Remember who FAILED us on 9/11

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Good on Mike Malloy for picking up on this GROTESQUE INJUSTICE thanks to goddamn KKKarl Rove!

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We Only Need ONE REASON To Charge Bushco

Short and sweet...

Too many people, in my opinion, are eager and willing to dismiss the past 8 years of Bushco...

Crimes (illegal wiretaps, warrantless searches),

Lies (intentional manipulation of the truth to attack an innocent nation),

Wars (Iraq Afghanistan, Pakistan),

Tragedies (New Orleans, Walter Reed),

Grand Larceny ( Halliburten No Bid Contracts tax cuts for the Oil Companies, tremendous increase in spending),

Treason ( Plame Affair and all the CIA employees sacrificed) ,

Murder ( 1,3 MILLION in Iraq, Cheney 'Executive Office Murder Corps),

Breaking of International Laws and Treaties ( Gitmo, Rendition, Torture, Invasion of an innocent nation and attacks into Pakistan, Plutonium sales to India),

Incompetence ("911 Commission Report and the total failure of the Air Defence System on 911, freezing while reading My Pet Goat,

Oil Comp[any/Wall Street RIP OFF),

and

Sloth. (more vacation time of ANY other US President).

Yes we only need ONE good reason, but there are many. It seems too many people are falling for the Obama 'We need to move forward and deal with the future not the past" and who now thing we need to just 'move on'...

AS IF we can't deal with Bushco AND with the future at the same time.

Here is one reason...one GOOD reason, and then I'll give you two others.

We must do this because..

1) WE MUST reverse ALL the "executive Orders STILL IN PLACE\

2) If we do not, EVERY President to come can and likely WILL take advantage of ALL the power Bushco stole, and we will have YET ANOTHER and YET WORSE BUSH-LIKE PRESIDENT IN OFFICE.

3) AS AMERICANS if we do NOT, we will have given up our RIGHTS, our LIBERTIES and our NATIONAL SPIRIT.

Americans NEED TO DEMAND that this power stolen by Bush be returned and his crimes be dealt with JUSTLY. If we do not, then EVERY politician to come will know he can get away with


Crimes, Lies, Wars of Aggression, Tragedies Left Unresolved, Grand Larceny ,Treason,Murder, Breaking of International Laws and Treaties, Incompetence and Sloth.

AND THERE WILL NOT BE ANYONE TO DEAL WITH IT.

Next time YOU have the thought 'we need to forget this and move on' come up in your thoughts, think of the FUTURE of this Nation and tell yourself, "I MAY NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING TO STOP BUSH BUT I CAN STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN.

Or would you LIKE to have another Bush in office in say, your CHILDREN'S lifetime?

People, there IS no 'moving on' there is only denial and lack of responsibility, because until this is DEAL WITH, Bushco STILL RUNS THIS NATION.

We are a Nation of Laws and the Power Resides in the PEOPLE.

SHIT! This royally fucking blows! MAD MAG goes quarterly!

GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So not only has BU$Hilter Co. fucked up so fucking bad that they made it so, as Chris Rock said best, that even a WHITE MAN can't get elected President, now they fuck the hell up SO BAD that MAD is now QUARTERLY!!!! Oh NOW SHIT YEAH I AM FUCKING PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need like, my people to come back to this planet, and pick me up, and get me and a select few THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! Oh and PLEASE get the FUCK rid of the ADS in MAD, if anything...

On 1/25/09, Baron Von Bunghole wrote:

I was half asleep when I heard this mentioned during a radio news report. I just did a search to see if I heard right. It looks like MAD is indeed becoming a quarterly mag this year..... FUCKING BLOWS!

Sad News for Mad Fans
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: January 23, 2009

It's a less Mad world. Starting with issue No. 500, to be published in April, the monthly satirical magazine will become a quarterly, though it will expand to 56 pages from 48. The changes were announced by DC Comics, the Warner Brothers Entertainment unit that publishes Mad. As befits the magazine's what-me-worry? attitude, Mad's editor,John Ficarra, said: "The feedback we've gotten from readers is that only every third issue of Mad is funny. So we decided to just publish those." The fate of Mad Kids and Mad Classics is less kind. The final issues of those publications will be Feb. 17 and March 17, respectively.

Any fuckin' day now...

Is the former "President" & his crew at the Hauge yet?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Com'on Fitzgerald, don't tell me you didn't have a 3 foot thick pile on deck for this!!!

26 BUSHCO DAYS LEFT!

QUESTION:

EVERY step of Bushco's 8 year 'term' was guided by an agenda...that is to make fortunes for American Big Business especially the oil companies banks, defense contractors and 'reimburse' the Insurance Co's who paid off for 911.

Second was to allow Bushco to illegally gather info on Americans to use against us.

Third was to tighten the grip by our Security Agencies on us.

Forth was to empty the Treasury and hand it over to American Big Business and especially Detroit who worked hand in hand with the Oil Companies.

Fifth was to remove all restrictions on the Energy Dealers, begin the circle of unending wars to benefit the Defense Contractors and Suppliers and especially Halliburton.

Sixth was to expand the powers of the VP and President a long ways toward a Fascist Dictatorship.

And you know they SUCCEEDED...possibly with the help of Rove blackmailing members of Congress with the info gathered through the illegal spying.

BUT HERE IS THE UNANSWERED PART....how did they plan their get away?

Surely Bush is going to pardon everyone who helped him carry out his orders (from these Corporate Giants) but HOW IS BUSH GOING TO GET AWAY???
After his term is over, he is vulnerable to ANY ACTION, STATE OR CIVIL. Impeachment and the protection of the likes of Pelosi and Reed are then moot.

