Countdown: <I>Bushed</i>: The Economy, The Military and The E-mails
By Nicole Belle Monday Jan 21, 2008 1:16pm
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Because keeping track of all the Bush White House scandals is a full time job, here is the latest edition of "Bushed!", courtesy of our friends at Countdown.
First up is the economy, where global markets reflected the fear and instability of the American market yesterday. Today is shaping up to be only slightly less volatile than expected due to the Fed cutting 75 basis points, proving as Bonddad dubbed it, the Fed is Wall Street's b*tch.
Next is the politicization of the military, which in BushWorld, is merely business as usual, but has taken even more overt and blatant tones of quid pro quo with the news that the Pentagon is considering Gen. David Petraeus for the top spot at NATO.
And finally, the disappeared emails that don't ever quite go away. It turns out that the "missing" emails that the administration claims it cannot furnish in response to FOIA and congressional subpoena requests are for some 473 business days, including (surprise, surprise!) 16 days from Vice President Dick Cheney's office. One of those sixteen days is September 20, 2003, the day the DoJ and FBI announced their investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame Wilson's identity. Quite a coinky-dink, isn't it?
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bushed--fucked over it's all the same. this bastard and cheney
are fascists and need to be impeached for their crimes against
the American Constitution and the American people.
lol fred thompson has dropped out...
Can Gen. David Petraeus lead the surge and win the war on terror and lead NATO at the same time? Seems that would be very time consuming. Would bush put someone else in to lead the surge and win the war on terror right now in the middle of our sprinting to the victory line?
I'm just brimming full of questions.
Freakaloin @ 2:
Of what? His rocking chair?
I hope we can last long enough to run out the clock on this SOB.
The frickin E-mails.
I'm sorry, SOMEBODY has to go to jail for this, and not some
poor IT guy they throw under the bus.
This is a crime, it's a god-damn felony, and SCREW THE
"We don't want to distract from the Election" mentality
in Congress.
This is the cover-up to end all cover-ups....
They are not burying smoking guns, they're obliterating
the ARSENAL of smoking guns!
Obstruction of justice, perjury, the Hatch act....
If they walk on this, JUST for the political expediency
of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, then the Democrats
ARE as bad as the Republics...
Screw running the clock - IMPEACH, DAMMIT!
Windows link didn't work for me.
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Time for a flashback (from the Prez):
Memorandum
January 20, 2001
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Standards of Official Conduct
Everyone who enters into public service for the United States has a duty to the American people to maintain the highest standards of integrity in Government.
I saw a repub senator on the floor of the senate talking about this economic boost that they are talking about in DC. He was complaining that the one point five billion that would fund the boost would have to be paid back by our children and grandchildren. Funny, I've never heard him complain about the cost of the war and who would be saddled with repaying that money.
Hey! This just in... Grampa Fred goin' back to the porch swing.
I guess he just pulled out.
Under the boosh economy I'm having to follow the 3-day rule
If the food has been on the floor only 3 days I can eat it.
Trittydi @ 8:
Same here. I already emailed the powers that be (responsible for that stuff).
pissed off patricia @ 10:
His handlers didn't want to bother him with that little fact and anyway it doesn't help the military/industrial complex those that are effected don't buy guns and munitions .
Why help the serfs anyway let them eat cake if they can get it
ps.. Grandpa Fred is out!
(Sorry for being offtopic, didn't want to submit a tip or whatever.)
Video doesn't seem to be up yet.
Fred Thompson dropped out... how can one tell? Or maybe he just "dropped off"... ZZzzzzzz...
You know its been on my mind
Could you stand right there
Look me straight in the eye and say
That its over now
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
Somehow, how am I not amazed that some from the far-right wing of the Repub army is already calling for another war, to boost the economy !!!!
Their reason, following the WWII, Vietnam, and Korean War, the US economy kicks into boom cycle. So another war is needed to kick the economy into another boom cycle.
Did anyone see the speech Fred gave Saturday night where he said nothing? Now we know why, he had nothing to say. Can't say that I'll miss him. He'll probably back McCain now. As if his support is going to do McCain any good. Maybe he can be McCain's Chuck Norris.
MargeAggedon @ 11:
His army candy will be so disappointed.
Go Willard Go!
At Free Republic, they are lineing up for Romney with such
stirring endorsements as
"The best of the worst..."
That's right, a NE Governor with a history of Gay Rights support
and Public pay for Abortion is the Wingut's pick to click!
Ah, nothing like a deflated Right wing Moron to make my afternoon!
MargeAggedon @ 11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rt4VSKvU8Q
My rant on the missing e-mails. I was a "little systems administrator" for a Bankruptcy Court in Oklahoma in the 1990's. SOMEONE NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL over the e-mail scandal:
Someone should go to jail!
It's no big deal Fred is "pulling out". I believe he was shooting blanks, anyway.
Someone should go to jail for just about everything these crooks have done from the day they invaded the oval office. But I will not hold my breath until that happens. :evil:
ysbaddaden @ 22:
Groan ... Sounded like crap back then ... sounds like crap today ...
But your point is well taken ... see ya Fred, we'll miss your girlfriend.
jack foster @ 24:
Fred is a guy who keeps his promise. ;)
jack foster @ 24:
You think his orgasms are powder?
Just in case the economy, the war, or the deceit and corruption no longer bother you, here's something you can consider worrying about:
The Guardian (UK): Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
Read on .. it gets even better!
So all that nuclear proliferation stuff that Brewster Jennings was trying to stop (dam them!) is finally coming to fruition - massive increases in "defense" spending necessitated by someone (who could have done it?) who spilled the nuclear secrets to all those bad guys.
We can all sleep more peacefully now.
/end snark
Playing both sides against each other, selling weapons to both sides - classic Bush Crime Family Enterprise.
