The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.

David Iglesias is the prototype twenty first century Republican: charismatic, Hispanic, an evangelical Christian and a captain in the Navy Reserve who served for many years in the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps (“JAG”). In 1998, Iglesias campaigned to become Attorney General of New Mexico against the heavily favored Patricia Madrid. He nearly pulled off an upset and the Republican Party took notice. In 2000, Iglesias paid his party dues and worked for George W. Bush’s election.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has turned in his walking papers. His excuse ? He wants to spend time with his family, usually codetalk for the shit is about to hit the fan.

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“Boomp-boomp-boomp/
Another one bites the dust:”

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As far as I can tell, no news.

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Subpoenas...it's the new black...

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I'll keep this video up for the rest of this week, and then we'll move on.

It is well understood that neocons are adpet at accusing others of doing/thinking what they are actually guilty of doing/thinking.

Yesterday, U.S. V.-P. Dick B. Cheney gave a commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Maybe he drank the wrong brand of tea that day, or perhaps he slightly over-medicated himself - in any event, he came out and revealed publicly the motus operandi of the President, himself and their neocon administration, condemning all they stand for, their ideological agenda, and everything they have been doing in the process so far. As reported, Cheney delivered his remarks in the context of moral and ethical lessons that the graduating cadets at West Point had learned in the course of their studies. Dixit Richard (Dick) B. Cheney:

Here is the official position of Alberto Gonzales on the damning revelations (at the hearings on the current US Attorneys scandal) that he may have tried to shape Monica Goodling's testimony: he was only offering a shoulder to cry on.

Compare this with Andrew Card's pathetic "clarification" to James Comey on the attempt by Card and Alberto Gonzales to take advantage of a sick and drugged John Ashcroft and "force" him to sign on an illegal warrantless domestic spying program: he and Gonzales had visited Ashcroft just to wish him well.

But only if it gets told, gets told loudly, clearly, simplistically and repetitively.  It is still unfolding, even though it has been happening for years.  It is pervasive, deep, goes against the very first and most basic premise of democracy and is a concerted effort by many individuals and organizations throughout the republican party, its affiliated "associations" as well as many levels of government whose primary purpose is to ensure that this most basic premise of democracy is not subverted.

"Resolved: That the House of Representatives and the American people have lost confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and urge the President to request his resignation and to nominate a new candidate more capable of serving as head of the Department of Justice,"

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