So what will be done to get the Big Tuna away Scott Free? Yes, Paraguay is the back up plan, but there has got to be more than that.

ONE OR TWO POSSIBILITIES EXIST: Bush steps down before Jan 20 and Cheney pardons him...

or more likely...

OBAMA PARDONS BUSH under the guise of 'Our nation needs to HEAL FROM THE PAST 8 YEARS'.

IF Obama pardons Bush, we will know HE WAS ALSO PART OF THIS METICULOUS PLAN CREATED BY BUSHCO, AMERICAN BUSINESS and the NEOCONS.

Let's see how this problem gets solved....but a Q....what will you do IF Obama pardons him?

IF Bush Co. gets away with ANY of the SHIT they have pulled on this country, NOT ONLY DURING THE LAST 8 YEARS, but let's go back AT LEAST to REAGAN, THEN we know FOR SURE that "the 4th Branch of Government" (that's SUPPOSED to be OF, FOR, and BY.....WE THE FUCKING PEOPLE!!! HELLLLLLO! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!) is DEAD. There is a REASON why the founders put FREEDOM OF THE PRESS into the Constitution (you know, that "goddamn piece of paper"?) and right there, THE FIRST AMENDMENT!!!!!!!!!!
The Cons know, this is one of their BIGGEST enemies, and they stop AT NOTHING to kill it. The well-funded Nazi Reichwing Machine does ALL they can to shut down liberal voices, witness this week the loss of progressive radio in Columbus, Ohio, which ALREADY had lost its liberal station a little over a year ago. (KKKons have done this to numerous progressive radio stations, buy them up and put on jesus shit, like in Atlanta, San Diego, Fresno, Memphis, Austin, Chattanooga, Philly, Boston, and no less than two dozen more since Air America started in 2004. Well rated stations on the way up, and then AW NO, GOTTA STOP THEM GODDAMN COMMIE PINKO LIRULZ. Especially San Diego, that is BULLSHIT. That market has THREE sports stations, so, nope, flip the liberal station and NOW FOUR?! And in LAST PLACE...like ALL former liberal stations, they ALL end up with NO RATINGS. Ya know, like most the Con stations have!) And when you come down to actually hosts & radio shows from the left, that's a nice short list huh?! Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, Neil Rogers, Democracy Now, Lynn Samuels, Alex Bennett, Ed Shitz, Make It Plain, the Young Turks, and about 3 dozen others. TOPS. Compare THAT to the list of THOUSANDS of CON shit shows oxyRU$Hitler Lardass and his 900 clones ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now for an even SHORTER list...ready?
Other than Rachel Maddow & Keith Olbermann, name me ANY *REAL* liberals/progressives on national TV. (I will PIMP-SLAP anybody who says Lou Fucking Dobbs! That cross-burning bigot asshole!) Can't do it?! What a surprise! How many big names are there in print?! A dozen or so?! Ok, Amy Goodman (who does TV & radio also, and a serious national treasure!), Sy Hersh, Noam Chompsky, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Helen Thomas (who gets sent to the back of the white house press deal cuz she upsetties pwoor BU$Htiler wif toff kwestions!), Paul Krugman, Carl Hiaasen, Frank Rich, and then you got REAL jouralists like Greg Palast, who can't even get his work published/on the air in this country, with its LIBERAL media...KKKorporate asshole editors/publishers keep liberal voices to nearly zero, ANY WONDER WHY NEWSPAPER READERSHIP IS DOWN?! Like Chrianan Ammanpore (sic!) ALWAYS got CENSORED by CNN.
DEATH to people who say that the media in America is liberal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I don't put most of the blame on WE THE PEOPLE, since we've been so stomped on for the last 28 YEARS with one shitty CON policy after another, making us work 9 jobs a week just to break even on the interest to the interest to our credit cards, 19th mortgage, etc. It is beyond belief that America has survived AT ALL through all this shit. I can almost hear the late Sam Kinison say "WE'RE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE! HELL, WE DEALT WITH THIS SHIT FOR 28 YEARS! OH OHHH!!!!!"
Bottom line: if Obama turns out to be another Repuke Lite like Bill Clinton was, then we either need to RISE UP & PUT SERIOUS PRESSURE ON HIM AND THE *REAL* DEMOCRATS LEFT IN CONgress, or
WE ARE FUCKED. Case Closed.
And if Obama pardons ANY of the Bush Co. Scumbags, WE ALL NEED TO ABANDON SHIP! THEN it's REALLY over...time to start a NEW America somewhere else. Mars is looking good...

REPUBLICAN NEOCON BUSH BROKE THE ECONOMY COMPLETELY

I didn't write this; it was written by one major BAD ASS John, so props to ya John! You da man!!!! Enjoy:

This is a DISASTER. When the Economy and Presidency was taken over by Bush and company, it was GREAT.

In fact we had a budget SURPLUS created by Clinton.

7 3/4 years later, WE ARE BROKE and WE ARE BROKEN. ALL because of Bush spending combined with tax cuts.

He wanted a war badly enough to create one...he gave out no bid contracts to supply the goods of war at top shelf prices, and he borrowed borrowed borrowed.

We borrowed so MUCH from China they will no longer lend to us, calling us 'insolvent' for the first time in US History.

We went from a 4 trillion debt ($4,000,000,000,000) that was being paid DOWN under Clinton to an ELEVEN TRILLION DEBT. HOW do you do THAT without intending to?

He just GAVE AWAY $900,000,000,000 FREE MONEY which we have NO WAY of collecting back to HIS BUSINESS SUPPORTERS.

