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Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:14:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://thetalkingdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-cropped-cropped-Viscious_Rottweiler-32x32.jpg sfarber – The Talking Dog https://thetalkingdog.com 32 32 First thing we do, let’s lawyer all the kills https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/08/15/first_thing_we/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/08/15/first_thing_we/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:14:00 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/08/15/first_thing_we/ Or some other fractured version of Shakespeare, that post-title seems to make about as much sense as the USA Patriot Act provision that removes the power to effectively determine the pace of state executions from federal courts, and hands it to… you got it… Attorney General Alberto “Fuck You, Congress” Gonzales.
Defense attorneys are outraged. Like we care what they have to say! It is widely believed anathema to execute an innocent person. Except in the United States, where, let’s face it: if they were innocent, they would have been able to afford a decent defense attorney, now, wouldn’t they?
Scott Lemieux wisely points out one advantage of not removing Alberto Gonzales, to wit, a decent attorney general might preserve the myth that providing excessive power might be o.k. because “we could trust” the nice professionals in our government.
The problem is that we have learned by the summer of 2007 that Ralph Nader– bastard that he is– is more right than he is wrong about the two national parties being effectively indistinguishable on most things in the clutch, to wit and most especially, the galling national security state that they are foisting upon us (which, of course, includes the ability to arbitrarily execute us… to keep us safe, of course!)
Even as, for example, polls show extraordinary strong opposition to warrantless eavesdropping, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid instead value the opinions of Tim Russert, David Broder and the assorted other inside-the-Beltway-people that they listen to, rather than the American people (whom they clearly do not listen to), and overwhelmingly. Hence, the bigger the failures of the Bush Administration, this particular (allegedly Democratic majority) Congress’s answer will be to provide it with yet more extensive powers, even as it shows that it only abuses the ones it has.
Such as, in this case, handing the power of life and death to Alberto Gonzales, the same power that he exercised so responsibly in Texas.
Well, just another day. 525 days left of them in this Administration, as a matter of fact (to the extent that it even matters that much).

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/08/15/first_thing_we/feed/ 3 Bush to America: In your face! https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/07/02/bush_to_america/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/07/02/bush_to_america/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:18:36 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/07/02/bush_to_america/ The other possible headline is “Bush to rule of law: drop dead.” Either applies to the politically craven but desired by the Beltway Courtier class (and GOP-lock Fred Thompson)result… to wit, Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s 30-month sentence to zero— no time– thereby undoing years of work by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, and telling a jury and a federal judge (and indeed, a federal court of appeals) to go screw themselves.
Well, why not? Poppy Bush pardoned a number of players implicated in Iran-Contra. Ford pardoned Nixon. Clinton pardoned Mark Rich (who was then represented by none other than Scooter Libby). Bush commuted Scooter’s sentence, obviously saving the full pardon for around 18 months from now, when he is safely on his way out the door.
The message should be lost on no one: like the French monarchy before that country’s revolution, Bush believes “L’Etat C’est Moi”. The nobility, whether in feudal France, or neo-feudal America, are simply exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else: loyal courtiers who lie to the FBI and obstruct justice and investigations to determine who may have burned a covert intelligence operative… may not be held to account… zay ar lo-yalle, ar zay not!
You have to admire the cojones of Bush (and clearly, those of the unquestionably-not-irrelevant Dick Cheney)… at the lowest approval rating of his term, he has no problem doing something that polls indicate most Americans strongly oppose… then again, we have that whole Iraq thing, don’t we?
In some sense, while Reid and Pelosi can bitch about this all they want, it was their genius move before the mid-term Congressional elections to announce “impeachment is off the table”, as if that helped them! Having taken the only thing the President fears will make him accountable “off the table”… is it any wonder the President behaves as if, well, “L’Etat C’est moi?” Elections– and stupid campaign promises– have consequences indeed. The President has now injected himself as a co-conspirator to the burning of a covert American agent that may well have resulted in the deaths of other operatives. And there will be no consequences for it. None.
This has been… “Bush to America: In your face!”

