torture Measure

How is it our Military Academies, and the Services the graduates migrate to, create such poor Generals as Franks, Abizaid, Sanchez, Casey, and Petreaus? These Generals, and I use the word loosely, seem to parallel Westmoreland and the Vietnam experience.

Tell the Administration, Congress and the media what it wants to hear, say every battle or skirmish is a victory, that we are gaining the hearts and minds of the populace. The truth and personal honor be damned.

I wonder why the report is suppressed.

Posted at May 6, 2008 5:00 PM in response to Pentagon Report on Iraq Debacle "Remains Classified"

One suspects Pelosi, Reid, et al have no problem with voter suppression. After all, voters most likely to be suppressed are poor minorities that may be more liberal than the Beltway crowd, and favor more social programs, thus threatening pork barrel spending. Were voter suppression to become an issue, the DINOs could then charge the GOP as being racist, etc, etc. Either way it’s a win win for the DINOs.

Hale the two party systme!

Posted at May 2, 2008 11:43 AM in response to Congress, Right the Vote

Interesting the Clintons (DINO) may be using the same disinformation and disenfranchising techniques the GOP has refined to an art form. Further evidence how corrupt the two party system is.

Posted at May 1, 2008 1:24 PM in response to Board Members from Robo Calling Nonprofit Criticize Effort, But Vouch for Group

It boils down to Congress being a de facto one party system of privilege over responsibility. Yeh individual members may hate each other’s guts and ideologies, but not enough to change the underlying graft.

Posted at April 29, 2008 3:24 PM in response to Administration Officials to Conyers: Catch Us if You Can

My point is: 1. Conyers is all bark and no bite. 2. GOP committee members will delay, block, (stonewall [look up definition]), whine, and obfuscate the process as much as possible. 3. Even if any of these boobs appear before the committee (a big if) they will claim privileged presidential communications to any pointed questions. 3. I’m tired as hell that our Congressional leadership (oxymoron) is either in thrall of this Regime or afraid of it and nothing substantive will come of any committee hearings!

Posted at April 29, 2008 12:45 PM in response to Administration Officials to Conyers: Catch Us if You Can

Is Conyers going to issue subpoenas unilaterally, without a committee vote and over GOP committee member stonewalling? I doubt it.

Posted at April 29, 2008 11:43 AM in response to Administration Officials to Conyers: Catch Us if You Can

It's a good thing the Army is willing to learn. Maybe the Procurement Officers wondered what those binders on their desks were for or the contract classes they sat through? Take for example the literally thousands of pages of FAR and DFAR that Procurement Officers must know and reference in memos to file for justifications after the bid process and prior to contract award. This is the Bush Administration and we don’t need no stinking regulations!

Posted at April 28, 2008 12:39 PM in response to Army Looks to Learn Lesson from Contract to 22 Year-Old

Let’s say it all together: Misprision of felony.

Mueller was USA in San Francisco prior to taking over the FBI. He spent 12 years in DoJ and became the chief of the criminal division in SF. Just being a good soldier I guess?

Posted at April 24, 2008 3:15 PM in response to The FBI's Hands Off Approach to Torture