And today he gave $250,000,000,000 to the BANKING INDUSTRY that he 'EXPECTS' will be paid back. and WHY did he do this? HE sez to 'STRUGGLING BANKS CAN LEND (MORE) MONEY TO US CITIZENS! (watch the video)

So we can BORROW MORE MONEY???? Ya think MAYBE that is part of the PROBLEM???

So congrats America, THE US GOVERNMENT IS NOW IN THE BANKING BUSINESS! Socialism is ALIVE AND WELL in the USA.

And here is s good question: if the BANKS 'FAILED' how is the GOVERNMENT GOING TO MAKE THEM WORK?

George Bush, 'The Decider' RAN US BROKE and any money we have left is being GIVEN AWAY TO FAILED BUSINESSMEN.

Do you have a handle on that?

Under Bush...

Our Military Machine, the BEST IN THE WORLD, has been ground into the ground for NOTHING.

Our Stock Market is CRASHING like it did in 1929

Our BANKS are FAILING.

While our RICHEST CITIZENS PAY NO TAXES

We have LOST OUR CREDIT with CHINA and they OWN 1/3 OF OUR T-BILLS.

We OUTSOURCED FAR TOO MANY JOBS

GASOLINE IS UNAFFORDABLE IN MANY PLACES IN OUR COUNTRY and in the rest it is above $3.25 a GALLON....up from $!.40 when he took over.

WE HAVE A NEW VIETNAM.

GEORGE BUSH HAS FAILED US AT EVERY SINGLE THING HE TOUCHED AS PRESIDENT.

AND PEOPLE ARE THINKING OF ELECTING YET ANOTHER NEOCON REPUBLICAN???? HOW NUTS ARE WE????

Oh yeah, let's bring in John 'NUKE-UM' McCain and Sarah 'MOOSE HUNTER WITH A BIRD BRAIN' PALIN!!!

Go to the site and LISTEN TO THIS TRAITOROUS MORON!!!
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-bush15-2008oct15,0,7303358.story

Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed

This is from '03, but it deserves posting, especially in wake of this shit where OUR government has a Naziesque list of people to save in case of an al CIA-duh induced outbreak of whatever the fuck they're working on!

Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed

by John Buchanan, The New Hampshire Gazette, October 10, 2003
from GeorgeWalkerBush.net

WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his “enemy national” partners.

The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues, according to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI, tried to conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally funded Adolf Hitler’s rise to power by the subversion of democratic principle and German law.

Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that Bush and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger brother of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker, President Bush’s maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with the German industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered the war.

No Story?

For six decades these historical facts have gone unreported by the mainstream U.S. media. The essential facts have appeared on the Internet and in relatively obscure books, but were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented diatribes. This story has also escaped the attention of “official” Bush biographers, Presidential historians and publishers of U.S. history books covering World War II and its aftermath.

The White House did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.

The Summer of ‘42

The unraveling of the web of Bush-Harriman-Thyssen U.S. enterprises, all of which operated out of the same suite of offices at 39 Broadway under the supervision of Prescott Bush, began with a story that ran in the New York Herald-Tribune on July 30, 1942. By then, the U.S. had been at war with Germany for nearly eight months.

“Hitler’s Angel Has $3 Million in U.S. Bank,” declared the headline. The lead paragraph characterized Fritz Thyssen as “Adolf Hitler’s original patron a decade ago.” In fact, the steel and coal magnate had aggressively supported and funded Hitler since October 1923, according to Thyssen’s autobiography, I Paid Hitler. In that book, Thyssen also acknowledges his direct personal relationships with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess.

The Herald-Tribune also cited unnamed sources who suggested Thyssen’s U.S. “nest egg” in fact belonged to “Nazi bigwigs” including Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, or even Hitler himself.

Business is Business

The “bank,” founded in 1924 by W. Averell Harriman on behalf of Thyssen and his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. of Holland, was Union Banking Corporation (UBC) of New York City. According to government documents, it was in reality a clearing house for a number of Thyssen-controlled enterprises and assets, including as many as a dozen individual businesses. UBC also bought and shipped overseas gold, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury and war bonds. The company’s activities were administered for Thyssen by a Netherlands-born, naturalized U.S. citizen named Cornelis Lievense, who served as president of UBC. Roland Harriman was chairman and Prescott Bush a managing director.

The Herald-Tribune article did not identify Bush or Harriman as executives of UBC, or Brown Brothers Harriman, in which they were partners, as UBC’s private banker. A confidential FBI memo from that period suggested, without naming the Bush and Harriman families, that politically prominent individuals were about to come under official U.S. government scrutiny as Hitler’s plunder of Europe continued unabated.

After the “Hitler’s Angel” article was published Bush and Harriman made no attempts to divest themselves of the controversial Thyssen financial alliance, nor did they challenge the newspaper report that UBC was, in fact, a de facto Nazi front organization in the U.S.

Instead, the government documents show, Bush and his partners increased their subterfuge to try to conceal the true nature and ownership of their various businesses, particularly after the U.S. entered the war. The documents also disclose that Cornelis Lievense, Thyssen’s personal appointee to oversee U.S. matters for his Rotterdam-based Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V., via UBC for nearly two decades, repeatedly denied to U.S. government investigators any knowledge of the ownership of the Netherlands bank or the role of Thyssen in it.

UBC’s original group of business associates included George Herbert Walker, who had a relationship with the Harriman family that began in 1919. In 1922, Walker and W. Averell Harriman traveled to Berlin to set up the German branch of their banking and investment operations, which were largely based on critical war resources such as steel and coal.