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/07/02/bush_to_america/feed/ 5 Elections have consequences https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/26/elections_have/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/26/elections_have/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:23:15 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/26/elections_have/ Despite the ongoing threat of a veto from the President, the House passed its war-funding measure by a 218-208 margin, and that war-funding measure includes time-tables for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. As noted in the linked WaPo piece, it is remarkably rare for Congress to engage in this level of management of an ongoing war.
Of course, it was remarkably just as rare for the Congress to have utterly abandoned its oversight responsibilities of the Executive branch for the last six years, including the handing to the President of a blank check authority to carry out the war in the first place with virtually no debate, despite some of the largest protests in American history against that war. The argument at this point, I suppose, is that the President has overdrawn that blank check, and… well, it’s back to oversight. In response, we can all expect rhetoric about cheese-eating surrender monkeys… oh wait, that’s the French isn’t it? Well, we all know what’s coming… expect to hear about “voting for defeat”… and I daresay… is it too late to call a measure favored by the vast majority of Americans polled and now the majority of Congress “treason”? Of course it’s not!
The Senate is expected to pass the same bill shortly, and hand it up to the President by May Day, just in time for the fourth anniversary of the famous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the HMS USS Lincoln.
Well, this is the bill that Congress wants to pass. Maybe the President will get the bill he wants after vetoing it. He’s certainly counting on that. But maybe he won’t… indeed, maybe he won’t get any war funding bill at all. If that’s the case… what’s the phrase we’ve been hearing for over six years now? Oh yes: GET OVER IT.

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/26/elections_have/feed/ 2 Come on down! https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/25/come_on_down/ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:28:42 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/25/come_on_down/ Various Congressional committees unleashed a hail of subpoenas and other “invitations” on current and former members of the Bush Administration, including a subpoena to Secretary of State Incompetetentalleezza Rice concerning pre-Iraq war intelligence indicating Saddam Hussein’s purported attempts to acquire “yellowcake uranium” (the subject of my interview with Knut Royce), another committee sought the testimony of Karl Rove’s deputy Sara Taylor, and yet another granted immunity to our old friend, Alberto Gonzales’s assistant, Monica Goodling. Rice’s testimony comes at a very interesting time; it could be designed to take on a President trying to go schoolyard on war funding; perhaps with Rice demonstrating we were lied into war… the war funding dynamic will shift some more…
Ah, the feel of sunlight. It’s almost as if there is a branch of government that the Constitution gave oversight power to… as if, you know, the Founders gave it… Article I… because it was intended to be the superior branch in making the laws, and the executive (Article II) would only execute the laws Congress made, indeed, diligently following them. Well, call it nostalgia.
If watching Condi and Sara and Monica and the gang squirm is all that comes out of it, frankly, that would probably be good enought… but wait… there will be so much more! These Congressional committees will just be emboldened for yet more oversight… yet more accountability… as if the executive branch answered to… the people.
Well… one can dream, I suppose. It’s not as if Gonzy is leaving, or anything… even if, apparently, the bees are… (Looks like I picked another bad week to give up drinking…)

]]> Das Vidanya, Boris Yeltsin https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/24/das_vidanya_bor/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:31:35 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/24/das_vidanya_bor/ Our comrades at Pravda give us this chronology of the career of Boris Yeltsin, and the Grey Lady gives us this far longer narrative, in light of Yeltsin’s death, at 76.
Hard to sum up Mr. Yeltsin (other than to note an uncanny resemblance to pro wresting’s Bobby “the Brain” Heenan). Had Yeltsin and Gorbachev been different men, the transition from Soviet Union to successor states could have been far more chaotic and troubling than it was, particularly given all of those nuclear weapons.
Perhaps (like its last mayor believed to be the case with New York City), Russia is simply ungovernable except by autocratic means, which might help explain why Yeltsin, despite introducing reforms such as a constitutional democracy (pursuant to which he himself voluntarily gave up power), a relatively free press and a proto-open economy, was wildly unpopular, and even those things for which he was rightly vilified (such as the war he started in Iraq Chechnya) stuck more to him than to his far more popular successor Vladimir Putin.
I don’t know. Yeltsin gets that “mixed legacy” tag that at least one miserable failure will some day only dream of.
And there you have it. R.I.P., Mr. Yeltsin.

