I can't agree more with what John has written.  Why hasn't  the MSM grown a spine?  I really don't know, but Bush the SOB ought to be in jail right now for War Crimes!

I Guess within a few weeks we'll know if the Liar IN CHief" ever met with Jack Abramoff? Who wants to bet he didn't? No one... I thought so!

White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws and let them keep their guests a secret.

The ruling is a blow to the Bush administration, which has fought the release of records showing visits by prominent religious conservatives.

Visitor records are created by the Secret Service, which is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. But the Bush administration has ordered the data turned over to the White House, where they are treated as presidential records outside the scope of the public records law.

But U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled logs from the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's residence remain Secret Service documents and are subject to public records requests.

In a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal watchdog group, Lamberth ordered the Secret Service to turn over visitor logs regarding nine conservative religious commentators, including James Dobson, Gary Bauer and Jerry Falwell.

"I think it's hugely significant," said Anne L. Weismann, the watchdog group's chief counsel. "The judge saw their arguments for what they were."

White House spokesman Tony Fratto and Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller said lawyers were reviewing the decision and they would have no immediate response. The Bush administration is expected to appeal the ruling.

 

Skilled Liars


Stupid is as stupid does.


Bush Is Hooked On Phonics

Abramoff Is Still A Pain In George Bush's Ass - Secrecy invoked on Abramoff lawsuits Bush Administration Employs New Secrecy Defense in Lawsuits Over Abramoff's White House Visits The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The administration agreed last year to produce all responsive records about the visits "without redactions or claims of exemption," according to a court order. But in a court filing Friday night, administration lawyers said that the Secret Service has identified a category of highly sensitive documents that might contain information sought in a lawsuit about Abramoff's trips to the White House. The Justice Department, citing a Cold War-era court ruling, declared that the contents of the "Sensitive Security Records" cannot be publicly revealed even though they could show whether Abramoff made more visits to the White House than those already acknowledged. "The simple act of doing so ... would reveal sensitive information about the methods used by the Secret Service to carry out its protective function," the Justice Department argued. "This is an extraordinary development and it raises the specter that there were additional contacts with President Bush or other high White House officials that have yet to be disclosed," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that filed the suit. "We've alleged that the government has committed misconduct in this litigation and frankly this is more fuel for that fire." A response by White House spokesman Trey Bohn referred to the Secret Service, saying, "We have nothing to add to the USSS. position as stated in the court filing." The Justice Department probe of Abramoff and his team of lobbyists has led to convictions of a dozen people, including former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, former White House official David Safavian and former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles. Countdown: Bush’s Hissy Fit  click the icon to view the petulance of Bush On Tuesday’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann looks once again at proof that the world’s last remaining superpower is being run by a petulant child prone to temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. My buddy Bill reminded me when he sent the videos of this comment he made in the threads yesterday: Despite all of the constant bashing of this Congress [not just from Bush but from the left as well] this has been the hardest working Congress in US history despite the Republicans blocking 3 times more bills than ever before including the  8 times the GOP has blocked the Democrats efforts to end the war so far.   Just click on the image to view the treatment protesters get by Capitol Police.... and watch the war criminal Rice sit and sir, smile and act like nothing's fazed her... what a bitch! War Protester Gets Into Rice's Face At Hearing House Democrats on Thursday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of grossly mismanaging diplomatic efforts in Iraq and concealing information from Congress, putting a visibly frustrated Rice on the defensive. At a hearing by a congressional watchdog committee, Democratic lawmakers said the State Department under Rice had been too lax with armed security contractors, ignored corruption at the highest levels of the Iraqi government and was sloppy in overseeing construction of the costly new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. "I think there was a huge gap between what she said and reality," said Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Waxman, D-Calif., and other Democrats said they would not call on Rice to resign, noting that their frustration is with the Bush administration's policies rather than Rice alone. "If you just change the deck chairs, it's not going to change the policy," said Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., a committee member. The hearing gave Democrats the venue to hammer the administration on the war. Thus far, they have been unable to pass veto-proof legislation ordering troops home from Iraq. Recent events have given them ample fodder: shootings involving the private guards hired to protect State Department diplomats; allegations that Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has blocked corruption investigations, and delays in the embassy's construction   Admin's Leak Of Osama Video "Ruined" Al Qaida Spying Efforts President Hypocrisy George W Bush and his lame administration has leaked what they thought might be politically expedient information