The Walker-Harriman-created German industrial alliance also included partnership with another German titan who supported Hitler’s rise, Friedrich Flick, who partnered with Thyssen in the German Steel Trust that forged the Nazi war machine. For his role in using slave labor and his own steel, coal and arms resources to build Hitler’s war effort, Flick was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to seven years in prison.

The Family Business

In 1926, after Prescott Bush had married Walker’s daughter, Dorothy, Walker brought Bush in as a vice president of the private banking and investment firm of W.A. Harriman & Co., also located in New York. Bush became a partner in the firm that later became Brown Brothers Harriman and the largest private investment bank in the world. Eventually, Bush became a director of and stockholder in UBC.

However, the government documents note that Bush, Harriman, Lievense and the other UBC stockholders were in fact “nominees,” or phantom shareholders, for Thyssen and his Holland bank, meaning that they acted at the direct behest of their German client.

Seized

On October 20, 1942, under authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the U.S. Congress seized UBC and liquidated its assets after the war. The seizure is confirmed by Vesting Order No. 248 in the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian and signed by U.S. Alien Property Custodian Leo T. Crowley.

In August, under the same authority, Congress had seized the first of the Bush-Harriman-managed Thyssen entities, Hamburg-American Line, under Vesting Order No. 126, also signed by Crowley. Eight days after the seizure of UBC, Congress invoked the Trading with the Enemy Act again to take control of two more Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses - Holland-American Trading Corp. (Vesting Order No. 261) and Seamless Steel Equipment Corp (Vesting Order No. 259). In November, Congress seized the Nazi interests in Silesian-American Corporation, which allegedly profited from slave labor at Auschwitz via a partnership with I.G. Farben, Hitler’s third major industrial patron and partner in the infrastructure of the Third Reich.

The documents from the Archives also show that the Bushes and Harrimans shipped valuable U.S. assets, including gold, coal, steel and U.S. Treasury and war bonds, to their foreign clients overseas as Hitler geared up for his 1939 invasion of Poland, the event that sparked World War II.

That’s One Way to Put It

Following the Congressional seizures of UBC and the other four Bush-Harriman-Thyssen enterprises, The New York Times reported on December 16, 1944, in a brief story on page 25, that UBC had “received authority to change its principal place of business to 120 Broadway.” The Times story did not report that UBC had been seized by the U.S. government or that the new address was the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian. The story also neglected to mention that the other UBC-related businesses had also been seized by Congress.

Still No Story?

Since then, the information has not appeared in any U.S. news coverage of any Bush political campaign, nor has it been included in any of the major Bush family biographies. It was, however, covered extensively in George H.W. Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin. Chaitkin’s father served as an attorney in the 1940s for some of the victims of the Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.

The book gave a detailed, accurate accounting of the Bush family’s long Nazi affiliation, but no mainstream U.S. media entity reported on or even investigated the allegations, despite careful documentation by the authors. Major booksellers declined to distribute the book, which was dismissed by Bush supporters as biased and untrue. Its authors struggled even to be reviewed in reputable newspapers. That the book was published by a Lyndon LaRouche’s organization undoubtedly made it easier to dismiss, but does not change the facts.

The essence of the story been posted for years on various Internet sites, including BuzzFlash.com and TakeBackTheMedia.com, but no online media seem to have independently confirmed it.

Likewise, the mainstream media have apparently made no attempt since World War II to either verify or disprove the allegations of Nazi collaboration against the Bush family. Instead, they have attempted to dismiss or discredit such Internet sites or “unauthorized” books without any journalistic inquiry or research into their veracity.

Loyal Defenders

The National Review ran an essay on September 1 by their White House correspondent Byron York, entitled “Annals of Bush-Hating.” It begins mockingly: “Are you aware of the murderous history of George W. Bush - indeed, of the entire Bush family? Are you aware of the president’s Nazi sympathies? His crimes against humanity? And do you know, by the way, that George W. Bush is a certifiable moron?” York goes on to discredit the “Bush is a moron” IQ hoax, but fails to disprove the Nazi connection.

The more liberal Boston Globe ran a column September 29 by Reason magazine’s Cathy Young in which she referred to “Bush-o-phobes on the Internet” who “repeat preposterous claims about the Bush family’s alleged Nazi connections.”

Poles Tackle the Topic

Newsweek Polska, the magazine’s Polish edition, published a short piece on the “Bush Nazi past” in its March 5, 2003 edition. The item reported that “the Bush family reaped rewards from the forced-labor prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp,” according to a copyrighted English-language translation from Scoop Media (www.scoop.co.nz). The story also reported the seizure of the various Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.

Still Not Interested

Major U.S. media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald, have repeatedly declined to investigate the story when information regarding discovery of the documents was presented to them beginning Friday, August 29. Newsweek U.S. correspondent Michael Isikoff, famous for his reporting of big scoops during the Clinton-Lewinsky sexual affair of the 1990s, declined twice to accept an exclusive story based on the documents from the archives.

Aftermath

After the seizures of the various businesses they oversaw with Cornelis Lievense and his German partners, the U.S. government quietly settled with Bush, Harriman and others after the war. Bush and Harriman each received $1.5 million in cash as compensation for their seized business assets.

In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past. There is no record of any U.S. press coverage of the Bush-Nazi connection during any political campaigns conducted by George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb Bush, or George W. Bush, with the exception of a brief mention in an unrelated story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune in November 2000 and a brief but inaccurate account in The Boston Globe in 2001.

John Buchanan is a journalist and investigative reporter with 33 years of experience in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Miami. His work has appeared in more than 50 newspapers, magazines and books. He can be reached by e-mail at: jtwg@bellsouth.net.