]]> Gonzy, you’re doing a heck of a fantastic job https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/gonzy_youre_doi/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/gonzy_youre_doi/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:53:38 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/gonzy_youre_doi/ It seems that the White House official who quipped that the Bush Administration made up its own reality wasn’t kidding, as the White House reaction to a performance by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that was so God-awful that Republican Senators are calling for his resignation is, of course, an expression of renewed confidence in Gonzales by the White House.
Was anyone expecting anything any different? And does anyone doubt for longer than a micro-second that if Gonzales is, indeed, forced out, he won’t be replaced with yet another crony potentially even more loathsome and incompetent than Gonzales himself? And even if such official is so unacceptable that even the Democratic majority won’t approve him (or her), is there any doubt that we would see yet another recess appointment?
The point of these hearings is, technically, to get to the bottom of the U.S. Attorney firing scandal– to demonstrate, once and for all, that George W. Bush and Karl Rove (in that order) wanted to use our justice system the same way Vladimir Putin uses his: not to prosecute crimes impartially, but to prosecute partisan enemies, and not to prosecute favored friends… just like the Russians, Chinese, and most banana republics operate, though not the way countries that allegedly respect “the rule of law” operate. But you knew that.
So… in the great scheme of things… best to expose these bastards, rather than to let Gonzales wiggle away with a quick resignation, and have the Administration try to avoid answering these questions.
That’s just me, of course. Then again, I’d actually like to see the Virginia Tech shootings investigated in a non-political manner, with a commission that does not include Bush-tool Tom Ridge, and hence, comes up with something other than a cover-up that ignores and glosses over some potentially rather troubling issues. Of course… that’s just me, as well.
Update (4-22-07): Slithery Senator Spector of Pennsylvania shows us the same snake-like “flexibility” that allowed him to criticize the Military Commissions Act as throwing back Anglo-American jurisprudence by 800 years… and then voting for it! Specifically, Specter now says that A.G. Gonzales is “undermining” and “damaging” to the Bush Administration and the Department of Justice… but then Specter is not joining fellow Republicans in calling for his resignation! No matter… I figured Gonzy to be gone before April. At this point, he may well be serving the salutory purpose of keeping Iraq off of the front pages… I’m betting that he rides this out. Though, I’m not betting very much.

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/gonzy_youre_doi/feed/ 2 Synergy https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/synergy/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/synergy/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:22:39 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/synergy/ Call me gob-smacked to find that Sun-Kyung Cho, the sister of the Virginia Tech mass-murderer, is employed by the Bush Administration in an Iraq reconstruction function. At the moment, she appears to work for a contractor called McNeil Technologies, but the Princeton grad seems to have worked for the State Department in the successor to the Coalition Provisional Authority, either directly or indirectly in at least three stints.
Given the Coalition Provisional Authority’s sordid history of hiring only inexperienced but connected Republican operatives for its crucial budgetary functions, we can more than reasonably conclude that in order to get her job, Ms. Cho is, presumably, somewhat well-connected to Republican circles. I’ll acknowledge that in some sense, hiring a Princeton economics grad seems a vast improvement from the likes of Monica Goodling and the other unqualified Christian soldier-bots who seem to have Administration prominence.
Small world, I suppose.
Kind of like when John Hinckley’s brother Scott was supposed to have dinner with Neil Bush some evening back in 1981… or perhaps like Marvin Bush being intimately tied with the security contractor for (1) the World Trade Center, (2) Dulles Airport and United Airlines and the reinsurer for the World Trade Center and just “coincidentally” happened to be in downtown Manhattan on September 11th… or numerous other convenient conspiracies coincidences.
Let’s just say that the abysmal performace by miserable-excuse-for-Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales got a tad less airtime than it would have, say, had some maniac not murdered 32 people earlier in the week, and leave it at that.
Synergy… for a strong America.

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/20/synergy/feed/ 3 Theocracy Now! https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/theocracy_now/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/theocracy_now/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:00:37 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/theocracy_now/ Those of us who were kind of troubled by the inability to mount a successful fillibuster of Scam Alito’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court get to shake our heads and say “surprise, surprise”… the High Court voted to dispense with a number of earlier precedents and outright find a so-called partial birth abortion ban constitutional (5-4… of course.)
I’ll defer to Scott Lemieux’s observations on this; I think the short answer is “it’s about the patriarchy, stupid.” You little ladies don’t really know what to do with your bodies so we’ll tell you for your own good. Note that the High Court found the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to be a perfectly valid basis for Congressional action here. Well… let’s think about what that says… as if we didn’t realize that we are all commodities of those more powerful than us. Isn’t that the principal that Scam Alito has stood for since those halcyon days at Princeton?
Well, let’s hear it for the Republican framers: they have picked a peculiarly unpopular aspect of a peculiarly popular right [this poll, albeit a bit dated, shows overall 57% support for all abortions legal in all circumstances, up to 88% in some circumstances, though still 69% favor a “partial birth” abortion ban.] And now… they have rammed it through. Elections have consequences indeed.
It seems the right finally has the Supreme Court it has always wanted. Democrats could pass a bill reversing the 2003 ban… let the chips fall where they may… either play a fillibuster or a veto against the Republicans. Of course, such a move requires… spine. Just as those bills to restore habeas corpus have been so successful… Maybe it will happen. And maybe…
As Scott notes, this is NOT a moderate decision, by any means: this is an extremist decision, opening the door to an eventual reversal of Roe, and the opportunity for a Congressional ban on all abortions in the United States. That’s the goal. That’s one of the many reasons why competent professionals have been replaced by Pat Robertson’s otherwise unqualified Macchiavellian theocrats in the highest ranks of our government.
Good old American exceptionalism… well, there you have it. I guess I picked another bad week to give up sniffing glue.

