Bush appointee tosses out Plame's lawsuit

A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush tossed out the lawsuit by former CIA covert operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, against the men who compromised her identity. The two had filed a civil suit against Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby and other Bush regime officials for outing Plame as CIA in 2003. The judge, John Bates, accepted false arguments from the defense claiming that Cheney and other regime officials are protected by federal law from being sued.

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Can someone explain to me why we still have a Democrat-led Congress, if all it's going to do is acquiesce to George W. Bush?

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ABC Hides Kucinich Debate Victory

You wouldn't know it if you tried to check ABC News' web site last weekend, but Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich won the online post-debate poll, following the August 19 forum in Iowa. Mother Jones reports.

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Now Gonzo's leaving...Who's next?

After months of perjuring himself before Congress in response to questions about his role in the firings of U.S. attorneys for failing to politicize their prosecutions and his role in illegal wiretaps, and after refusing for about the same amount of time to step down in spite of calls to do so even from members of his own political party, attorney general Alberto Gonzales has announced his resignation.

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It's laughable that the Nation's Katha Pollitt wants to waste blog space whining about negative comments in response to her tirade against Cindy Sheehan for making the decision to launch a primary campaign against Nancy Pelosi for standing in the way of impeachment. Laughable, because she is admonishing Sheehan for perceived whining in her letter to Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

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I've got to hand it to the Rude Pundit: he sure knows how to propose a rock-solid idea. If only the Democratic National Committee weren't so laden with DLCers, and had more Kucinich types, the national agendas of ending the Iraq war and impeaching Bush and Cheney might stand a snowball's chance in hell.

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Not sure how long this will remain up at O'Lielly's web site; I tried to do a screen capture but my laptop apparently doesn't have that feature despite having the button for it. UGH. Anyway, Bill O'Lielly is lying -- as he always does -- about the left's anti-war position.

Last night, trying desperately to gain public support for his failed war in Iraq, George W. Bush lied his ass off again. That was to be expected, considering the subject of today's entry, but here's where the boy tried to pull yet another of his fast ones. Last night the shrub stated that "forces in Iraq could be cut by about 20,000 by next July". But what gives the lie to this statement are two: omitting that the reduction was mandated by law, and by omitting that due to the inability of the military to sustain the "surge" beyond that time frame forces would have to be drawn back down to pre-surge levels anyway.

According to Reuters, Congress and the shrub are at record low approval ratings. Why the occupants of the Oval Office are so unpopular is obvious, given the history of the past seven years or so. Congress' low scores stem from continued refusal to end the Iraq war and impeach Bush and Cheney, even after Democrats were elected to majority status following twelve years of GOP domination.

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