and discredited and attacked anyone and everyone that leaked information that was truthful or harmful in exposing the lies and distortions that Bush Co. has dispatched. Need proof? In just 5 scant hours after learning from SITE that they had an advance copy of the Bin Laden tape, what did they do? They burned SITE and a tremendous asset in fighting the so called war on terror. Why did they do that? The answer is because they wanted to gain some brownie points and increase the level of fear in the nation, and how best to do that than with FAUX News... the rightwing propaganda machine. Think about it folks, the Bush Administration's entire foreign policy expertise is based on leaking information to Fox News in order to keep the population in a constant state of low-level fear, and apparently sometimes you have to blow actual intelligence information. So what if you burn a great intelligence gathering source... who cares? Well we all should. This administration is only concerned about holding onto power, not real security... why else would they do this, or not actually secure borders, ports and nuclear power plants, etc.  Saddam Wanted Out, Bush Lied About It  click the pic to see what a huge lying son of a bitch Bush really is... impeach the bastard! How much money does Bush think a US soldier’s life is worth? How much money does Bush think the lives of our allies’ soldiers or innocent Iraqis are worth? As we’re finding out, not very much. On March 17, 2003 President Bush issued the warning: “Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict commenced at a time of our choosing ,” yet now thanks to a transcript leaked to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, we learn that more than three weeks prior to that Bush had told former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar that “The Egyptians are speaking to Saddam Hussein. It seems he’s indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he’s allowed to take $1 billion …” When confronted about the leaked transcript yesterday, Whitehouse spokeswoman Dana Perino did not dispute its accuracy. Just last week we learned from former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan that the real reason behind the war in Iraq was oil , and now we are finding out that the entire war could have been averted for letting him get away with $1 billion. That’s just than one tenth of 1% of what this insane invasion and occupation of Iraq, that continues claim the lives of our country’s bravest men and women, has now been forcast to cost. Think about that just for a second. Every single death, Iraqi and American coalition alike, could have been saved and Bush could have had Saddam’s oil, but apparently he didn’t even seriously consider it. Topping that, he then lied in public to the entire world about it just so he could have his war regardless. How’s that for compassionate conservatism? In 2003 Bush had already made up his mind to invade Iraq, he told the Spanish leader (Spain's Prime Minister) this, but but told the US citizenship he had yet to make up his mind and was working diplomatic channels and other FAT lies.  OK, does anyone still doubt this war was sold on LIES? Countdown: Jim Webb on Lieberman/Kyl, Rush Limbaugh and the Spanish Downing Street Revelations  click the pic to reveal the many lies of George W Bush It’s dizzying to try to keep up with all the plates that the Right Wing are spinning. On Thursday’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann and Sen. Jim Webb try to put it all in perspective.   Albuquerque, New Mexico Mayor Devoid of Reality While perusing the ABQ Journal this morning I was stunned to read a quote from our esteemed Mayor regarding Senator Pete Domenici.  And I thought I was always or mostly always on the same page with Marty, but when he called, Pete... "St Pete," my opinion couldn't have differed more. Tell me Marty, just what is so saintly about a man who has enabled this president to kill, and maim thousands with his illegal/immoral war, raping the US Constitution while ignoring the plight of average Americans and simply cutting taxes for the wealthy, spending like a drunken sailor for his war and supporting ONLY items his Republican friends and Corporate America desire?  That is what you call saintly?  Sure, I know Marty is a gifted politician, but can't he at least tone down his adjectives to represent some sense of reality?  If he had called the lame one Pajama Pete, or Mr. Enabler, I might have agreed.   In 2000, George W. Bush once asked, “Is our children learning?” Now he has an answer. “Childrens do learn,” he said Wednesday.  Uh huh, childrens do learn, its just NOT Presidents dubbed W. The setting was, yes, an education event where the president was taking credit for rising test scores and promoting congressional renewal of his signature education law. To create the right image, the White House summoned the city’s chancellor of schools, a principal, some teachers and about 20 eager students from P.S. 76. The visual worked fine. The oral? Not so much. For Bush, it was a classic malapropism, the sort of verbal miscue that occasionally bedevils him in public speaking and provides critics and the media easy fodder for ridicule. Subject-verb agreement actually is taught at Andover, Yale and Harvard, the president’s alma maters, but in an unforgiving job that requires him to speak hundreds of thousands of words with cameras rolling, the tongue sometimes veers off in mysterious ways — and someone always seems to notice. Another classic Bushism for the record books.

Bush's UN Speech Full of Fone-eh-tick Pronunciations for World Leaders

ABC News' Ann Compton and Jennifer Duck report: Never before has the White House released a draft version of the President's speech to the annual United Nations General Assembly.

But this year, a glimpse of how the President sees his speeches was accidentally placed on the UN website along with the speechwriters' cell phone numbers.

Pronunciations for President Bush's friend French President Sarkozy "[sar-KOzee]" appeared in draft #20 on the UN website. Other pronunciations included the Mugabe "[moo-GAHbee] regime" and pronunciations for countries "Kyrgyzstan [KEYRgeez-stan]" and "Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]."