Source:
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi%20Link

Related Links:

Bush-Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951 - Federal Documents
http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bushnazidealingscontinueduntil1951.htm

Bush’s Grandfather Was Director Of Bank Affiliated With Hitler
by John Buchanan, The New Hampshire Gazette
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031019/frontpage/127827.shtml

Bush Grandfather Director Of Bank With Hitler Ties
by John Buchanan, October 17, 2003
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.asp?id=B4991F07-2A7B-49BC-A470-D14A355D2C9A

Bush Ancestor’s Bank Seized By Government
by Jonathan D. Salant, Associated Press Writer
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V8053.AP-Prescott-Bush-N.html

President’s Family Had Links To Bank With Ties To Hitler Supporter
by Jonathan Salant, Washington D.C., October 21, 2003
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/20/1066631359649.html

Posted: May 4th, 2008 under Government - national, Right Wing Life, History.
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Thank You President Bush

Thank You President Bush

Dear President George Bush,

Thank you for the continual War in Iraq.

Thank you for the massive federal deficits.

Thank you for our broken down highways and potholed roads.

Thank you for rewarding Haliburton with juicy government contracts.

Thank you for blindly watching the price of gasoline skyrocket with nary a word of dissent.

Thank you for allowing unemployment to rise and to watch the elimination of good paying jobs.

Thank you for your alert response during Hurricane Katrina and your continual efforts to make New Orleans whole again.

Thank you for your concern about the water crisis facing our country and your efforts to safeguard our water supply.

Thank you for conducting illegal wiretaps and invading the privacy of countless Americans.

Thank you for your minimal response to the challenges facing Global Warming.

Thank you for promoting tax cuts for the very wealthy in our country.

Thank you for your weak leadership regarding food safety.

Thank you for your compassion for rich people.

Thank you for being a strong, caring leader.

Insincerely Yours,

Mr. Pair O. Dee,
Mayor of Bizarro World

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/633209/thank_you_president_bush.html

WTF! BU$Hitler orders CLAMPDOWN on FLIGHTS TO THE USA!?

Where in the HELL do I even BEING TO EVEN START with this brand steaming new load of pure CRAP!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! What new INSIDIOUS VILE FREAKY bunch of new RULES or whatever do these Nazi Assholes have in mind for making flying, which is already ENOUGH of a pain in the ass, even MORE shitty!?!?!?!?!? Who's next to get harassed and detained for 900 years because someone doesn't like their last name, or whatever head-gear they have on, or their "Fuck You" hat, etc ad nauseum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!! Will this insanity ever end?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/11/usa.theairlineindustry

Bush orders clampdown on flights to US

EU officials furious as Washington says it wants extra data on all air passengers

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Bush administration is calling for armed air marshals on transatlantic flights. Photograph: Eric Meola/Getty Images

The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.

The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as "blackmail" and "troublesome", and could see west Europeans and Britons required to have US visas if their governments balk at Washington's requirements.

According to a US document being circulated for signature in European capitals, EU states would also need to supply personal data on all air passengers overflying but not landing in the US in order to gain or retain visa-free travel to America, senior EU officials said.

And within months the US department of homeland security is to impose a new permit system for Europeans flying to the US, compelling all travellers to apply online for permission to enter the country before booking or buying a ticket, a procedure that will take several days.

The data from the US's new electronic transport authorisation system is to be combined with extensive personal passenger details already being provided by EU countries to the US for the "profiling" of potential terrorists and assessment of other security risks.

Washington is also asking European airlines to provide personal data on non-travellers - for example family members - who are allowed beyond departure barriers to help elderly, young or ill passengers to board aircraft flying to America, a demand the airlines reject as "absurd".

Seven demands tabled by Washington are contained in a 10-page "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) that the US authorities are negotiating or planning to negotiate with all EU governments, according to ministers and diplomats from EU member states and senior officials in Brussels. The Americans have launched their security drive with some of the 12 mainly east European EU countries whose citizens still need visas to enter the US.

"The Americans are trying to get a beefing up of their visa-waiver programmes. It's all contained in the MOU they want to put to all EU member states," said a diplomat from a west European country. "It's a very delicate problem."

As part of a controversial passenger data exchange programme allegedly aimed at combating terrorism, the EU has for the past few months been supplying the American authorities with 19 items of information on every traveller flying from the EU to the US.

The new American demands go well beyond what was agreed under that passenger name record (PNR) system and look certain to cause disputes within Europe and between Europe and the US.

Brussels is pressing European governments not to sign the bilateral deals with the Americans to avoid weakening the EU bargaining position. But Washington appears close to striking accords on the new travel regime with Greece and the Czech Republic. Both countries have sizeable diaspora communities in America, while their citizens need visas to enter the US. Visa-free travel would be popular in both countries.

A senior EU official said the Americans could get "a gung-ho frontrunner" to sign up to the new regime and then use that agreement "as a rod to beat the other member states with". The frontrunner appears to be the Czech Republic. On Wednesday, Richard Barth of the department of homeland security was in Prague to negotiate with the Czech deputy prime minister, Alexandr Vondra,

Prague hoped to sign the US memorandum "in the spring", Vondra said. "The EU has done nothing for us on visas," he said. "There was no help, no solidarity in the past. It's in our interest to move ahead. We can't just wait and do nothing. We have to act in the interest of our citizens."

While the Czechs are in a hurry to sign up, Brussels is urging delay in order to try to reach a common European position.

"There is a process of consultation and coordination under way," said Jonathan Faull, a senior European commission official involved in the negotiations with the Americans.

