WTF Is It Now?!?

$70 Million Witch-hunt Comes to an End

CLINTONS CLEARED OF ALL WRONGDOING AFTER DISGRACEFUL DECADE-LONG WITCH-HUNT

FINAL REPORT FINDINGS: REPUBLICANS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH POWER

$70,000,000 ABUSE OF POWER BY CORRUPT RIGHT-WINGERS ENDS WITH A (CORRUPT) WHIMPER

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Thousands of bushmoonie rudimentary brains spontaneously implode:

Press Release from the Office of the Independent Counsel

"This Office investigated whether President and Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct related to Madison Guaranty, CMS, or Whitewater Development or had any knowledge of such conduct. This Office determined that the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct involving Madison Guaranty, CMS, or Whitewater Development or knew of such conduct. The evidence relating to their testimony and conduct, in connection with this investigation and other investigations involving the same entities, was also, in the judgment of this Office, insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either of them committed any criminal offense, including perjury (18 U.S.C. § 1621) or obstruction of justice (18 U.S.C. § 1503)."

F*ck you, bushmoonies - read it 'n' weep, assholes! Ha ha ha ha ha!! ...... As a bonus, Sen. Leahy is now asking Ashcroft and the General Accounting Office to investigate whether 'independant' counsel Robert Ray broke any laws, regulations or ethics rules - seems as if he began his campaign for New Jersey Senator while still investigating former President Clinton. Hmmmmmmmmmmm......
- - - from the NY Times



Senator Reid Rips Repukes a New Cornchute Over Their Hypocrisy, Temper Tantrums, Hissy-fits, & Crybaby Tactics:

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) scored a knockout over Pickering. "Senator Daschle... has said that we are not going to be in a payback mode. We are not going to treat them like they treated us. If we did, Judge Pickering would not have had two hearings ... Until Judge Edith Clement received a hearing on her nomination to the Fifth Circuit court last year, there had been no hearings on Fifth Circuit nominees since 1994 and no confirmations since 1995 . If Senator Leahy wanted to get even, he had a lot of even to get because he was not very well treated as a ranking member of that committee. In 1999 the Fifth Circuit declared an emergency because it had three vacancies that had not been filled... Jorge Rangel was nominated to the Fifth Circuit in 1997 by Bill Clinton ... Enrique Moreno was first nominated to the Fifth Circuit in 1999... H. Alston Johnson was first nominated to the Fifth Circuit in 1999..." These three nominees NEVER had a hearing or a vote under Republican rule .

from Truthout.com
........ Boo-f*cking-hoo, repugs. You don't have a leg to stand on. Don't you have any shame? After the crap you pulled for 8 years? Pathetic!


Another pithy article on repukelican hypocrisy:

'When Bush's arrogance becomes deadly'
By Michelangelo Signorile, New York Press:

You can't help but cackle over the statement released by Republican National Committee head Marc Racicot last Thursday, the one about the Senate Judiciary Committee's rejection of George W. Bush's nominee to the federal appeals bench. Racicot called the voting down of the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals "an extreme subversion of the will of the United States Senate and the American people," an action that was decided upon by "just ten Senate Democrats."

His outrage is funny because, as one reader pointed out to me, the very process that brought Bush to the White House itself was, to a great many of us, "an extreme subversion" of the will of the people, and a decision made by just five judges. We know all about "extreme subversion," Mr. Racicot, thank you. Here's a guy who is still getting a check from a lobbying firm while he's running the RNC - and is a former Enron huckster to boot - lecturing the rest of us about ethics and fairness. Cute.

The Republicans' whining is even more laughable considering their own past behavior. They torpedoed Clinton nominee after Clinton nominee to the federal courts and elsewhere in government, all qualified individuals who were turned into bogeymen. And let's not forget the refusal of then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott-who now says he is taking his friend Pickering's rejection "personally"-to allow a vote on the nomination of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg for no other reason than that Hormel was gay.

(snipped, via SmirkingChimp.com)



" We can all sleep easier knowing that the Immigration and Naturalization Service intends to stop mailing out visa approvals for dead hijackers. " - Carl Hiassen, miami.com



There'll be no ice cream for you tonight unless you control yourself :

No, he's not King George
President Bush is throwing a royal hissy fit over the Senate Judiciary Committee's rejection of Mississippi Federal Judge Charles Pickering's nomination to serve on the Deep South's 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Never mind that Pickering, whose record of hostility to civil rights can be traced from the 1950s through the present day, was such a legally inept and ethically challenged jurist that even the most moderate members of the panel opposed his nomination. Bush is furious that his choice was not rubber-stamped by the Senate.

The president - who lost the 2000 election by more than 500,000 votes - now complains that democracy itself has been undermined by the Senate's action. The tantrum is typical of the president and his partisans, who celebrated Bush's selection by the Supreme Court as the dawn of an era of right-wing hegemony in which their whims would become law and their friends judges.

---more at The Capital Times ...... Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Trent "Whining Windbag" Lott is still acting like a petulant 3-year-old. Last week he opposed the Judiciary Committee receiving an additional $1.5 million to look into the agencies involved in Sept. 11 investigations (yes, that's right!), derailed an energy amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday, and yesterday used parliamentary maneuvers to block Judiciary from completing a hearing. According to today's Roll Call, he's planning on doing this on a daily basis. So much for "changing the tone in Washington". The hysterical hypocrites, frothing at the mouth, threaten to stall and shut down the government again - oh please! Do it! It worked so well the last time!

Dickheads.



Today in History

325 The vernal equinox was set on this day at the council of Nice.

1312 The Knights Templar, a paramilitary mystic Christian cult, were suppressed in England on this day, having already been wiped out of France and the rest of Europe. Their last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was burnt at the stake in 1324 declaring that the pope and king responsible for his death would be dead within a year, which they were.

1871 journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.

1945 during World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.

1946 the United Nations set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in New York.
1963 the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
1997 President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals.

...Yahoo News and the Fortean Times
2002 DC area serenaded by teeny violins as tears of rage from the GOP (Gas-Oil-Petroleum) causes run on tissues, toilet paper.



Search for a king's grave

Within the next few weeks archaeologists will be descending on the site behind the Royal Bank of Scotland in Murray Place. They'll be looking for remains of a 13th century church of the Dominican Black Friars which was demolished in the late 16th century. Legend has it that Richard II of England - or an imposter - was buried at the church.

Richard was deposed by his cousin Henry IV in 1399 and imprisoned in Pontefract Castle where he allegedly died of starvation in 1400. The body was buried in Hertfordshire but almost immediately rumours began to circulate that Richard had escaped to Scotland, where he was being cared for by Robert, Duke of Albany.

More than 200 bones were discovered during the excavation and Dr Page has suggested using DNA tests to find out if they belong to Richard II.
--- more at The Stirling Observer