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Dan Abrams continues his series on how the Bush administration (in particular, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove) has wreaked havoc on the Department of Justice with a look today at how corrupted and nastily partisan prosecutions have become, with the DoJ going after more than five times the number of Democrats as Republicans and using party and Bush loyalty as the overriding criteria for hiring attorneys.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse:
The Bush administration forgot that the sign outside says “United States Department of Justice” not “Bush Administration Department of Justice”. And the cost to us has been as a country and the cost to the department in particular has been terribly high.
Filed Under: Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, Government Policy, Karl Rove, MSNBC, US Attorneys Purge, White House
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As I was listening last night to an NPR piece about the Pakistani justice department being stacked in favor of Musharraf I had to laugh at the irony.
Not even a tiny bit surprising. One of the many, many problems with this is that there are millions or retards who think that there’s nothing wrong with this kind of thing. Well, as long as Clinton’s not doing it.
I think Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, Jay Rockefeller, and Harry Reid need to immediately take this outrageously damaging reporting and go straight to the White House, so that they can pass some new legislation which Bush Jr. tells them to.
I’m reluctant to look a gift horse in the mouth, but, I’m so glad that Abrams learned that liberalism sells! Now if more news stations can get the message then maybe we will get the liberal media bias that the repubs has been promising us for 7 years now.
Let’s hope that when “we” run the media that we will restore a sense of “fairness” and not become a rabid partisan bulldozer that the right has been, while pointing the finger, and playing the “blame game” at our side!
yeah, too bad nothing is being done repair that terribly high damage. just keep on, keeping on.
This is why I was so disgusted by Schumer’s and Feinstein’s vote for Mukasey, justified by the faulty reasoning that the Justice Dept. needed to be fixed. As if it was broken because of Gonzalez’s incompetence. Its broken because Cheney and gang broke it and wanted it broken. No AG is going to fix it unless you clean house at the White House as well.
Bob @ 4:
Seven years? This bullshit has been touted since Reagan took office.
Does anyone here think Dan Abrams was ever a “loyal Bushie”? Was he ever guilty of mindlessly spouting BushCo propaganda? If so, why should we trust him now?
But, but but… Clinton did it too! [/GOPretort]
I’m wondering if some of these talking heads feel safe to talk about this stuff now because bush only has one more year in the white house. Have they been taken off the leash now and are able to run free?
This is a nice change on the network from waterboarding apologist Joe Scar
Corrupt Attorney Generals are a Republican tradition since 1980
xoites, I think you have forgotten John Mitchell
This series is extremely useful.
bob @ 13:
Ok, i did. But i have to admit my view of him softened a bit when his wife went berzerk in front of the White House claiming Nixon was going to kill him for betraying him.
I saw it live and never heard about it again.
I mean, what do we do?
The rePUGs have turned this nation into a some kind of toxic waste dump with the kind of crap that they have produced from day to day. and it seems that they wont give up un till they have seriously crippled the nation and ended the middle class and represenative government for most of us.
on the other hand my demonCRATs have just gone along with this garbage and seem to roll over at every turn. Every Turn!
This Country is no longer viable and I think that whatever we do will be the will be the same as what came about in all great nations that have passed into oblivion.
Anybody else have these feelings. I mean is this my particular brand of mental hysteria?
OK, the writing’s on the wall. If you have a fear of being busted, or just don’t think you’d enjoy the experience, or have enough busted experience to not want to repeat it,
PRETEND TO BE A REPUBLICAN.
You know, wear a goofy hat, develop a fetish for collecting scraps of toilet paper from toilet floors, act coy when someone taps your foot, read Kraft-Ebbing so you can fake the symptoms of sexually-oriented dementia, pretend a messiah complex, vote for the rich, against the poor, just say ‘No’ to kids and health, say ‘Yes’ to tax credits for purchase of yachts over 150 feet, allow deductions for Lamborghinis used for business purposes, or by lobbyists, never say ‘No’ to bribes offered as ‘political contributions, and keep track of the market value of your grandmother.
natisman @ 16:
No, its not. It is shared by many. We now live on a planet where goods are shipped freely but people are compartmentalized and restricted. Some of us are not allowed to fly and are not allowed to ask why. Ted Kennedy was on the no fly list for 16 months!
Martha Mitchell was a fucking wingnut, too. Her sanity was ALWAYS in question. The Republican party has been a crime syndicate since the end of WW2. Nixon was always a scammer. The Dulles brothers committed us to the cold war completely. There MIGHT have been an easing of tensions years earlier if not for them. It’s apparent that Nixon left lots of messes for Kennedy, including the Bay of Pigs plan and Vietnam escalation. I don’t want to rehash 60 years of post WW2 history, but it seems abundantly clear that the Republicans have been wrong about everything at every turn.
On inauguration day, the new president should put on a hazmat suit, stand on the steps of the white house and say to the American people, “I’m goin’ in. Wish me luck”
This really underscores the duplicity of Shumer and Feinstein giving Mukasey a pass to Attorney General.
Mukasey is dyed in wool “unitary executive” apostle and will do nothing to correct the Bush de-volution of Justice into political hatchet squad.
This needs to be a top question for Democratic candidates: What will you do to restore our government? How will you clean house of Bush ideological appointees/implants throughout the government, particularly in Justice?
Don’t hold your breath.
DON’T OBEY.
bob @ 19:
Oh, i think we should rehash it. There are things we all need to be reminded of.
So let me get my facts and history right…
To Impeach… an Intern has to commit a sex act in the oval office and the commander and thief (chief) has to lie about it, to take effect?
Anything else is fair game…
Is this true?
T-myers @ 23:
It would appear so, Grasshopper.