To European ears, the US demands sound draconian. "This would oblige the European countries to allow US air marshals on US flights. It's controversial and difficult," an EU official said. At the moment the use of air marshals is discretionary for European states and airlines.

While armed American guards would be entitled to sit on the European flights to the US, the Americans also want the PNR data transfers extended from travellers from Europe to the US to include the details of those whose flights are not to America, but which overfly US territory, say to central America or the Caribbean.

Brussels has told Washington that its demands raise legal problems in Europe over data protection, over guarantees on how the information is handled, over which US agencies have access to it or with whom it might be shared, and over issues of redress if the data is misused.

The Association of European Airlines, representing 31 airlines, including all the big west European national carriers, has told the US authorities that there is "no international legal foundation" for supplying them with data about passengers on flights overflying US territory.

The US Transport Security Administration has also asked the European airlines to supply personal data on "certain non-travelling members of the public requesting access to areas beyond the screening checkpoint".

The AEA said this was "absurd" because the airlines neither obtain nor can obtain such information. The request was "fully unjustified".

If the Americans persevere in the proposed security crackdown, Brussels is likely to respond with tit-for-tat action, such as calling for visas for some Americans.

European governments, however, would probably veto such action, one official said, not least for fear of the "massive disruption given the huge volume of transatlantic traffic".

2 headlines/articles to help y'all SLEEP BETTER AT NIGHT!

Further Alleged Confirmation that Bhutto Was Not Killed by Gunfire or Shrapnel. Pakistani Government Says She Fractured Her Skull. Who Knows the Truth? Any Grassy Knolls in Pakistan?

Report: Bhutto Did Not Die From Gunfire. No Autopsy Was Performed.

THIS WEEK IN DRUGS.

Bunch of fucking BULLSHIT!!!!!

So once AGAIN al CIA-DUH (with some help from other sub-human thugs) has struck again.
And can y'all believe DUHbya's completely fake response to Bhutto's killing?! Going on and on and on about FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. So, Chimpy, supporting Musharraf (sic?) WHO WAS NEVER FUCKING ELECTED (SOUND FAMILIAR, COCK BREATH?!?!) IN THE FIRST GODDAMN PLACE, WILL YOU JUST INSTEAD PLEASE STOP LYING YOUR 19% ASS OFF ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To quote Ice Cube: "Much much Hawaiian LYIN', niggaz ain't buyin' yo story, BORE ME!"
At least the petty 3 cent fellow sack of shit DICTATORS y'all on the right wing prop up HAVE THE BALLS TO SAY THEY ARE!

Where are the DEMOCRATS?!
Yesterday, we had YET ANOTHER colossal FAILURE of this cave man dinosaur fucking primitive world approach by the Nazi Righty Tighties, who can only be killed with a silver bullet or a steak through the heart, AND NO ONE IS CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT?!
Everyone in the "liberal" media yacks on and yacks up about how UNSTABLE Pakistan is...LIKE AMERICA FOR THE LAST 26 YEARS *HAS*??!?!?!?!?!?! You out of your cracksmoking mind...or what's LEFT of it?!?!?!?!?
Blow it out you ASS Nancy with your fucking truck load of BULLSHIT..."impeachment is off the table", SUCK A NUT, HO!!!!!!!!!!!!
May Bhutto haunt you bastards. Hell, if all the spirits that these sons of bitches are responsible for killing haunted them, they'd all have jumped off the nearest bridge head first from not being able to sleep at night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Makes me just look forward to 2008 ALL THE LESS...

2 AWESOME headlines/articles from Buzzflash!!!!!!!!!

SPOT ON AGAIN FOLKS! Buzzflash.com OWNS!

Bush Finally Tops Nixon -- In Unpopularity. The latest USA TODAY/Gallup survey finds Bush with a 31% approval rating -- and for the first time ever in the polling history, 50% say they "strongly disapprove" of a president. And the Dems in Congress are still caving into this guy!

Kucinich's Effort to Impeach Cheney to Go to Judiciary Committee After Bizarre Day of Political Maneuvering that Saw GOP Help Advance the Motion In Order to "Embarrass" Pelosi Who Wants to Sink the Cheney Impeachment Effort. Pelosi Should, Indeed, be Ashamed of Her Enabling of Bush and Cheney.

GREAT rant by Mike Malloy from his site re: Pakistan's martial law & the BU$Hitler Crime Family!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS OUTFREAKINSTANDING...and, sad but true. Got ammo?! Enjoy:

MikeMalloy.com

November 05, 2007

This has been is an exhilarating weekend (and today, a glorious continuation of events in Pakistan) for Dick Cheney, George Bush and the clot of neo-Fascists now in control of USA, Inc. The military dictator Bush has often called his most important non-NATO ally has declared the sort of martial law over which Cheney and the rest of these US-bred thugs can only salivate and look at with ferocious envy.

General Pervez Musharraf has suspended Pakistan's toy Constitution, declared a state of emergency, violently beaten and arrested political dissidents, rounded up leading opposition figures, ended even token acknowledgement of human rights violations, stopped the broadcasts of nearly a dozen television news stations, and announced the elections planned for early 2008 are suspended, canceled, off the table for at least the next two or three years.

Why has all this happened in the last 72 hours? Because Musharraf could feel the cold wind of the possibility of his removal from office blowing through the country. His reaction came directly from the Handbook For Dictators.

The Bush Crime Family is purple with jealousy.

Today's New York Times reports a government spokesman, Tariq Azim Khan, when asked Sunday why 500 people had been arrested, said the arrests were “preventive measures” because the people presented “a threat to future law and order.”

