Awesome photos of Rep. Conyers delivering Downing Street letter of inquiry to White House:

http://www.joetresh.com/tresh/2005/06/downing-street-memo-letter-draws.htm

Hey George someone is at the door. It's the Downing Street Shark and he wants to bite you in the butt. That is of course the only part that he sees because you are on the run. I didn't expect him to answer the door. I guess that we now know what he thinks of representatives from Blue States. Mr. Conyers you are welcome in my home every and any day. I take my hat off to you and salute you as a true American hero. Bush can run but he can't hide forever. Maybe he was dining on some oven fried chicken with glazed peas and mushrooms and two fresh fruit a la Guantanamo.

I have been having trouble getting into "afterdowningstreet" all day.
Sounds like others also having problems. Be great if it was just because
site was swamped...but i'm old enough to remember Nixon's dirty tricks.
Are "they" trying totake site down. Inquiring minds would like to know.

We're finally seeing some Spine!! Wow, that was great watching C-Span 2 last night!!! Hopefully, this is just the beginning!! Woohoo!!!

I am a registered Democrat in New York (but maybe not for long). This mock impeachment thing was pretty vile, and inane. It also appears to have included antisemitic slurs and myths. If this is all the Democratic Party has to offer, I will soon feel compelled to change my party affiliation. I am really profoundly disappointed with the choice and antics of Howard Dean, and these kinds of gimmicks too. This is not the way to stage a comeback.

bsmith

Do you get your news from Rush Limpballs? I read a lot and haven't seen any thing that was anti-Semitic. What is inane and vile is what is passing for democracy in Washington now. If you like them, you deserve them. So long, farewell, ta ta!

Some little neo-con war profiteer was offended by the "O-oil I-Israel..." what was L-for? statement made. Truth made him squirm, didn't it?

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.  Dorothy Day

Good evening, folks….
A little help, please. Do we have a clear indication of the media’s response to Rep. Conyer’s hearing on Thursday? I have seen and heard nothing, although I haven’t researched much. I do know that I heard nothing on NPR all of today, Friday, even though there was great noise made about the Iranian election, continuing Terry Shaivo affair, and Tom Cruise’s proposal on the Eiffel Tower . This afternoon, Juan Williams was interviewed on NPR and nothing was said. There was another prominent interview, earlier today, about Bush’s falling poll numbers, Senator Durban’s outrage about Guantonimo (sp), and, yes, Terry Sheivo, but still nothing was said. New York Times today, appeared to say nothing, at least on its front page.

Did I miss something, or did corporate media, including NPR, by the way, (National Corporate Radio), again, just blow off this monumental event?

http://www.vicegrip.net/blog/archive/2005/06/19/906.aspx

This is a link to a source that Bob has included above, and takes you to an invisible blogger. At least I couldn't find his name anywhere on the site. I guess that he thinks that he is so well known, that he doesn't need to identify himself.

Here is a portion of his rant against Democrats.com for censorship and fascism:

What follows was posted on the democrats.com as a comment. I read it, I thought it was a clever way to expose the idiocy, and I told Hussain to check it out. He couldn't find it. I didn't think much of it, and copied and pasted it to him. Then, later, I refreshed the page myself. Gone. They deleted it. Somebody came to their site, wrote a cohererent, cogent dissent, and they deleted it. These are the progressives. The supporters of free speech. The enemies of fascism. Can they be more transparent? If they were, would it be that much more hilarious? Because every time they top their last self-humiliation, I laugh even harder. This shit is awesome.

The post was deleted because (among other things) it cited quotes without attribution, or a link. The same rules that apply to our own members, also apply to Republican trolls.

Since our foul-mouthed right wing-nut blogger friend has re-posted the entire diatribe on his site, you can read it there. You can also reply to him there -- if you feel like it…;-)

The Congressional Black Caucus has always housed and fostered anti-Semites, but now they are truly joining the conspiracy groups that see Jews and Israel as the controllers of the universe and cause of all problems.

They may have well had in trekkies to testify to their belief that aliens were the cause of Sept. 11th.

Sad, pathetic, reaching and embarrassing.

Once again the leaders of the democratic party are making asses out of themselves. All I hear from the democrats on the hill are complaints and finger-pointing, but never any solutions.

Carefully selected and biased excerpts from letter written by President Eisenhower
to his brother Edgar 11/8/54.
"Now it is true that i believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits
to great a degree of centralisation of governmental functions....The political processes of our
country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will loose
everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what i mean by my
constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish
Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not
hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group,of course, that
believes you can do these things. Among them are H.L.Hunt (you possibly know his background). a few
other Texas millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number
is negligible and they are stupid.....You also talk about "bad political advice" i am getting. I always
assumed that lawyers attempted accuracy in their statements. How do you know that i am getting any
political advice? Next, if i do get political advice, how do you know that it is not weighted in the
direction that you seem to think it should be...So how can you say i am getting "bad" advice; why
don't you just assume i am stupid, trying to wreck the nation, and leave our Constitution in tatters?

