They're Scrubbing John Roberts' Files!
Red Alert!!!!
The Busheviks are scrubbing John Roberts' files. Just read between the lines in this Pentagon Post article:
Thrown on the defensive by recent revelations about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s legal work, White House aides are delaying the release of tens of thousands of documents from the Reagan administration to give themselves time to find any new surprises before they are turned into political ammunition by Democrats...
White House aides are exerting full control over the documents still under their authority. Under an executive order signed by Bush in 2001, the White House has the right to review, and in some cases block, the release of presidential papers from previous administrations. White House lawyers have been dispatched to the Reagan library in Simi Valley, Calif., where they are combing through documents that have not been released.
This is not a stonewall, as Armando claims on Kos. When will Democrats - and progressive bloggers like - wake up to the fact that the Busheviks always scrub incriminating documents from the files???
Didn't anyone learn this crucial lesson from the AWOL story - that Karen Hughes in 1997 removed all of the Texas Air National Guard documents that proved Bush was AWOL? Bill Burkett watched TANG officials throw the documents in the trash, and he was telling the truth.
They did the same thing in Plamegate, when Alberto Gonzales gave White House officials 67 days to scrub incriminating documents.
Now they are scrubbing Roberts' file to make sure Democrats don't get their hands on any documents that expose Roberts' real thoughts.
Democrats and journalists should immediately file FOIA requests for all of Roberts' files. They should also send letters to the National Archives with detailed questions about how they will protect all of Roberts' files from unauthorized scrubbing.
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The unthinkable
It is time to consider filibuster if the records are not turned over, or if the documents are scrubbed. It seems to me that this would come within the meaning of 'extreme' circumstances as defined in the compromise by the committee of 14 Senators.
Nomination of John Roberts to be Associate Justice of US Supreme
The current occupants of the White House are doing their best to control what is publicly known about Roberts. They're trying to pass Roberts off as "smart," and not ideologically committed to much of anything. By running 50,000 pages of info on Roberts through their washing machine before handing it to the Senate, they're conducting business as usual: providing the absolute minimum of cooperation to fact-finding organizations.
This display of obstruction rates the Bushmen a filibuster of the Roberts nomination. Gone are the days of compromise and accommodation. Filibuster is called for regardless of what the Gang of Fourteen may say. The Democrats must act here as a true opposition party.
In my view, there already is enough info available to reject Roberts, but the 50,000 pages the White House is laundering clearly must be given to the Senate. Roberts's biography reminds me a little of the sleeper agents used in the Cold War. The guy is too clean, too pure, not even human. The GOP ideologues want us to accept him as a fair-minded and impartial judge. They throw up the example of David Souter as a nominee in 1990 who later proved his independence. Ann Coulter is actually arguing against the Roberts nomination, fearing another Souter.
But Souter was an oddball: a batchelor, an intellectual, and probably not one to down a few beers with the guys watching football on TV. Roberts could've been grown in a hothouse--a Republican one, of course. His career shows some scattered activities hostile to GOP 'values,' but they, like Coulter's naysaying, might easily be diversions.
Taken in general, Roberts's record is one that promotes the interests of the wealthy. He was raised to be a class warrior, and he is a class warrior today. His nefarious deeds on behalf of the GOP in the fraudulent election of 2000 are alone sufficient to bracket him. There is surely no need to dredge around back in the early 1980s.
So I don't see what the hell is so difficult about opposing this guy's nomination. Putting him on the Supreme Court would be an act of conspicuous self-mutilation for any respectable member of the Senate on the Left. The squatters in the White House didn't pick Roberts for his devotion to statecraft--they picked him because when the chips are down, they know he'll advance the causes of wealth, exploitation, and oppression. He's a dedicated enemy, and he needs to be treated as one.
In the 2000 stolen election, Roberts assisted...
James Baker III with the legal obfuscation...Prior to that, he was Ken Starr's deputy.
Those two items alone are enough to disqualify the man. Add to these, his lies about not belonging to the Fed. Society, and he is a non-starter. He needs to be stopped, but none of our people have any spines...they havent had any since 2000...see Al From and the DLC for the answers as to why our reps/Senators won't fight.
Oh, you mean this lady?
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/teresa_heinz_kerry/
Teresa Heinz Kerry?
This is just one of many false claims your post has made.
It looks like you are here to instigate and cause trouble,
not to have discourse.