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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 09:34 AM
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I Just Don't Know

As I watched KO last night I saw that smirking cretin, Jennings, tell a congressional committee that he couldn’t tell them what job he performed at the white house. That he was following the mandate in a letter from the president that claimed executive privilege. Can’t tell a committee of congress what his job is? Can’t tell us, the American, what job we are paying him to perform? He certainly isn’t a noc, so why the secret?

Privileged information is it? To do what, by which authority? The royal prerogative, a dictator’s vainglorious presumption? Did even one Senator fantasize about jumping his desk and reaching out and choking the truth out of that smug little twit? No, bet not. That would be too reminiscent of torture and Abu Grahib. Just another little ditty on the list of crimes that have been ignored.

Spectre (misspell deliberate), that illusion of a senator, described Gonzales as wily. In my lexicon he would be called a liar. A criminal liar who is contemptuous of Congress, the Constitution but mostly, of we the people.

My sneaking suspicion, creeping up on me over days and weeks is that he isn’t the only one contemptuous of us. His boss is, we all know it, and so it would seem, are the other two branches of our government. Why else would the courts rule against the humanity of the people in favor of the ponzi schemes that call themselves insurance companies and tell the people who suffered through Katrina that those payments made to insurance companies were actually another form of graft and the only restitution that is going to be made is to the state of La., in the form of newly accessed property taxes, on property the state has declared has been undervalued for years and now they, the citizens, who have been ravaged by a monster storm, are going to have to pay up, big time.

Then there is Congress, all huff and puff, blowing nobody’s house of cards down. Uncle Ted, one of the biggest crooks in the Senate, is having a spot of trouble but none of them will say a word against him because, if he, slippery seal that he is, escapes indictment and charges, he will exact revenge and they’re scared of him, as they seem to be of most things. The only person getting what they want out of this Congress is George W. Bush.

How dare they sit there while they were dissed, disrespected and spit upon and not do anything? Oh yes, just like Gonzo, Jennings and his boss are too wily for them. I wonder…will that general the marshals are chasing or Rove, Meirs and Bolten answer the subpoenas they’ve been served with and appear? If they do deign to show up will smug little smiles contort their lips? Will there be even one contempt citation if they don’t? Not one liar has received one yet. Perjury charges? Not likely if the past be prologue, and we all know, impeachment is off the table. Apparently that covers all impeachments as I don’t see that anything will happen to the resident, his vice or the little man on the side that perverts our laws. It is vacation time after all.

What is a citizen to do to regain rights, lawfulness, treasury that has been stolen or given to cronies in stacks of bills belonging to us, a sound infrastructure, a restored Constitution, truth? How are we going to get rid of these miscreants who are taking everything from us. Our country has become structurally deficient and what I can’t see, tell, guess…is how we are going to build a bridge to our and everyone else’s future. One that won’t collapse on us.

I wish I knew.


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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 09:40 AM
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1. Thanks. I wish I knew, too. nt
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:44 AM
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6. I've just about given up..
I want to cry every time I see these crooks slip by our supposed saviors, the Democrats in Congress. Who are caving in on every single thing they do. They could have issued inherent contempt charges. They didn't. The could have had the miscreants arrested. They didn't. They could have kept on passing the same bills over and over and send them back to bush. They didn't.

They have let this cancer on the face of this great country only grow and fester and infect everything it touches. It seems it has spread into the Democratic congress.

For those who believe that there is a God...give up folks. If there really was one he wouldn't have let this trud and his turdetts take possession of this country. And if by chance He had, He would sure as hell be doing something about it now. I think between the two Satan rules because he has surely stolen this country and the republican party.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:02 AM
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:03 AM
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3. I think Thomas Jefferson had an answer to your question.
"What is a citizen to do to regain rights, lawfulness, treasury that has been stolen or given to cronies in stacks of bills belonging to us, a sound infrastructure, a restored Constitution, truth?"

