Category: Politics

From Newsday:

The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.

“The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House,” said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. “Goss was given instructions … to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda.”

The Rude Pundit says it well about our new AG, Alberto Gonzales:

We get to be happy that the guy who feared marble breasts is gone and that the guy who thinks torture’s okay is in as Attorney General.

Click through for the rest, but if you’re reading this from work, remember that he’s not called the Rude Pundit for nothing.

Balkinization give more in-depth reasons why this is not a good thing:

he has done something that is, in my mind, inexcusable. He commissioned and put his name on a series of despicable legal memos that justified torture and prisoner abuse and that tried to avoid America’s obligations under international law

To be fair, though, the Washington Post points out some potential positives about his track record. However, given his longtime history as a loyal friend of President Bush, I seriously doubt we’ll see any deviation from the administration party line on Gonzales’ watch.

Clever site I ran across today, and a good way to work out those lingering bad feelings from Tuesday:

Sorry Everybody

I sent a picture of the kitties in, in lieu of normal Friday cat blogging.

The news from abroad is a little scary today. Christopher Allbritton reports:

Before, there was a distinction drawn between the American government and the American people. A few nights ago, one cabbie told me that he thinks American people are very nice, but the American government is

So another four years of Smirky McChimp. This time there weren’t many reports of voter disenfranchisement. And unless it’s discovered that Diebold went and converted hundreds of thousands of votes from Democrat to Republican in the battleground states, then Bush had a leading margin and actually did win.

Rachel tells me that Karl Rove’s plan of getting the evangelical Christians out to vote this time was what turned the trick, by putting a ban on gay marriages on the ballot in all of the major battleground states. “Oh, hey, while I’m here to vote against those sinners from being happy, I might as well vote for W.” Why is it that people who vote for things like bans on gay marriage are not happy unless they’re making everyone else miserable? Banning gay marriage isn’t going to make them stop having gay sex, morons. When are these puritanical zealots going to let people live their own lives? Probably never.

Based on voter turnout, and the difference of the popular vote in the millions, I have come to the conclusion that the majority of Americans are fucking morons. Fat, lazy, stupid and willfully ignorant. What the hell happened to the concerned youth voter turnout? You kids really screwed up this time. I hope you like getting drafted for a war you don

As much as it pains me to say it, it looks like Karl Rove was right with the rumored 4,000,000 right wing voters who sat on their hands last time, because as of this writing Bush has turned around a a 500,000 popular vote loss in 2000 to a 3,000,000 popular vote win in 2004.

How it happened despite all the dissatisfaction with the war, the economy, etc, I really don’t know. I’m sure the soul searching will being in earnest once the hangovers wear off. Perosnally, I’m too depressed to drink.

All I know is, it’s going to be a long 4 years.