Are Repug Senators and Congressmen INSANE defending the

[Sperk]

outing of a CIA agent and HER FAKE COMPANY?!?!?! I know the BS they're touting but THEY KNOW she was undercover and THEY KNOW her entire operation was outed. How could they possibly defend this? They have to know that it's all coming out eventually. Seriously, why would they bother defending this?!?!?

I'm not saying they should scream GUILTY! But to lie, distort and try to cover for Rove?!?!?! I just don't get it, unless, it really is just a very simple case of mass insanity in the Repug party.

Or lots of files filled with compromising pics.
:shrug:

[teach1st]

1. I think they're nuts...

...but BushCo is probably calling in its markers and they're dancing like the puppets they are.

[kenny blankenship]

2. In Roviet Union

In Roviet Union, Treason is GOOD!

Roviet Busshya?
Unum of Roviet So-Shrillest Republicyans ?
help me decide

[The Mafia Squirrel]

11. How Orwellian

not just good, in the Roviet Union treason is double-plus GOOD

[magellan]

3. I don't get it either

They seem to have taken complete leave of their senses under the thrall of BushCo. Are they Republicans or Americans first? I think their actions in this matter -- heck, over the last four years -- point undeniably to the former.

[txindy]

4. I think it's fear

They're afraid of Rove and Cheney. I don't know about the compromising pics, but when the indictments come down and the 2006 campaigns start up, I do know that there WILL be lots of compromising pics on TV - of those under indictment and the taped words of defense from their currently-brave supporters.

Yep, 2006 is looking mighty promising!

[The Mafia Squirrel]

8. Speaking of fear

The entirety of the Republican party will distance itself from this trainwreck of an administration AS LONG AS it's not swept under the rug. This is a major story and the media has had a bad habit of ignoring Bu*h Co. screw-ups that should has been national news and a national engaged debate. A story like this shouldn't leave headline news for weeks, until even those under rocks can distinguish spin from reality. I fear we are a forgetful, fickle public, this needs to and should be everywhere. Cover of Time magazine, lead story on the major networks and bold headlines from the New York to the LA Times. There should be a point, like Watergate where no one in Washington can avoid talking about it on the record. What was committed was at the very least a malicious fireable offense and more likely we are looking at something closer to treason or a political form of counter-espionage

[stevietheman]

10. The Democratic Party...

needs to be taping all these speeches from GOP Congress-critters praising Rove... methinks they will indeed come in handy next year. The Democrats should do something in the 2006 election that the Republicans do *every* election: GO TO WAR.

[eleny]

5. It's going to make the mid term election season pretty hot

Incumbents are going to need to prepare if this whole mess takes off. I think many of them will be racing to the front of the parade.

[Zorra]

6. We live in a dictatorship now. It is far more dangerous to go against

the republican party than it is to sell out the United States.

Bu*h has been busier than a Baghdad coffin maker at installing only people that are loyal to him in every government office.

This is how dictators do it, whether they are fascists or communists. It all gets down to party loyalty.

[longship]

7. Totally, balls-to-the-wall insane.

Swear allegiance, first to leader, second to party, and only then, to country.

[kenny blankenship]

9. Did you ever watch "theTriumph of the Will" ?

The Nazi Party propaganda masterpiece directed by Leni Riefenstahl?

At the very end of the Party shindig, Rudi Giu Hess delivers a balls-to-the-wall insane encomia to Hitler before the delegates and assembled monsters. Here goes:
CLOSE-UP ANGLE AT HESS AGAIN: HESS THEN DELIVERS HIS CLOSING SPEECH
BEFORE THE PARTY CONGRESS AT NUREMBERG:

HESS
"The Party is Hitler!
Hitler however is Germany just as Germany is Hitler!
Hitler! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"
(cheers)

The Party replaces the normal civil government. You have Party media posing as real media and replacing it, crowding it out, like Jeff Gannon posing as an independent reporter while cloaking his identity as a party operative. You have the reorganization of government and replacement of non-partisan government agencies with organs of the party. The SA which was a private army for the Nazi Party became "auxiliary police" alongside the traditional non-partisan civil service of police, only much larger and violent. In the present day Roviet Union, we have the Dept. of Homeland Security which has been created with an ALL-POLITICALLY APPOINTED leadership (conveniently subordinating all law enforcement and intelligence to the GOP at a stroke) since it hasn't been around to promote anyone from within.

The Party replaces the state absorbing the loyalties of the people, and the Party Leader swells up to encompass it all.

[longship]

14. Most chilling book I've ever read.

Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich outlines the entire nefarious, sordid affair. It chills one to the bone.

[The Mafia Squirrel]

13. Pretty sure that

Lobbyists and high roller donors come even before country now.

[Skittles]

12. THE INTERESTS OF THE GOP OUTWEIGH THE INTERESTS OF AMERICA

SO SAYETH ALL THE REPUBLICAN WHORES; SHAME ON *ANYONE* WHO SUPPORTS THEM

[atre]

15. On CNN, there was mention of a double spy who was executed after

Brewster Jennings & Associates was outed as a CIA front in a panel discussion with a former Independent Counsel and a former federal prosecutor. If anyone has access to Lexis-Nexis, you could tell us a bit more. That is, if my memory serves me correctly.

If we can get specific information on that point, it would sure make the Republicans look foolish... maybe even dangerous.