Andymatic

Category: 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

  • Senate Censors Domestic Spying Results

    (via Reddit) The US Senate website is not publishing the roll call of votes by Senators on the bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act making President George W. Bush’s illegal wiretapping order retroactively legal. While the House of Representatives’ website gives details of how each member voted, the Senate website just displays the […]

  • London Police Witheld Info Over Man Shot in the Head Seven Times

    A senior British police officer withheld information from superiors and misled the public after learning that police wrongly killed a Brazilian electrician, mistaking him for a terrorist, an inquiry into the killing reported Thursday. The Independent Police Complaints Commission report said that Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, head of London’s police counterterrorism unit, allowed the police […]

  • Feingold Opposes Impeachment on DailyKos, Gets Ass Handed to Him

    Russ Feingold posted on DailyKos: I believe that the President and Vice President may well have committed impeachable offenses.  But with so many important issues facing this country and so much work to be done, I am concerned about the great deal of time multiple impeachment trials would take away from the Congress working on […]

  • Keith Olbermann on the Libby Commutation

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  • Bush Saves Libby, Commutes Sentence

    That’s about it folks.

  • Former Reagan Staffer Official: Impeach Bush, Try Him for War Crimes

    From DailyKos: Paul Craig Roberts said that the US government is in the hands of dangerous psychopaths who are a disgrace to the human race and who should be arrested as war criminals and turned over the the Hague. Former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury […]

  • MoveOn Wusses Out on The War

    Boils down to ‘if the Democrats keep the war going and let the GOP screw themselves they have better chance of winning in 2008′” If MoveOn were serious about ending the war, now would be an opportune moment to mobilize its millions of members and make it finally happen. Instead, its current strategy is dead […]

  • Fitzgerald Was Zooming Toward Cheney's Treason

    “Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.”

  • Our New $1.2 Billion/Year Embassy in Iraq

    But we’re not an occupying force: Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. Come on Democrats. You are being handed the fucking playbook. While Americans will be living in posh […]

  • Olbermann on the Democrats Rolling Over on Iraq Timetables

    Thank you. Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq. … You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions—Stop The War—have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and […]