The Conservative/Tea-Bagger Agenda

We learned a lot about the right-wing agenda this week at the Tea-Bagging convention and the CPAC convention.
The tea-baggers support torture, cheered for a war criminal named Dick Cheney, and support bringing back Jim Crow laws to stop non-whites from voting. This is the future of the Republican Party??

Could there be more irony than conservative Republicans attacking Obama for using teleprompters, reading from their teleprompters? Or attacking Democrats for opposing balanced budgets and tax cuts, after Obama has supported large tax cuts for the working class, and the last Democratic President balanced the federal budget?! Or accusing Obama of treating terrorists as criminals and prosecuting them in federal courts, when Bush/Cheney did too? They have no shame!

Now the Democratic Left and progressives need to learn something from the right-wingers. They are not just relying on Republican politicians to achieve their right-wing agenda. They have formed a mass movement to force Republicans to support them. That is what the left must do. Electoral politics, getting liberal Democrats elected, is not enough. We must have a mass movement to DEMAND universal healthcare, etc. If we had been more organized, it would be us out there protesting and holding several national conventions to get our message out... where were progressives and the movement for progressive change since Obama got elected?

Conservatives Real Agenda Revealed at CPAC Conference: Love of Torture and Hatred of Obama

TIME: Tea Party Nation

Huffington Post CPAC News

Huffington Post Tea Party News

Dick Cheney Cheered at CPAC

Dick Cheney Confesses to War Crimes!

CPAC Conference Right-Wing Civil War over Gays

N.H. Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Nows there are six: N.H. Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Even Dick Cheney supports gay marriage!
This means Dick Cheney is MORE supportive of gay rights than President Barack Obama!

Is Barack Obama Going to be a Bystander to the Gay Civil Rights March??

Dick Cheney LIES again!

War criminal Dick Cheney continues his campaign of lies to cover up the crimes of the Bush administration.

Waterboarding is not torture, "Enhanced Interrogation" worked, torture (I mean "Enhanced Interrogation") stopped terrorists attacks on the U.S., and Sadaam Hussein and Iraq were aiding al Qaeda... blah blah blah.. In the words of Whoopi Goldberg, Cheny is a "lying sack of dog mess!"

From McClatchy Newswire:
Cheney's Speech Contained "Omissions, Misstatements" (LIES)

Torture and Hypocrisy: Pelosi v. Cheney

How in the hell did the Democrats in Congress allow the Republicans to get an upper hand on the issue of torture?
House Minority Leader John Boehner Says Pelosi Should Back Up Her Allegation that the CIA Lied to Her

After form V.P. Dick Cheney's trail of LIES and WAR CRIMES, the GOP has been able to take the media spotlight off of the crimes of Bush & Cheney and focus the country's attention on whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi LIED, or knew about TORTURE, which Cheney and the GOP have been arguing is NOT torture?

How inept are the Democrats?? Do they not know how to play rough politics? If Newt Gingrich can still grab headlines calling for Nancy Pelosi to be removed, why can't the Democrats call Dick Cheney a war criminal and try him for lying about Iraq, Al Qaeda, authorizing torture, etc. ??? Cheney is such an EASY target, and the Democrats can't even take him down??

Let's have a "truth commission" and expose the crimes!

Lanny Davis: The Cheney Care: INDICT CHENEY ON TORTURE!

Laura Flanders: Pelosi or Cheney? Who's the Torturer in Chief?

TIME: Pentagon's Role in Torture

TIME has an explosive article detailing the Pentagon's Role in Torture Tactics:

Opponents of last week's release of memos detailing CIA interrogation techniques argue that they will provide enemies of the United States with a training manual to prepare their operatives for capture. The irony is that the U.S. military appears to have done the exact opposite, taking a training program that had been designed to prepare American soldiers to withstand torture by communist regimes seeking to extract false confessions, and twisting it into a highly controversial interrogation manual.

The story of that mutation emerges in disquieting detail in a new report by the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. It shows how U.S. interrogators at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and camps in Afghanistan based some of their interrogations on techniques taken from the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training program. These techniques included water-boarding, walling (slamming detainees into a flexible wall), sleep deprivation, hooding and using dogs to inspire fear...

The final irony: The torture techniques around which the SERE training was devised were used by Chinese interrogators during the Korean War, not to gather actionable intelligence but to force false confessions from captured U.S. soldiers — confessions that could then be used in anti-American propaganda.

SASC Report: "Harsh Interrogation Tactics" Used to Find Iraq Al Qaida Link

Will the Obama Administration Prosecute Rumsfield, Cheney & Bush??

Connecting CIA Torture to Abu Ghraib

Bush and his Deranged Followers

Did you see George W. Bush's last press conference? What an embarrassment! Bush is either totally insane or he is a pathological liar. He tried to defend his failed presidency, claiming that he has defended the U.S. from terrorism (if you don't count 9/11!), and tried to put a smiley face on the Katrina disaster. He claims that his economic policies were a success (if you don't count the last two years). He even tried to blame Bill Clinton for the recession in his first term.

Has he been hiding in a fox hole somewhere? All economic indicators (unemployment, poverty, inequality, etc.) have been on a nosedive since he took office. Over 2 million jobs have been lost in the last year alone, and fewer than 3 million jobs have been created in his 8 year term (compared to 20 million under Clinton!).

