EXCERPT: Here it is folks.
The Wilson Op-Ed piece, annotated in Cheney’s hand! This places the Vice President, once and for all, at the epicenter of the outing of Valerie Plame. A larger, legible copy may be found at the link below. Download and store it alongside your copy of the Constitution.
In the July 2003, NYT piece, Joe Wilson describes his trip to Niger at the behest of the CIA and criticizes the White House for misusing intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq....

EXCERPT: The wire services are singing tonight about Condi Rice’s aboutface performance on the Sunday morning TV talk circuit. She and Rummie had just returned from Baghdad and Condi was poised to spin all the good news about the emerging “unity” government in Iraqi.
But, apparently the “good” news from Baghdad wasn’t all that newsworthy because Condi ended up trying to fend off and spin the remarks her predecessor made on British TV about the pre-invasion...

EXCERPT: The writers at Voice of Arizona seem so preoccupied with immigrants, homosexuals, equal opportunity bashing, etc., that they've not found time to muster a defense of President Bush's use of the signing statement in my previous two articles.  Most interesting.
I've explained in those articles that the signing statement is the procedure Bush has employed over and over to undermine the constitutional authority of Congress and the Federal Courts. I imagine...

EXCERPT: This is a follow up to the article, A Nation of Laws? Whose Laws? If you're not familiar with it, you may wish to start there.

My reading suggests the signing statement began as a benign social nicety which permitted the President to acknowledge the benefits of a law, its beneficiaries, thank the legislative supporters, chortle, etc., etc. However, the signing statement, beginning with Reagan, became a powerful political expedient, a pseudo-legal concept that enables the...

EXCERPT: We all know the textbook description of how a law is enacted. Congress passes the legislation and it's sent to the President. If the President accepts the legislation, he signs it and it becomes law.
The next step involves the Executive Department's drafting of the Federal Regulations to implement the law. Here, the drafters look to the statute itself and, more importantly, to the Legislative History of the statute to define Congress's intent in passing the legislation...

EXCERPT: Akman, congratulations on your superb article, Who Dat Dere?  It helped raise my consciousness to a higher plane of thinking.  The Iraq and the Katrina Recovery debacle are with us still, however, we may  consider these as extensions of the Bush Administration's reactions to two singular events that will forever define this Presidency, short of a nuclear war.  In both cases, the Administration was tested.  In both cases, it...

EXCERPT: Michael Brown called "a little disingenuous" and "just baloney" the assertions by top Bush Administration officials that they were unaware of the severity of the catastrophe for a day after Katrina struck on Aug. 29. Investigators say Federal inaction delayed the launch of Federal emergency measures, rescue efforts and aid to tens of thousands of stranded New Orleans residents.
Brown's remarks were a striking contrast to his testimony during the House hearing...

EXCERPT: Seventy three years ago, FDR opened his first inaugural address by solemnly acknowledging the grim realities of the Great first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
FDR guaranteed a "leadership of frankness and vigor" and asked for the "understanding and support of the people themselves" which he...

EXCERPT: Throughout Consevative vs. Liberals and Other Truths, Average American defends Bush's actions and lies then labels the defense Sure looks like June's right, this is no political philosophy, Average, it's the ravings of a Bush supporter.
Here's my response to Average American.
RE: Point 1. President Bush is your only reference here and you say you're not a disciple who blindly follows? What about the CIA Gulag? What about the inhumane interrogation techniques...

EXCERPT: Last September, I watched President Bush, standing in shirtsleeves before a majestically lit statue somewhere in New Orleans, promise on national television that the federal government would see to it that the Crescent City was rebuilt. Well, to put it simply, he lied!
Last September, the White House told Louisiana's Democrats and Republicans, state and local, in private, to get their act together and come up with a reasonable plan, one that would neither cost too much nor result...