Among other things.....

There is just so much going on in the political blogosphere that it's hard to keep up.

Fortunately there are enough bloggers out there to keep up with everything and let us "5th tier" (I only claim to be 5th tier because I don't think there's anything lower) bloggers pick and choose what we want to write about.....

I'll start with what I think is the most under-reported story of the day....Bush and his Presidential Executive Orders. The story appeared in this morning's New York Times and here is a snippet to explain it...

In an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee, to supervise the development of rules and documents providing guidance to regulated industries. The White House will thus have a gatekeeper in each agency to analyze the costs and the benefits of new rules and to make sure the agencies carry out the president’s priorities.

In case you haven't noticed, that's absolutely breath-taking in its scope....."each agency" will now be controlled by a political appointee as a gatekeeper to carry out the president's priorities....." And we were foolish enough to think that Bush is a lame duck.

Getaclue......

Bush has no intention of being a lame duck. In fact, there have been other blogs reporting that Bush and Company (known in the blogosphere as Bushco) plan on spending the last two years doing the Haagar the Horrible routine on Government....Haagar the Horrible being Rape! Pillage! and Plunder!

He seems to think that he can do this because we can't touch him. We can't impeach and even if we try he can do an awful lot damage (pillage) before we get to him....I'm beginning to think impeachment may be a worthwhile endeavor.

This was under-reported (in my view) because most of the blogosphere has been focusing on the "Scooter" Libby trial. Okay. Scooter's trial is important because it is shinning a light into the dark, dark recesses of the Bush Administration and specifically into the even darker recesses of the heart (alleged heart) of Dick Cheney....

Judith Miller was on the stand today and probably will be tomorrow too. I'll have to go "surfing" to find out where I saw it, but somebody posted today about a couple of radio announcers in Africa who were found guilty in court of murder because their radio broadcasts encited violence against the Tsusti....In a way, that's exactly what Judith Miller did....she encited violence against Iraq by being a willing tool of those who wanted war under any circumstance...truth didn't matter....neither did international law...or christian values (which they claimed to possess.) I've wondered if Judith Miller knew she was being fed bs by top ranked administration officials...I know that she was trading her journalistic integrity for fame
but I have to wonder if she ever once questioned the validity of the information she was being given....he she ever thought to get a second source...a confirmation ...anything that would have lead to the truth? You think?

....and another thing...I caught Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" tonight. It was about the four examples of "foiled terrorist plots" that Bush took credit for in the SOTU...

Surprise!

They were all phoney!

Crooks and Liars doesn't have it yet but here's a link to the preview

breaking news...MSNBC is reporting that it has gained access to a secret Pentagon report claiming that IRAN was behing the ambush and killing of five American Soldiers last week...

crap....

they've got their f-ing GULF OF TONKIN incident/

I'm really pissed.