Game, set and match

[ebonlock]

The Post decides to become the official propaganda organ of the Bush administration publically today in their editorial section:

A Good Leak
President Bush declassified some of the intelligence he used to decide on war in Iraq. Is that a scandal?

PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons. Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do.

Then Jane at Firedoglake pulls out the big guns to bitch slap Fred Hiatt soundly for it. Of course the big guns in this case would refer to things like facts and actual quotes that dispute the editorial up one side and down the other. Really, has the Post staff no shame? No shame at all? Or do they just take us for the brain dead sheep many of us have been acting like for the past 5 years?

Digby reminds us why we have to stay on top of this shit and make sure Republicans own each and every single misstep, lie, scandal and death that's occurred on their watch:

Get ready to hear a lot of this whining now that the Republicans may be at the end of their looting spree. They made their money, got their judges, their tax cuts and their wars. Now it's time to put the past behind us and make nice nice. We're supposed to end to all this nastiness and forgive and forget. For the good of the country, of course.

I have written this before, and I'm sure everyone is tired of reading it, but the Republicans must be held accountable for their actions or they will come back like the undead and do this again. We failed as a country to properly discipline this corrupt rogue faction when they tried this executive power grab in the 70's and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and others came back to try it again. We need to drive a figurative stake through the heart of this pernicious philosophy.

Hell, we need to cut the damn head off, stuff the mouth with garlic, and burn the whole kit and kaboodle while we're at it. It's the only way to be sure...

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

There's also just a wee bit of difference between disclosing intelligence to justify military action (something that is responsible to do), and exposing the identity of undercover agents as political retribution against that agent's family, who happens to be writing columns that are in opposition to administration policy.

They're trying hard to obscure the issue, but at the end of the day, there's no justification beyond a political one for the Plame leak, and nobody is willing to stand up and say that it's okay to jeopardize the lives of our spies as part of the political manouverings in Washington DC. That's hardly a left-wing stance, there.

This is one of those data points that stands out objectively that Bush is not a good man. Good men don't do this. I'm really surprised that he's not putting up the unassailable wall of denial that he'd surely get away with - does he not realize that this was hitting below the belt?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

The absolute best part about all of this is that while this piece appeared on the editorial page, the news page led with this article: "A 'Concerted Effort' to Discredit Bush Critic". Seriously, I shit you not, the paper managed to contradict itself between the news and editorial pages. It's just so blatantly dishonest that it's almost beautiful in its own sick way. Also, you should check out the comments on the WaPo blog page:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/2006/04/news_search_launch.html#comments

People are just a tiny bit upset...heh...

[ebongreen.livejournal.com]

It's the only way to be sure...

No no, my dear; that's nuking them from orbit. /B-)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to use the "N" word right now, it might give certain people in the administration ideas about another country that starts with "Ira-"...

[ebongreen.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I doubt that your admirable restraint will be reflected in the style or substance of this Administration, and I don't think you can provide any ideas about fiery apocalypses of which they haven't dreamed/fantasized. /B-,

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

True, but I felt it better not to aid and abet if I could help it. Also I wanted to stick to the slaying the undead theme, but the quote was just too appropriate.