I did not have politics with that man, Ahmed Chalabi
"My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him." - Bunnypants, 6/1/04.



Bush's erratic behavior worries White House aides
Huh ... and it's NOT a parody piece from The Onion:

Steady leadership -

Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind.

In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the president goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as “enemies of the state.”

Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.

“It reminds me of the Nixon days,” says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. “Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That’s the mood over there.”

In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will” and then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.

- Read more at Capitol Hill Blue.

Another big CIA resignation
James Pavitt, Deputy Director of Operations has resigned. No link yet. Supposedly he's "retiring."

Bush attempts to avoid Papal smackdown, going to Hell
The craven fascist punk will will award Pope John Paul the Presidential {grrrrrrrr..... - Ed.} Medal of Freedom for "years of fighting for freedom and for his important moral voice" during his Jebus-blessed photo-op on Friday.

Kitten break


I started calling this one "DB" for the dingleberries I had to keep wiping off his little butt. It sorta morphed into 'Dee-Dee', for one of the Ramones.

"And if I were in Tenet's shoes right now, I'd be very unhappy with pResident Bush for not having given him more authority, more support, in the years since 9/11 happened."

Heh
CNN's DARYN KAGAN: Your reaction to George Tenet's news?

ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR: This is too significant a move at too important a time in the electoral history of our country for this to be just a personal move on the part of Tenet.

KAGAN: So you're not buying the idea that George Tenet goes to George Bush and says, "I'm resigning for personal reasons?" You think he's either a scapegoat or you think he's being pushed out?

TURNER: I think he's being pushed out and made a scapegoat. That is, that the president feels he's got to have somebody to blame, and he's doing it indirectly by asking Tenet to leave.

KAGAN: On the other hand, we heard George Tenet, and we're look at video there of him appearing before a number of congressional hearings, where he says, as we've heard other top administration officials say, the buck stops here. He is responsible for what happens in his agency. And there has been a number of mistakes.

So why can't this just be a man standing up for the job performed underneath his leadership?

TURNER: Tenet has demonstrated over the years, not only at the CIA, but in the Congress as a staffer, that he is very loyal to his superiors, and he has been to President Clinton, and now to president Bush.

I don't think he would pull the plug on Bush in the middle of an election cycle without having been asked by the president to do that.

He makes some pretty good points when he's not being an asstool

MAHER: Well, you got to give all these people who are over there all the credit in the world because I'm saying a lot of the people over here, they're not asked to sacrifice. And these people are sacrificing, doing all the sacrifice for them.

How about the nerve of Hastert calling McCain's sacrifice into question? Are we through the looking glass when Hastert asks McCain, Do you know anything about sacrifice, a guy who spends five-and-a-half years in prison? It's just astounding the way the people who have never gone to war can make this case. They talked about John Kerry throwing away his medals. Hey, at least he has medals to throw away! The other guy didn't go, as I recall. He didn't win any medals. He can do what he wants with his medals.

KING: Is all this, then, hypocrisy to you?

MAHER: What? Which part of it? I mean, there's so many aspects of it that are. Yes. But I do think that president Bush relies on hypocrisy. You know, even if you give him a credit that he's a nice guy and this was a sincere effort, you know, it's one thing to run an election based on two-dimensional platitudes, like, They hate us for our freedom. It's another thing to send men to die for a platitude like that.

KING: Should any heads roll? Should Rumsfeld leave?

MAHER: Rumsfeld. I still like Rumsfeld a lot. I can't help it. And he is at least honest and direct. When he was called on the carpet, he said, I apologize, as opposed to Bush's -- remember Bush's apology? He said, I told the king of Jordan I was sorry about the prison scandal. Imagine apologizing to your wife that way? Honey, I told my producer that I'm sorry I slept with your sister.

...later...

MAHER: And how come these people like Condoleezza Rice, but others, always say the same thing? No one could envision -- that was her view. No one could envision flying planes into buildings. You know what? Stop saying that, Ms. Rice. You couldn't envision it. Plenty of people envisioned it. The terrorists envisioned it. Some of the people in your own FBI and CIA envisioned it. Those two little jerks at Columbine envisioned it. Tom Clancy envisioned it. You didn't envision it. And by the way, when you have National Security in your title and stenciled on your door, it sort of is your job to envision it.

- Bill Maher visits with Larry King Live.

Breaking
George Tenet has just RESIGNED "for personal reasons." To "spend more time with his family"??

Holy shit!

Developing.....

Just great - earworm


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Don't you hesitate - there is no need to wait - they're signing up new seamen fast
Maybe you are too young to join up today but don't you worry 'bout a thing -for I'm sure there will be always a good navy protecting the land and sea

In the navy - Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy - Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy - Come on now, fall in 'n' make a stand
In the navy, in the navy - Can't you see we need a hand
In the navy - Come on, protect the motherland
In the navy - Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy - Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy

Almost time for a frogmarching?

Witnesses told a federal grand jury George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq.