One imagines Lynn Cheney had to bar the bedroom door at that news, with Dick locked out. Such news gets the VP very, very excited. "Preventive detention" is as effective as Cialis in short-circuiting the erectile dysfunction with which all the BCF alpha males seem to be cursed.

The Times also reports one of General Musharraf’s main justifications for suspending the Constitution and firing the members of the Supreme Court was the need to combat extremists sympathetic to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. In his announcing the state of emergency, he blamed the Supreme Court for hampering the government’s anti-terror efforts by releasing terror suspects.

The BCF also is bat-shit envious of the controls on the news media that were reported Saturday night. The dictator issued orders that journalists who brought “ridicule or disrepute” to General Musharraf and other officials could face up to three years in prison.

The possibility of the events this weekend in Pakistan being reenacted in the US is real as long as the BCF remains in power. In fact, with each day that passes without the BCF's removal from office - peacefully and legally - that possibility is slowly morphing into probability.

We'll talk about it tonight.

- MDM

Ain't it odd...part 2

Local Troops Deploy To Nation's Capital

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Members of the 1st Battalion 265 Air Defense Artillery have mobilized and are on a plane headed first to Ft. Bliss, then for federal active duty in the capital region.The troops will be deployed for a year."It's going to be all right It's OK if he helps people and everything, and it's his job. He’s got to do it. He just got to do it," Jessica Ward said, whose father is being deployed.

Jessica speaks for many when she talks about her father's deployment.Michael Ward and company are leaving for a year, and that weighs heavy on families.The 265th is part of Operation Noble Eagle.They are ordered by the president to the nation's capital, where they will operate high-tech weapons systems against any potential air threat.Yolanda McCormack is relieved husband Charles isn't headed to Iraq, but there is always a risk."Doesn't mean he won't be in the line of fire in Washington, D.C., but it does give me a little comfort," Yolanda McCormack said, whose husband is being deployed.Families may get one or two opportunities to see loved ones during this year-long deployment, but it’s not encouraged. Though the solders are staying in the states, they are on serious business.Staff Sgt. James Todd said duty at home is just as important as the mission overseas.

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Can ANYBODY rationally explain THIS to me?! When in USA history has a state's troops deployed to Washington, DC?! FOR A YEAR OF ACTIVE DUTY?!?!?!
Is it MARTIAL LAW time?!
Is BU$Hitler finally flipped the fuck out that 75+% of the country DESPISES HIS ASS and thinks soon the White House will be surrounded by a very angry mob with a torch in one hand and a pitchfork in the other?!
Is there another false-flag 9/11-style terra attack in the pipeline!?
Just what in the fucking HELL is going on?

USA equipping a private army in preparation for an invasion of Venezuela

Any wonder why Chavez bought 50,000 AK's from Russia and gave them out at random to his populous?! Gee, and how can the cons call him a fucking DICTATOR when he's do something like THAT?! Also, very odd how that story was hush hushed VERY quickly, good luck finding any links about it anymore cuz I sure as fuck can't! Man, it really is the fucking 1980's all over again, but on super steroids and meth! And with shittier music! We are so fucked...

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=75673

Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Bylined to: Bob Chapman

USA equipping a private army in preparation for an invasion of Venezuela

THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: Bush family-owned The Carlyle Group has been forced to double the size of its loan to its Dutch-based investment vehicle ... they provided $200 million in just one week.

They also bought an unspecified amount of debt securities (probably CDOs and ABSs) from the fund and released it from a $75 million funding.

They said they had sold $900 million of securities, including four sets of structured credit products, CDOs. It represented less than 5% of their assets. Losses on the sales will be $40 million equal to their first half profit.

As you know, we reported on a Carlyle memo from February in April, which said this was coming. These are the insider Illuminists and they bagged themselves by being too greedy. This shows you the depth of the rout that has only just begun.

For months, military supply chiefs in Iraq have been screaming for replacement parts, weapons, ammo and vehicles with little being received. We are told it went to South America.

Someone is building and equipping a private Army in South America and we get to pay for it. Congress knows nothing about this.

• It looks like preparation for an invasion of Venezuela, if we had to take a guess.

There are close to 100 criminal investigations going on involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other material to Iraqi and US Forces in Iraq.

This is the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered yet.

$40 billion in supplies have gone missing. Our top military brass is a disgrace.

CARLISLE GROUP RUMORED INVOLVED IN PROGRESSIVE RADIO STATION SHUTDOWN

The only liberal/progressive broadcast media outlet in San Diego County is about to be shut down. Clear Channel, who owns KLSD 1360 AM, is in the process of switching the liberal talk format to yet another sports talk station.

Over 1,100 people have signed a petition calling on Clear Channel to keep KLSD's progressive format since word of the planned format change leaked out late last week. Clear Channel executives have also been deluged with thousands of e-mails, virtually all in favor of keeping Air America on the air in America's sixth largest city.

KLSD has received letters supporting KLSD progressive radio received from Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Mike Gravel, and Ambassador Joe Wilson, husband of former CIA-agent Valerie Plame. . .

"I think this is another effort to shut down progressive voices where the message is most effective, especially here in a military town," said Bree Walker, an Air America host in Los Angeles and former San Diego TV newscaster who recently purchased Cindy Sheehan's ranch in Crawford, Texas. . .

A caller to an Air America program last week offered a tip that the Carlisle Group may be seeking to buy Clear Channel - a rumor that has triggered alarm throughout the progressive community. A global private equity firm based in Washington D.C., the Carlisle Group's board has included George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker, and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The company operates several major funds and has business dealings in the defense, aerospace, energy and healthcare industries, among others.

