Cheney’s Feeling Good?

No matter how Dick Cheney feels, he always looks like he’s ready to shoot someone in the face. Thanks to dpjc reader, Rr, for providing this pic from unfairlybalanced.com.

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Cheney’s Feeling Good?

No matter how Dick Cheney feels, he always looks like he’s ready to shoot someone in the face. Thanks to dpjc reader, Rr, for providing this pic from unfairlybalanced.com.

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Impeach Cheney

Robert Kuttner writes in the Boston Globe:

“My bet is that impeachable offenses will emerge from Congressional investigations. What will protect Bush and Cheney from that fate is less the merits of the case than the electoral calendar. It is simply too close to the 2008 election.”

The same thing that saved Reagan.

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Impeach Cheney

Robert Kuttner writes in the Boston Globe:

“My bet is that impeachable offenses will emerge from Congressional investigations. What will protect Bush and Cheney from that fate is less the merits of the case than the electoral calendar. It is simply too close to the 2008 election.”

The same thing that saved Reagan.

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Impeach Cheney

Larry Johnson from TPM Cafe sums it up neatly:

“If a President can be impeached for lying about a blow job then by God a Vice President should be impeached for setting in motion the forces that destroyed an intelligence network during a time of war. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter, Armitage, Bartlett, Matalin, and Fleischer need to be subpoenaed and marched before an investigative committee.”

I couldn’t have put it any better.

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Impeach Cheney

Larry Johnson from TPM Cafe sums it up neatly:

“If a President can be impeached for lying about a blow job then by God a Vice President should be impeached for setting in motion the forces that destroyed an intelligence network during a time of war. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter, Armitage, Bartlett, Matalin, and Fleischer need to be subpoenaed and marched before an investigative committee.”

I couldn’t have put it any better.

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Clinton Grammys

With Gore being honored on stage at the Academy Awards last night for his role in inspiring the making of An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of the Grammys won by President and Mrs. Clinton. From The New Zealand Herald:

LOS ANGELES – Former US President Bill Clinton won the second Grammy Award of his career, when he was honoured in the spoken word category for his best-selling memoir My Life.

Clinton, who was not present to accept his award at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, also won a Grammy last year in the spoken word for children category. His wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, won a spoken word Grammy in 1997 for her memoir It Takes A Village.

Between President and Senator Clinton, they have three Grammys. Amazing. Between Cheney and Bush, on the other hand, there are three DUI convictions.

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Clinton Grammys

With Gore being honored on stage at the Academy Awards last night for his role in inspiring the making of An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of the Grammys won by President and Mrs. Clinton. From The New Zealand Herald:

LOS ANGELES – Former US President Bill Clinton won the second Grammy Award of his career, when he was honoured in the spoken word category for his best-selling memoir My Life.

Clinton, who was not present to accept his award at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, also won a Grammy last year in the spoken word for children category. His wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, won a spoken word Grammy in 1997 for her memoir It Takes A Village.

Between President and Senator Clinton, they have three Grammys. Amazing. Between Cheney and Bush, on the other hand, there are three DUI convictions.

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Libby Conviction Could Spell Trouble for Cheney

This piece by Murray Waas of the National Journal spells out some possible difficulties for Cheney if Libby is found guilty.

At the time that Libby offered his explanation to Cheney [in the fall of 2003, after the Plame investigation had begun], the vice president already had reason to know that Libby’s account to him was untrue, according to sources familiar with still-secret grand jury testimony and evidence in the CIA leak probe, as well as testimony made public during Libby’s trial over the past three weeks in federal court.

Yet, according to Libby’s own grand jury testimony, which was made public during his trial in federal court, Cheney did nothing to discourage Libby from telling that story to the FBI and the federal grand jury. Moreover, Cheney encouraged then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan to publicly defend Libby, according to other testimony and evidence made public during Libby’s trial.

If Libby is found guilty, investigators are likely to probe further to determine if Libby devised what they consider a cover story in an effort to shield Cheney. They want to know whether Cheney might have known about the leaks ahead of time or had even encouraged Libby to provide information to reporters about Plame’s CIA status, the same sources said.

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Libby Conviction Could Spell Trouble for Cheney

This piece by Murray Waas of the National Journal spells out some possible difficulties for Cheney if Libby is found guilty.

At the time that Libby offered his explanation to Cheney [in the fall of 2003, after the Plame investigation had begun], the vice president already had reason to know that Libby’s account to him was untrue, according to sources familiar with still-secret grand jury testimony and evidence in the CIA leak probe, as well as testimony made public during Libby’s trial over the past three weeks in federal court.

Yet, according to Libby’s own grand jury testimony, which was made public during his trial in federal court, Cheney did nothing to discourage Libby from telling that story to the FBI and the federal grand jury. Moreover, Cheney encouraged then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan to publicly defend Libby, according to other testimony and evidence made public during Libby’s trial.

If Libby is found guilty, investigators are likely to probe further to determine if Libby devised what they consider a cover story in an effort to shield Cheney. They want to know whether Cheney might have known about the leaks ahead of time or had even encouraged Libby to provide information to reporters about Plame’s CIA status, the same sources said.

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