Full text at-->snopes.com/politics/quotes/ike.asp< "Social Insecurity"

A Recollection of History

As the cameras were being packed,
we turned and said our goodbyes,
with congratulatory pats on the back,
and the feeling of hope in our eyes.

There was talk of a new day,
a first step, a rolling ball,
and the fading sound of chanting,
I could still hear from the Mall.

I turned back.

Women of great stature.
Men of moral design.
The new giants were born today,
in a small room, in the basement.

Is that blue I see thru the clouds?
Vivid blue stalked by gray.
And the fire red, not the usual huge.
Turbulent like blood,
running thick like thieves.

No one cared to listen before,
but warned of the horse and the rider,
they began to fall in line.
Nail...
And shoe...
And mind.

And as the cameras were packed,
we all came to realized,
the world has begun to listen,
finally they will see the lies.

This is dedicated to Congressman John Conyers, Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee, John C Bonifaz, David Swanson, Steve Cobble, Cindy Sheehan, and the 120 other Congressmen and women who signed the petition, the ever growing After Downing Street Coalition membership, our brave American troops caught in the crossfire, the witnesses at Thursdays hearing, and the more than a half a million Americans who signed the letter and refuse to take no for an answer.

Seven foot four and growing.

Erik and Mary.
SoapBox4Truth.org

To bad we don't have audio on this site, if we had i would suggest Roy Orbison's "Running Scared" as appropriate theme music for Arminius' arguments. While I'm in a musical mood..anyone else flash on "Johnny's in the basement..mixing up the medicine" during last week's basement taping. As for tonight on the floor of the House..what else...JOHNNY BE GOOD. Just trying to shed a little lightness in the midst of darkness.

Bush is angry because he went to the United Nation and tried to tell everybody there the meaning of Resolution 1441. Poor Bush, unable to convince everyone at the Security Council that “serious consequences” = war. You have to have a unanimous vote to go to war. And we all know that Bush doesn’t negotiate with anyone - it’s his way or you’re a terrorists.

In Kosovo, I do believe NATO went in there. It wasn’t Clinton waving the banner to war. TV showed mass exodus of the citizens leaving the area but yet the Iraqis didn’t do this. Why do you think that was? Maybe because the citizens of Kosovo didn’t like what their leaders were doing to them and the Iraqis didn’t leave because obviously they believed Saddam’s way was best. Why isn’t Bush doing something for the people of the Sudan? Is there not enough oil for Cheney and Bush to do something for those people?

The Right wants to blame Clinton for everything. Bush got us into this war – not Clinton. Maybe Clinton did get intelligence from our agencies about WMD in Iraq but I bet he didn’t completely blow off the U.N. inspectors reports like Bush did. Necco is right, all you Republicans want to keep every dime you have and not support this country including the military. Are the rich paying for this mess in Iraq? No! Bush is trying to make his tax cuts permanent so that the rich don’t have to be bothered with paying for anything. I think those who are paying for this war should be heard – I say send your ass over there!

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security

- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

Jim's connection between the Earth's age and what's going on in this forum.

But, I like your answer, GM.
I thought all engineers believed in carbon based life forms.
I know one who addresses me as such- no kidding.

Geez, you really admire the 250 Swift Boat Liars? Nixon's old organization that was created solely for the purpose of discrediting Kerry's original protest against the Nam War. Funded by the friendly folks at the GOP. All major statements made by the Swifty's has been proved false. About what you would expect from the rabid right.

Republicans are only good for 4 things: lying, cheating, stealing, and mass-murdering.

Arminius is really a joke.

Arminius raises some interesting points for consideration. For example, just how pervasive (across party lines) are the lies and deceit that cloak our involvement in Middle East policy? President Clinton may have been a great president, but that is no reason to believe he is particularly innocent when it comes to our involvement over there. That being said, and perhaps we can turn a wary eye onto Mr. Clinton, I am not so convinced that there is good reason to have a debate about it, even though we would all parade our naiveté and arrogance if we did not recognize culpability within the Democratic party. However, all that about Clinton is past. The here and now is a fucked up mess delivered to us by forces of corruption and evil that make Saddam Hussein look benevolent. And nothing is going to make it better, certainly not comparing the offenses of the Clinton Administration with the evil doings of Bush and company. Yes, a diversion, plain and simple. Debate? Well…yeah, but what would be the real point? Would the discussion urge us closer to a clearer picture of the corruption that seems to come with the presidential territory? As if we should not know it already? If that were the point, perhaps it would be worth it. However, while such things are debated, the world situation grows more dangerous by the day and that scalawag in the white house, and the sheep who follow him in their arrogant stupidity, believe in their denial, and cling to it because the truth MUST be too much for them to bare. There are plenty of diversions to bottle feed the American voting public and placate the angst they would otherwise feel and, who knows, actually wake them up to the responsibility that, ultimately, they will have to own; like the people of Germany had to own it because they, too, followed like sheep. The shame that has been brought onto America by George Bush is going to be with us for a very long time, and diversions like that proposed by Arminius are little more than quick pain relief.

Let the truth sting.