READER COMMENTS ON
"Bush U.S. Attorneys - Many of Them - To Be Replaced in 'Next Couple of Weeks'"
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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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FreedomOfInformationAct
said on 5/16/2009 @ 1:07 pm PT...
So much for the "loyal bushies", their as toast as the war criminal neocon fascists they supported these past eight horrible years.
Are any of them going to be investigated for their manipulation of the law primarily against the GNOPs political opponents, e.g. Liberals and democrats?
Hasta La Vista to the party of NO! Good riddance to bad rubbish!!! don't let the door hit ya where the lord split ya!
COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
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Bamboo Harvester
said on 5/16/2009 @ 1:29 pm PT...
Stop being a dick holder! ..."that at least a triple" . . . Cheif...
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Brad Friedman
said on 5/16/2009 @ 1:39 pm PT...
"Are any of them going to be investigated for their manipulation of the law primarily against the GNOPs political opponents, e.g. Liberals and democrats?"
I hope so, FOIA, that's what we're calling for at RestoreJusticeAtJustice.com.
If you haven't signed on to that letter, please do!
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the zapkitty
said on 5/16/2009 @ 2:03 pm PT...
Why's everyone getting excited over this?
As with Holder's toeing of the Bush party line the Obama appointees will carry on the persecutions of the Bush appointees.
COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
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FreedomOfInformationAct
said on 5/16/2009 @ 2:32 pm PT...
A large network of activists are seeking to have President Barak Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder review the federal prosecutions of Democrats to see if they were indeed politically motiviated during the Bush adminisatration.
"It’s illegal to target someone, for example, simply because they are a Democrat with the Department of Justice. And if they are found to be political, these charges need to be vacated appropriately," said Brad Friedman, co-founder of the Velvet Revolution, the group spearheading the DoJ review effort.
Friedman said that pattern of political prosecutions is basic.
"Where they couldn’t win elections, they had to figure out other ways to get these Democrats off the grid," he explained. "To paraphrase Clinton, ‘It’s the elections, stupid!’"
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One documentary "The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove" estimates that about 40 political prosecutions of Democrats occurred in Texas due to Rove’s operatives in the Justice Department. That figure includes mayors, city councilpersons, and school board members.
http://www.lonestaricon....wer.asp?a=3910&z=355
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
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leorising
said on 5/17/2009 @ 12:26 pm PT...
The Bush administration dramatically raised the stakes for belonging to the "wrong" party: persecution, lawsuits, muckraking, and character assassination, if not out-and-out jail time. The Repugs stole power they were not supposed to have in order to destroy their political enemies, and they enjoyed unprecedented wealth and acclaim as a result.
It is this loss of almost-absolute power that is now causing the Repug party to implode as they run around screaming with their hair on fire, trying to gin up outrage in their base.
The Repug "base", on the other hand, is deteriorating down to the rich, and the to poor white guys who actually thought they had something to believe in, and a political party who believed in them. Feeling disenfranchised by the Dems victories and the return of some semblance of the rule of law, the rich are busy dishing out cash to Congress to preserve their seven-figure incomes and their elite way of life. Meanwhile, the poor white shmo who has suddenly had the rug pulled out from under him is buying guns, and some of them are using them to kill those they think "done them wrong."
So the Repugs have not only destroyed another country with an unnecessary war and the US with their economic and political power games --- their actions are causing social strife for which this country will pay for a generation.
I'm not sure which circle of Hell most of these perpetrators will eventually end up in, I just know it's probably too good for them.
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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NYCartist
said on 5/17/2009 @ 1:27 pm PT...
Do we have a Democrat in the White House? Hard to
tell given all the continued Bush policies.
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Paul McCarthy
said on 5/17/2009 @ 5:10 pm PT...
Garbage in, garbage out!
Er. . . wrong slogan, how about "out with the old, in with the new?"
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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FreedomOfInformationAct
said on 5/18/2009 @ 2:39 pm PT...
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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FreedomOfInformationAct
said on 5/18/2009 @ 2:59 pm PT...