Most leaders submit a text in advance, especially to help the many translators who simultaneously turn the speeches into more than half a dozen languages. The teleprompter also needs to be loaded with a copy of the President's words so it will appear on glass screens in front of the lectern.

The Bush White House is unaccustomed to providing advanced texts suitable for reporters to publish before he actually speaks.

During an afternoon briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said, "there was an error made in trying to make sure that interpreters had what they needed. I don't know how the draft of the speech -- it was not final -- was posted, but it was, and it was taken down."  Oh please, what a farce.  Perino did not confirm at which reading level Bush is currently reading, but my guess is the 0 - 4 year old level.

Perino said it was "not unusual" to include phonetic spellings for various countries in the speech though when asked if the president had a hard time pronouncing some of those country names Perino declined comment saying, "I think that's an offensive question."

The White House also added that no one has called the speech writers' cell phones.   What a mental giant this lying Republican Puke is... and always will be.  Republicans every where should be proud... they gave us a 60 year old 4th grader... a Prez on Training Wheels.
 

President Bush's trademark struggles with the finer points of public speaking were on full display Friday, when he thanked his "Austrian" hosts for inviting him to this year's "OPEC" summit.

The "Language Mangler-in-Chief" was in Australia attending the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. Along with misidentifying his host country and the name of the summit, Bush struggled to leave the lectern, trying to exit the stage the wrong way.

"Thank you for being such a fine host of the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian prime minister John Howard. He quickly corrected himself, "APEC summit," and joked Howard "invited me to the OPEC summit next year. (Such an invitation would be impossible because neither the US or Australia are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.)

Later in the speech, Bush can clearly be heard on tape thanking Howard for visiting "Austrian troops" in Iraq last year, but White House scrubbers fixed that gaffe for him, changing the official government transcript to "Australian," the Associated Press reported.

As Reuters notes, "There are, in fact, no Austrian troops there. But Australia has about 1,500 Australian military personnel in and around" Iraq.

Bush's struggles from the lectern didn't end when he stopped talking either. Press reports indicate he tried to leave the stage through the wrong door, and the Australian prime minister had to point him toward the proper exit, according to the Herald Sun newspaper.

The scene was reminiscent of a 2005 Bush appearance in Beijing, when Bush was thwarted by a locked door after stepping off stage and had to be redirected.
 

I could not believe my ears.  The Imperial Liar, George W Bush was at a school in New Orleans this morning imploring people to help out the still devastated Gulf Coast.  All the while suggesting that teaching kids to learn to read is the best way to help.  Good idea George, why didn't you learn to read?  Maybe if you had read the reports given to you instead of playing air guitar, the havoc wrought on New Orleans might have been less deadly and costly.  Still, more importantly, why haven't you fulfilled your Jackson Square promises?  What a lying SOB.  George W Bush, the worst president ever.

The Imperial Liar Sneaks Back Into Town!

On Monday 08.27.07, George W. Bush slithers back to ABQ, or actually Los Ranchos, to raise some money for his good buddy, Pajama Pete. The appearance is pay-back for Domenici's steadfast support for the Iraq debacle, and for generally being a puppet for anything and everything BUSH the SOB likes, or wants. 

You know, things like starting a war and then immediately giving tax breaks to his rich buddies, trashing the Constitution, illegal wiretaps, general spying and bullying anyone with a dissenting view. 

Naturally there will be no press, or general public allowed.  I guess some things never change.  Oddly, the Bush photo op has been discounted (much like his failed Presidency) and now only costs $5000.00.  Still, Pete needs every dime he can raise, because like BUSH, everyone FINALLY knows who he really is... (just another lying Republican SOB), and its doubtful he'll be returned to a 7th term. 

Tragedy struck this Domenici fundraising event today.  A police officer died Monday after crashing his motorcycle while riding in a motorcade as President Bush prepared to leave the city following a fundraiser for Sen. Pete Domenici.   Sadly, Rio Rancho Officer Germaine Casey, 40, was rushed to an Albuquerque hospital, where he was pronounced dead. This makes 3 motorcycle accidents and 2 deaths in Bush motorcades.  Like the bumper sticker say, "Bush is a natural disaster".

I read with Great Delight that George Bush had a Colonoscopy.  Heck, I just wish I could have been the one doing that procedure. 

So Doctors removed five small growths.. huh?  The scary part was that he temporarily transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment.  Thank God, Cheney didn't do any of the things his Republican BASE wanted.  Right at the top of their war mongering list was bombing Iran.  And totally pardoning Libby was a close second.  Of course there were many other vile items on the neo con wish list, but too many to list here. 

Oh yeah back to the colonoscopy, when I read this, “All were less than 1 centimeter (about four-tenths of an inch)... "I was certain they had long last located Bush's Brain...",  because we all know he sits on it if he has one at all.