Karl Rove!! Go Directly to Jail! Do not pass GO, do not collect
anything...just get the hell out of our oval office!
The criminal's criminal:
Ive spent the better part of today watching Valerie Plame testify to Schumer's committee on Plamegate on CSPAN, and she is poised and intelligent, as I knew she was...and after all of the bullshit coming out of the administration about how
everyone knew that she was undercover. This story is an unbelievable breach of standards and law ...probably treasonous... and I cant believe that the republicans have been able to stifle this sort of investigation just by their majority vote....AND
now the sudden bi-partisan outcry is just head spinning, pea soup puking, bat-crap crazy!
We've already had the likes of Tom Davis telling us how this was a CIA problem because they didn't make it clear enough that she was undercover. Huh?? What part of "covert" and "undercover" do these lifetime politicians and "reporters" not get?
As Ive said before, this touches not only Joe Wilson, in that they were going after his wife to get him, but Ms. Plame, her family, and
everyone that she has done covert business with throughout her whole career.
Nit picking this thing to death about who knew and if they in fact knew or didn't know is beside the point. When the puffy guys in the oval office were talking about how they were gonna stick it to Joe Wilson because he disagreed with the "evidence" that they were building in their case for war, they were at the highest pinnacle of information, and it is laughable that anyone in those circles couldn't have found out, and wouldn't take the time to find out what her status was and what exactly that meant.
Then, after Bush got up and said that he would investigate and find out how this was leaked and who did it, NO investigation was done at all. Who are these people?
This is like something out of a movie!
I hate to be overly simplistic about this whole thing, but I feel like its a simple matter, and the fact that this hasn't gotten onto the record sooner is just a crime.
Also, the anger from the right against Plame is just palpable. Why do they hate her? She has been a victim in this...and if you Google her there are too many doctored pictures of her trying to make her out to be sleazy or ...I dont know, maybe a prostitute....and the floating swiftboat type questions, like Malkin asking if maybe it was possible if Kerry shot himself in the leg...like, just don't you wonder things like that?? (To which, even Chris Matthews had to say NO!...but that doesn't excuse having la Malkin on in the first place!)
Is it possible that Plame might not have been covert at the time??? NO!! Didnt everyone on her street know what she did for a living? NO!!
Didnt she send her husband on this fact finding mission? NO!
Did the administration, right up to the very top, throw an undercover agent under the bus to try to smear her husband, and then lie about it?? YES!!
I'm nauseas....and the more that this hearing goes on, I have to say that if this doesn't finish Karl Rove, at the very least, there is no justice left at all in this country.
It is mortifying that anyone, much less the top advisers to the President of the United States, would so flagrantly break the law for their own political reasons. If this is how far they felt they had to go, then we can be sure that they really had no case for war in the first place.
Code Pink was in the hearing room in the form of a transvestite with pink hair, pink pillbox hat, pink jacket, complete with pink IMPEACH BUSH NOW shirt underneath. S/he had originally positioned him/herself right behind the cameras and opened the jacket, thus doing a great job of plastering the message onto just about every image of this thing. Asked to sit down finally s/he changed from hat to pink crown that said PEACE NOW or something....and s/he kept standing up and stretching dramatically opening the jacket, and then sitting down again. I kept thinking that as recently as 6 months ago, that person would have been lifted off the ground by stormtroopers and carried to jail, as Cindy Sheehan was when she wore a T-shirt with the number of soldiers dead on it to the State of the Union....a NUMBER on it!! Yep, the tides are turning....Its a beautiful thing, but even as we can begin to hope for a little sanity again, we have to go through this stomach turning fact finding....and this is just the tip of the iceberg, so brace yourselves!
Just to let you all know that its not all fringe types with the IMPEACH signs, there was also a very conservative looking guy who held up a white piece of paper that said GOT IMPEACHMENT? behind the testimony.
As Tom Davis made clear, the republican line here is gonna be that there is no evidence that the people who tried to smear Joe Wilson by having his wife's name published in the press as a high ranking CIA official who sent him on the mission that ended up not jibing with the official line, KNEW that she was covert....Well, besides my first thought of GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!...I just have to say, guys, thats NEXT....stay tuned...same bat time-same bat channel!
Since each rat has testified already against the other that one told the other to leak this information, I cant imagine that there isn't fodder there for Fitz to chew through....come on! Do they think we're stupid or something? LIARS!
Thank god for Keith Olbermann...I cant wait till 8PM!!
OK, in other news, I brought home my baby Parrotlets last night. They had flown in (yeah, tired lil' wings) from LA on Wednesday night, and Todd (from
Parrots and Co.) went to get them, (he wouldn't let me go with him...jerk!...I try to forgive and get over it, but, but, but...its difficult!) and then left them to rest overnight in the nursery (Thanks Todd!!) They are the cutest little things!
Ive got 2 boys and 2 girls that I planned on, color-wise, to breed later on, once they grow up.
They are so young, 3 just weaned and 1 still being bottle fed, and still a little nippy, but with the Bird Whisperer's pocket trick, I've..um...nipped that in the bud in 3 out of 4. They tend to be nippy at first, like Budgies and Lovebirds, but grow out of it pretty quickly and end up being very compact little parrots that exhibit the best in parrot behavior in a tiny package. They come in great colors, are nice little companions who like to perch on your shoulder while you watch TV or work, and they will talk, though maybe not as much as a bigger bird. They are also not very loud or messy. You wanna buy one?? Only a grand each for the yellow ones!
Also, in the terribly cute Dept, the mommy bunny at Parrots & Co. has finally had her first litter. They are the miniature Lion's Head breed and cute as all get out. I was able to get some pics of the little guys last night. I think they will be out and running round pretty soon. Congratulations Laurie, birdy mom, bunny mom and all around mom!
Spring has sprung and what better to do than play with baby birds and baby bunnies!...oh yeah, and put those fuckers in jail....
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