♥♂ Angry Guy @ 26:
When we was kids, we always wondered why our dogs were Doing the Freddy in our front yard.
This picture says it ALL....
HAHAHAHAHAHA
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Ben-Bernanke-Ben-Bernanke-Federal-Reserve-...
WTF? They must have some crazy way of backing up the email server if they have 473 days missing but only 16 of them are for Cheney's email.
Maybe it's just the way the story is being reported but usually the email server is backed up daily (or more often). Then if the backup tapes were re-used, one would think the same number of days (or parts of days) would be missing for everyone on the system.
The Political Junkie @ 7:
EXACTLY!
NOT putting Nixon behind bars is a major reason we citizens are in this mess, as it only encouraged those serving under him like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Rove etc., to continue their nefarious behavior, albeit more discretely.
Bush is just the front man, who should be jailed, but we must also punish those who prop him up, lest we and our children have to deal with them in the future.
Can we utter the magic words:
Obstruction of Justice - and - Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice - and - Destruction of evidence.
It's high time to confer a special prosecutor and begin taking depositions again.
If the FBI can find evidence of an old eMail on your hard disk, I am sure they can find evidence of those eMails. They don't just disappear. The NSA and FBI would surely have a different opinion on the status of those eMails.
Impeach? No.
Arrest Indict, Imprison? YES!
Lets see...
18 minutes missing then
1 1/3 Years missing now
Seriously, What.The.Fuck?!
.MountainMan23 @ 29:
The US has been waging nuclear war for the past 17 years, using "depleted uranium" (as though that little euphemistic name diminishes the danger of this munition). The U.S. military used DU in the Gulf War, Bosnia, the bombing of Serbia, the Afghanistan war and throughout the illegal invasion of Iraq.
The government and the war hawks will assert that U-238 has no long term effects, but how do we know?! Research has shown that cancers and other health issues directly attributable to radiation poisoning have increased several hundredfold among Iraqis, but no one speaks of this. Those members of our military exposed to aerosoled DU have been experiencing health issues, birth defects in their children, AND increased stillborn births and miscarriages, but virtually NO ONE SPEAKS OF THIS.
The US and Russia have enough nuclear warheads AT PRESENT to destroy human life on this entire planet. I'm betting the war hawks are counting on the severe lack of outcry over the use of DU munitions to pave their way to widespread acceptance of a 'first strike' paradigm. After all, nuclear weapons aren't really all that bad, are they? Since we've been using them for almost two decades? Right? Sigh...
One of my favorite pins from my early anti-nuke activism shows a little old grandmother knitting a sweater from yarn that comes from a shrinking column of nuclear warheads. The caption reads, "If we can risk nuclear war, we can risk disarmament."
...if, and ONLY if, humans get their collective heads out of their collective asses.
Anybody know if KO has done any recent stories re: Sibel Edmonds and the recent Times article?
I'm now pretty well convinced that nothing will be done about all the executive branch unlawfulness. Talk about feeling disillusioned. Apparently they're even trying to get retroactive immunity passed to get the crooks off the hook. It all disgusts me and feels hopeless in terms of justice ever being done. What a great example for our young people. If you've got power, money, and connections, the law doesn't apply. You can bet that if there was a Democratic president sitting in the WH there would have been no mercy.
Don't you wonder how any one man can have the touch of death for anything he comes into contact with? Will the president be the first to have a full blown recession or worse at the same time he is fighting and losing a war? I can't truly think of one thing he has done right since his elevation to the presidency. Can you? Please help me on this, I'm racking my brain trying to find one thing.
Just what NATO needs, an intellectually dishonest, pandering, obsequious sycophant in a position of authority. this is worse than the Peter Principle.
Those emails can be found, no sweat, if anybody seriously wants them. they'll be backed and archived on servers, and the NSA vacuums up all emails in the country. Nobody's mail goes uncaptured.
No surprise that the markets are tanking globally. You can't run trillions in debt, spending which porduces zero sustainable wealth, and telegraph that you have no intention of ever repaying that debt with anything that has value without negative consequences. There is going to be a long lasting and deep recession, and it is going to spread to every last nook and cranny of the global economy.
Is it just me or does Olbermann wear WAY too much makeup? In the immortal words of Irwin K. Fletcher "Fletch" (a.k.a., Chevy Chase), "You shouldn't wear so much makeup. It makes you look cheap."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCCR2huE2m8
HANG THAT EVIL FUCK FROM THE HIGHEST TREE
FOR TREASON
Can you say RICO Act? I'm pretty sure that this whole administration who are likened to the mafia could easily be indicted under this act. The RICO crimes:
*Any violation of state statutes against gambling, murder, kidnapping, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act)
*Any act of bribery, counterfeiting, theft, embezzlement, fraud, dealing in obscene matter, obstruction of justice, slavery, racketeering, gambling, money laundering, commission of murder-for-hire, and several other offenses covered under the Federal criminal code (Title 18)
*Embezzlement of union funds
*Bankruptcy or securities fraud
*Drug trafficking
*Money laundering and related offenses
*Bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in entering the country (if the action was for financial gain)
*Acts of terrorism.
What must be proven is guilt of two of these within a 10 year period, think that any two of those apply to BushCo? The great thing under RICO is that any person convicted has to forfeit any gains gathered under the RICO offenses. We know that this administration has been about pillaging the treasury (among other things) so that alone would be worse than any time behind bars by far. We can dream can't we?
Countdown is "Bush League"
Pursang @ 45:
There are several criteria which have to be met to successfully prosecute for RICO. In this case, it would be a piece of cake. Too bad that all those who would be responsible for prosecuting are also either complicit with the criminals or their institutions have been subverted and corrupted beyond any hope of redemption.
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