Clear Channel, America's largest radio company with over 1,100 stations nationwide, was acquired by private equity firms Thomas H Lee Partners, Bain Capital and the company's founding family for nearly $US 19 billion in November 2006.

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http://prorev.com/2007/08/carlisle-group-rumored-involved-in.htm

Bruce Willis Says JFK Killers Still In Power

So much for Bruce being Mr. Macho Tough-guy Republican huh?!?!?!?

This is from May, but still, very interesting...

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Bruce Willis Says JFK Killers Still In Power
Actor tells Vanity Fair he's skeptical of lone shooter theory


In a new magazine interview, Bruce Willis spills the beans on his skepticism that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK, and suggests that the some of the same criminals who killed Kennedy are still in power today.

"They still haven't caught the guy that killed [President] Kennedy," Willis told Vanity Fair's June issue, according to the New York Post.



"I'll get killed for saying this, but I'm pretty sure those guys are still in power, in some form. The entire government of the United States was co-opted," adds the Die Hard star.

So from where did Willis, a former die-hard champion of Neo-Con policy, receive his sudden wake-up call?

As we reported last year, Hollywood director Richard Linklater said he had handed out 9/11 truth DVDs on the set of Fast Food Nation, including Alex Jones' Terror Storm and Martial Law documentaries, and that they completely changed Willis' political paradigm.

"He said it put him in such a head space that he will be quiet on issues of national policy," Linklater told the Alex Jones Show.

Is Willis' comment that the people who killed Kennedy are still in power a reference to the fact that George H.W. Bush was photographed at the scene in Dealy Plaza?**

Either way, it's refreshing to see that Willis, who was vehemently pro-war and pro-Bush in the months after 9/11, has seen the light and realized that patriotism is about love of one's country, not worship of government.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/070507brucewillis.htm

**note from Mr. Dangus - if you have never heard about a connection between JFK's killing and the George HW Bush, please go here and watch this film!

PLEASE REPLACE BUSH WHERE CLINTON IS USED IN THE FOLLOWING QUOTES

"President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
- Senator Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum (R-PA)

"No goal, no objective, not until we have those things and a compelling case is made, then I say, back out of it, because innocent people are going to die for nothing. That's why I'm against it."
-Sean Insanity Hannity, Fox "News", 4/5/99

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
-Representative Drunky McPukeshoes aka Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
-Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of presidential candidate George W. Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning...I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
- Senator Trent "Burn A Cross Lately?" Lott (R-MS)

"You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo."
-Crony McSnowjob aka Tony Snow, Fox "News" 3/24/99

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years"
-Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough (R-FL)

"I'm on the Senate Intelligence Committee, so you can trust me and believe me when I say we're running out of cruise missles. I can't tell you exactly how many we have left, for security reasons, but we're almost out of cruise missles."
-Senator James "I'm Not Evolved" Inhofe (R-OK)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
-Representative Drunky McPukeshoes again

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
-Sean Insanity Hannity again, Fox "News", 4/6/99

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
-then Governor George W. BU$Hitler (R-TX)

"You can support the troops but not the president"
-Representative Drunky McPukeshoes yet again

"My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made ... not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do."
-Trent "Keep Darkie Down" Lott again

"Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly."
- Drunky McPukeshoes once again

"It is a remarkable spectacle to see the Clinton Administration and NATO taking over from the Soviet Union the role of sponsoring "wars of national liberation."
-Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-ID) (WHO!?)

KKKarl Rover is resigning!!!!!!!!!!!!

NAH NAH NAH NAH, NAH NAH NAH NAH, HEY HEY HEY GOOOOOOODFUCKINGBYYYYYYYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leaving to "spend more time with the family" huh?! Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
That's CODE for either one of two things:
1) OH SHIT, HERE COMES THE INDICTMENTS!
or
2) OH SHIT, I'M DYING OF SOMETHING!

Atrois put it better than I can:

Rover
I'll let others speculate on the "real" reasons for his leaving, but I agree with Will that it's infuriating that the Democrats often fall for his games even after he announces them long in advance.

As did DailyKos:

Karl Rove To Resign
by georgia10
Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 05:05:24 AM PDT
According to an interview in the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove will resign at the end of August.
Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, likely marking a turning point for the Bush presidency.
Mr. Rove's departure removes one of the White House's most polarizing figures, and perhaps signals the effective end of the lame duck administration's role in shaping major domestic policy decisions. Mr. Rove revealed his plans in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.
And, of course, Karl Rove couldn't help being, well, Karl Rove until the very end:
He said he decided to leave after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they would be obliged to remain through the end of the president's term in January 2009.
"I just think it's time," Mr. Rove said in the interview. "There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family." Mr. Rove and his wife have a home in Ingram, Texas, and a son who attends college in nearby San Antonio.
In the interview, Mr. Rove said he expects Democrats to give the 2008 presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he described as "a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate." He also said Republicans have "a very good chance" to hold onto the White House in next year's elections.
Mr. Rove also said he expects the president's approval rating to rise again, and that conditions in Iraq will improve as the U.S. military surge continues. He said he expects Democrats to be divided this fall in the battle over warrantless wiretapping, while the budget battle -- and a series of presidential vetoes -- should help Republicans gain an edge on spending restraint and taxes.
From the Washington Post:
Citing executive privilege, he defied a subpoena and refused to show up for a congressional hearing just two weeks ago on the allegedly improper use by White House aides of Republican National Committee email accounts. Fellow Bush advisers have said they believe the congressional probes have been aimed in part at driving Rove out.
The White House said his departure was unrelated to the investigations.
Uh-huh. Totally unrelated.
Also, check out ab initio's diary here.