Treasongate, Excellent Report fom Asia Times.....

[leftchick]

http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EJ07Aa01.html

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Another bad day at the office
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - One has to feel sorry for Republicans. Although they control both houses of the US Congress and the White House, they must think they're living through a bad dream. Consider Republicans on Capitol Hill in particular:

After campaigning for a constitutional amendment that would require the federal government to balance its budget, they're forced to defend the biggest deficits in US history, all requested by their president.

After electing a president who promised never to engage in "nation-building" overseas, he's demanding that they finance the biggest nation-building exercise since Vietnam.

If all that makes them feel as if they've passed over into some parallel universe, now, after years of beating up on Democrats for criticizing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), they're being told by their leader to pretend that the public "outing" of a covert officer by two "senior White House officials" is no big deal.


Lots more! I love Asia Times!

[leftchick]

1. this really is too good to not be seen....

another juicy bit:

<snip>So, while the vast majority of those Republican lawmakers have gone along, however grimly, with all the other demands the Bush administration has made on them - even those that made it appear that they were betraying their own conservative ideals - this one may be too much to swallow. Indeed, one key committee chairman met privately with Wilson on Thursday.

I wonder who that committee chairman was....

[SeveneightyWhoa]

2. Asia Times

..is one of THE BEST places to get important, investigative, truthful information. Great site/newspaper.

[lindashaw]

3. I LOVE AsiaTimes! Especially Pepe Escobar and this journalist,

Jim Lobe.