Yep, Tommy Jefferson said in plain language what it was incumbent upon citizens to do when faced with this set of circumstances. We just have to have the guts to do it. I don't know if I have the guts, I don't know if any of us do...
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:15 AM
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5. The Time May Come When Each Of Us Has To Answer That Question For Ourselves
We are being pushed to a brink. What will it take to get us into the streets? And it can't be just a handful, it needs to be an enmass group, who is finally, once and for all, can't take it any more, fed up.
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JohnShadows Donating Member (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:04 AM
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4. Olbermann had that clip..
.. the guy actually wouldn't say what it is he's paid for (with tax dollars, mind you) - wouldn't just give his job description.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:58 AM
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7. Leahy should have leaned forward, looked out into the audience and
asked "where's the sergeant-at-arms?" That would have gotten some attention. I'm sick of all the foreplay, I want some action, NOW!!!
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DeeDeeNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 11:07 AM
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8. How many news outlets showed that clip?
As far as I know, none. That is a huge problem. More people would be enraged if they had seen that, or any of the other recent testimony by Gonzo, Goodling, etc. When I talk to people about things I heard on KO or C-Span, they have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 11:57 AM
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9. Can't tell us what job he performs??
And I, as a taxpaying citizen of this country, pay his salary?? Well, I don't think we should pay him if he can't even tell us, his employer, what kind of job he has. I say, as his employer, that we fire the little shit.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 12:02 PM
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10. K*strongly R As good as it gets. Thank you!!!!
Edited on Fri Aug-03-07 12:04 PM by autorank
...how are (we) going to build a bridge to our and everyone else’s future.

One that won’t collapse on us.


That is the question. Those who represent us yet sit silent while they are "dissed" do us no service.
The jaded tolerance of stupidity, mendacity, and disloyalty by those who are charged to serve does
no good for the people who have the right to proper representation. It's time to kick in the outrage
and articulate it, as this statement does so well.

These people work for us. Yet they can't even prove that they were really elected. That's point
#1 of the rage factor, 2 through "n" are the various fiascoes that the rulers create with mild
opposition in the aggregate by the "opposition party." We're ready to act, to support a
series of corrective actions. The Democrats in general need the spirit of Feingold, Schumer, Conyers,
and Waxman.

Great statement!
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 12:24 PM
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11. Honored
as always
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shifting_sands Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 03:59 PM
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12. We can't figure it out either
Great essay "Me" and we need to be paying closer and closer attention. We are watching a situation unfold in Minnesota, like we did in New Orleans of:

Incompetence
a lack of accountability
obfuscation
sloppy work
needed repair shelved for pork barrel items
Politicians making decisions they know nothing about
a citizenry believing over and over the lies or worse, just not paying attention
our money siphoned off for projects we didn't ask for and never wanted so a politician can "appear" to be doing his job instead of actually doing the job.

And that little twit Jennings won't even tell us what he does to justify the salary taxpayers pay for further focusing on the lack of accountability and competency in this government. It is up to the people to say enough and to say it loud enough over and over until they hear.

I thought after New Orleans it would change, it did not, I have no idea what it's going to take to change.

I hear this administration has pushed this problem back onto Minnesota, no help from their government, well Minnesota better get cracking, they are going to host the RNC Convention in one short year, this bridge should be a reminder of their failures to live up to the promises to the people.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 04:36 PM
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13. Great Point About The Convention
I'd forgotten that.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-03-07 10:14 PM
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14. * Gets What He Wants, Yet Again
Edited on Fri Aug-03-07 10:16 PM by Me.
His warrantless wiretapping bill, with, I believe, Gonzo in charge. The sop to us, it's supposedly only for 6 months.

edited: apparently the Senate voted for it now the nouse must. What are the chances he won't get it?
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-04-07 09:59 AM
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15. After Last Night's Vote
It's hard to know where to turn or what to do. The onky thing I can come up with is voting them all out.
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