Their damning testimony has prompted Bush to contact an outside lawyer for legal advice because evidence increasingly points to his involvement in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to syndicated columnist[/traitorous asshat] Robert Novak.

The move suggests the president anticipates being questioned by prosecutors. Sources say grand jury witnesses have implicated the president and his top advisor, Karl Rove....

Sources within the investigation say evidence points to Rove approving release of the leak. They add that their investigation suggests the [Smirking Liar] knew about Rove's actions but took no action to stop release of Plame's name.

Howard Dean's first column
Electronic voting - not ready for prime time.

Dana Rohrabacher, terrist-coddling idiot
This is the same #ucking dickhead who blamed Al Gore for the 9/11 attacks:

Federal documents reviewed by the Weekly show that [Congressman] Rohrabacher maintained a cordial, behind-the-scenes relationship with Osama bin Laden’s associates in the Middle East — even while he mouthed his most severe anti-Taliban comments at public forums across the U.S.

There’s worse: despite the federal Logan Act ban on unauthorized individual attempts to conduct American foreign policy, the congressman dangerously acted as a self-appointed secretary of state, constructing what foreign-affairs experts call a "dual tract" policy with the Taliban. {snip}

Rohrabacher claimed that:
•Taliban leaders are "not terrorists or revolutionaries."
•Media reports documenting the Taliban’s harsh, radical beliefs were "nonsense."
•The Taliban would develop a "disciplined, moral society" that did not harbor terrorists.
•The Taliban posed no threat to the U.S.

Jerkoff.

Bush warned against comparing D-Day to Iraq

French officials fear [the Smirking Moron] will inflame anti-American sentiment in France this weekend by linking the D-Day landings with the invasion of Iraq.

Advisers close to Jacques Chirac have let it be known that any reference to Iraq during the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France on Sunday would be ill-advised and unwelcome.

"He'd better not go too far down the road of making a historical comparison because it's likely to backfire on him," said a source close to President Chirac.

'Systematic gross violations'
US frantic to soften harsh language in UN rights report on Iraq.

The United States is scrambling to soften allegedly harsh and inflammatory criticism of the US-led coalition in Iraq that is expected to be contained in a UN human rights report to be released this week, US officials said.

The fratboys at the Pentagon are asking for more time to tell "their side of the story."

Just when you thought he couldn't get any more embarrassing

Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer released
Watch it here.
Whoa.

Misadministration frees terror suspect
Well, that pretty much says it all. Good job, assclowns.

Polygraph testing starts in Chalabi inquiry
The Feds have started polygraphing civilian employees at the Pentagon to pretend they're actually trying to do something in the case of neocon pet Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi who sat next to Pickles Bush at the SOTU and who turned secret US information over to Iran.

The article doesn't say, but wouldn't 'civilian employees' include Rummy, Wolfie, and Dougie?



On edit:

The inquiry, still in an early phase, is focused on a very small number of people who were close to Mr. Chalabi and also had access to the highly restricted information about the Iran code.

Sweet!
Duhbya needs a lawyer.

America's Embarrassment, George W Bush, has consulted a lawyer in case he needs to do some explaining in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame in a fit of pique to traitor Boob Novak.

White House has confirmed that the lying punk had been in discussions with top Washington attorney Jim Sharp and would retain him if necessary. Sharp was a lawyer for retired General Richard Secord, who pleaded guilty in 1989 to lying to Congress about the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra fiasco.

Ohhhhh baby...

More lies from the WH
Bush campaign advertisements in battleground states have so distorted John Kerry's record that the voters soon won't be able to know what to believe, the Duh Institute reports.




Followup
Heard on the news that the two missing propane trucks have been found in a warehouse in Laredo, Texas.

Heh
You know your administration's in trouble when the republican lapdogs at the National Review start accusing you of breaking the law.


"Karl, kin they do that? Karl? Karl??"

What a guy
AWOL, war-avoiding lying chickenshit punk who never had to work a day in his stupid life shows support for the troops

What better time than Memorial Day weekend for Bush to announce drastic cuts in funding for veterans' health care?

Mayor of Crawford, TX, is Kerry supporter
"I don't see where I'm better off than I was four years ago," Robert Campbell said Tuesday. "I don't see where the city is any better off."

Keeping us safer
FBI "very concerned" about two missing propane trucks. Oh, and a gasoline tanker truck that has been missing since mid-April.

Great. Does anybody in that misadministration know what the #uck they're doing??

Kitten break

Randal, aka Stripy One, takes a break from stalking the elusive invisible crawling object.

Free Speech Zones in the USA?
'I thought our entire nation was a "Free Speech Zone."'

Not in Il Ducebag's Amerka, as this Vietnam veteran/Iraq war protestor found out.
Welcome to Fasciststan. Your papers, please?

It's the stupidity, stupid
Our Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $10 billion border security contract to a company in Bermuda.

In a related story, planned layoffs rise again in the US.

When good puppets go bad
Reports agree: Neocon pet Ahmed Chalabi told Iran of US intel, secret codes.

Email prompts calls to probe Halliburton, Cheney
With electrified tire irons, traffic cones.

