As I was walking to work I noticed a small army of police and trucks blocking off 39th Street between Madison and Park.  At lunchtime my coworker was chatting up reporters and apparently someone threw a bomb at the Mexican Consulate earlier this morning.

$42,000.00

John D. Rockefeller IV (D-AT&T) received this dollar amount in campaign contributions from the very companies to which he is offering immunity for illegally spying on Americans.  

Congratulations on becoming a fast-emerging sub-group of the Democratic Party.

Last year before the Democratic/Capitulation Party took power, several of you played your capitulation hand early and voted to legalize military commissions that desecrate concepts of due process and eliminate quaint 700-year old notions such as habeas corpus.  In case you forgot your vote, the Senate Roll Call is here and the House Roll Call is here.  

Dear Mr. President,

I know you’re a busy man, dodging subpoenas with laughable arguments of executive privilege and all, but if I may have your attention it appears you need a refresher in some grade-school math.  

Thanks to Think Progress, we are all privy to the criterion upon which our Dear Leader, appointed President by God and the Supreme Court, measures success in Iraq.  Or, more accurately, we are privy to the metric Dear Leader uses to determine failure:

[PBS asks Bush about the escelating violence and death in Iraq]

BUSH: Well — and by the way, if the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory. In other words, if you say, you know, I’m going to judge the administration’s plan based upon whether they’re able to have no car bombings in Baghdad. We will have just given — because car bombings are hard to stop, or suicide bombings, very hard to stop.

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Once in a while I will pop over to Little Green Footballs and read the articles and comments.  It’s an exercise in moral yoga.  By immersing myself in a river of bigoted hate, it centers me and better equips me to keep my own human prejudices and hate from informing my political opinions.

Normally I wouldn’t bother responding to arguments presented by a cult driven by hate.  Catch flies with honey and love thy neighbor and all that stuff.  But today they use Welshman’s heart-felt diary entitled Let’s Give Up A Moment For Nancy Pelosi to engage in an orgy of name-calling, bigotry, and shameful ignorance of the facts.

Well, that just rubs me the wrong way.  Follow me below the fold where I bend the bullies in the schoolyard over my knee and give them a much-deserved spanking.

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Democrats continue to pummel...

Welcome to part XI of the Live Blog on the Senate hearing on the Dismissal of the US Attorneys.

This is liveblogging. No pictures out of respect for dial-up users, please!
 
Don't forget to unrec previous liveblog diaries and rec this one.  

dday has a great diary about Sen. Whitehouse, check it out.

was the night before Fitzmas and all through the White House;
Constitutional Criminals were stirring about.

Dear Liz Cheney,

It is certainly no surprise that the Washington Post’s editorial board published your letter to Hillary Clinton accusing her of cowardice and America-hating.  After all, the WaPo editorial page is home to such even-headed voices of political reason as George Will and Deborah Howell.  

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Follow this link to the blog entitled "My Global Warming Story" and tell your story about how you have personally felt the effects of global warming in your life.

Leave your stories here at My Global Warming Story.

Flip it.

"If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained - we must fight!" -- Patrick Henry

President George W. Bush is a grave threat to the national security of the United States of America.

Somewhere Markos got the idea that he and a small list of "contributing editors" or whatever these posers are called are the only ones authorized to officially speak on behalf of DailyKos.  No offense Markos, but try drinking coffee instead of antifreeze in the morning. As I will demonstrate below, I’m the only member here qualified to speak on behalf of our great community.

Flip it.

Sorry for the short diary, but I'm on my way out the door.  This is important.

Americans can learn something about democracy from Mexican citizens.  When there is evidence of election malfeasance, take to the streets.

100,000 protest Mexican election results

Saturday, July 8, 2006; Posted: 8:49 p.m. EDT (00:49 GMT) MEXICO CITY, Mexico
(AP) -- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on a huge crowd of supporters to keep protesting while he pursues a legal challenge of Mexico's disputed presidential vote count, and to help him prevent "a backward step for democracy."

The fiery, silver-haired leftist said he would begin presenting his allegations to the nation's electoral court on Sunday, requesting that all 41 million votes cast be recounted to expose fraud he believes cost him the election.

Wow.

As you very likely know by now, the New York Times published an article exposing a legally-questionable bank record collection program conducted by the Bush Administration.  The right-wing is in a fury at the Times piece.

Assuming that Bush is only interested in fighting terrorism and not conducing propaganda or squelching political opposition with this program, which we can't confirm because the bank records are not collected under judicial oversight, the right-wing is lashing out at the times for exposing anti-terror strategy.  (I highly recommend James Wolcott's hilarious piece about their hyperbole and ad hominem attacks).  Bush and the cabal have all but accused the Times of treason.  

However, if George Bush, Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez want to scream at the New York Times until vessels pop in their heads, they may want to first think about what attention to this topic will expose about their credibility and anti-terror track record with financial information. Bush's record shows he chose his pal's profits over national security.

Katherine Harris is being treated like a toxic substance by the Republican Party.  I noticed, thanks again to the intrepid Olbermann, a piece on how Bush and his Brother refused to face the camera to get pictures together with her during a visit to Florida Today.

After Harris devoted her inherited fortune to her own campaign for Senator, something very suspicious and unexpected happened.  The Republican party is forcing her not to run.   Today the president and Jeb publicly snubbed the wannabe candidate when they met outside of Air Force One.

Follow the fold.

What if we embrace Hillary?  Don't be scared of the loud-mouths.

Yesterday I experienced a sense of vertigo.  In direct contravention of their role as a pressure release for overreaching presidential power, the senate intelligence committee yesterday voted against investigating and holding the President accountable for the first large-scale warrantless invasion of privacy in this country's history.  My sense of civic pride wept, and my fear for the freedom in general piqued, as I watched the only government-citizen contract in history to place the principles of liberty, freedom and civil rights first slide further from modern relevance.

I've known for a  long time that the word "Clinton" scared the Republicans so badly they spent 10 years demonizing Bill and Hillary.

This is old news.  But I was watching Hardball and a little O'Reilly tonight and one thing was very, very clear:  it's open season on Hillary.