The Mirror of 9-11

Do you realize that 9-11 memorializes not only the date of the hijacked aircrafts' collision with the towers of the WTC and a harrowing reversal on American foriegn policy and human rights, but it's also the date at wheich we all fell into George W. Bush's looking glass?

From January of 2001 until September, ABC -- Anything But Clinton -- had been the watchword in the Bush White House. If Clinton had taken an interest in supporting and of his Public Trust responsiblities, it was the conviction of the Bushies to contravene those efforts, from the threat of foreign terrorist (Obama) to FEMA and the appointment of responsible officers to the agency (Katrina) or the dispensation of contracts to drill on Federal land (MMS), the Bushies have lead the charge in the EXACT oppisite directions that the Clintons went during their administration.

If Left was wrong and Right were correct, then the 'enhanced' political freedoms that we enjoyed before the TRasportation Security Agency forced us to take off our shoes before boarding planes and disavowed us of our nail-clippers, if freedom from unwarranted searches and the rest of the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution were too much for you, then you can sleep comfortably with the idea that we've lived in the/a world that George W. neither understood or acknoledged before it became the cornerstone of Constitution-shredding Republic on September 12, 2001.

Since 9/11/2001, we've lived in the mirror universe of the 56 years that preceded Bush 43's tenure (yes, that's a Trek reference). Teddy Roosevelt's concern for the Interior and Richard Nixon's EPA suddenly became politicized hotbed, just as NASA and Justice saw their missions adjusted to serve goals other than those they were established to uphold. 'We the People' is an oxymoron after 7 years of top-down bullying, harrassment and non-FISA snooping.

How is it that hope, rule of law and a billion-dallar surplus have been transformed into widespread political tumult and a 3 trillion dollar deficit and widespread American unemployment?

Just something to think about, a month or so that afternoon in August of 2001 in Craford, when Bush, Cheney and Rice chose to circular-file all of those memos aBin Laden's determiniation to stage a spectaular event in the skies over New York City.

Alaska senator charged over gifts

: Mr . Stevens was already facing a tough re-election battle in November

BBC: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has been charged with making false statements on his Senate financial disclosure form.

The Republican lawmaker has been under investigation for his involvement with Veco, an oil company whose executives have confessed to bribing officials.

In Mr Stevens's indictment, officials alleged that he failed to disclose $250,000 worth of work done on his house free of charge by Veco employees.

Mr Stevens, 84, is the longest-serving Republican in the US Senate.

He has not immediately responded to the indictment.

Eugene Robinson 06.24.08 - Race in the Sunlight

WP:Since Obama has given his opponents little ammunition, they have focused on those who are close to him, beginning with his former pastor. Now some critics have turned to Obama's "feisty" wife, whose image as a tall, strong, confident black woman can perhaps be made to seem threatening to some people.

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The Obama campaign made another move on this front last week when it began running a new television ad in a number of battleground states, including some, such as Georgia and North Carolina, that Republicans have long considered safe. In the ad, which is more about the candidate's character than his policies, Obama speaks of his personal history and delivers a paean to traditional American values -- while the viewer sees old family photos of his mother, who was white, and her parents, who helped raise him. [More...]

Kucinich introduces Bush impeachment resolution

Last night, Dennis Kucinich has introduced 35 articles of Impeachment against George W Bush on the floor of the House of Representatives (via MetaFilter)

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Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama, 06-07-08

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More of the Same Dept.:McCain=Bush 3rd Term

NYTimes: A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.

In a letter posted online by National Review this week, the adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Mr. McCain believed that the Constitution gave Mr. Bush the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and e-mail without warrants, despite a 1978 federal statute that required court oversight of surveillance.

Mr. McCain believes that “neither the administration nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people, except for the A.C.L.U. and trial lawyers, understand were constitutional and appropriate in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,” Mr. Holtz-Eakin wrote.

[I]f Mr. McCain is elected president [...] he would do everything he could to prevent terrorist attacks, “including asking the telecoms for appropriate assistance to collect intelligence against foreign threats to the United States as authorized by Article II of the Constitution.” [More...]

No More Lobbyist Contributions to the Democratic Party

HuffPo reports: It's been less than two days since he crossed the delegate threshold to become the Democratic presidential nominee and Sen. Barack Obama's mark on the party is already being felt.

On Good Morning America Thursday, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos reported "the Democratic National Committee will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists, will no longer take contributions from PACs" in keeping with Obama's well-publicized policy.

UPDATE: DNC issues a statement:

"The DNC and the Obama Campaign are unified and working together to elect Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Our presumptive nominee has pledged not to take donations from Washington lobbyists and from today going forward the DNC makes that pledge as well," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "Senator Obama has promised to change the way things are done in Washington and this step is a sure sign of his commitment. The American people's priorities will set the agenda in an Obama Administration, not the special interests."

More Signs of Democratic Unity

Further uniting the Democratic Party behind Barack Obama as its nominee, the New York congressional delegation this afternoon came out en masse to declare him their standard bearer and laud Hillary Clinton's planned endorsement of Obama on Saturday.

"We come here collectively to endorse the decision by our fearless leader," Representative Charlie Rangel told reporters. "We're so proud of her."

Rangel has been among Clinton's most loyal supporters, but on Wednesday he publicly called out the New York senator for not acknowledging that Obama had won the nomination. After hours of pressure from Rangel and other key backers, Clinton's campaign issued a statement Wednesday night about the Saturday endorsement event.

Rangel called Obama an "outstanding candidate."