Dems on Capitol Hill say there is clear evidence of a relationship between Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney and his "former" company, and that "it would be irresponsible not to hold hearings."

"They're essential," said New Jersey's Sen. Frank Lautenberg. "Besides, I want to see that fat greasy bastard squeal like a pig."

In a related story...

"He just #ucked California"
Tapes obtained by CBS News reveal Enron traders "gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis." The tapes appear to link top Enron officials/Bush pals Kenny-boy Lay and Jeffrey Skilling to schemes that fueled the crisis. Officials say this is the smoking gun they've hoped for.

"It'd be great. I'd love to see Ken Lay Secretary of Energy," says one Enron worker.

That didn't happen, but they were sure pResident Bush would fight any limits on sky-high energy prices.

"When this election comes Bush will f------g whack this s--t, man. He won't play this price-cap b------t."

Crude, but true.

"We will not take any action that makes California's problems worse and that's why I oppose price caps," said Bush on May 29, 2001.

Both the Justice Department and Enron tried to prevent the release of the tapes.

The fix in is
Betraying America

The [useless #ucking sheep of the 9/11] investigative panel [have] already concluded that there is "no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace." But the real point is that there were still restrictions on American airspace when the Saudi flights began.

Keep in mind, though, that 'the vast majority of the newly disclosed flights were commercial airline flights, not charters - often carrying just two or three Saudi passengers.' Dickheads.

In addition, new evidence shows that the evacuation involved more than the departure of 142 Saudis on six charter flights that the commission is investigating. According to newly released documents, 160 Saudis left the United States on 55 flights immediately after 9/11 - making a total of about 300 people who left with the apparent approval of the Bush administration, far more than has been reported before.

Well, maybe this will help clear things up: Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a June 25 debut in the US.

Bonus: it is sure to cause Bush-the-only-slightly-smarter's head to explode.

A sudden "burst of wind" from the pResident causes an "umbrella malfunction" as he exits Air Force One.
More pics here.


Big win for Dems in SD
'[Stephanie Herseth's] victory gave the Democrats two straight triumphs this year in special elections waged for GOP-held seats, and coincided with Democratic claims that a national tide is running their way ahead of the fall campaign. Recent polling shows support slumping for pResident Bush as well as for the Republican majority in the House.'

Herseth will immediately fill the seat of the disgusting murdering drunkard Wild Bill Janklow.



Worst... rating... ever
The latest Zogby poll.

Kitten break

I left them loose today - we'll see if I'll be doing that again once I get home.

Aborting smart-ass headline now
Federal judge says Abortion's abortion ban an abortion.

Earth to Flaming Butthole: it wasn't worth it
Over eight hundred Americans have died for a "modicum of freedom" in Iraq.
Oh, and a brand-new prison.

Keeping us safer than those weenie, cheese-eating Democrats
Or not.

"Americans have a fearsome new enemy since 9/11, and that enemy is their own government."

Plus: Bushies "scaling down" domestic terror-response agencies.

Bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle

[T]he once-cocky neoconservative intellectuals who pushed so hard for this war for a decade — and who are now enraged that their darling Ahmad Chalabi is being called to account — are suddenly abandoning ship like rats, claiming the Bush administration ruined their beautiful vision with its incompetence. "I would be the first to acknowledge we allowed the liberation [of Iraq] to subside into an occupation," longtime invasion booster Richard Perle said last week.

Oops! Too bad, we rolled craps and now more than 800 young Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis are dead. We tortured detainees, lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and gave Western democracy a huge black eye by showing how easy it was for a self-aggrandizing "war president" to hoodwink Congress and the people.

- Robert Scheer.

The lying game
A is for Atta, who just wasn't there
B is for Bush and his leg-humper Blair...

- Bush's failed Iraq war, from A to Z.

Disgracing America
"Through our history, America has gone to war reluctantly because we have known the costs of war." - the AWOL war-deserting chickenshit punk,whose daddy kept him out of Vietnam, safely from behind the podium while defiling this year's Memorial Day observance.

'#uck Saddam! We're taking him out!' - pReznit GameBoy, 3/02.

'More than any other president in history'
Republicans oddly silent about Bush's record-setting use of Air Force One for campaign trips.

Fundraisers and 'thank you' donor circle-jerks labelled as "political," thereby screwing the taxpayers over yet again.

"It's your money." - the Smirking Moron, 9/2/03.

Heh
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez calls Bush a "pubic hair."

Image by WalkingCarpet.

Sovereignty. Democracy. Puppetry.
'Al-Yawer, a Sunni Muslim who has sharply criticised US policy in Iraq, will hold the largely symbolic post of president, while the more powerful position of prime minister goes to Allawi, a US-backed Shiite Muslim with military and CIA connections.'

In other Iraq news:

25 killed as new president is announced.

The Iraqi governing council has disbanded.

At least 6 US troops are killed. Over 200 died in April/May alone.

Army "investigates" wider offenses, but none are by the WH.

Returning sovereignty? Puh. As if.