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/theocracy_now/feed/ 4 Profiles in courage https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/profiles_in_cou/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/profiles_in_cou/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:06:32 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/profiles_in_cou/ Frankly, there is no particular reason to talk about the issue of gun control, one way or another… let the Virginia Tech shooting sink in a bit, give it the distance of at least a few weeks. That’s not how politics works, of course. So naturally, it’s nice to see the Democrats in majority, led by Harry Reid. conceding the issue before it even starts. As always, Democrats are keen to believe Republican talking points, such as that it was the assault weapons ban back in 1994 (and that law alone) that led to the 1994 “Republican Revolution.”
We won’t talk about disgust generated back then that the President and both Houses of Congress were Democratic, that the President then, the spouse of the current Democratic frontrunner, fecklessly squandered his first term on office on carping about, and then selling out gays in the military, or touting, and then failing with, a hopelessly complex health care plan that he assigned his incredibly unpopular spouse (now the Democratic frontrunner) which consumed acres of forests just to avoid the words “employer mandate” (which was, of course, the fundamental element of that so-called plan)… we especially won’t talk about Lonnie Guinier, Dan Rostenkowski, or even Speaker of the House Tom Foley bringing an extraordinarily unpopular lawsuit (which he won… though he lost his own seat!) challenging his own state’s passage of Congressional term limits, or a perception of a party in power that lost its way and was more interested in its own petty perks, engaged in corruption, etc., than in good government. Perhaps reminiscent of, you know, the 2006 election. We’d rather talk about an assault weapons ban.
The only appropriate political response IMHO to this week’s events is the correct one offered by Sen. Leahy, now Judiciary Committee chairman: hold hearings on the Virginia Tech tragedy itself, without any promise of broader action. We are not Britain, which, after one school shooting in a kindergarten in Scotland, virtually banned private gun ownership overnight… we could have such incidents in this country every day, forever, and it would not likely diminish our national obsession for guns and gun violence. (Does this say anything about Americans? A great deal; none of it good. But I defy anyone to prove me wrong about that.)
That said, the Democrats speaking on the issue are probably right– there isn’t likely to be a political groundswell for a broad gun-ban. But just as Republicans have played the abortion card for years by selecting extreme snippets (“partial birth abortion”), Democrats could approach the issue incrementally (such as questioning the super-fast gigantic clips of bullets that allowed Cho Seung Hui to keep firing and killing unabated… i.e., there is no conceivable reason any member of the public should have such things).
IMHO, that’s a much smarter move than what I see going on now– i.e., giving away the game before it starts. Of course, Harry Reid seems to have other ideas. Still and all, kind of a
perverse break for Alberto Gonzales, though, who hasn’t been on page one in days… kind of reminds one of Gary Condit and 9-11…

]]> https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/18/profiles_in_cou/feed/ 1 The Horror https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/17/the_horror/ https://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/17/the_horror/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:11:25 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2007/04/17/the_horror/ Words fail me in talking about the worst-ever-gun-rampage-in-American-history that left 32 people dead after a shooting spree at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA yesterday.
Perhaps there is something frightening about April in this country… (T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land called April the cruelest month)… we had the Oklahoma City bombing 12 years ago this week, the Columbine shootings 8 years ago this week… and now this.
I don’t know. What events like this show is that neither I, nor anyone else I know, seem to know anything about what makes the universe– or especially the human soul– tick. An utterly senseless horror, about which we will learn nothing. As “the facts” and the presumably irrational motivations of the gunman (a radio report I’m listening to identifies him as an “Asian male student”) are learned… they will, in the end, still mean nothing.
Because this act of horror was, like all acts of horror, in the end, totally senseless.
My heart goes out to all of those touched by this horror.

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