Evidently Bush has been watching Faux News. I had a "discussion" with some conservative Republican relatives of my partner recently and they blamed the media for the current economic crisis! It's the media's fault that people are losing their jobs and their houses! Or they point to 9/11 and Katrina to explain away Bush's economic problems. Poor Bush has been unfairly blamed for the recession. This is what Faux News (Hannity, O'Reilly, etal.) are telling their brain-washed audience.

Bush and Cheney are on a PR campaign to cover up their incompetence and crimes. Most people are not buying their lies, at least those who don't watch Faux News.

Cheney Admits War Crimes!

Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture

V.P. Dick Cheney admits to ABC reporter that he authorized torture! Why hasn't the media been all over this? Will the Democrats in Congress do anything to hold Bush/Cheney accountable for their crimes?

Olbermann: Bush/Cheney Should Resign!

Another excellent Keith Olbermann Special Commentary on Why Bush and Cheney should Resign!

Libby Gets Off

George Bush has commuted the sentence of Lewis "Scotter" Libby today That's the same Bush guy who refused to commute the death sentences of poor, mentally retarded people in Texas. Remember the Righteous Republican Indignation about Bill Clinton's little lie? Conservatives cannot pardon lying about blow jobs, but they sure turn their snake eyes away from lies about illegal wars and lies to cover up crimes by Bush & Cheney in outing CIA agents who are wives of critics of their illegal war. Will Bush & Cheney ever answer for their crimes? It is time to IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY

Kucinich Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney

Congressman (and Democratic Presidential Candidate) Dennis Kucinich has introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. In H.S. 333, Kucinich lays out the case against Dick Cheney for:
1. Manipulating intelligence to fabricate a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
2. Manipulating intelligence to fabricate a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda
3. Openly threatening aggression against Iran absent any real threat to the the United States

You can read the resolution, Article of Impeachment and lots of supporting documentation on his website.

Go to Impeach Cheney to take action and support the Impeachment of Dick Cheney!

Bush/Cheney Threaten to Cut Off U.S. Troops

While Darth Vice Cheney Accuses Democrats of Undermining U.S. Troops in Iraq, the fact is that it is CHENEY AND BUSH who have undermined our troops and the U.S. Military. The Democratic House and Senate have passed a bill to provide the funding Bush requested for the war in Iraq, but set a timetable to withdraw the troops in 2008. While many progressive/anit-war Democrats were upset that the Democratic congress approved the funding, the political reality is that Bush/Cheney would have used such a vote to accuse the Democrats of not supporting the troops. By aproving the funding with conditions for withdrawal, the Democrats have now put Bush in the position of vetoing the bill, and thus cutting off funds for the war, or signing off on the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2008. Depending out how you look at it, Pelosi and the Democrats may have the upper hand on this one by siding with the majority of the American people who favor the withdrawal, but do not want to cutt off the funding for the military right now. Time will tell if this was the right thing to do, but it will be interesting to watch how Cheney & Bush will try to accuse the Democrats of not supporting the troops while Bush vetos the bill to provide the funds the military requested. Maybe, for once, the Democrats have outmaneuvered the Republicans.

Libby Convicted: Now Impeach Bush/Cheney!

Now that Libby has been convicted for lying and obstructing "justice", maybe the media and the DEMOCRATIC Congress will start looking at the REAL, underlying crimes of Bush and Cheney. As the jurors admitted after the verdict today, the real question is why was Scooter Libby on trial and NOT Cheney and Karl Rove? There are many more crimes to be investigated, crimes which led to an illegal war and occupation of Iraq. Now, this isn't "Libbygate" it is IRAQGATE! It is time the Democrats in Congress got some backbone and gonads and start the investigations that WILL lead to the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

And think about this, we have now had 3 REPUBLICAN presidents and administrations who have engaged in criminal acts that undermined the U.S. Constitution they swore to protect and uphold: Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Iraqgate. Reagan and Bush Sr. got away with illegally waging a terrorist war against Nicaragua and arming terrorists in Iran! (The World Court found Reagan guilty of TERRORISM in Central America!) Will Bush Jr. get away with illegally invading Iraq and lying to Congress, the American people and the world??

For a good summary of the underlying facts and crimes of Iraq/Libbygate, see this excellent article over on Common Dreams:
Libbygate: Now Let's Get to the Real Story by Dave Lindorf. If Libby is guilty, then so are Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush!

For more on the case for Impeachment see:
WORSE THAN WATERGATE, by John Dean
THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky

Impeach Bush.org
Impeach07
Impeach Cheney

Impeach Cheney

Here's a must read column by Frank Rich on Why Dick Cheney Cracked Up If you saw the Vice-Prince of Darkness on CNN you know what he's talking about. He is not in a good mood. It seems Dick is getting worried that the perjury trial of his ex-aid Scotter Libby will expose how he and Bush lied to the world and misled Congress into an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Perhaps he fears that the Democratic leadership may actually grow a backbone and begin hearings leading to Articles of Impeachment.

Because of the timing of the Libby Trial, and the evidence coming out of it implicating Dick Cheney in Plamegate and exposing his lies and criminal behavior, maybe we should start with impeaching Cheney before Bush. Check out the Case for Impeaching Cheney