T-myers @ 23:
No, you need evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors and a Congress that upholds the Constitution. Right now one of these things is missing.
Indigowatcher @ 8:
I don’t think he was a loyal bushie so much as he IS a loyal dollar follower, meaning when right wing sells he a huge right wing blow hard. Now that he has seen that Olbermann’s ratings are high he is floating a left wing balloon. If the ratings for this “week long series” are low, or if he gets ridiculed because of it, then he’ll go right back to the “dark side”.
Follow the money Abrams!
T-myers @ 23:
As I remember it the government was closed down because their was no budget passed. So Clinton closed everything down. Noone was in the WH, no work was getting done, and when on vacation, and the opportunity pops up, is it really a crime to go for the gusto?
Off Topic, sort of…
It looks like the Dems are going to fund the war without restrictions. Maybe Nancy will kiss George under the Mistletoe at the White House Christmas Party?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI.....index.html
Screw Abrams. Like with Cal Thomas in the earlier thread, too little too late. At least I’ll give Ol’ Gospel Tyme Cal a pass because he’s just a rightwing columnist while Abrams is an alleged journalist. This has been obviously been going on for a long time, and the facts presentable to anyone, but only after seeing the traction KO has achieved in the media marketplace with his honest, unforced and spot-on criticism of this farce of an administration did Abrams decide to run the story.
Screw him.
And I’ve always hated his delivery anyway.
roundhead @ 29:
But how do you really feel!
He is also exaggerating the figures, a complaint we have had with the right. Nitpicking, but 140 goes in 640 4.5 times, not 6 times. If you are going to scream at the “rulers of the free world” get ALL your talking points correct! Or you’re no better than they are.
roundhead @ 29:
It would nice if everyone in the media had pure intent, but they don’t. If they did we would never have invaded Iraq, spying on Americans would have ended this Administration and buying a Lotto ticket would be a great investment for the future.
Sometimes people do the right thing for the wrong reasons, at least they got it half right so don’t discourage others from taking that first step. We need more media talking heads pried out of their media asses.
roundhead @ 29:
Truth is, MSNBC top brass had kept reporting like this from happening. It wasn’t until things at the top changed that reporting like this could happen.
Would we have liked to have this reporting before … of course, should we be thankful it’s happening now … your damn right. Dan is a Lawyer and his team is doing some good investigative reporting here …. give him credit. Your person feelings a bout how Abrams delivers his items is not important, what is contained in those items is.
Bob @ 30:
He said, “almost” six times which is about as accurate news/information/entertainment ever gets in this country.
doj: run by the atty of the year! pathetic!
I won’t hold my breath waiting for mucky to fix it.
Just a reminder. Don’t forget the Dems debate today at 2:00 pm (eastern time) :)
xoites defends Constitution @ 25:
Yes the rule of law and the truth… thats what”s missing…
Despite how screwed-up things may seem, we’ve all been offered an opportunity, en masse, to have a once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-repeated, experience:
TIME TRAVEL!
Close your eyes for a minute (seriously, bear with me). Now open them, and pretend you’re in the last year of the Roman Empire. Enjoy the sights, the smells, the sounds, the NEWS. This is it!
Get into it, put on a sheet, wrap some ivy around your head. Buy a dagger, try to get next to Bush. Learn to play the violin, practice while standing on your deck, overlooking the barbeque pit. If you’re not gay, pretend you are. Have your favorite artist sketch your wife, or ’significant other’, enjoying Sapphic pleasures while vacationing on the Isle of Lesbos. Got to Senate meetings, and shout ‘Aye’, or ‘Nay’, on a whim, depending upon how much Mead you’ve imbibed.
Trade your Prius in on a Chariot. You’ll get even better MPG, though the emissions may bother you, at first. After you’ve affixed your kitchen knife set to the wheels, race your Chariot around the town square, scaring the crap out of any pedestrians you happen to find. Shout ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ at every opportunity. Live, man, live, you’re on top of the world!
But beware, around the middle of March, don’t go to any meetings held on the steps of a large public meeting.
America! Wake up! There is ONLY an illusion still being crammed down your collective throats! They are all in the same bed! LOOK…don’t LISTEN ! Democrats were elected and “look” at how many of our “true- blue Americans” voted for those same Bills that is literally destroying our rights! Forget the “left and right”….RIGHT or WRONG is the truth based wholly on :Does it do the greatest good for greatest number of the people! Truth stands totally independent of “opinions”. (IE) Truth=greatest good for the greatest number! Why the endless debate??!
Eric Almighty @ 2:
You said it for me! Thanks!!
Really? They’ve politicized the justice department? Well wasn’t that part of the mandate when we “elected” Bush in 2000 and 2004? I we living in bizarro world? Doesn’t this rise to the level of an impeachable offense? What does congress think it’s doing? What does this President have to do to get impeached, oh that’s right have sexual contact with someone that isn’t his wife. Because that affects us more than illegal wiretapping, rendition, illegal wars, lying to congress, ignoring subpeonas, negligence during Katrina, Abramhoff, Haliburton, Blackwater, attorney firings, Valerie Plame, negligence in post war planning, threatening countries with violence, Abu Ghrab, and condoning torture.
If elected I’ll appoint this guy to head the DOJ:
http://www.torrent.to/torrent/.....keeper.jpg
ysbaddaden @ 40:
Don’t you mean “appointed?”
One of the problems I have with Abrams is his delivery. Very over the top with needless inflections and overemphasis on adjectives. He’s right out of the John Stossel school of journalism, and I think it weakens his credibility and therefor the credibility of his reports. He does the same thing when unscripted, during his guest interview sections. He has the right questions, he has the facts, but his style is almost embarrassing.
kaT @ 14:
We don’t get MSNBC so I want to thank C & L for showing these videos.